Maybe this story will make some of you fearless drug “warriors” reconsider your foolish approach to problems of substance abuse:
According to Maye’s testimony (pdf), he went to sleep between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. Sometime after 11:00 p.m. he was awakened by “a loud crash at the front door.†Cory, understandably frightened, ran to the room his daughter was sleeping in, found his pistol, and loaded it. Maye positioned himself lying on his stomach in the dark with his gun ready to fire when he started hearing kicks at the back door. As the intruders broke inside, Maye fired three rounds in the direction of the noise.
Moments later, he learned that he in-fact did not shoot a burglar or someone wishing to do bodily harm to him or his daughter but a police officer lawfully searching his home. To make matters even worse, the police officer he shot was Ron Jones, the Chief of Police’s son. Jones would eventually die from his wounds in the hospital.
Government force should always be the last option used to solve problems, and it should never be one of the options to solve substance abuse problems. Government force should be reserved to deal with crimes of fraud and force, unless we all want the term jack-booted thugs to become part of the national vernacular in relation to our own government. Sadly, that’s already happening.
If the government broke into my house in the middle of the night without announcing themselves, I would defend myself. I have an innate right too.
Allowing the state to execute a man for defending himself in his home is a perversion of justice, no matter how tragic the death of a police officer may be.
More on Cory Maye:
The Agitator: Cory Maye
The Agitator: The Maye Case so Far
Maye is Innocent
Instapundit entries related to Cory Maye
Please, if you’re in a position to do so, donate to the Cory Maye defense fund.
I’ve historically been pro-death penalty, and I do think violent criminals often deserve death if for no other reason than to keep them from a repeat performance. From all appearances, though, Cory Mae is anything but a violent criminal, yet he is waiting to be executed. That’s just plain wrong.