If a guy has a gun (or might have a gun), either shoot and kill him, or point your gun at him.....If you chase/corner him, and shoot near him you are going to make him react in a certain way....Either shoot to kill, or don't shoot.
problem is dangerous criminals break the law yet RETARDED left wing (or is it right wing? whatever) bleeding heart people start crying over criminals who are shot.
ohh the police are too agressive, maybe they didn't have to shoot!
Maybe they could have done something different!
Enter the taser. In an attempt to save the lives of asshole criminals we start using tasers. What do we get for thanks? More lawsuits. Ohh maybe we didn't have to use tasers! Someone (out of thousands) died when you shot them with a taser, how horrible.
I think we should take those people and put THEM in a police uniform and send them into the shit. Let them with their infinate wisdom make the decision on whether to shoot or not.
I don't see what the problem is here?
I'm sure this guy had tons of reasons behind his actions. Don't all criminals? Who cares? Police tried to stop him. He didn't stop. Two cops whilist performing their duty were killed.
His running away (and killing police) pretty much destroys anything I'd care about his story.
If you have 20 ERT guys with assault rifles pointed at one guy with a shotgun, you shouldn't need to fire any shots......
Your assuming here my friend. That one guy might be high on drugs and hes going to say you know what Im going to take down as many of them as I can. So while you try and use logic and surmise you shouldnt needs to fire any shots, he's just fired and killed 2 or 3 officers with families who were just doing their job. Now their kids get to grow up without a mom or dad JUST because someone did something they
shouldn't have done.
Assuming gets people killed.
It's just too easy to sit back on a couch or computer screen and talk about what was overwealming force and what wasn't. Put a uniform on, put yourself in that situation and then you will have the right to decide what force to use.