You are correct. Thanks for your opinions and insight. If you have to shoot you need to shoot to kill. lets say the man had a gun if you were shot in the leg you could still shoot someone. I guess a point I would like to make would be the use of "non-lethal" tools such as bean bag guns and the tasers. I assumed that with such a larger number of officers there would have been another way to resolve it.
Stew et al
It is sad. Few people have written with his bite and bias. I have read several of his books and greatly enjoyed them.
Ok this will be short. Recently on CNN.com there was an article about a man who was shot by police officers as he was yielding a chain saw. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/22/saw.attack.ap/index.html My issue with this is I believe that the police used excessive force. I agree that this person had some serious issues. I also agree that a chain saw is a lethal weapon, at short range. In short the man was shot and killed. An offic
Ok this will be short. Recently on CNN.com there was an article about a man who was shot by police officers as he was yielding a chain saw. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/22/saw.attack.ap/index.html My issue with this is I believe that the police used excessive force. I agree that this person had some serious issues. I also agree that a chain saw is a lethal