LEOs must secure the BG so that he can safely approach the felon. As civilians and CHLers legally and and morally we are only required shoot deffencively. Once the bad guy is down and immobolised we can safely retreat and let the authoritys do the clean up. The LEO has no such option he has aprehend and disarm the BG.Alric wrote: The one that comes immediately to mind happened in California, but I don't have the link right now. 3 officers shot between 3 and 5 rounds a piece into a suspect. It was a justified shooting, per the article, and the officers received a few days off, whatever the term is for that.
I am suggesting that if we, as civilians, used as many rounds in shootings as some LEOs have in some incidents, that we would be treated a lot different than they are. No, I am not saying that I should not be looked at strange if *I* fired 110 rounds into a BG. But I probably would if I fired the same amount as one of those officers involved in this incident. And isn't the justification for deadly force a justification to use deadly force to /stop/ a BG, not to use such force as to assure his trip to the morgue?
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- Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:15 pm
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