Boston Bombers Shootout - Would you take the shot?

[Dadtodabone]

No, just no.

[texanjoker]

That would be a good way to get yourself shot. The officers in the gun fight might consider you to be a suspect that is helping the suspect escape. I would lay low and make sure my family is safe.

[VMI77]

My guess is that if the police were engaged in a shootout with a couple of bad guys and I started shooting police fire would expand to include me. I think engaging in those circumstances, especially in a place like Boston, would be a good way to get yourself dead. With bullets flying how are the police going to know who you're shooting at? Sounds like suicide to me, or if you survive, prison time.

[Dragonfighter]

This ain't 1966 and Boston sure isn't the University of Texas.

[sodchemist]

I think it comes down to the golden rule. What would you want you to do, if you were the officers?
If I were a cop, and some bad guys were throwing pressure cooker bombs at me, shooting/driving at my colleagues (and killing some), and a good patriot--or anyone--had them in their sites with an AR-15 and a fresh 30 rounds, from inside a window on the second story, then I would want them to take the shot. if they had a little 380 or something, i might want them to sit tight. by the way, the watertown officer who was shot was treated at mt. auburn hospital (just ~2 blocks from harvard square). i lived across the street from that hospital on shaler lane (family housing for harvard) and my first son was born there. i actually wheeled my wife home in a stolen wheelchair (that I returned later). i also used to grocery shop a mile down mt auburn street at the shaw's grocery in watertown. so all of that hit close to home, or at least a place that will always sort of be a mini-home.