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Given that a car is a one-ton-plus reusable, directable bullet, this makes absolutely no sense, unless there's something buried deep in it to provide clarification. I know of many officers that have been attacked -with a vehicle-. No other weapon was used. I know of several that were hit. One who died was an academy classmate and good friend of one of my instructors, and he was intentionally hit and killed while I was at the academy. Another was saved only because his trainee opened up on the attacker's vehicle with a patrol rifle, keeping the attacker from reversing back over the officer.

Cars, rocks, bats, even bare hands: all can be lethal, deadly weapons. Drawing a line and saying "You may NEVER" is only going to get more cops killed and embolden the crooks and thugs, which can get more non-cops killed too. After all, if even the cops can't shoot at the person trying to run them over, how does an average joe justify it? I can see the prosecution now...


I really, -really-, REALLY hope I'm misreading all this and ranting about nothing, but I'm afraid otherwise...