Quote Originally Posted by Miss Green
Ha Ha Ha yeah and have a look at your crime with more guns, Murder 1million, armed robbery 2million Ok so if he was threating to shoot the officer then I just don't get why they just can't shoot him in the knee or better still why couldn't they taken the gun off him with that many officers you'd think they would be able to do that.I just don't get it.


The article said that he raised the weapon, and deadly force was used. That sounds like he was asking for it.

Police officers and the military are not trained to do "trick" shots. When police fire a weapon, they shoot to kill. It's a "last resort", but necessary in some cases. Your Hollywood images of cowboys, and other people, shooting a gun out of a somebody's hand, firing a "warning" shot in their leg, etc., is not realistic: When lives are at stake, and a person of ANY age is using a firearm against the public and/or police, are warned to drop it and surrender, then it's too bad but deadly force must be used when they refuse to comply.

Contrary to the image that most of the world has of America, most police officers never fire a gun at anyone during the course of their careers. Most criminals know that once the cops are there, whatever they were doing is over.

A lot of people, usually women, come up with the "why didn't they shoot him in the leg" line. They aim for the body - because that's the best, and easiest, target.