From: "Pete Ansbro", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"A former soldier was shot and killed by police marksmen
after he had aimed an airgun at six officers"
I know that circumstances may not always be accommodating
but I sometimes wonder if police armed response units
shouldn't be trained to use binoculars
before bullets.
Though this report doesn't mention whether the airgun
was a rifle or a handgun, one assumes that if police
shooters are trained to assess a situation, that might
go so far as identifying the level of risk involved.
Of course if police shooters were trained to kill first
and question later, that'd be the death of anyone with
a chair leg in a carrier bag.
Pete
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I think in this particular situation they were justified
in shooting him, he was armed with an air rifle and for
all they knew it could have been an 80 ft/lb air rifle.
If you point a rifle at an armed police officer, expect
to get shot.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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