Wow!........excellent post/reply!
Let’s dissect it just a skosh further:
1. Your comment/first sentence second paragraph about “instead a lot of innocent people....” I agree with TOTALLY.
2. Your second sentence about “innocent people have ended up” I agree with TOTALLY.
3. But, your sentence about “don’t AIM guns” I don’t agree with IN ALL CASES! For example, a bank robber coming out the front door of a bank. That said, aiming guns at the lady with 4 kids in the car was inviting another disaster. The question is WHEN did they know SHE was not a HE and therefore not the perp they were looking for. I don’t know.
Your statement about “Don’t like the risks don’t take the job” I have said in several previous posts myself, or words to that effect. I think that statement applies for example to the cop that drove up and shot the little boy dead (recently) because he had a toy gun! Or the one that shot the 90 year old man recently.
There is only one answer and that is that these cops that kill people or wound them and are outside of THE LAW as determined by a jury and a judge and prosecutor and defense lawyer should go to jail. Each case is different. Thank god these Texas cops did not open fire.
I kind of take back some of the first sentence of the previous paragraph. Some of these dog shootings (probably 90%) clearly indicate MORE TRAINING and better recruitment/screening is needed. The same goes for PEOPLE shootings. Too many of them are not within policy or the law and defy common sense totally.
You obviously don't have a recent military background, because the rules of engagement in battle areas are much more strict than in Texas, or what you propose.
Do you think LE should have looser rules of engagement than our military? Our military are much more likely to be injured or killed, BTW.
/johnny
“I don’t agree with IN ALL CASES! For example, a bank robber coming out the front door of a bank.”
Obviously that is clearly a hostile individual, to the point where shooting first is justified. Someone exiting a bank with a gun in his hand is 99% likely to have ill intentions.
When the situation is in doubt, restraint is the order of the day. Even if in someone’s property, and you see a gun. That doesn’t mean criminal. But cops assume what is in their own best interests, and the hell with everyone else. They then wonder why people don’t care about their interests.
“There is only one answer and that is that these cops that kill people or wound them and are outside of THE LAW as determined by a jury and a judge and prosecutor and defense lawyer should go to jail. Each case is different. Thank god these Texas cops did not open fire.”
Letting the Dorner hunt cops off, I think, has encouraged this anything goes mentality. Had they been punished as they deserved, other cops would have gotten the message that self control is still required. You are a professional LE officer. Act like it, not like the mall cop.