Dave, he refused to surrender for six hours. How long do you wait? He said he had explosives, do you wait until he deploys those and makes an escape attempt? He had already shot twelve officers and two citizens, at what point do we say we will not risk another persons life for due process?
He made it very clear he was going to keep killing if he had the chance.
The Constitution is not some shield that proven killers get to hide behind, it is not a suicide pact that the innocent have to employ so a mass murderer gets his day court.
The neutralized him without anyone else being killed and I am thankful for that.
In order to avail one's self of due process, one must first surrender.
It's as simple as that.
Actually, one of the best arguments against killing him (by any means) would be if there were a credible threat of planted bombs. I’d want to know where they were planted and a corpse couldn’t tell me that.
>>The Constitution is not some shield that proven killers get to hide behind, it is not a suicide pact that the innocent have to employ so a mass murderer gets his day court.
This is an excellent point and one that seems to escape liberals and lawyers.