[driftdiver]

No that will only encourage and even strong and more violent response to the smallest issue.

[Pox]

Perhaps so, but that will only be another step towards escalations from citizens as well, and it's not hard to see where it will all end up.

If police officers were not trained to perform such an unnecessary act in the first place, we would not be talking about such hypotheticals.

There may be situations where firing upon a vicious dog would be prudent, but we've been reading more and more of these stories over the last couple of years and the pattern is a very disturbing one.