[dznutz]

Easy to armchair quarterback a shooting. Who knows how it would have played out following your plan. The officer stood in the gap while citizens were in the vicinity, and stopped an apparently mentally disturbed man who crashed his vehicle into innocent citizens vehicles, brandished and then used a weapon capable of causing great bodily harm or death. The officer did no wrong. Like Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

[golux]

Easy to armchair quarterback a shooting.

Yes it is. Many who have never had to decide, and shoot, and live with the consequences, are quick to judge, and even cheer.

Many people on this myriad forum are not speaking from armchairs like the fool who shot the video, who, were he a man, would have gotten out of his car and helped.

This is not a situation in which I would have taken a life.

The shooter knows it, too, now, no matter what they tell him in counseling.

This isn't a movie, and this isn't war. This is a mentally disturbed man with a stick. I pray if you, my FRiends, are ever in a situation like this, you pull way out of the tunnel-vision of the immediate "threat," see things as they are, holster, and find another way.

Remember this advice. Dismiss it if you absolutely need to, but remember it.