The Monday morning quarterbacks need to think about what it means to start shooting the robbers in a crowded restaurant.
Let’s say the cop takes down the short, fat robber. As he starts firing at the robber, the tall, skinny robber starts shooting at the cop. Being a typical gangbanger, he can’t hit the cop, but does shoot two or three innocents before the cop can shoot him.
Is that a better result?
THEY WERE ALREADY SHOOTING.
What the hell is so hard to understand about that? THE ROBBERS WERE FIRING.
Since we’re playing pretend, let’s say the cop just happens to be multi time national/world champion pistol shooter Todd Jarret. Jarret moves to his first station using the cover of the booth. Being a World champion of nearly godlike ability, he proceeds to drop both with shots to the brain stem in approximately .5 second, but some customers are unaware anything has even happened because of how quickly and smoothly he dropped both perps and just continue asking for refills for their iced tea.
I like the plays I call a lot better than yours. Much more satisfying. What we do know is that two robbers were firing shots randomly and a cop just let them go.