After all, how many unarmed people could a terrorist kill in 8 minutes? Certainly not more than 70 or 80.
When one of these a-holes are up for investigation and bring up something like this "adequate response" lunacy, I wish one of the interrogators would stop him and play an 8-minute tape of a gunshot every 5 seconds and have heve everyone sit through the entire run. Then ask said a-hole if he still thinks eight minutes, or three, or four, our five . . . is "adequate".
What comes to mind is the old tale of a defense attorney claiming that his client couldn't have murdered the victim as "he was only there for three minutes". The prosecution asked the court to be silent for three minutes and let everyone's imagination do the rest. The guy was convicted.