“””””The mere sight of a gun doesn’t make it a free fire zone.”””””
This is what I mean when I say that cops need to know they have to accept a certain amount of risk to be a cop, they cannot just kill every possible threat in front of them and then try to sort out what happened.
It was the duty of that cop to endure and cope with that airman having a pistol at his side in his own home, and handle it, the greater burden of accepting risk was on the man who was working at that moment, the cop, not the homeowner.
THIS ^