Thanks, good points. The main reason for so many hit— the sidewalk there at 9 AM is jammed. I’m surprised they didn’t hit a cabbie or auto. There was a bus pulling up just as this started.
Agree that maybe something else could have been used. Not a taser- say maybe a developed hand held sonic weapon could be directionally used.
It is also, my opinion, the lack of an armed populace. Somebody could have stopped this clown long before he walked around the corner. Too much reliance on big brother govt.— keeping us safe from salt, trans fat,soda pop.... but not from armed loonies.
Thank you for your reply. It is pretty easy to be critical after an incident such as this. Unfortunately, the backlash from this type of incident is more likely to create counterproductive restrictions on the ability of the police to do their jobs rather than help make our citizens safer.
I would bet that the first reaction of even the harshest critics here when looking down the big barrel of a madman’s .45 would be to pull their own trigger first and keep pulling it until the threat is gone. Once this turned into a gun fight gut instinct took over and all of the options went out the window. Experience and training might have helped the officers confront the man in a safer way. If they had been using different equipment they might have been able to take down the killer with less collateral damage.