29-12-2010, 05:15 AM
Maybe, but the thing about this is that the police in the UK are not armed as in the US. When there is a situation requiring an armed response there are specialist units which respond to those incidents. The officers are highly trained and they should be expected to disable an armed person effectively with out killing them. He would have run out of ammo eventually and he will have needed to sleep some time. There were no hostages involved. No time urgency. There has been an increase in the number of police shooting fatalities recently (think Menedez and the and one has to wonder if there has been an unannounced changed in policy or if the professionalism of the force is not meeting standards.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.