Mistershine on 09 May 2008
I 'spose they could have shot his hand off.
A couple of years ago a guy in a town a few miles from me was theatening people with a rifle so the armed police were called, and they surrounded him and gave him plenty of verbal warnings but he still shouldered the gun and pointed it at them, so they shot him and killed him and it turns out it was an unloaded air rifle. Everybody was whingeing about it, but they would be the first to complain if the police hadn't killed him and hed actully shot somebody.
The moral of the story is: If armed police tell you to drop a gun, you should listen or accept that you are likely to die.
