re: 8 people found dead in Houston home after standoff; suspect arrested

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Cops look through window, see a body on the floor. Cops try to go in and gunman starts shooting at them. Cops call in SWAT to deal with the situation. SWAT shows up, gunman surrenders. After house is cleared the cops discover 8 dead in the house.

How hard is that to understand?

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None of that addresses his point that something's wrong with a process that leads cops to back off when there is evidence that a suspect is killing people.
They had no way of knowing that backing off wouldn't give him time to execute more people, and unlike a hypothetical "hostage situation", they knew his intentions were lethal.
They also knew there were more potential victims inside because they were doing a welfare check.

I wonder how many people have died while good guys with guns stood around and waited for experts to arrive to deal with a dangerous situation.