You're right - many of us don't know what it is like to be in the line of duty as an officer. However, if you don't know how you'll react in that kind of situation, perhaps you shouldn't be an officer of the law, no? If the tensions of your job cause you to make rash decisions that result in the shooting death of a kid, shouldn't you bear at least some of the blame?

There are plenty of people on this board who take up for stupidity on a regular basis, but there are others who tend to blindly justify the actions of officers because it is a "scary job." If you can routinely justify unnecessary shootings by stating how tough it is to be an officer, perhaps you (and police officers in general) should look in the mirror and question whether or not you really deserve to wield the power you've been granted.

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Posted by DanTiger

Somewhere in Luziana

Member since Sep 2004

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Posted on 12/28/15 at 8:25 am to slackster

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You're right - many of us don't know what it is like to be in the line of duty as an officer. However, if you don't know how you'll react in that kind of situation, perhaps you shouldn't be an officer of the law, no? If the tensions of your job cause you to make rash decisions that result in the shooting death of a kid, shouldn't you bear at least some of the blame?

Nobody knows how they will react in a life and death situation until they are faced with one. People who have never seen combat or been in explosive encounters with armed individuals simply don't understand how quickly things happen. It isn't like the movies where you see the bad guy reaching for his gun in slow motion and you have time to draw and shoot him before he shoots you. It is simply a case of perception being far different from reality and it is not something you can understand until you have had it happen to you.

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