re: Poll - If a person has a gun, when do you shoot them?

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This should not result in a reasonable person to fear for his life. These guys shot themselves in the leg/foot.

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Yea, imagine if that gun was pointed at a cop who was sitting on his legs... oh wait....

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Each was restraining one arm while sitting on top of him.

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Yea, this has been disproven, the arm that just so happens to be on the same side as the gun was free. When he successfully pulled it from the officer is when the officer drew, there was at least a half dozen threads on here with the stills of that sequence being shown.

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Nowhere have I seen where those police lives were in jeopardy.

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Sterling could have easily shot the cop if his hand found the trigger (even without putting his hand in his pocket) where the cop was sitting their is a good chance it could have hit his femoral artery.

You can argue that they possibly put themselves in that situation by not waiting on backup, but once that sequence played out the shooting was absolutely justified.