Why no Cannons on Police Helicopters?

Kerryn Offord wrote in
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B2431 wrote:

From: "Jim Doyle"


"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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"Jim Doyle" wrote in
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SNIP
And once again,getting shot is NOT always a "death sentence".
Nice try at emotionalizing the issue,though.

The act of shooting at a person may result in their death. Luck of
the draw if it's not fatal, but the intention is to kill, is it not?
Otherwise you'd pursue a non-lethal method of self-protection.

So yes, you are engaging a person who could die as a result of your
actions, and according to you they deserve to die for the situation
in which you both find yourselves - that's as good as sentencing them
to death. In fact - it is.

It is simply NOT a matter of being judge, jury and executioner.
Shooting is not the first choice. If the badguy doesn't retreat and
you feel threatened then it's the badguy's fault, no one else's.

The trouble is, this isn't what other people have been saying. Some
have been saying... more or less, that shooting is the first response
to an intruder.. even before you know anything about the intent (like,
the person knocking on the door asking "Excuse me, can you tell me
where I can find..."



We WERE discussing intruders already IN the home.
Someone brought out that bit about shooting someone knocking on their
door,probably in reference to the Hattori shooting,a rare incident.
That's something I would not have done.No threat as they are on the
outside,and not trying to get in.Once they begin breaking in,however,all
bets are off.



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Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net