re: #349 RogueOne

There was a lot of conflicting witness testimony but the bottom line is they shot a guy 8 times who had a permit to carry a weapon, hadn’t broken any laws, and the weapon was still in the holster. That’s not heroic and giving them a medal for it is more than distasteful in my book.

I don’t know, what’s the rule for when you’re allowed to shoot? Does the suspect have to have his or her gun out of the holster?

I mean, I agree we should try to prevent situations where folks are shooting each other, but that starts with sane gun laws.

But having said that, I do actually partly agree with you. We should make sure that cops don’t just indiscriminately open fire when presented with a “threat”. The problem is that allowing everyone to wander around with guns makes it much harder to define that “threat”/”no threat” line.