Originally Posted by sperbonzo

If someone is crazy enough to come at you with a deadly weapon, when you are holding a gun on them, and you have already used a taser on them, then you need to shoot. Only in the movies does it take one shot to put someone down. If you do not hit them in the heart or the head, then it takes on average 4 shots of .45, or 7 shots of 9mm to lower the blood pressure enough to take a determined attacker down. I'm not totally defending the cop here, but it's not a clear cut situation the other way either.


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