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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 494795" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>This is really sickening! But the truth is, when a police officer is confronted with a situation like this, where the officers lives are in danger from an armed aggressor who will not back down, they are taught to shoot to <u>kill</u>, not wound. This boy might have only been in the eighth grade but he was 15 and 15 year olds can and do kill people all the time, especially in gang related activities. And besides the danger he posed to the police officers, he had a loaded gun in school! What would he have done with that gun if he had not been stopped? Innocent students or teachers could have lost their lives. It's happened many times before. The police officers had no choice and were following policy.</p><p></p><p>My son-in-law is a police officer. Were he to be shot by a mixed up 15 year old, he would still be just as dead as if he were shot by someone older. My daughter would be just as much a young widow if the shooter were 15 and my grandson would have to grow up without his daddy, no matter what the age of the shooter. If faced with the same situation, my son-in-law would have done the same thing. It might haunt him the rest of his life but he would have done it because he had to. I worked in "the system" for 24 years and you have no idea how vicious and dangerous some of these juveniles can be, every bit as much as the older ones. It is a shame, but anyone who points a loaded gun at a police officer and refuses to back down can expect this to happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 494795, member: 1883"] This is really sickening! But the truth is, when a police officer is confronted with a situation like this, where the officers lives are in danger from an armed aggressor who will not back down, they are taught to shoot to [U]kill[/U], not wound. This boy might have only been in the eighth grade but he was 15 and 15 year olds can and do kill people all the time, especially in gang related activities. And besides the danger he posed to the police officers, he had a loaded gun in school! What would he have done with that gun if he had not been stopped? Innocent students or teachers could have lost their lives. It's happened many times before. The police officers had no choice and were following policy. My son-in-law is a police officer. Were he to be shot by a mixed up 15 year old, he would still be just as dead as if he were shot by someone older. My daughter would be just as much a young widow if the shooter were 15 and my grandson would have to grow up without his daddy, no matter what the age of the shooter. If faced with the same situation, my son-in-law would have done the same thing. It might haunt him the rest of his life but he would have done it because he had to. I worked in "the system" for 24 years and you have no idea how vicious and dangerous some of these juveniles can be, every bit as much as the older ones. It is a shame, but anyone who points a loaded gun at a police officer and refuses to back down can expect this to happen. [/QUOTE]
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