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Originally Posted by rainheart
Because when you think about it, we don't really know what his intentions were, and certainly for simply taking a hostage you don't deserve to die. That might be a popular school of thought in America perhaps, but not in Canada.
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You don't
deserve to die, even if you
simply took someone hostage. But if you wave a gun in an armed cop's direction, the cop will choose to shoot you, because he's trying to (a) save his life, (b) end the hostage situation in a way that's healthy for the hostages, not the hostage takers.
I don't condone trigger happy police officers. But I'd hug and kiss the man if he just saved my kid from a freak with a gun.