Alliedassault - View Single Post - Police group OKs shooting suicide bombers in head

Poseidon · 08-05-2005, 05:20 PM

[quote="Eight Ace":745a5]
yeah you're right, the terrorists had nothing to do with it, it's was just the English
police intentionally overreacting again on what was a perfectly ordinary day in London....
they made the sort of mistake you would never make seeing as you trained with Delta Force.[/quote:745a5]

Picture yourself as part of the police force - in their shoes. You follow a 'suspect' to a tube station. When challenging him (assuming they did normal procedures by shouting "STOP/FREEZE POLICE!" the suspect fled by running into a TRAIN full of INNOCENT people! The police made a split second decision - to take his life based on his reaction (the exact decision I and probably every member of this board would have done in there position when having no evidence suggesting he's innocent).

What would you have thought if this guy had a bomb, and when tackled having blown the officers and pretty much everyone else up on the train? I know we'd be having this discussion saying "they should have shot the guy, why didnt they shoot him"

I'm all for this rule "shoot to kill", mistakes happen! 1 mistake is better a potential 40 innocent lives having lost (should it have been the other way round.

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Poseidon is Offline 2nd Lieutenant Posts: 3,358 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Good ol' England!	08-05-2005, 05:20 PM [quote="Eight Ace":745a5] yeah you're right, the terrorists had nothing to do with it, it's was just the English police intentionally overreacting again on what was a perfectly ordinary day in London.... they made the sort of mistake you would never make seeing as you trained with Delta Force.[/quote:745a5] Picture yourself as part of the police force - in their shoes. You follow a 'suspect' to a tube station. When challenging him (assuming they did normal procedures by shouting "STOP/FREEZE POLICE!" the suspect fled by running into a TRAIN full of INNOCENT people! The police made a split second decision - to take his life based on his reaction (the exact decision I and probably every member of this board would have done in there position when having no evidence suggesting he's innocent). What would you have thought if this guy had a bomb, and when tackled having blown the officers and pretty much everyone else up on the train? I know we'd be having this discussion saying "they should have shot the guy, why didnt they shoot him" I'm all for this rule "shoot to kill", mistakes happen! 1 mistake is better a potential 40 innocent lives having lost (should it have been the other way round.