Good guy with a gun...

[Benton]

(11-13-2018, 12:43 AM)GMDino Wrote: It's also why the narrative of a "good guy with a gun" is so wrong.  The police do not know who the bad guy is when they get there.  Why they chose to shoot this guy is unknown right now...but it just goes to show how more guns didn't save this guy who did everything right.

Although I'm pretty sure it will be that he didn't follow the officers commands quickly enough or something.

That's not an uncommon problem... and I'll say it goes back to training.

Departments like bringing in guys out of the military. They've already got a lot o training, they know how to follow orders, etc. Unfortunately, that 'every situation is a war zone' mentality may not be the best approach when you're trying to get some drunk and disorderlies under control or responding to a domestic dispute or similar situations. And a once-every-six months inservice on deescalation tactics probably isn't going to do a great deal for guys who, for the most part, are trained to control first and deescalate second.