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Originally Posted by Joekerr
I'll play. I love games.
If the cop shoots the guy and that involuntarily triggers a muscle spasm that makes the guy press the button (or it is pressed in the fall) thereby killing more people, do we blame the cop for shooting him when it is possible he could have been talked out of it, or a team could have defused the bomb?
The decision to shoot isn't always black or white, even if you know what he is holding isn't a gun.
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Which of course was my point to the poster above who was implying that because the cop could tell it wasn't a gun there was no reason to shoot.