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Schools the world over used to teach that the earth was flat; that doesn't mean they were teacheing correctly.Not at all true. Police academies in the US and around the world teach officers to meet lethal threats with lethal force.
Holding a fire-arm does not call for a response of deadly force. It calls for the next level which is: Ready your weapon, bring it up on and aim and order the person to stop.Subject pulling out a gun can absolutely call for lethal force depending on the circumstance.
See above; regardless, it comes under the heading of, "The risks of the job" and being dead, or even wounded is extremely unlikely. Very few people, including police have sufficient experience that when in a stressful situation they can accurately place two in the '10' ring. If you look at a typical "gun fight" and compare the number of rounds fired to the number of centre-or-mass hits (or even any hits), you're actually pretty safe if you're the one being shot at.If you wait for them to shoot first, you'll be dead the majority of the time.
Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt. If there are no rounds in-coming, it's a good day and you have no complaint.Until you've been on fast changing emergency scenes, you can't truly understand how vulnerable one can feel or how fast things can go downhill.