gmarshall139 said:
MIGHT? That's exactly my point. In the real world you don't know, but when conditions get to a certain point in pays to be prepared. I've seen a couple of you paint black and white pictures of when it's ok and when it's not. Typical Monday morning stuff. Problem is there is no black and white in reality and only one chance to get it right.
Typical Cop Attitude, again, your life is more important because everyone is a violent felon until they prove otherwise.
Yes, you have one chance to get it right, and that goes both ways.
If you don't draw and cover, you might not be able to outdraw a violent felon that will try to draw and fire on you despite the endless training you should have engaged in because firearms proficiency is a key aspect of your job duties...if you get that wrong, you might die.
If you draw and cover, and make a mistake, become negligent or any other number of things that happen to trigger things such as what we are discussing in this thread despite the endless training you should have engaged in because firearms proficiency is a key aspect of your job duties, you get to go home, but an innocent person, or perhaps even a criminal that did not commit a crime deserving the death penalty or was not a violent threat gets to take a state-sponsored dirt nap.
The thing is, you chose to be a cop, they may or may not have chosen to break the law (they might have broken it, might not have, that's for the Jury to decide), so to me, to go off and cover folks that pose no credible or visible threat is a despicable practice.