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Sadly this is pretty much the one situation where, once negotiation has been exhausted, it is necessary to shoot the person holding the gun.

Even in the UK with its very low use of police gunfire (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-police-shoo... - seven shootings out of ~12,500 incidents involving firearm officers) have done this on a few occasions involving sieges.

It's all the other incidents we should be concerned about.




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