Mad dogs sometimes need putting down. See Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men.

Proportional self defense (in the west)- you can use a baton against an unarmed assailant - a gun against a knife armed assailant - but not a gun against an unarmed assailant.

Kudos to the police- they should have shot him sooner- and avoid the risk to the public and themselves as they were chased around by him for so long.

Maybe the peace-nics/ disarmament people should be sent to deal with the problem. They should be exiled to the middle east till they solve the issues. Rather than creating problems here. Talk is less than action- good on the police for their action. Shame on the socialist anti-gun lobby for putting our police and public in danger.

Mark Steyn, commenting on the Bourke Street terrorist attack, has mentioned that the terrorist who was left roaming free to kill Australians, had had is passport cancelled to prevent him going to Syria as a jihadi. Steyn apparently finds it odd that our political class stops jihadis from going overseas so that “the only infidels they can kill are the locals”.

That's what it amounts to. Would be jihadists should be allowed to go somewhere to do the business, and in the event they survive, stopped at the border if they try to come back.

Steyn also refers to the “lunatic government policies that insist everybody on the planet is entirely the same and that to attempt to distinguish between any of the seven billion potential immigrants to your country is totally racist”.

He also contends what many of us now think: it doesn't matter whether you vote Left or Right any more; you will get the same cowardly nothing-to-see-here from a bunch moronic politicians.

Henry,

I saw Morrison described as 'Turnbull in a baseball cap (his headdress when visiting rural areas) this morning.

"you can use a baton against an unarmed assailant '
Is that a sharpened baton through the heart , like the stake through Dracula? Can a pistol be aimed or is it aimless like an exploding grenade? Are police unable to learn how to aim?

Posted by nicknamenick, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:04:57 PM
Are police unable to learn how to aim?

Answer- Well I'll follow the red rag this time...

Police are trained to aim for the biggest target for various reasons ...
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/shooting_to_kill_why_police_ar.html

- A police officer may go through their whole career without drawing their firearm.
- It is very difficult for any person to shoot another person and is something that cannot be replicated in training.
- Aiming for the leg risks a miss and hitting bystanders.
- The chest is the biggest area.
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- police and all weapons drills take safety very seriously
- if you want to judge someone who acts in the role of the police try to do the sorts of things a police officer does then by standing in their shoes you may be able to have a better understanding of the issues they face.
- When people have any sort of power it can always be used responsibly or irresponsibly- that's a subject for morality and ethics. There are some rules of thumb to create a framework for its responsible use

well written Cannun

That's right CC. Always aim for the biggest part of the target is the rule.