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That's quite possible and if you are trained TO USE a firearm, its part of the situation assessement.In the US the 13yo may well have been packing,
the van occupants may well have been packing,
a street shoot out with stray bullets could well have been the outcome.
Being pushed off his bike looks polite by comparison.
Sometimes I appreciate being British where a thug can't throw a hundred knives a second in my direction..
The word "polite" is interesting because there is an expression "that an armed society is a polite society"!
As to repairing society mentioined above, a priority might be to pay for an expanded police force that is well compensated and not do "Cops on the Cheap"!
That is in fact a famous international assessment of an indefatigable flaw in the British character, "Do it on the cheap!"
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