Matrix Glitch wrote:
If you're looking though the window of a door, and see guns pointed at you, you're most likely going to get shot while trying to break through it.
If you go chasing after and attacking someone who has a riffle, you're most likely going to get shot.
Yep, by that particular guard.
I suggest people avoid him in future.
He has a teeny weeny problem with overreacting.

Oh bless. You keep on banging that partisan drum, m'kay?
Pepe wrote:
Have you seen the video of the "heroic" shooting of an unarmed woman?
I was not impressed.

I have, and while I was not impressed by
anyone being killed it takes a special kind of rage-mode to continue screaming at and charging
visibly armed capitol officers. There were at least two guns being pointed through the smashed window at the rioters.
Did she "deserve" it? No, of course not - but the take-away lesson here is: don't threaten armed officers whose job is to defend that which you are helping to smash down.
Pepe wrote:
She had nothing in her hand.
Well, hindsight is a wonderful thing - unfortunately it has no bearing on a violent and ongoing assault by a raging mob, which included her.
The officer has been exonerated because
he did his job.Pepe wrote:
No other security person found it necessary to shoot anyone, let alone an unarmed woman.

I think you mean
"The situation was rapidly defused by that one shot, which also stopped the attack on the doors. There was no need or reason for anyone else to shoot, so they didn't".I'm sure others here who are well-versed in the use of firearms could explain how, in such a rapidly changing and life-threatening situation, pausing to check if the screaming person smashing through windows to get to you is armed is unlikely to be a life-enhancing move.
The officers' duty was to put themselves in danger and defend congress, and
that's what they did.