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The reason for shoot to kill is simple - it's hard enough to do that, let alone make some kind of skilled shot that disables without killing, in the heat of the moment. The ability to group them on a range or even in a simulation doesn't always mean that the same shooter could hit the broad side of a barn from ten yards with a near-lethal dose of adrenelin coursing through your body.

Just before I left St. Louis in 2000, I met a young (20-something) cop who had left a rural police force in southern Missouri to become a St. Louis city cop. He was working in a precient that would not be unfamiliar to police from places like Compton. What he told me was that he'd rather pull over a car load of gangbangers on a dark street by himself than mess with one methhead in broad daylight with backup.