HAVE YOU SEEN THE VIDEO??! They guy drew his weapon on the cops when they tried to stop him. If they "carried their ammo like Barney Fife" or "emulated the Brits", they'd be dead.
yeah & if they weren't incompetant bags (with which one douches) 9 people would not have been SHOT. part of their JOB is being able to shot reasonably well. the shooter shot who he meant to shoot & left everyone else alone. the cops should NOT make the situation MORE dangerous for bystanders. the brits take longer to handle this sort of situation BUT they don't shoot 9 bystanders.
while this is absolutely a fail on the part of the cops involved, it is absolutely a tremendous fail on the part of the individuals responsible for training & qualifying them and putting them on the street.
OTH you almost never hear of armed citizens
accidentally shooting anyone (except their assailants) while defending themselves. they pretty much restrict themselves to shooting the bad guy. perhaps if his victim had been armed he wouldn't be a victim.