Did you even read this article before posting it?
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Upon their arrival, Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said officers witnessed 15-year-old Ron Timbers with a knife in one hand and a hammer in the other while struggling with his mother.
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"He put the iron over his head, came towards the officer, the officer fired one time," Johnson said.
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So, this kid was seen brandishing not one, but
THREE potentially deadly weapons. When confronted by a police officer, the kid raised the iron above his head, and moved towards the officer. If you were the officer in that position, what would you have thought he was going to do? I'd have shot the little shit too.
Mace is a completely asinine, and clearly uninformed suggestion, by the way. It will deter somebody, but it will not overcome a would-be assailant immediately. Where somebody's life is at risk, the only failsafe weapon is a gun.