Sure are a lot of people defending trained murderers on here.

You think a man willing to ambush and murder cops would, you know, give them information?

Or even better, just add the ability to buy skins into the game for really cheap prices that go straight to Valve.

Remote IED’s aren’t really all that rare, you know.

Terrorists.

So does literally every other weapon, and yet here we stand with all of those. One more that has a far higher chance of increasing the safety of the police and causing less death is a welcome addition.

Ah, I slightly misremembered a bit. He had bomb materials in his home, he may or may not have had some with him (that is not info we have available).

Without some rather extreme advances in AI, I don’t think an autonomous android would be a good fit for anything except for maybe, like, traffic citations or something.

“I hope you are willing to stand in front of the next active shooter and take some rounds so that some bleeding heart liberal doesn’t get offended.”

Well, no, of course they don’t. That is what the human controller is for?

Looks to me more like any actual deflections were the result of pure chance rather than any skill... and they were hit far more than the lightsabers.

They would almost certainly not be able to do anything if they did exist and had independent timers anyway, while eliminating him got rid of one risk.

Because artifacts, no matter how priceless, aren’t the same as people? Because they weren’t threatening people with explosives?

Uh, it isn’t the job of a police officer to jump in front of bullets. They aren’t disposable meat shields, what the hell?

Some police do that. That is an issue that has roots in more than just insufficient training... things like these shooters make it an even worse issue.

How do you know he is not an imminent threat? You assume a lot of information you would not have. Are remote explosives not a possibility in your world? Or outside assistance?

Any threat that would result in loss of life outside of the killer. If they want to kill others, they should be prepared to be killed in return if necessary.

Gee, run the risk of the explosives being real and the killer using them to kill more people... or eliminate the threat before that can happen.

I have no interest in “what if” stories. They provide no meaningful input.

He had explosives and claimed to have explosives set elsewhere.