On 4/25/2009, 2 Okaloosa County (FL) sheriff's deputies were shot and killed by a man they'd gone to arrest. A link to an article is below. My question is this: If you were one of the deputies (and many here can relate to that), how would your thoughts and actions be affected by the knowledge that the subject can be violent (wife beater, general bad-a$$) and you were going to a shooting range to effect the arrest?

I'll go out on a limb here - in the given situation, I would probably consider the necessity of arresting him at a place where firearms are readily available, his proclivity for violence, and the upsides/downsides of waiting to take him into custody at a location/time more likely to avoid violence. OK...call it arm-chair quarterbacking, if you must, but I still have to wonder.

Such a tragedy - my prayers do go out to their families...

Sheriff: Man killed 2 deputies after being stunned
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