On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:33:42 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jul 12, 6:08*pm, tony sayer wrote:
He had plenty of opportunities to give himself up, to put down the
weapon, to surrender himself to the police...

What he didn't do is to give any opportunities to the man he shot dead
and the woman and copper he took a shot at and fortunately only wounded
them but even so they will have to live with that for the rest of their
lives...

It's absolutely disgusting that people are criticising the police
about this. While this bloke was on the run everyone was **** scared,
going "Catch him, catch him!" to the cops. When they finally nailed
him the media latched onto these idiots who wanted to say what a hero
he was. This bloke was a murderer, and he blinded a cop! He might not
have deserved to die, but he put the police in a position where they
had a hard job to keep him alive. And their priority was to contain
him, at any cost to him, to protect innocent people. When he was
caught he had 16 cartridges full of ball bearings. He was going to
commit mass murder. He had to be stopped.

I think he was mentally ill and ideally I would have liked to have
seen him rescued from the situation he had created and treated, and
hopefully rehabilitated. But it just wasn't possible.

On this one I agree, sadly there's not much you can do with
psychopaths (except elect them to Parliament)