Should our officers be shooting to kill

Whatever sort of society have we become when we even consider for a moment that anyone has not the right to shoot to kill to protect themselves?

Of course our police officers should all be armed and shoot to kill if threatened. Even, I understand, ordinary householders can by law shoot to kill if their life is preceived to be threatened.
Those who lay their life on the line every day should certainly have the right a/ of an ordinary citizen and B/ special rights in consideration of their job and the degree of selflessness we expect of them.
Yesterday BBC news evening gave details of three murders in the space of three minutes and more later.
How can police be expected to cope with people like those those who set fire to a young woman while she was still alive to the extent they couldn;t tell what colour her skin was (She was white)
Guns are one way of killing, but there are the horrific "new" weapons being used like machetes and the six foot sword etc normally not seen in hands of ethnic British and there is the new burning with acid and the setting on fire of victims like Kriss Donald who was fifteen years old when he was killed

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