[Jeff Higgins]

A missed opportunity. The cop should have used the other gun; it would have saved his community a lot of money and grief.

Now they get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute him and lock him up. When he gets out, I'm relatively sure he will pick right back up where he left off, causing ever more loss to his community. Since he has already demonstrated he is more than willing to turn to a firearm in the pursuit of his criminal lifestyle, he may even kill someone when he gets out. Should have shot the lousy SOB.