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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: How I feel about armed cops after this week's shootings
Description: When I first heard about the police shooting and killing someone they had actually gone to help, like most people, I wondered how the hell that could happen.  This is the shooting in Bryndwr in Christchurch overnight on Wednesday, which left a woman dead and a man critically injured.  As always happens, the armchair experts haven’t been slow in coming forward. For example, demanding to know why the police couldn’t have shot the woman in the leg, rather than taking her life.  But unless we have been in the position of a deali...