The Coalition of the Swilling

It could be it's the only way the cops can hit them, as they are pretty poor shots sometimes.

[THS, I think it went over his head]

[Unlike the cop's bullet]

[At least shooting a dead man is a sure thing.]

Well, if the cops double-tapped him, he might have been dead after the first shot, right?

Well, you gotta kill them til they're dead. dontcha?

Or maybe someone set him up in a chair in a window and no one KNOWS he's dead until they shoot him and THINK he's dead...but hah!! He were daid already.

But who knew?

Until they SHOT him dead, only to find out he was dead already. But they probably wuldn't know THAT until the coroner's report, like on "NCIS", where Ducky always tells Jethro "ignore those fifty-seven bullet entry/exit wounds! What really killed our young ensign was this TICK BITE behind his left gonad*!"

*the technical term.

I think Ken read it as the cops shooting someone who was taking dead people hostage, whereas I read it as the police shooting an already dead hostage taker...heh.

I prefer the way Sean Connery did it in The Untouchables, ths.

Kill tehm til they're dead. Repeat, if necessary.

By George, Bingley's GOT it! If they HADN'T shot a DEAD guy, they should have said:

Phoenix Police Shoot Hostage Taker DEAD

Yeah, but he got it only after several hints...