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Cops in the US are primed to fight the North Hollywood Shootout. Law enforcement in other countries has no reason to expect that they'll encounter five fully-automatic machine guns, a thousand rounds of ammo and body armor. As such, every time a cop in the US has to charge knowingly into a room with an "armed suspect" they are fully prepped for an Aurora movie theater. Stephen Paddock had fourteen AR-15s. 2600 rounds of ammo. 50lbs of tannerite. He was literally more heavily armed than an entire squad of Toronto SWAT. American police are required to make snap decisions with life-or-death consequences. Sometimes those choices are obvious. Sometimes they aren't. They're always terrible.