[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

News flash, Marshall Dillon is a fictional Hollywood created character. Do some reading on the real old west, those sheriffs and marshals played no games with outlaws. It was shoot first and shoot to kill.
Only an idiot cop would wait for a known violent criminal, with an outstanding warrant for a violent act, to point a gun at him before drawing his own weapon. Police officers don't deal with choir boys, they deal with violent criminals who have no regard for the life of the officer or anyone else. Those criminals will shoot first and shoot to kill and if the officer wants to go home that night to his family he had better be prepared.
It doesn't take much brain power to understand that with this guy's criminal record, fighting the police and running to a vehicle where he is reaching for something they can't see that they are in danger. It's so easy a caveman can understand it, don't fight the cops, don't run, and don't grab for something they can't see and do what they tell you to do.

Wow some people do confuse fiction for facts.