[Warning: Graphic -- guy getting shot]

Just like that.

What amazing reflexes, training, and restraint this officer simultaneously showed.

He comes a nanosecond away from getting his face blown off, shoots and drops the bad guy in a split second while calling for backup, and in the middle of the most insane and adrenaline-soaked few seconds of his life has the presence of mind not to double-tap that absolute BALLOONHEAD who ran up on him as it was all happening.

Just stunning.

Meanwhile, you've got people talking about "oh why don't cops just shoot people in the leg, or shoot the gun out of their hand, or just tase them, or try to wrestle them to the ground, or hug them and tickle them and tell them a joke and ask pretty please blah blah blah blah."

That video is why. So often it's life or death in the blink of an eye.

And of course, let's not forget the all-important question...