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> Because police seem to be trained to empty their entire magazine any time they fire

> You do not stop firing until it is absolutely clear there is no more threat.

One does not mean or imply the other. "until there is no more threat" doesn't say anything about a magazine.

The only relationship between the two is the presumption that while reloading you will have time to realize your target is already dead, while you might not have realized it a moment before in the haze of gunfire. But nobody is obliged to empty their entire magazine before evaluating the effect they had. Police are trained to stop shooting when the threat is gone and there are ample body camera videos showing police who stop shooting before their magazine is empty. This demonstrates that one is not necessarily synonymous with the other.



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