THE BRISTISH WAY of dealing with it would be:
unarmed cops come, close street about 150m from the person whom they consider armed. Sit on their hands and wait. If lucky, the dangerous person is let to do what he wishes for 10 minutes like in case of Lee Rigby. I.e. he is left for 10 minutes to fulfill his threats (or not - it is entirely to him), only then
Due to the way British police work there is multitude of them, some probably with non-lethal guns like a tazer, so they can [quote=“TheDivineInfidel, post:10006, topic:21032”]
draw weapons and scream at him to get down , he refuses . one of the multiple officers uses non-lethal force while the rest keep their primary weapons aimed on him . he is brought down
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MEANWHILE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
First police car is there within 2 minutes (that is real response time in Prague, it would be more elsewhere), the 2 officers IMMEDIATELY engage the perpetrator, order him to take his hands out of the pocket, he fails, warning shots, he complies, they asses him as probable lunatic and being happy with him having hands out of pocket with no gun, wait for reinforcement to tackle him.
Since the first moment the very first police shows up perpetrator is engaged by police. The only way he can do as he wishes is over first responders’ dead bodies. It is their first duty not let him to get over their bodies no matter what.