What I said earlier by way of caveat to nickc's point was
..assuming the only options are gun and taser.
What I hoped to imply was that the assumption about their [sic, for any illiterate pedants] being the only two options was itself problematic.
We agree, nickc, I think.
A lot of hugely ill-informed blather has been posted by others here. It seems to be based on an intuitive grasp of criminal law. Criminal law is not intuitive. That's why judges direct juries.