text: I maintain that regular patrol officers should not have been sent out after Bourque. A SWAT squad should have been called in and officers told to exercise extreme caution. It is unreasonable for patrol officers to be trying to deal with a guy armed as Bourque was. The answer is not to have carbines all over the place and they would not have helped officers sniped at from a distance and/or from behind. One officer had his body armour in the trunk of the car where the carbine would have been!