Don't you think all the people carrying firearms must make it very scary for cops trying to effect an arrest?

Being a cops wife means that you accept your husband that your husband may get killed on his shift.

For the husband - theres a sort of unwritten agreement that you will do your best not to leave her a widow.

In this case I heard that the cop approached the car . shoved a gun through the window and started calling the shots. If there wasn't an odds on possibility that that someone in the party was armed this was a real escalation from where things would have been in England.