"Did you think that it would be easy to kill a grown man in the line of duty? Do you think the next one will be any easier? God help you if you do, Buddy Boy, because it's not, it's going to hurt every time. It's going to tear your insides out every time you pull that gun, whether you use it or not. And that, Buddy Boy, is the reaction of a good officer, an officer who gives a damn, an officer who cares!
But also remember, Steve, while a good officer will always try to find ways to prevent that from happening, try and talk the perp down, sometimes we just don't have a choice, like today! When there are other lives, including our own, that hang in the balance. And it's those times, when we have no choice, that we have to pull that gun and use it, sometimes to take to take a human life.
And that is the badge of a good officer, Buddy Boy, an officer who knows when he can talk a perp down or when he has to pull his pull his gun and use it. A good officer, just like you today, who knows when he doesn't have any other choice than to take a life to protect other innocent lives, even though he knows it's going to tear his guts inside out and haunt him in his dreams."