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Why do police need guns?

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Just the other day, the police in San Francisco shot an unarmed, hand cuffed man in the back. There are multiple copies of user contributed video that corroborate the fact that the guy was immobile, restrained, in handcuffs and shot (then died in the hospital a few hours later).

Several countries have police without firearms...and I know, second amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, etc, but seriously: why do the police need guns? Not all bad guys have guns (not one of the arrestees, including the victim, had a weapon according to the reports). So why not just equip them with tazers, clubs or something? Or at least rubber bullets?