Hostages taken in Sydney + bomb threat

Oh, so because he might eventually have killed everyone it would be better to just risk everyones lives right from the beginning?
What kind of pineappleing logic is that?

Could you seriously look the families of the lost ones in the eye and say "Yeah we knew about the threat of bombs but we still just shot him so he blew up everyone lol, i mean we could've waited it out and attempted to save the vast majority but we just went for a risky move and ended up killing them all, sorry!"

Man i'm glad you're not in charge of any kind of hostage situation.
The police went for the options that would allow them to potentially save as many people as possible, they didn't just not shoot him because they'd prefer to take him alive, believe me if they knew 100% that shooting him would save all the hostages and that he had no accomplices and so on, they would've almost 99.99% surely taken the shot.
But they didn't know all that so they went with the best option with the given information.

Just shooting the gunman and just hoping that things work out seems to be just about the worst pineappleing option.

whats the point of waiting for the inevitable in the case he did have bombs. what do you think waiting will do if he had bombs there. you think hes just gonna dis arm then while surrendering ? no hes not.

are you kidding me ? the police were too scared sif they want to take him alive rofl. the police went for the option which was the lowest risk for them where they wont be blamed for anything if it goes wrong since they got no balls. o lets wait for the guy to make the first move then we move in. thats the police response to this situation. if you are dealing with an armed man without reason what other option can there be besides shooting him or waiting for him to kill someone first which he did in this case