Man With A BB Gun Killed By Police...

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My mother told me of a news story that happened a few days ago regarding a man who was shot and killed by police for taking a BB gun to a hospital with the intent to shoot the doctors that would not help his dying infant because he had no health insurance. Apparently, the police got a tip that this man was headed to the hospital with a gun (whether they knew it was a bb gun is beyond me) and by the time the man got to the hospital, he was met by a whole task force, who then gunned him down. The man died instantly and his baby died a few hours later. Ok, so, my opinion on this is this, maybe the police didn't know that the gun the man was holding was a BB gun because some bb guns really do look very real. However, shouldn't they have waited to check it out before they started firing? Shouldn't they have made sure?Another thing that I take issue with is the laws that surround health insurance today. To me it just seems inhumane to let an innocent infant die because the parent does not or can not afford health insurance. How can people be so cruel? It's an innocent living breathing baby, is money so important to people these days that they will let a baby die instead of giving it the help that they clearly have right at their very fingertips? I don't necessarily agree with the route that this man took but I can certainly understand it. Any parent wouldn't be thinking rationally when they're told by doctors that they will not help their infant and with the knowledge that their infant will die because of this minor detail. This situation reminded me a lot of the Denzel Washing movie John Q, which depicts a man in a similar situation who takes people hostage at a hospital in order to get his dying son the kidney that he needs, to which the medical staff there refuses to put him on the donor list because of his lack of proper health insurance. In my opinion, these laws have to change and medical doctors need to start saving lives because that's what they were taught to do. In the old days doctors didn't think about money first, they just saved a life because that's what the whole reason they learned the professional was for, which was in order to save a life. It's just sad... What is everyone's opinion on this story and the whole situation surrounding it?