that's how tv shootouts work. deal with it.
This one was
exceptionally egregious. Multiple high caliber weapons, all with plenty of time to sight on just two targets who are completely out in the open. They shoot first, and for some seconds Hank and Gomez just stand there and return fire. Yet not even so much of a flesh wound.
Plus, if you really want to nitpick, it was apparent from the verbal exchange that these guys would never have opened fire if Hank & Gomez Pyle could have just proved they were cops.
So, both were armed but somehow left their badges at home? Even if they had, were I either of them, I would have immediately started shouting out my name, my rank, my years with the force,
anything that might have continued to give this army of bad guys further reason to rethink killing me.
Instead, they said nothing. But, yeah, I know, that's how TV works.