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We had a guy who had a standoff with police several years ago in a small bedroom community south of where I live. Lasted several hours. The neighborhood was evacuated and police from every surrounding area joined in. There were about 100 of them. He came out the front with a handgun and started pointing it at the police out front. They started shooting and fired somewhere between 200 and 300 rounds (I forget the exact amount, but it was a LOT). Almost all were handgun, but a few were from shotgun. No rifles that I can remember. Anyway, the guy died. When they had an autopsy, they found that not one single handgun bullet hit him. He died from a single shotgun blast. They had a picture of the front of the house and it was totally destroyed. I REALLY wonder if they were trying to hit him or if they were shooting around him and hoping someone else would kill him.

When soldiers were debriefed after the Civil War had ended, a large percentage of them admitted they fired high or low so as to miss. The human being usually needs to be retrained in order to willingly kill. The process is somewhat long (approximately 6 weeks) and is very intensive. It is employed at all modern boot camps, and began when the Federals realized what had happened in the Civil War.

Police do not get this sort of 'williness to kill' training, and usually for good reason. I am not at all surprised that these sort of high-miss ratios are thusly achieved. It really makes no sense that ALL of those police were THAT bad.

When soldiers were debriefed after the Civil War had ended, a large percentage of them admitted they fired high or low so as to miss. The human being usually needs to be retrained in order to willingly kill. The process is somewhat long (approximately 6 weeks) and is very intensive. It is employed at all modern boot camps, and began when the Federals realized what had happened in the Civil War.

Lt. Col Grossman of the US Army has written a book called, "On Killing". He details this book extraordinarily well and with the exception of the last two chapters in which he takes the view that only the Army or Police should have access to weapons it is an excellent read.

Regards,

TS

Wow. I did not know that.