To: Russian Sage
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.
8 posted on
10/26/2003 6:51:12 PM PST by
jim_trent
To: jim_trent
OK, fire them and put those Boy Scouts into uniforms
13 posted on
10/26/2003 6:55:40 PM PST by
GeronL
(Please visit www.geocities.com/geronl)
To: jim_trent
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.
15 posted on
10/26/2003 6:59:54 PM PST by
Lazamataz
(I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
To: jim_trent
I REALLY wonder if they were trying to hit him or if they were shooting around him and hoping someone else would kill him.
It must be real hard to shoot at a live person and who knows what the range was. But this appears to be in a residential neighborhood and those missed shots go somewhere. What are the police policies on taking hard shots?
To: jim_trent
They had a picture of the front of the house and it was totally destroyedI think I remember that photo, or one like it
18 posted on
10/26/2003 7:08:35 PM PST by
GeronL
(Please visit www.geocities.com/geronl)
To: jim_trent
"Forty shots rang out
Forty people fell,
Patty and the Killer missed each other
but they shot that town to hell!"
38 posted on
10/26/2003 9:08:47 PM PST by
stands2reason
("What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women." -- Chuck Palahniuk)
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