[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.

[GeronL]

OK, fire them and put those Boy Scouts into uniforms

[Lazamataz]

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.

[Russian Sage]

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?

[GeronL]

They had a picture of the front of the house and it was totally destroyed

I think I remember that photo, or one like it

[stands2reason]

"Forty shots rang out


Forty people fell,


Patty and the Killer missed each other


but they shot that town to hell!"