This ‘bulk-shooting’ mentality amazes me as well. Last year, I was looking at German police statistics from 2011. The German cops fired a total of 85 rounds (for the entire year, across the entire country) in active situations. Forty-nine of these were warning shots. The rest? Six folks dead and 15 wounded.
So, multiply by a factor of 100 or so, then tell us how many “comparatively” the polizie shot.
The population of GER is about, what, 35 million, the US, 320 million?