Posted on 01/15/2020 6:05:47 AM PST by real saxophonist
do you have any idea how difficult it is to hit such small targets, when said targets are moving and your own adrenaline is surging?
it is the very reason everyone is taught to shoot at the largest part of the target (Center Mass), and even then most people are likely to miss.
You have been watching way too much Hollywood! ROFLMAO!
LOL! That was a perfect to say it!
Because that is how police officers do get killed. And believe it or not most policemen are not great shots. They are trained to go for center body mass when stopping an attack. Not to do trick shooting.
The female cop fired twice herself, as well. This was suicide by cop without question. A deranged man raised by a deranged “progressive.” The male cop was far more patient than I would have been in that situation. I would have asked him to drop the knife once and if he didn’t, I would have dropped in his tracks.
I'd wager everything I own that she's a Rat Party "I'm a victim" type who blames everything on Republicans...including her filthy punk kid.
But your mileage may vary.
That is what I thought he said as well.
“Children tend to think maiming is appropriate, just like children tend not to use the capitalization in their writing.”
Funny, I was about to ask him, seriously, if he is an adult.
All those ‘participation trophies’ coming home to roost.
Kid thought he could do whatever he wanted...Mommy is still backing him up-—2 years ++ later.
Bet she cannot pass a 51-50 test.
Trying to aim for a hard to hit body part in a split second is extremely difficult. You try it sometime. It’s a good way to miss and have the bullet go on, travel further, go through a wall and hit an innocent bystander. Training is to aim for center body mass, to STOP, not necessarily to kill, but to deliver enough force to completely disable the attacker. If one is going to use a firearm, be sure of what you are going to hit. Don’t try to be fancy. Shooting to wound or knock a weapon out of the bad guy’s hand is only for the movie special effects.
Mythbusters did an episode on knife v. gun and discovered that a guy with a gun did not want to try and defend himself against a knife wielder when the guy with the knife was within about 20 feet. The gun guy was likely to be stabbed almost every time (about 80% of the time) before he could get off a shot in defense that would hit the guy with the knife. It was even worse when the knife guy was closer. They were quite surprised at their findings. This was with the gun guy expecting and watching for the attack!
The only difference between this and the police shooting was the gun guy in the Mythbuster’s episode was the gun guy was starting with a holstered gun and the police had their guns already out.
The only adjective in the western nickname “Dead Eye Dick” that was meaningful was “Dead”. . .
‘They’ say that the movies etal ‘guided’ the way you lived. (at least the violent ones...<: <: <:)
I figured if that were true all of us ‘raised’ in the40s/50s would meet at the ‘clubhouse/tree/lawn’ and plan a variety show or just go through life ‘breaking into song’ on a whim.
Still ‘see’ Andy Rooney and girl friend of the flick saying ‘Lets put on a show’..
Of course, Blazing Saddles put it all in the proper perspective when it came to musicals (in fact a few times)
Damn, that second cop shot close to her partner.
“Certainly Annie Oakley might have been able to do it but then again she was shooting at inanimate object that don’t shoot back stab the person.”
She was cheating. She fired little shotgun shells out of her pistols.
Blame the mother all you want. But if the father had been doing the same, I doubt the words coming to mind would have been “filthy, screw everything that moves” so and so.
But what I see in the two videos (the shooting and her statement) irrefutably proves to me that the mother is a worthless whore. Of course it's distinctly possible that his father was a worthless whore as well.
Do you truly believe that????? You do not aim to shoot an extremity!!!! EVER!!! If you pull your weapon then you had better be planning on using it to stop the threat, not maim. A wounded animal can cause a lot more damage.
I seriously think you are on the wrong website.
Well you got schooled, but nobody gave you the legal reason cops do not shoot to wound.
A gun is a lethal weapon. So it can only be used to stop imminent bodily harm or death. Everyone, even cops have the right to defend life and limb and that right includes killing in self defense.
This does not include the right to intentionally maim or wound in self defense because either the threat is sufficient to support lethal self defense or it isn’t. If it isn’t, then it is also insufficient to support intentional maiming.
“Shooting to wound” is tactically, legally and philosophically unsound because it opens up the slippery slope of using a lethal weapon for non-lethal uses. You would get more killings, not less, only this time they would be accidental “I only meant to wound him” and result in endless litigation.
This is why you “shoot to end the threat”. You are neither trying to kill or to wound, but stop the attack, regardless of whether the attacker lives or dies.
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