“ I was trained that you never aim a gun at anything you don’t plan to shoot shortly.“
Yep, when the gun comes up to level it should be belching smoke so to speak.
If more people understood the inner workings of firearms, they would realize how very dangerous it is to point a loaded firearm at anything..... finger on trigger or not.
And yet that seems to be the current state of police training. Draw down right on grandma while the other officer hand cuffs her. No finger on the trigger, but still aiming right at her back. On Live PD show, I have even seen cops sweep other cops right in the back as the other cop goes in to cuff the suspect.
I can’t stand this idiocy. I have no clue why they don’t train to hold their guns at low ready instead of aiming right at people they have no intention of shooting at the time. It is disgusting.