Heard this in a movie staring Tom Selleck.
Chief Jesse Stone: You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It’s not like in the movies. You’ve got about a half a second to figure out what needs to be done.
Abby Taylor: I guess you need to be that way if you’re a policeman.
Chief Jesse Stone: Maybe I’m a policeman because I am that way.
Why even wound a poor, misunderstood unarmed teenager?
I’d fire a nailgun at his shoes (between the toes, of course) to nail him to the ground long enough that he can calm down. Then the cop and the aspiring rapper who is about to turn his life around can bond over a cup of coffee and resolve the misunderstanding that led to the tension in the fist place.
Somebody should explain the 30 ft rule to Wolf. That and thre is no known weapons training course that teaches you to shoot to wound.
To counter the asserted issue in this case, consider: in fact of action, Wilson DID. Brown was shot FOUR times in the ARM, before moving on to head shots - there’s your “shoot to wound”, it didn’t work as proponents expect, and Brown didn’t stop his assault until shot TWICE in the head. Wilson may or may not have intended it that way, but that’s what actually happened.
Because when your life is on the line and you only have a couple seconds to stop the threat, you shoot at the part of the target you are most likely to hit (from the belt to the shoulders).
“Why can’t they shoot a warning shot?”
The gun was fired at least once before directed at Brown. He heard the warning.
That question was answered a long time ago. Wounding leaves the perp capable of attacking the cop.
Only in the movies.
Fair question.
First, warning shots have to go somewhere. So they have to be very deliberate, or someone else could get killed. They also waste a round. But there are at least theoretical times when a warning shot might be helpful. That said, it would never apply when you are being actively attacked.
Shooting to injure is not easy, nor is it de facto nonlethal. Putting a round through someone's thigh might kill them, or it might not even slow them down. Anywhere in the torso or head could be lethal, and hitting the arms of a moving person would be a very iffy proposition. Also, every miss is a round that can go down range to strike an innocent.
If the police show up to deal with the crazy uncle running around with a yard rake, I hope they pull out tazers and bean bags, and if those aren't available, that they do not shoot to kill. There is no pressing justification for it.
That would create another “unfriendly witness” in the court proceedings.
1. You might miss and not stop whoever’s attacking you. In which case, you’re probably in a heap of trouble, short-term.
2. You might miss and hit someone else. In which case, you’re definitely in a big heap of trouble, longer-term.
A real life situation is not a movie where the bad guy is shot in the arm to stop him (or her, but not seen that instant) ... the media and the Left always throw up their hands in horror asking why the perp couldn’t have been shot in the arm/leg/knee/where ever than kill them.
Don’t point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot him. Don’t shoot someone unless you intend to kill him.
Two fairly basic rules for using guns.
Because you do not draw your gun and aim it at a person UNLESS YOU INTEND TO KILL THAT PERSON, BECAUSE THAT IS THE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF A GUN!
Stupid ass libs.
Someone is watching way tooo many Cop shows and movies
Because real life is not a Sylvester Stallone movie?
Blitzer should be ashamed to pander to idiots, but I guess he knows his audience. As punishment, he needs to present this hypothetical question on his next program:
A 300 pound machete-swinging maniac is 2 seconds away from your 2 year-old child, screaming about his intent to kill the child, then you. You have a small caliber handgun. Would you,
1) Fire a warning shot and wait for a reaction?
2) Take time for an aimed shot at a moving extremity, hope it lands (good luck), hope the juiced up maniac felt it instantaneously (unlikely), and rationally reconsiders, all before 2 seconds are up?
3) Fire every available round at the maniac’s center-of-mass until he/she was down or dead?
Officer Wilson did a superb job considering he only had one working eye.
Because they’ll just fall in the pool and drown anyway. Just ask Roger Murtaugh.