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To: PLMerite
The difference between a “disabling shot” and a “killing shot” is as small an nicking an artery. Bullets do weird things when they hit hard objects - bones, buttons, belt buckles - they turn and tumble.

Yes, I understand all of that. However, when a cop wears a bulletproof vest it doesn't cover every area to prevent death, it just gives them a little better chance to survive. So by the same logic, a warning shot or a shot to an area less likely to kill may be a better solution.

Obviously 75% of the cops present never felt threatened enough to shoot which says a lot because normally if one fires they all fire is a common outcome.

And yet once again the internal investigation must not have been supportive of the cop at all or no charge would have been filed.

196 posted on 09/22/2016 3:38:15 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: AmusedBystander

“So by the same logic, a warning shot or a shot to an area less likely to kill may be a better solution.”

Your argument sounds reasonable but shooting to wound is an invention by people with very little to no experience firing a handgun.

Please see my Post 177.

A warning shot is also not done for reasons that you are firing a bullet and gawd knows where it will end up and if you are firing, that is using deadly force.

“And yet once again the internal investigation must not have been supportive of the cop at all or no charge would have been filed.”

Aren’t you—like me and a few others—wondering how an investigation could take place so quickly, witness statements, forensics and blood tests alone would take more than a couple of days.

Cart before the horse to avoid riots?


203 posted on 09/22/2016 3:54:41 PM PDT by Hulka
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