[Grando Calrissian]

Aim low is a good thought, however, if you hit a human target center mass with one shot, it should be enough. Unless the good people of Louisiana have super-human strength.

On the other hand, maybe it's just a stereotype, but doesn't everyone and their mother own a gun in Louisiana? Don't you think a police officer in that environment would have enough famiarity with guns to be able to aim low?

[discostu]

The problem with human beings is that there's a big gap inbetween the amount of damage that will prove fatal eventually and the amount of damage that will make you not a threat right now. If you blow a guy's heart right out of his chest he'll be clinicily dead with no brain waves and no voluntary muscular action in just a couple of seconds, problem is it only takes a couple of seconds to aim and fire so he still poses a threat to you for those couple of seconds. That's why the rule of thumb is to double tap the 10, as long as the person is still moving like they're trying to aim and shoot you're still defending yourself by continuing to plug them.

[roadcat]

"Don't you think a police officer in that environment would have enough famiarity with guns to be able to aim low?"

I don't know. My brother-in-law says his CHP training is to go for dead center, and to double tap, just like discostu says.

[Poohbah]

Don't you think a police officer in that environment would have enough famiarity with guns to be able to aim low?

Ever hear of this amazing chemical compound called "adrenalin?"