sorry

I'm from europe, so I'm not really all into this US versus Canada fights that seem to be going on. But I can follow you. It's like the austrians don't wanna get called germans because they are from Austria and not Germany.

 

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I really have just about zero sympathy for these cases that pop up. I live in an area that has more than its fair share of drugs and mental illness, so it isn't too uncommon to read cases pretty much identical to this. Every time it happens, a ton of people come out of the woodworks to say cops are all bloodthirsty murderers who jump at every opportunity to kill someone. It's just retarded.

Why would anyone ever want to be a cop if it meant putting themselves in life-threatening situations but not being allowed to defend themselves? And inevitably, every single time this comes up, there are a bunch of armchair detectives who are all too happy to tell everyone how non-lethal the weapon was and that the officers were never in any danger. I sincerely doubt any of them would have the balls to say the same thing if they were the one standing there when an insane or methed out person that didn't even react to the nonlethal options officers have came at them with "just some scissors" or "just a little piece of pipe."

Here's a tip, if you don't want to get shot, don't attack police offers with potentially lethal weapons.

 

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Lol they're not trained to kill...

 

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Wrong. The training teaches shooting to stop the threat, not shooting to kill.

Oh no, police shot a piece of $$$$$

 

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Officer 1: " This 5 year old has a plastic knife?"
Officer 2: "es. Yes he does. Kill him because that's all we're trained for"
Officer 1: "We could just grab it?"
Officer 2: "We're not trained! just kill him already!"

 

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When I went through training we were taught to aim for the chest and pull the trigger twice. Never ever to shoot to wound.

Albeit that was about 30 years ago.

 

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DIE PIGS

 

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It's still shoot to the center of available mass (usually the chest), but they have gone away from the "shoot twice and assess" approach and instead preach shooting until the threat is stopped... which, from my view, is likely a contributing factor in the shootings where you hear about a subject being shot 7-10+ times; by the time the officer(s) are able to recognize and react to the end of the threat, they have likely put out a heck of a lot more than 2 rounds.

As for shooting someone in the leg, that's only as effective as the subject allows it to be. Real life isn't a movie where a person flops over when they get shot, and being shot in the leg is not immediately immobilizing unless the person being shot has bought into the theatrics and allows the injury to immediately incapacitate them.

Edit: I'm assuming, since it was a police shooting, that we are dealing with handguns. It is, of course, different if we are talking rifle/shotgun.

I'm pretty sure even thirty years ago,


They had:


Pepper Spray

Taser

Common Sense

Watersquirter 3000 XTC Blaster Master (pimpin, blow that foo back)

Cookies


Yea...

 

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