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- From: upchrch!joel@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch )
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <Z3iFuB3w164w@upchrch.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:10:22 GMT
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- viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
-
- # That's the real question, isn't it. I had the same training, and
- # yet I don't see how shooting to stop necessarially means shooting for center
- # mass given some very important considerations. Let's take my grandfather,
- # for example. He's just over 75 years old, rather frail, and can still
- # shoot the gnards off a gnat at 1000 meters. Even with a 4" pistol he
- # consistently hits birds on wires at 60 feet. I, certainly, will shoot
- # for center mass. He can possibly afford to shoot to immobilize and stop,
-
- The rule to remember is that nobody shoots as well under stress as
- they do when they're calm. He could be shooting asprin tablets at 100
- yards and not be able to hit the broad side of a barn when somebody
- is trying to kill him. In a situation like that you're lucky if you've
- got control of your sphincters much less your fine muscle coordination.
-
- Remember in real life policemen miss the people they're shooting at
- eighty percent of the time. They had to shoot a lot better than that
- to qualify.
-
- # Same here. However, the object is to shoot to stop. Certainly
- # a shot to the thigh or knee is a shot that stops mobility. My thought
- # is that, if you're afraid of his buddies jumping you, stopping him with
- # a shot to the thigh or knee is a stop but not a kill; the specific
- # circumstances here could throw the case either way depending on the
- # actions of the perp, the shooter, and the DA and jury opinions.
-
- There seem to me to be a few erroneous assumpations here.
-
- 1. Shooting somebody in the thigh will immobilize them.
- It isn't obvious to be that a bullet wound in the thigh will
- disable someone, unless you actually hit the thigh bone and
- break it.
- 2. Shooting somebody in the thigh won't kill them.
- Keep in mind that if you hit a major artery they are going
- to bleed to death in a few minutes.
- 3. Somebody on the ground poses no threat.
- Unless you've already searched him, the first time your
- attention wanders he pulls out a gun and shoots him.
-
- I hate to think about the civil suit when the perp takes your
- grandfather to court for permenently disabling him with a kneecap
- shot.
-
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