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- From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.024056.19383@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:18:54 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Western Washington University
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- apskato@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
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- #Yes, it is typical. TV has warped our perceptions of how accurate police and
- #civilians are with their weapons. A statistic that has been quoted to me by a
- #prof I know (Dr. William Lewinski, a co-contributor to Tactical Edge by
- #Calibre press and formerly of the Street Survival seminar by that same
- #company) says that cops hit what they are shooting at 21 percent of the time
- #and non-officers hit what they shoot at like 18 percent of the time.
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- Recently in Bellingham a perp was shot by police after he threatened to
- kill them with a shotgun and fired at them.
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- 9 shots and 1 hit I believe. In the elbow. They missed his chest
- apparently.
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