This is why police can’t shoot the suspects in the leg

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The shoot-to-wound notion is naive and ultimately dangerous for officers and bystanders. The police making split-second decisions in fast-developing situations and facing threats of death or serious injury should not attempt to be sharpshooters.

“It’s difficult enough for an officer to hit a solid target or center mass, much less to try to hit a moving target and specifically aim at a limb or foot,” said Jack Rinchich, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and a former commander of police in Charleston, W.Va. “Typically, if you have to shoot, you shoot to kill because your life is in imminent danger.”

Tasers often do nothing with a violent, angry person.

Officer Tatum gives us a real life example:

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GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
2 years ago

Shoot to kill is much more efficient. You don’t have trials for dead criminals. Give the People back their God Given Rights to protect themselves, especially on their property and crime will go down quickly. In the rural South, criminals know people will protect themselves and their family, so our crime is very low. Criminals are a small group and shooting them produces far fewer repeat offenders. The Government shouldn’t be protecting the Criminals, it should be protecting Citizens. The real problem is the Democrats are now trying to turn everyone who doesn’t agree with them politically into a criminal. If you make everyone a criminal, then all you end up with is anarchy were not event the strong are able to survive, just the most ruthless.

Gildersleeve
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Gildersleeve
2 years ago

Again !!!….When I was a kid, Cops and Teachers did not have to kiss my rear end

Gildersleeve
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Gildersleeve
2 years ago

I support the cops 150%. However it all depends on how many cop snipers are already in place and also the actions of the criminal offender. Many situations require a shoot to kill but there are many situations that require otherwise. this requires higher salaries for cops, greater psychological screening and much higher training.
I know what I am talking about. Capt. U.S. Marine Corps, Ret. J.D.

Keep Calm and Shoot First
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Keep Calm and Shoot First
2 years ago

Show your hot lead dispenser some love today with Hoppes and Boresnake.
God make my aim true and may I shoot first and make good commies!
Evildoers of any stripe deserve no mercy and no sympathy.
You don’t compromise with evil, you destroy it.

Fast As A Shark
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Fast As A Shark
2 years ago

No forces anywhere train to shoot in the leg.
Sorry, fans of CSI Barstow.