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re: Powel Shooting footage
Posted on 8/22/14 at 6:02 am to Patrick_Bateman
Posted on 8/22/14 at 6:02 am to Patrick_Bateman
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If cops are so well-trained, I don't understand why it would be so difficult to, say, shoot this guy in the kneecap or something. He has a knife. You have guns. Or maybe even taze him?
Someone has been watching too much TV.
Only in the movies can a guy shot someone in the leg from 30 yards out while the suspect is running, and the shoter is falling down...
A pistol is accurate within only a few yards.
Now couple that with the fact that an officer is an intense confrontation and only has one, maybe two seconds to react. Think of 'buck fever' but your life is on the line, make the wrong choice, you end up in the morgue or severaly wounded.
The suspect is moving and most likely threatening the officer, the suspect is not stationary with a huge bulls eye painted on his leg.
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Posted on 8/22/14 at 7:50 am to Reubaltaich
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Only in the movies can a guy shot someone in the leg from 30 yards out while the suspect is running, and the shoter is falling down...
A pistol is accurate within only a few yards.
Exactly.
Handguns don't work in real life like they do for Jack Bauer or Rick Grimes. People that have never shot don't know that.
Around 50 yards is the max accuracy of a regular hand gun. It only goes down from there depending on the stress of the situation and the skill of the shooter.
Interweb idiots think that cops should be able to shoot the knife out of someone's hand at 200 yards with a Glock.
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 7:53 am
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