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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
well, anyone who has received actual gun training will let you know shooting someone in the leg or the shoulder or the hand to disarm is a hollywood fantasy.
A handgun is a very inaccurate weapon, especially when your adrenalin is sky high and the target is moving. Trying to shoot someone in the leg or the shoulder or the hand etc., will most likely result in a miss and you dead if the target has a firearm.
Add to that the fact that humans are difficult to incapacitate. Except for a lucky shot to say the brain or heart, a human will become incapacitated by passing out from loss of blood which usually require putting a lot of bullets in your target to speed up the blood loss.
So standard firearm training dictates that you should only fire if your life is in danger and then you have to put your target down quickly, which means firing center mass continuously until the target is down and no longer a threat.
oh and by the way, you shoot someone in the thigh and hit the femoral artery, he or she will bleed out and die as efficiently as if you cut their throat, so no, there is no safe zone.
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Originally Posted by Platapus
I am surprised that any fire arm training recommends shooting someone in the leg. Legs are hard to hit, especially when they moving, which legs tend to do a lot.
Shoot for center of mass and only in the gravest extreme after all other options have been tried.
The shoot first- establish probable cause later attitude needs to change with some police officers.
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I remember one incident (can't find the link) where a man was getting a warrant served by a cop, and immediately started shooting at the cop from his front door. The guy's young daughter was behind him. The officer returned fire, did not make a center mass shot, and shot him in the arm - with the result that the bullet passed through him and killed the little girl. A tragic situation all around (and depending on the laws, the father may have been charged with Felony Murder). Of course, in the movies the good guys wing someone in the arm or leg with no consequences.
