Video emerges of Minneapolis police killing a citizen - - Riots

[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.