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Originally posted by Maiko
I mean you couldn't shoot him in his knee or something non lethal  |
A gun is a LETHAL response. If they deliberately "shoot to wound" it means the situation didn't call for a lethal response and they shouldn't have shot at all.
Second a bullet doesn't magically stop people. Shoot in leg? So what, that doesn't stop anyone, the person can still just shoot the officer, wasted bullet, wasted time, maybe wasted life.
Third, legs are hard to hit. Officers are trained to aim at the "center mass". It's the largest target with the best chance of stopping an attacker.
From officer's perspective:
-911 call about someone waving a gun in a park
-officer arrives and orders suspect to put his hands up
-suspect instead reaches into waistband where gun is concealed
By the way this was the toy gun he was carrying, not the one shown above.
At even a short distance it would be indistinguishable from the real thing:
If kids are gonna play with toy guns they should use those little pink plastic ones from the dollar store
