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On 10/1/97 9:03 PM, Jim Choate (ravage@ssz.com)  passed this wisdom:

>Why is the situation more stable if both parties are armed? If I 
>were confronted by a armed burglar and we were facing off I would 
>pull the trigger as soon as I got a lock. If their gun wasn't in a 
>ready position Iwould warn them and if they so much as flinched I'd 
>drop them. If they wereunarmed I might beat them senseless with the 
>gun but I would not shoot themunless they made a motion to rush me, 
>then I would go for a non-lethal shotunless the distance was less 
>than a dozen feet (rushing distance) or so 
>in

 ... nothing personal, but why is it people keep deluding themselves
with the idea that they can shoot to wound. You cannot know what a
shot will do ... if you shoot someone the odds are pretty high that
you will kill him or seriously injure. You cannot count on
'non-lethally' wounding anyone. Leg shots have a very high incidence
of hitting bone and deflecting up into the torso and really raising
havoc. A shot to the thigh could easily hit the femoral artery and a
total bleedout .... if you are going to shoot assume your are going to
kill, if the guys lives, then you get to sleep a little easier that
night and later. 

   I hear so much talk about killing like its something really easy to
do ... it isn't ... unfortunately it gets easier each time, and the
sleeping gets tougher ... the only consolation to the bad dreams is
that it means you haven't lost your humanity, yet!

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An entity claiming to be Brian B. Riley wrote:

: 
:  ... nothing personal, but why is it people keep deluding themselves
: with the idea that they can shoot to wound. You cannot know what a

Because that's what all the cops on TV do.  Most people see non-lethal
leg shots on TV all the time, so they assume that it's probable.  Even
worse was "The A-Team" where hundreds of rounds were fired, but no one
ever got hurt.  It was intended to reduce the amount of violence on TV,
but (in my opinion) only made gunplay seem like a safe recreational
activity.

Most of the people who talk about non-lethal wounding have very little
experience with firearms.  A few years ago, I was in school in a small
PA town.  The local cops shot and killed a kid who rushed at them with a
knife.  Most of the people I knew couldn't understand why the cop (who
was in no way a gung-ho type, but competent and stable) didn't "just shoot
him in the leg".  I would ask them if they knew what shooting a moving
target, in an uncertain situation, in the middle of the night was like.
Most of them had never even held a gun, but they had seen the cop show
last night and KNEW it was possible.

Doc

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[] Mark Rogaski                   "That which does not kill me
[] wendigo@pobox.com                 only makes me stranger."

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