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Would one not aim for the head?

Very, very hard to hit the head. Even if you are told to aim for it, especially with iron sights + lots of adrenaline. I'm sure the officees were well trained but they are human.

With semi-auto weapons they are usually taught to shoot in bursts of three. I would hazard a guess that many of them would have been covering fire to allow colleagues to get in closer.

I see the First Internet Marksmen Brigade is on another tour of duty 😂🔫👍💥🎖️

Shane there isn't a mall near London Bridge.

😂😂😂

As I recall from an eye witness Statement yesterday it was a member of the public who directed a gun car to the correct location. Four or so shots and they were all down.

Steve Hilton chips in

https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx/status/871611939310379008

The comments are brilliant

Interesting perspective here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/871402187829542912

The comments are full of morons.

Feel free to chip in sunshine. You were trained in this shit, no?

It's Twitter. Twitter is full of morons. What can you do?

It just amazes me every time I read the comments. It's like an alternative universe I have no part in. Dark matter.

i don't know shit about guns unless they're one of these.

notoriously hard to aim at anyfuckingthing.

Agreed. I have a friend who has a small fanbase - whenever I have a conversation with him on Twitter, suddenly dozens of people pop up and start spouting inanities. It's very strange.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-safety-check-london-bridge-terror-attack-a7772211.html#gallery

But don't the jihadis resemble the IRA more than "angry white dudes who want to go on a killing spree"? And that took a longer time to play out.

But you have the big targety thing, right? How hard can it be?

#internetartilleryexpert

there's also a helpful little radar blip blip wotnot just out of shot.

funfact: The only plane the 1stAA Regiment of the SA(N)DF allegedly shot down was the one then PM of Mozambique Samora Machel was on back in '86.

His widow went on to marry nelson mandela.

Artillery is just answering the phone and delivering hot stuff.

Bit like a pizza.

What makes you think they're more like the IRA?

Their accents.

They have something to kill for. They have the numbers: 3,000 on the MI5 list, and 20,000 on the broader list of which the Manchester bomber was one. Access to bomb material is moot, as they often go for different ways to cause death.
Terrorist is a meaningless coverall, the Irish Republican Army, the killer of Jo Cox, whatever you want to call the muslims inspired to attack the west, but I'd say these are closer to the IRA than some random nutter.

Artillery pizza delivery. Hmmmm.....hmmmm.....

*Hires greenhell as consultant

Artilledelivery

lock and load.

#opensmouth