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Surely to a lot of americans/ those of a more authoritarian type, the main reason this isn't sensible policing is because shooting him in the head is another option?
Interesting that there has been a few seemingly successful "have a go heroes". Astounded me the number of americans that had commented about wishing they had their firearms with them at the Vegas shooting. Like firing at a guy with your handgun, whilst he's holed up in a 32nd storey room with multiple assault rifles was going to have much of an effect.
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Surely to a lot of americans/ those of a more authoritarian type, the main reason this isn't sensible policing is because shooting him in the head is another option?
Interesting that there has been a few seemingly successful "have a go heroes". Astounded me the number of americans that had commented about wishing they had their firearms with them at the Vegas shooting. Like firing at a guy with your handgun, whilst he's holed up in a 32nd storey room with multiple assault rifles was going to have much of an effect.
At a hotel that was 1,200 feet away horizontally and 450 feet vertically, at night, and every shot that was not on target might have gone into a room with innocent residents.
The chance of hitting the shooter himself is vanishingly small, the chances of shooting someone else are very high.
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Listen to the LVPD radio scanner from the night - officers complain that civilians from the concert have tried to break into their squad cars to steal the shotguns locked to the dash. Call goes out channel wide reminding officers to lock their cars once they exit them..
Dammit
CYOA
I know its not relevant to the discussion at hand but I once saw a press helicopter video recording of an armed stand off in the suburbs of a US city.
There was one obviously very agitated man sitting on a plastic garden chair on a lawn with a pistol waving it around, threatening to shoot anybody who came near.
A police sniper shot the pistol out of his hand. Like in a shitty action movie. He took aim and actually shot the pistol on the side of the barrel causing the man to drop it and be arrested. How the man didn't get hurt I have no idea.
I don't even know where to start really. Doesn't strike me as sensible policing.