• Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Two shots, then reassess — that makes sense to me.

    Come the adrenaline and it’s just squeeze the trigger til nothing happens any more.

    What doesn’t make sense to me is shooting this guy. Maybe it’ll make sense if/when we’re allowed to see what happened. That happens, sometimes.

    Not often, but sometimes.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      When you just magically drop. You lose aim and might start shooting bystanders. Also you’re wasting ammo.

      In my academy, it was heavily stressed two rounds, evaluate, two rounds.

      People have the impression can’t are allowed to kill. It’s semantics but they’re not. It’s enough force to stop the threat.

      Now if the guy had a machine gun and was shootings hundreds of rounds. You can justify 51 shots.

      I’m tired of cops shootings 50+ rounds as that is just murder In my eyes.

      The only time we were taught to “kill” was active shooter drills. That’s it. The only time the word kill was used was during active shooter drills.