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CPD: Man Defending Infant Son Shoots Robber

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Dark_Falcon1/09/2013 2:29:01 pm PST

re: #10 Interesting Times

But after the bit you quoted, the story goes on to say:

It takes a grand total of six shots to finally kill the assailant? Geez, if you must have a gun for self-defense, at least develop better aim!

Seriously, though, this illustrates once again that proper use of a gun to stop a crazed, determined assailant is not nearly as quick or easy as some people would have you believe. Had the assailant been armed (just seems like pure luck he wasn’t), the officer would be dead. The bystander could have shot him by mistake as well. Isn’t it rather disturbing that two armed men took that long to take out an attacker that wasn’t?

You try hitting a moving target that precisely, geez! He hit the man he was aiming at, but that by itself does not ensure that man will stop right that second so he kept firing, which is SOP. Life isn’t like Hollywood, people.