re: #205 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Well, he’d already almost killed a dude, so obviously things had escalated heavily. As I understand it, the bikers were fucking up his car and then he drove over one of them after panicking.

It’s totally to the point of whether it would helped him, actually.

Guns are reasonably reliable if you train really hard on them, but even in the case of the cops, who do train really hard, they wind up shooting the wrong person/themselves a lot.

The video is down for me, so I don’t know the final situation he ended up in. What was blocking in his SUV?

The bikers engaged in a possibly deadly pursuit. Ran him to ground. Even if he did hit one of them, this was for the police to deal with. The bikers have no right to take the law unto themselves. No right to pursue beyong calling it in to the cops. That’s it full stop.

Perhaps you should take a little time and scan the available videos. Except I thought we already agreed this guy was in a moment when he had every right to defend his family. Right? Or not? If right, that is all over with. The absence of an effective defensive device cost this man a beating and could have cost his whole family their lives.

Ordinary street cops do not spend a huge amount of time on gun fight training, Their skills are significant but humble. SWAT and Police competition shooters are the ones with a ton of training. Many of the multi day CCW classes exceed what regular cops get. Then cops have to shoot a few rounds each month to maintain. Not that big a deal at all.