-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An entity claiming to be Brian B. Riley wrote: : : ... nothing personal, but why is it people keep deluding themselves : with the idea that they can shoot to wound. You cannot know what a Because that's what all the cops on TV do. Most people see non-lethal leg shots on TV all the time, so they assume that it's probable. Even worse was "The A-Team" where hundreds of rounds were fired, but no one ever got hurt. It was intended to reduce the amount of violence on TV, but (in my opinion) only made gunplay seem like a safe recreational activity. Most of the people who talk about non-lethal wounding have very little experience with firearms. A few years ago, I was in school in a small PA town. The local cops shot and killed a kid who rushed at them with a knife. Most of the people I knew couldn't understand why the cop (who was in no way a gung-ho type, but competent and stable) didn't "just shoot him in the leg". I would ask them if they knew what shooting a moving target, in an uncertain situation, in the middle of the night was like. Most of them had never even held a gun, but they had seen the cop show last night and KNEW it was possible. Doc - -- [] Mark Rogaski "That which does not kill me [] wendigo@pobox.com only makes me stranger." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDO/esHFI4kt/DQOEQKZIACglKhTcPb4lTLI48qwL+sCpeeFDB4AoPdh lbgiVT8iz4AWvTNJfXZT61MC =JuBW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----