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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/1/97 9:03 PM, Jim Choate (ravage@ssz.com) passed this wisdom:
Why is the situation more stable if both parties are armed? If I were confronted by a armed burglar and we were facing off I would pull the trigger as soon as I got a lock. If their gun wasn't in a ready position Iwould warn them and if they so much as flinched I'd drop them. If they wereunarmed I might beat them senseless with the gun but I would not shoot themunless they made a motion to rush me, then I would go for a non-lethal shotunless the distance was less than a dozen feet (rushing distance) or so in
... nothing personal, but why is it people keep deluding themselves with the idea that they can shoot to wound. You cannot know what a shot will do ... if you shoot someone the odds are pretty high that you will kill him or seriously injure. You cannot count on 'non-lethally' wounding anyone. Leg shots have a very high incidence of hitting bone and deflecting up into the torso and really raising havoc. A shot to the thigh could easily hit the femoral artery and a total bleedout .... if you are going to shoot assume your are going to kill, if the guys lives, then you get to sleep a little easier that night and later. I hear so much talk about killing like its something really easy to do ... it isn't ... unfortunately it gets easier each time, and the sleeping gets tougher ... the only consolation to the bad dreams is that it means you haven't lost your humanity, yet! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDMc3sdZgC62U/gIEQKPVACgnbr0UQGw0Lx8j7tJhOii6bVWB/MAnjM6 euuGEBAmFLhxWsULQLNTOFSs =LFzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "...Those of you who turned your swords into plowshares will soon find yourselves under the yokes of those of us who kept our swords..." -- author unknown
-----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-----
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