Shoot to kill
Zendo Deb on some criminal’s family who’s upset their criminal relative was shot to death:
Shooting to wound is not taught in any course I am aware of. Most classes teach shooting to “center of mass,” that is to center of the chest. Some law enforcement types are taught “2 to the chest, 1 to the head.”
First, warning shots are always illegal. Second, shooting to wound is usually illegal. After all, if you weren’t willing to kill, then the lawyers will argue you didn’t really feel as though your life was threatened.
July 22nd, 2005 at 1:16 pm
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Shoot to kill – follow up
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In this post, I wrote: First, warning shots are always illegal. Second, shooting to woun […]
July 21st, 2005 at 11:11 am
Where I’m from “warning shots” and “shooting to wound” is called a miss.
July 21st, 2005 at 4:08 pm
In Oklahoma, it very specifically forbids ‘warning’ shots. It basically says, if you’re threatened enough to use lethal force, you’d better not be playing ‘shoot him in the arm’ games.
July 21st, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Actually, what I was always taught is that we neither shoot to kill nor wound. We shoot to stop. When you are in a lethal force situation, all you really want is for someone to stop doing something.
Shoot to stop is easily defendable in a Court of Law. If the guy dies and everthing else is equal, then that is his problem. He might ought to have stopped before lethal force became necessary.
July 22nd, 2005 at 8:16 am
Pawpaw, I almost concur except warning shots. But you don’t shoot in the leg to stop.