Reply #25: Have you ever had . . . . [View All]

[djg21]

someone point a semi-automatic handgun at you, with the intention of discharging that weapon and causing you serious or mortal harm? Do you think that if placed in that position, you'd have the presence of mind to "aim for the knees"? (BTW, do you think that, in that flash of an instant, you'd even be able to recognize that the item in the perps' hands was a baby?).

Do you think that it would have been more prudent to "shoot for the knees," and perhaps allow the perp to continue firing his weapon from the ground, even after being incapacitated? Would you want to be responsible were the perp kill or maim another officer or some innocent bystander, as he shot his handgun from the ground?

Perhaps the officers should have aimed for the perp's trigger finger so he just couldn't fire a gun? Can't they learn how to aim for the trigger fingers? Perhaps you've seen a few too many Clint Eastwood movies.