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No one in the history of actual combat shooting is taught to take non lethal shots. Ever.
Combat shooting? It's not a warzone. Come to Europe, mate.
What do you mean with combat shooting? Because here in Finland police is trained to (and required by law) to try to minimize the damage and if possible, to stop someone without killing them, usually by shooting at the legs etc. But that's more for knife fielding attacker and other situation where such shots are more possible and not when the cops or others are being shot at
I mean US military and police training.
This isn't the military. You said no one, which is not true.
Ah, then I can believe that such measures aren't taught or used
Idk what your talking about. You shoot the gun out of the hand. Then you shoot the hat off for intimidation and the somewhere nearby you shoot the rope of someone getting hanged to free them to kinda balance things out. This is all common sense.
I cannot argue with your rootin' tootin' shootin' logic.
You’re right, let’s go get some spaghetti!
There was an era where some cops were trained to shoot at limbs but even cops knew to ignore that shit.
It's the normal procedure here in Finland to try to take someone down with shooting in the legs or somewhere else that they might survive from. Not the case if they start shooting of course, it's more for situation where they're wielding a knife and coming for the cop or someone else
Right, and that's nonsense, people suck at aiming when they're scared.
Just as well it's not just "people", it's the trained and armed police. Same happens in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby
Seems to work here. They have to go through a lot of training.