IrishMist
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Make sure your weapon of home defense has 13 bullets in it to guarantee your own personal safety. Sorry, but I disagree with you. My daughter pulled the gun one time on a man who broke in, took her only one shot to bring him down. I have pulled mine, rarely miss. Most of the policemen that I work with are trained to hit on the first shot. 99% are successful. I am curious as to where you live that your statistics are so much worse? Your daughter got the 1 in 13 shots that hit the target. Give her a gold star. Check gun statistics with the New York Police Department. They have kept voluminous records for over 100 years and are where the FBI go when they need to do a statistical study. Im a bit curious how many of those 99% successful policemen you know have actually pulled their guns and fired it at an actual perpetrator? I would wonder where you live that the number of dead criminal bodies with police rounds in their heart is so high. Does your city have a overabundance of excessive force lawsuits filed against your local police department because of the excessive number of dead criminals from police shootings. Are they 99% successful because the human sized paper target on a wire 30 yards downrange has a bullet in the "heart" part of the target? Sinergy LMAO. Nice try. Statistics in Indiana are not the same as New York in relation to guns ( fired by police at perps ). However, your 'adrenaline' theory holds no substance. Not everyone is incapable of rational, coherent, FOCUSED, thought in the grip of excitement or fear. Granted, the crime rates in NY are much higher than here; the number of perps with guns is much higher. However, to state that when a person pulls a gun on another, for any reason, that their chance of hitting the target is 1 in 13...is a sweeping generalization that is not true in most instances. In answer to your other question...No, when a police officer pulls their weapon on a perp, and fires that weapon...it's for a reason. In addition to this, we have the same laws that apply everywhere else. You don't pull a weapon unless you fear for your own life. Common sense.
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