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American police and military are trained to shoot for the largest target area, center of mass, as this is the least likely area to have unintentional results.
by cheschire 9y ago
American police and military are trained to shoot for the largest target area, center of mass, as this is the least likely area to have unintentional results.
Some examples of unintentional results are:
1) Missing.
2) Hitting another person.
3) Maming, or otherwise causing grievous injury such as shooting in the leg and hitting an artery on accident when you didn't intend to kill the target.
- DanBC 9y ago> Some examples of unintentional results are: 1) Missing. 2) Hitting another person. 3) Maming, or otherwise causing grievous injury such as shooting in the leg and hitting an artery on accident when you didn't intend to kill the target. And these are common in the US, because the number of uses of weapons by police is so high. https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/05/nypd-baby-you-know-we-love-you-why-do-you-make-us-angry-like-that/ https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/05/nypd-baby-you-know-we-lov...
- anigbrowl 9y agoThe probability of killing someone when you hit them in the center of mass seems a lot higher than that of accidental hits to the femoral artery. Also, surely you've noticed that when American cops shoot someone they usually go on to cuff them but don't make any attempt to administer first aid, so that quite a few people die from bleeding out. At least if you get shot in the leg you've got some chance of stemming the blood flow, plus it's a lot easier to put a tourniquet on that.
- ams6110 9y ago> The probability of killing someone when you hit them in the center of mass seems a lot higher than that of accidental hits to the femoral artery. It is, but American cops are not trained to shoot to incapacitate or warn. If they shoot it is to kill and that is why the target is the center of mass.