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- From: forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <9211172101.AA20223@gtephx.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:06:50 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: gte
- Lines: 57
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov10.104420.19488@michael.apple.com>, ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- [...]
- # Remember that the person may not speak your language or hear at all.
- #
- # One ofthe most telling things I ever participated in was a training
- # excercise for police. The setup for the film was that an armed and
- # dangerous person call was recieved. White male, mid 20's, long hair,
- # near the RR tracks. You cut to the scene of someone more or less fitting
- # that description coming toward you accross the tracks. The question is:
- # When do you shoot him? While he keeps comming 'you' (the cop in the
- # film...) order him to stop. To stop and lay down. He reaches behind
- # his back into a back pocket. You shout again for him to STOP AND PUT
- # HIS HANDS UP!. (At this point about 75% of the class has said 'bang',
- # the signal that they would shoot at that point...).
- #
- # Well, the 'perp' (at about 5 ft 'range' from you) whips out a card from
- # his back pocket which states: "Please forgive me, I am deaf and cannot
- # understand what you are saying. Can you write it down please?".
- #
- # BTW, about 99.9% of the class had said 'bang' by the time the hand
- # started comming up fast from behind the back ...
- #
- # Right after that a radio call comes in that the A&D was just apprehended
- # about 1 mile from you ...
- #
- # I've never seen such a humbled group of people in my life ...
- #
- Which, I'm sure, was the intent of the film.
-
- However, I see one really big flaw here --- even a deaf person can see
- a gun and understands a shooting stance. I could see his hands going
- up real quick, but I can't see him acting as stated.
-
- I've also heard a similar story:
-
- Scene: you see a woman in a torn nightgown running across a
- lawn, screaming at the top of her lungs. A man comes out of the
- house running after her, tackles her and begins to drag her back
- to the house. You stop, order the man to release the woman and
- lie face down. He refuses. She's still screaming. Suddenly,
- she breaks free and starts fleeing. In spite of your orders to
- stop, the man pursues and is about to catch her again. BANG!
-
- Congratulations, you just shot the husband of a woman suffering
- a nervous breakdown -- and you've got a crazy woman running
- around half naked (likely to become a victim, too).
-
- The point being you will never know for sure until after the
- smoke clears.
-
- --
- "25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with
- no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are
- committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" - Andrew Ford
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