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- From: pauly@netcom.com (Paul Yoshimune)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.084945.13140@netcom.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:47:16 GMT
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- In article <75209@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4458c@prism.gatech.edu (John Stephens Cronin) writes:
- #
- #What if the perp is armed with a knife and starts walking very deliberately
- #towards you from 20 feet away. I know many anti-gun types who have said about
- #cops in similar situations "he had a gun, why couldn't he just shoot him in
- #the leg or something?". In fact, cops have had to undergo a lot of invest-
- #igation on that point here in Atlanta, although as far as I know they have
- #all been (eventually) exonerated. Still, if you get a civil jury trial this
- #point can be made to sound very convincing by the plaintiffs lawyers. So, if
- #you were in this situation, why not shoot for the legs (assuming you have a
- #big enough gun and are a good enough shot)?
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- This is something that's covered in one of Lenny Magill's videos (I forgot
- which one), and briefly gone over in Ayoob's Shoot to Live: Any perp armed
- with a knife, who isn't jacked up on drugs, who isn't flying with adrenaline,
- etc., can cover 20 or 25 feet in something like a second and a half. You can
- actually demonstrate this for yourself, and theoretically to the jury who
- would say that you used unjustified force since the perp was "so far away."
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- DVC,
- Paul
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- Paul Yoshimune
- pauly@netcom.com
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