We now have a posterchild for "Legislating from Ignorance".

This total oxygen thief must be watching too many television shows and movies where the good guys take 50 shots to put down but bad guys can be taken out with a single shot from a snubnose .38.

I've treated patients with several bullet holes and they were still very conscious, active and often dangerous. My record was 23 bullet holes (but that was from a .22).

If you add some drugs to the picture, a hopped up gunwielder can take at lot of shots from a 9mm or even a .45 without losing consciousness.

This is nothing more than another politician using the police as his own little outrage mill, hoping to convince an ignorant constituency that he is tough on police brutality. When in actuality he is a violent criminal's best bud.

Para I agree.

I have been on both ends of a bullet. And I can say when we shoot (police) we don't shoot to wound, we shoot to stop the threat. If that means killing the bad guy, then so be it. We are taught from the academy on to shoot at the biggest part of the target, the torso upper body area. If we had to aim for legs and arms or other areas, we would never be able to shoot anyone, and don't forget they are not bound by the dame rules so they get to shoot to kill anyway, regardless of the stupid law.

Not only stupid law, but if this braindead politician does succeed in getting this passed he will be directly responsible for the deaths of many policemen in this country who are forced to hesitate before shooting.

People were outraged to hear Rap lyrics calling for the killing of cops. This murderer goes far below that and actually works to make laws that will get cops killed. He is lower than Tookie Williams.

It was my understanding that "shoot to wound" used to be the norm until a few decades ago. Then, as I understand it, Liberals decided that cops were too trigger happy, and decided that they should only shoot in circumstances where their lives were threatened. Since you don't 'shoot to wound' when someone's life is threatened, police were mandated to make kill shots.

After all, you shoot someone in the leg and they can still shoot back. Worse, it's a buttload harder to shoot someone in the arm or leg than it is the torso. This is almost a reversal, only they STILL only want cops to shoot when their life is threatened, but now they wan't them to do even less to ensure the attacker is stopped.

Since you don't 'shoot to wound' when someone's life is threatened, police were mandated to make kill shots. After all, you shoot someone in the leg and they can still shoot back. Worse, it's a buttload harder to shoot someone in the arm or leg than it is the torso.

Just pray your perp doesn't have his own weapon.

Or is too busy running across a frozen lake away from the woodchipper to turn around and fire back. (Name that film!)

fargo