Re: New Life for Millennium's End

[CamaroGen1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/5/01 2:27:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rjhansen@inav.net 
writes:


> or four minutes to calm herself, think her options through, and get mentally
> prepared for battle before the SOB broke through), and even some training on
> the part of the shooter (the woman had been hitting the range, just in case
> this happened), the results were not very encouraging.  Of the six .357s
> fired, the SOB took only one round, right in the meat of the thigh.  (This
> was, fortunately, enough to stop him.)
>
> Or look at Amadou Diallo.  When four highly-trained NYC cops mistook his
> wallet for a gun and opened fire at point-blank range, only 19 of 41 rounds
> hit--and these guys were highly trained members of an elite police unit


       you can spend 100 hours a week at the firing range shooting ammo, but 
if you don;t know what you are practicing, you aren't doing anything other 
than wasting bullets.  A person who has taken a course in shooting and has a 
total of 50 hours at the range is a better shot than someone who just buys a 
gun and goes shooting, even theough they may have twice as much "range time".
       And as for the New York shooting, first of all, only two officers had 
a clear unobstructed line of sight to the target  the other two were actually 
BEHIND the other officers, and as elite as they are, skill with a pistol is 
NOT first on the list for police officers, most deptartments and especially 
the academy minimums are laughable.

Benjamin