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Re: 2 Police Officers shot and killed in Manchester
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Originally Posted by Hugh
What warning shots? "Warning shots" and "shooting someone in the arm to disable them" only happens in films/tv, not in real life - when trained with firearms, you are trained to hit the biggest target (the trunk) with at least two rounds.
If you fire a "warning shot", where do you think the bullet goes? Fire it into the air, our friend gravity will bring it back down on to someone/something; fire it into a wall/the ground, it will ricochet.
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Presumably, those warning shots will be the ones mentioned in the link you posted earlier:
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Originally Posted by Hugh
The German statistics seem to disagree with you...
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German cops fired only 85 bullets in 2011, and 49 of those were warning shots. Of the 36 shots fired at suspects, 15 people were injured and 6 were killed
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