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Originally Posted by greencreeper
The armed police tend to be gun-ho ex-squaddies who couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo. The shoot to kill policy is based on the claimed inaccuracy of the weapons - i.e. can't hit an arm so have to aim for the torso. Hmmm. Christ. They shot a bloke with a sword  It's like Indiana Jones only not as funny. |
Yeah, on the face of it, it sounds a bit daft.
I wonder couldn't they just go right up to the guy, a few feet out of swords range, and then taser him or shoot him in both legs virtually at point blank? (or are the "marksmen" so useless that they can't even do that?).
Then again, we don't know all the facts of the case yet.