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Originally Posted by Flubflow
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.
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Ok, answers on a point for point basis....
1) Why not get up close and taser him or shoot him in the legs? I'll tell you why, no-one (police/squaddie etc) will get too close to a nutcase with a bladed weapon. You try it, within a couple of feet and concentrating to put a round in someones legs? Stop watching Hollywood movies ffs.
2) (or are the marksmen so useless they cant even do that?). Ok, some facts about guns (or more correctly the Heckler and Kock MP5, which most British Police Forces use for Armed Responce Teams). The MP5 fires a 9mm parabellum round in excess of 350 meters per second. In tests when the British Army first bought this weapon, it was found that Military Ball rounds fire from this weapon had a nasty habit of causing *through-and-through wounds*. Namely that the round could, unless it hit a large bone, pass right through a human body, including the torso. Consider also the fact that the police, in a similar manner to soldier are taught to aim at the largest mass of the human body, namely *The Torso*. So combine training with the ballistics of modern firearms and the rounds they fire, and the ''safest'' option is to put two rounds (double tap) in the targets chest, and if you are really, really good a third in the targets head. In less than ONE SECOND, while under stress.
And I have a question for you. Have you ever had to ''put it on the line'' and draw down on another human being?