XPost: aus.politics, sac.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Rod Speed wrote on 9/7/24 7:52 pm:   
   > Daniel70  wrote   
   >> Rod Speed wrote   
   >>> Daniel70  wrote   
   >>>> Watson Herbusch wrote   
   >>>>> Daniel70  wrote   
   >   
   >>>>>> If ( *IF* ) the cops HAVE to shoot, can't they shoot the 'perp'   
   >>>>>> in the legs. the arms, the stomach, wherever, somewhere NOT   
   >>>>>> likely to be fatal, but would give the 'perp' something to   
   >>>>>> think about whilst the Cops 'take him/her down'!!   
   >>>>> You're assuming cops can shoot accurately, most can't.  They just   
   >>>>> spray and pray.   
   >   
   >>>> Don't they have to achieve some Pass Mark at a Pistol Range??   
   >   
   >>>  Nope, just show up and blaze away.   
   >   
   >>>> I know, in  the Aust Army, WE had to at least yearly.   
   >   
   >>>  Only true of the grunts.   
   >   
   >> If that's the case, Rod, why did I often spend a day at the   
   >> (Williamstown, Vic, I think, or Greenbank, Brisbane) Range??   
   >   
   > Because you were only ever a grunt.   
      
   Never a grunt, Rod.   
      
   >> Admittedly, that was mainly for SLR Rifle Quals, but severalof us   
   >> also  did Pistol Quals as well. Wasn't every year but often.   
   >   
   >> (20+ years R.A.Sigs, myself)   
   >   
   > And never managed anythijng past a grunt.   
      
   No Grunts in R.A.Sigs, Roddles!! But you seem dumb enough to have been a   
   Grunt, Roddles!   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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