Posted on 10/19/2011 9:26:13 AM PDT by DCBryan1
I love a happy ending.
You do realize that arteries would have to pass through the knee, right?
Which is why any talk about "shooting to wound" is the blather of idiots.
Too bad, so sad.
The article never mentioned if the robber was armed.
I think that you both are getting too hyper and depending upon what may be bad reporting. The story says that the robber "grabbed a stroller that held Easterly’s [year old] baby" and was going out the door. Perhaps the knee was the clearest target and that she was taught to aim at the clearest unobstructed target?
In my opinion she practiced good gun control, she put the shot where she aimed at a moment of maximum stress! Kudos and blessing to this lady and her family!
Hmmmm. Your BABY IS IN THE STROLLER AT KNEE LEVEL and you don’t do a center mass shot????
During the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, Comfederate General Albert Johnston was struck in the back of the knee by a spent bullet, which only partially penetrated. It severed a vital artery and Johnston bled to death before anyone realized he’d been injured.
Gee I guess this dummy perk should have stayed in bed, oh well at leasst there was a happy ending.
I’m thinking that the artery must have been hit. How else could he just die... he would have had to bleed to death. Now... I wonder if the store owner was taught to shoot at the knee to prevent death? Wouldn’t that just be strange Karma or what?
Did you go to the web site for the news?
Gee I guess this dummy perp should have stayed in bed, oh well at leasst there was a happy ending.
LOL...there is a concealed handgun instructor here that, humorously, teaches that after your attacker goes down, be sure to give him chest compressions until the cops arrive.
1) The attacker exsanguinates before the cops arrive, and
2) Cops will testify upon pulling up that the shooter was giving first aid, giving credence to the trained CCW shooter that he/she didn't want to kill the attacker, but simply shot the attacker until the attack stopped.
I train them to maintain security, reload, and then dial 911 and don't touch the damn blood. If it was a good shoot, you don't have to do much after "BANG" other than tell the cops you were in fear for your life, and you want any statements made in your lawyers office.
Don’t think I was being “hyper”, but do agree the reporting is at best incomplete. Never said where he was hit.
It all transpired exactly as it should have.
NOTE TO ALL STORE ROBBERS: If you’re going to be
reckless and stupid enough to rob a store, don’t be
even stupider to think you could make off with a one
year old in a stroller. That’ll get you dead for sure,
and you’ll deserve it.
No....but he was "legged". :)
Naples News,that is. I admit I did because I wondered what the perp looked like.
Yep. Intentionally using less-than-deadly force (knee shot) suggests strongly that you were faced with less than a deadly threat, and therefore had no business using a deadly weapon. Even a bad lawyer could win that case.
Shoot to stop. Center mass. Always.
She was aiming for his knee but the first shot hit him in the spine and the next 8 shots hit him in the ass, back and nutz.
This post is not an actual representation of the facts, only my hope for a change.
I guess it is more common than I ever knew! I was always taught to hit center mass/or a head shot but never a knee. I the center of mass is a bigger target than a knee but good to know.
Yes, yes they have.
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