anyone as a regular cop?
No, again, if I had to shoot at someone, I would kill them, and that hasn’t happened to me yet. Most cops work 25 or more years without ever having to pull the trigger. As a sniper, why don’t you shoot the gun out of the bad guy’s hand, or shoot him in the leg? Why must you kill him? By the time the situation deteriorates to the point that the sniper must take a shot, someone is going to die. If we shoot the gun out of his hand, how do we know he doesn’t have another gun? Or a knife? Or maybe he’s willing to choke the hostage to death. Once we determine that unless we do something right now to stop him or he’ll kill someone, we basically have no choice but to shoot to kill. How can you prevent the guy from pulling the trigger after he gets shot, but before he dies? The only way to do this is to target the medulla oblongata area of the brain. This is where the brainstem meets the spinal cord. If a bullet separates that connection, the possibility of even a reflexive movement is removed.
