Federal Air Marshall shoots Idiot

[CMEPASU]

The Marshall didn't have the luxury of mentally evaluating the moron to see if he was bipolar, just plain stupid, or a real terrorist. The moron placed the Marshall and all passengers in fear of immediate harm and likely death. In the Marshall's shoes I would have smoked the idiot, too.

The cold hard truth is that stupid hurts, or in cases like this stupid kills. I feel for the family of the poor stupid bastid, but he got what he asked for...

You can't fix dumb.

 

[BulletTrain]

did he shoot him in the head or what? I'm TOTALLY for what he did, but taking out a knee can be no-fatally effective

Step away from the DVD player bro, you've seen too many movies.

LE isn't trained to "shoot to cripple", they're trained to "shoot to stop the threat". In other words that normally means they fire into center mass until the threat to anyone else ceases to exist. In a situation like the Air Marshall was in, a central nervous system hit/interruption would be preferred if possible. Besides the odds of missing a small, moving target like a human knee under the stress of that situation, a knee shot may have been GROSSLY ineffective on a mentally deranged or highly determined person. A local swat team put two rounds of .308 rifle ammo center mass in the chest (one severed his spine) and 30 something rounds of .40 cal ammo into a guy who had already shot one officer and the guy was still alive and trying to fight when he was loaded into the ambulance.

If you were a passenger on that plane and a guy had, or even possibly had a bomb in that bag as he claimed would you want the Marshall to wound the guy's knee and let him detonate the bomb from the floor, or plant one square in the guy's melon dropping him and eliminating the chance that he could still reach in the bag and detonate a device? Personally I'd rather be showered in the pink mist that used to be the moron's brain than to run even the slightest risk of being turned into a pink mist along with the other passengers on the plane by a bomb.

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[BulletTrain]

did he shoot him in the head or what? I'm TOTALLY for what he did, but taking out a knee can be no-fatally effective

I disagree , your hands still work. I have seen what some people can still do after taking a few to the chest.

BUt if you shoot "for effect" IE shoot to kill and score a central nervous shot, there is no voluntary or involuntary movement.That means no trigger pull or detonation action.Central nervous shot = limp noodle!

+1...

 

[BulletTrain]

did he shoot him in the head or what? I'm TOTALLY for what he did, but taking out a knee can be no-fatally effective

I disagree , your hands still work. I have seen what some people can still do after taking a few to the chest.

BUt if you shoot "for effect" IE shoot to kill and score a central nervous shot, there is no voluntary or involuntary movement.That means no trigger pull or detonation action.Central nervous shot = limp noodle!

what he said...it looks cool in the movies to shoot them in the leg etc, but people move unlike paper targets...that coupled with the psychological goings on with the shooter (actually shooting at a living breathing human being, adrenaline dump, legal worries, etc. that are all flashing through the mind when deciding to pull the trigger) cause a dramatic decrease in accuracy. Taking a headshot is usually not advised, but here like NJ said an immediate stop to motor function was necessary. A determined individual can accomplish alot before he bleeds out from a mortal wound. Look at the FBI Miami shoot out back in the 80's. Same principle a hunter faces when a deer runs a long, long, way after being fatally wounded.

Well said.