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Well since you asked, I was a cop in one of the ten most dangerous cities in America. I have seen a dead body about every 3rd-4th shift on average I would say. I have seen plenty of people shot with guns. I have driven people that have been shot to the trauma center in the back of my patrol car.JUST OUT of curiosity
How many shootings have you ACTUALLY been to to see first hand the results of the weapons used along with the environment where it happened and the responses of the parties involved?
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are your 20 years of extensive ballistics studies based upon the writings of others? I think it is a fair question.
I attended about 25 autopsies of homicide victims over the years and got to see first hand how bullets interact with the human body.
I was present and about 10 feet away when my partner shot a guy in the stomach with a slug. It was spectacular.
I have hunted pigs for decades and have conducted necropsies afterwards and seen what projectiles work, and what doesn't
Yeah I think I can speak on the arena of ballistics, competently.
We all have different training and experience levels.
You recalled a story about asking the FBI agent to step back off the hood of a car. That was based on your training and experience. You saw a problem, you rectified a problem.
Bird shot is the same for me. I have seen what it can (and cant) do. I have seen gruesome, nasty wounds, and the guy holding his guts in, walk his way to the ambulance. I also know that same guy could have been a very deadly threat if he was an attacker. He was not incapacitated. When we look at defensive ammo, we need to take into account its ability to "actually" incapacitate people via exsanguination (blood loss) or central nervous system damage. We cannot, and should not, as professionals, depend on the a persons phycology, to stop from attacking further. We MUST account for the possibility that a deadly attacker could be in an excited delirium (Miami face eating zombie) frame of mind. We MUST account for the possibility that a deadly attacker is a suicidal subject (suicide bomber, deranged ex-husband).
Home invaders, robbers, and criminals, have never been known to use intoxicants, drugs, or alcohol, in excessive levels, correct? These people are NOT in the same frame of mind as you, me, Joe Home Defender. They might stop if they are shot with bird shot. Or they might not. The Miami face eating zombie literally growled at the cop and went back to his meal after taking a .40 caliber Gold Dot to his chest.