I'm not sure if you have ever shot much
but shoot to wound is not really possible in most cases. If they tried to hit a moving person in a non-lethal place there would be a good chance that the best trained shooter would miss and put someone else at risk. Also, considering the shock a shooting victim goes into no matter where they are hit by a high powered rifle, what we think as a non-lethal shoot can kill. That's why tasers can be better than guns but it doesn't sound as if they would have worked in this case.

Hope I don't sound like a gun crazed american
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 14:00, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You do, but that's why we love you.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 14:12, Reply)

Ahh. I'm touched
(in the good way although I'm probably also touched in the bad way)). I'll make sure I don't aim at you when I go postal and climb a tower and start shooting people with my constitutionally allowed fully automatic assault rifle!
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 17:06, Reply)

I tend to avoid guns.
Side effect of being Norn Irish, despite how the jokes go. Also might explain why I'm somewhat dubious about shoot-to-kill scenarios.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 14:16, Reply)

Well that's understandable kid...

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 14:18, Reply)

Thankfully I've never had to live in any place
where the police/militials on both sides were quite like on N Ireland so I can't have the same, realistic perspective towards this that you do.

I actually am not a gun nut although I do like to hunt on occasion and used to target shoot (being brought up by a retired General).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 17:10, Reply)