Reply #2: One is not generally trained to be accurate with a firearm... [View All]

[The Doctor.]

The best way I can put it is to say that 'aiming is bad tactics'.

Under adverse conditions, police are trained to simply unload their weapon at the threat to 'stop the action'.

They are not trained to aim under those circumstances.

Sure - marksmanship training will help improve accuracy, but it does not prepare someone to deal with an imminent threat.

I've shot pistol for a few years and I'm very accurate when I have a second to aim. In a 'panic fire' drill 19 out of 41 is above average.

If you ever get the chance to shoot and you hone your accuracy - try a 'panic fire' drill and watch what happens to your score.

In a possible car-bomb situation, they would unload *in the attempt* to kill all occupants and/or stop the vehicle.

I am not, however, making excuses for the incompetent system they had in place for checkpoints.

There is no excuse for that level of incompetence.

This story as a whole has some remarkably fishy aspects to it as well.