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That makes sense. I was personally trying really hard to see how running a mile and then shooting from seven yards was difficult. Of course, I would like to think that your average cop wouldn't find running a mile and firing from seven yards to be difficult either, but sadly that's not...

This all makes perfect sense. I'm still a fan of holding those who carry firearms, especially SWAT team members, to a higher standard though. I certainly understand that there is no way they can get the amount of weapons training I had to go through, nor would I really wish that upon anyone...

Are you kidding me? Some of the toughest, and possibly craziest, guys I ever met were corpsmen. ;) There is no lowly job in the military. You may be right. But I don't know what the size of the responding team was. That, combined with the comment that they fired everything they had...

Trust me, I understand the lack of training for officers, there are only so many hours in a day. If this was just your regular Joe cops who were responding in this incident, I probably wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. But this was a SWAT team. They are supposed to be better than...

Yes I was.

I am to some degree, and I do understand the difference between the two. I'm also coming at this having spent a brief period as a firearms instructor for a police department (I won't name names). It really bothered me how low the standards were, and how few officers really took it seriously...

I'm sure they'll do just fine without me. But thanks! :D Yes, I would venture to guess that Recon Marines and Scout Snipers are probably among the best marksmen the military has to offer. Would you disagree with that? You should never fire without the intention of hitting your target...

If a person finds themself in a situation where they are unable to fire accuratly, they should take a covered position, calm down, regain their composure, and then fire accuratly. There is never any excuse for firing a shot that may not be accurate. All that is doing is endangering lives...

The concept of suppression fire is a myth created by those who wish to justify bad shooting. Every shot should be well aimed at the intended target. If you're providing cover for a team member who is in an exposed position then you continue to aim in the direction of the target and fire only...

Yes, this is true, people don't always stop shooting once they are shot. But there is still no need to put 68 rounds into a person. I also saw no mention in this particular incident of the suspect even firing at the SWAT team. It just says he raised his weapon. I have to wonder if they even...

Again, this isn't a matter of what they did, but how they did it. Killing the guy appears to be justified. The methods they employed to get the job done make them look like a bunch of hacks. Now that is a frightening statement. Personally, I'm a big fan of not appointing the cops to be...

If it takes a SWAT team 102 rounds to make sure one guy is neutralized, then I know of one SWAT team who's members need to find a new line of work. To be honest, if their account of the event is accurate, I have no problems with the fact that they killed the suspect. I do have a problem with...

I know the important parts. I know the man was taking cover behind a downed tree under some brush. Not exactly an inpenatrable fortress. I know the SWAT team fired 110 times, missing the intended target 42 times. And I know the same SWAT team showed no trigger discipline at all. Sure, the...

For the most part, I try not to. Work drags me down there from time to time. No, as I pointed out this was pretty damn sloppy police work.

Ah yes, how typical. I have respect for human life and think shooting someone 68 times shows a wild lack of discipline so I must be one of "them-thar loony-lefties". Angilo Freeland did create the circumstances that led to his death and he wasn't by any means a good man. If the account...

I'm not sure how asking someone why they shot someone 68 times makes that media outlet "liberal." Seems to me it makes them a decent media outlet. There really isn't any reason at all to shoot someone 68 times. I should also point out that anyone who celebrates or makes light of taking...

Seriously, if you're going to become one of those people who insist on recommending a BP/W for every single person who ever takes up any form of diving, at least put a little detail in your post. I for one am getting very, very sick of posts like this.

I'm with you on that. It would be rare for a student in one of my classes to not have a pair of leader eyes on them. And like I said before, I'm usually on top of a student before they even know there's a problem. But I still say I can sympathize with an instructor or DM who may find...

I don't know. I think the latter is, to some extent, excusable. If its a situation where the instructor is busy staring at the 20-year-old student in the bikini for five minutes and doesn't notice the other student stroking out behind him then yeah, no excuse. But if that instructor is...

First, using the example of a heart attack, if you have a heart attack on a beach or that same heart attack at, let's say 40 feet, there are most likely going to be very different outcomes whether the instructor or DM is one foot away and staring at you or ten feet away and glancing in the other...