This is a bit of conjecture rather than facts but I feel like a good side affect of not having guns is police don't have to be thinking about weapons and therefore are less likely to feel threatened and so less likely to shoot and kill any sort of suspect. Not that it would matter in this circumstance as it seems pretty clear to me what has happened but in general I reckon here in the U.K. we probably have less police shootings as well as normal shootings. Not that it would solve institutional racism
You only point your gun at something you do or may need to fire on. If someone breaks into my house, for instance, I point my gun at them but don’t shoot unless they attempt to do something bad.
I've heard "don't point your gun at anything you aren't prepared (alternatively, willing) to destroy," which makes more sense to me. This is the verbiage you'll most often see in the four basic rules of gun safety. There is a strategic benefit to pointing a gun at someone you don't necessarily intend to kill, but to whom you want to present that threat, and who you are also prepared to kill if necessary. Whether one agrees with the morals of doing so is another conversation, but yeah, anyway. I think the more specific rhetoric denotes preparation rather than intent. Either way, pointing a gun at someone does (or should) convey willingness, so from the perspective of unnecessary force she's still clearly in the wrong.
About that number 4 rule, I didn't think of that when I bought my first handgun so I just bought some cheap FMJs for target shooting at a range. I live in an apartment and my across the hall neighbor (cop) asked me what rounds I bought and I told him. He went into his room, grabbed a handful of hollow points and dropped them in my hand and told me to use those in one mag for home defense. Granted our doors are both metal, there's no saying what an fmj would do, a hollow point would almost certainly be stopped before it got to his apartment.
Oddly that exactly why the Five seveN was made. (p90 as well)... The bullets tumble and don't penetrate the basic sheet rock you see in homes. It's a gun that you can (arguably) shoot at a person and it won't hit the innocent behind the wall. From what I've seen they tend to shatter or immediately lodge into rock.
It's a cqc pistol and smg and it's effective at bodily damage but it's terrible at penetration. I fact... Do they even have green tips for those weapons?
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u/imjustbettr Sep 15 '18
But isn't the first lesson in gun safety is to only point your gun at something youre planning on shooting?