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New firearms course aims to train US cops to shoot, but not to kill (timesofisrael.com)
2 points by webmaven on June 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


We've enough incidents of "50 shots fired at suspect, no one hit" to say that in tense situations, its silly to expect people to aim their weapons that closely.

Police tend not to be accomplished marksmen anyway. Its not really a big part of the job.




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