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Originally Posted by AdrienXII
It all depends on your ROE, usually. Police officers are expected to use minimum force, and so are civilians defending themselves. So, if you've drawn your gun, why not fire a warning shot? If you're going to shoot someone, why aim center-mass, and not at the legs? And why the double-tap? You're going to run into trouble with the law, if you insist on using your military ROE as a civilian...
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This is incorrect on many levels.
As a civilian, you are ONLY justified in using a gun for defense against an imminent lethal threat. If you have time to be screwing around firing warning shots, you are not facing an imminent lethal threat that justifies using the gun at all.
"Warning shots" may be well and good if you are out in the countryside, with nobody around for miles. In a populated area, it's an idiotic idea at best. That bullet is going to end up
somewhere. And with a bunch of people around, that somewhere might just be in an innocent bystander.
Shooting in the legs? You've watched too many movies and too many TV shows. The bad guy gets shot in the leg, and is instantly incapacitated and stops all hostile action. It just doesn't work that way in real life.
Handguns are poor stoppers under the best conditions. The Hollywood version, where the bad guy flies back 5 feet when shot, is nonsense. If you are actually justified in shooting, you are shooting to stop an imminent, lethal threat. In the real world, this means multiple rounds to the COM.
Matt