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Re: The next Ferguson ?
You never ever aim for limbs or crap like that seen in movies and on TV. Center mass. Otherwise you are more likely to shoot someone else than the person you were aiming for, especially in a stressful situation.
Do you realize that a 3D printer can produce an effective hand gun that is made out of plastic, or wood or just about any substance you want. That doesn't look like a gun, either, and is just as lethal? What if the cop assumed the dispatcher was correct when said dispatcher reported the gun was a toy but it wasn't? Could the fatality be a dead cop instead? Was the possibly 'lethal' gun pointed at the officer? How much time did the cop have to react? Did the child have any priors? Was the child threatening other children on the playground? Haven't you heard of other incidences of gun fatalities on, for example, school grounds and playgrounds perpetrated by children? Other children in different incidents have killed police officers.
The only thing: could the cop have shot the fake gun out of the hand of the child? Shot the leg? Somehow incapacitate the child to prevent him from shooting the cop with the presumed real gun? Would most cops have the skills to make that shot under those circumstances? Enough time to taser the child?
You never ever aim for limbs or crap like that seen in movies and on TV. Center mass. Otherwise you are more likely to shoot someone else than the person you were aiming for, especially in a stressful situation.