It would appear that most Americans with firearms training have been taught to shoot to kill. No exceptions. Any forum I've been on where this topic comes up the 'experts' get right in there and insist you've got to have the intention to kill with the first shot. Hmmmm. It was widely publicized last year about one constrast between America and Europe with respect to firearms. It was noted that in 2011 the German police department. That is all of Germany, not just Munich or Hanover or Berlin, but the entire country... the combined police forces in Germany fired 90 rounds the entire year. In just one incident in NYC, responding officers fired 90 rounds at one unarmed homeless man in Harlem. They fired uncountable hundreds of rounds during that year, none of which were warning shots. Not the entire U.S. just NYC.

I can't believe that over decades of law enforcement experience, that the police instructors in Germany could persist in teaching bad firearms technique to hundreds of professional law enforcement applicants. It must be examined closer this dogged insistence on the part of American citizens that warning shots are dangerous, etc. There is lots of evidence to the contrary! Has there ever been, in fact, a recorded collateral death from a stray warning shot? A proper warning shot, fired upward or the proper angle downward? There certainly have been a number of collateral deaths from targeted rounds missing the target and wounding or killing bystanders. German cities are just as built up as any in America. Property damage?

More Americans have died needlessly at the hands of someone with a gun than in all the other countries of the world combined. I submit that it is NOT always necessary to kill an assailant, but it will sure help with the healing process for the American who does come up against a situation involving gunplay. They will shoot to kill. If they hit their target they have a good chance of killing him. They NEED to think that there was no other way out. Otherwise they would have to live with the fact that they have in fact committed murder, not justifiable homicide, but murder. A nation raised on Disney can't deal with that. The meanest, take no prisoners, bad*** out there needs that psychological 'out' for his actions when he takes someone else's life with his gun.

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