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As some here have indicated, she had a malfunction. Many officers go their entire career and never pull their service weapon in an altercation. Training time is A. Expensive, B. time consuming and C. not time spent getting police work done on the streets. Many departments spend little of their budgets on it. Shoot houses don't exist on every street corner.
As others have said, in their, and in my experience, stress shooting is something that gets results only if you have trained for it, a lot. Adrenaline jazzing through your body will have that gun barrel waving and jumping every which way.
You will be breathing hard, you will have tunnel vision and your mind will be fragmented in a zillion directions. Good luck without copious training to counteract that ****.
These very reasons are why military personnel train, train and train some more. Door kicking and room clearing are not natural talents. Period. They have to be trained into you for your actions to bear fruit and for you not to get whacked while doing them.
It aint like TV and movies fellas, they don't take one bullet and fall down dead. Unless it's in their heart or forehead. A man stocked up on drugs never even feels the rounds hitting unless they hit something vital.
In combat, or on the street for LEO's, **** happens FAST, really FAST and our modern brains are simply not wired for that sort of confrontational survival anymore. That is a talent that comes from experience, or, from lots of training.
Training is what surfaces while your mind is occupied with the zillions of thoughts streaking through your skull during a confrontation, it allows your subconscious to remember what to do while the rest of you is otherwise engaged. Like clearing a malfunction while the perp is trying to slice and dice you. And THIS event happened in broad daylight on a quiet street. Actual combat is a whole nuther level of strange.
As others have said, in their, and in my experience, stress shooting is something that gets results only if you have trained for it, a lot. Adrenaline jazzing through your body will have that gun barrel waving and jumping every which way.
You will be breathing hard, you will have tunnel vision and your mind will be fragmented in a zillion directions. Good luck without copious training to counteract that ****.
These very reasons are why military personnel train, train and train some more. Door kicking and room clearing are not natural talents. Period. They have to be trained into you for your actions to bear fruit and for you not to get whacked while doing them.
It aint like TV and movies fellas, they don't take one bullet and fall down dead. Unless it's in their heart or forehead. A man stocked up on drugs never even feels the rounds hitting unless they hit something vital.
In combat, or on the street for LEO's, **** happens FAST, really FAST and our modern brains are simply not wired for that sort of confrontational survival anymore. That is a talent that comes from experience, or, from lots of training.
Training is what surfaces while your mind is occupied with the zillions of thoughts streaking through your skull during a confrontation, it allows your subconscious to remember what to do while the rest of you is otherwise engaged. Like clearing a malfunction while the perp is trying to slice and dice you. And THIS event happened in broad daylight on a quiet street. Actual combat is a whole nuther level of strange.
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