[Glenn E. Meyer]

The Pelvic shot was not designed to be a substitute for a more potentially lethal spot because you weren't trying to be lethal.

It was a proposed failure to stop drill if COM was covered with armor. Dropping the opponent would give you an advantage. However, a fallen person still could shoot you and it may not be likely to destroy your stability.

As far as the issue of race - I would advise caution. You should know the literature on this before you opine. There is clear evidence that both normal subjects and LEOs are more likely to have a lower criterion for seeing an object as a gun if held by a person of color. It's also the case that well designed police training reduces this effect. That info has penetrated the LEO training regimes and is presented at LEO training conferences because of the research.

Does that mean that all shoots with cross racial participants are bad - of course not. However, one might be worried that such tendencies exist. Police are also concerned with blue on blue shoots - some of which have a racial component.

That does not mean that idiot proposals are the way to go. However, a motivation to prevent inappropriate shootings is not an evil motivation. Rantings about liberals and race are not productive.