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Originally Posted by oldman1946
Let's consider this. Why do you stop shooting? You shoot until the threat has ceased. If the person is fleeing, then there is no need to continue to shoot. If the person is down, there is no need to continue to shoot.
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Agreed...
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Originally Posted by oldman1946
But many on here feel that throwing bullets around is going to make things better. Innocent people get hit by loose bullets.
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Show me where
anybody in this thread has said that throwing bullets around is going to make things better. That indiscriminately firing is the proper course of action. That because you have a weapon with a large capacity, the proper way to employ it is to empty the mag without consideration of whether such action is appropriate given the circumstances. That because they have a large-capacity weapon, that they feel compelled to expend all the ammunition they have available. When has anybody said such things?
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Originally Posted by oldman1946
BTW: Anyone hear of the Pharmacist that shot the robber in OK? He is now charged with First degree Homicide. He shot the guy and the guy fell. A second perp ran away and the Pharmacist chased out the door looking for him, with gun in hand. He re entered the store and the perp on the floor was moving so he shot him again and this time the wound was fatal. I guess he wanted to use more ammo since he had some left. So he shot him several more times.
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Yeah...the extra ammo made him do it. That is no different than saying that because someone owns a gun, that they are more likely to become homicidal. You are blaming the actions on an inanimate object.
You keep trying to forge a correlation between carrying extra ammo and either some sort of inflated ego, or some sort of psychological issues. In the cases you have mentioned (the guys in the restaurant, the law student, the pharmacist, etc.) you keep blaming their actions and the resulting problems on the mere fact that they were carrying extra ammo.
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Originally Posted by oldman1946
If you read the post about the Pharmacist in OK, you will note he had ammo left after the initial shots. He chased the other perp but did not get to fire but returned and saw the downed perp still moving and he emptied the gun into him. Now a professionally employed man with a college degree, a family and respect used the ammo he had in the heat of the blood to kill a man. Had he stopped when the man went down, he would not be in jail now facing a long prison time. The added ammo and added shots did it.
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Once again...those evil extra rounds made him do it?
Do the unused rounds feel jealous for not being used and therefore somehow compel the shooter to fire them? If the average gunfight is only 3 rounds, as you have alluded to in other posts, what happens to the rest of the rounds in the shooters' guns? </sarcasm>
The pharmacist got nailed because he chose to
execute the perp. Because he continued to use force after there was no longer any need to do so. It would be no different if he had picked up a pipe and bashed the guy's head in. But then, that would have just been excessive force, not excessive force
caused by having extra ammo...
Seriously, these kinds of comments are completely irrational.