Police rip Biden's repeated advice to shoot suspects 'in the leg'

Doesn't this demonstrate Biden's capacity to bring people together? He just further alienates all the Police across the nation with this foolishness. Joe doesn't even understand why the Police have the certain protocols which they do.

Anybody who has spent more than seven seconds in a combat situation knows better than that. Trying to hit a moving target in an arm or a leg is akin to trying to hit a toothpick with a BB gun. When a threat is moving towards you, your goal is to neutralize the threat. If commands don't work, then you stop the threat....which usually means you kill the perp. It's unfortunate, but you'll come out of the encounter alive.

Bobber said:

Doesn't this demonstrate Biden's capacity to bring people together? He just further alienates all the Police across the nation with this foolishness. Joe doesn't even understand why the Police have the certain protocols which they do.

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Well, he's also encouraging shooting people.

Legally speaking both police and civilians do not "shoot to kill", as it would be illegal to shoot someone with the intent of killing them, even in self-defense situations. The defender shoots to stop the attack, and (since lethal force is authorized), killing the attacker is sometimes the result, but it is never the intent.

As mentioned above, attempting to shoot the attacker in the leg or other "non-fatal" spot would be an exercise in futility, and would allow the attack to continue, with possibly fatal results for the intended victim. Additionally, innocent bystanders would be endangered by such futile attempts; the safest situation for them would be for the defender's bullets to hit and imbed in the attackers "center of mass" (chest and abdomen).