Fun With Guns: The Good Guy With a Gun
You know how the NRA is always saying that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun?
Maybe not so much.
Jerrol Harris, 27 years old, ran from the cops after attempting to steal a Brooklyn man’s car and shooting him in the arm.
It did not go well, even with six police officers in pursuit.
After 84 shots fired by six different police officers, Harris was finally struck in the calf and brought down.
Okay, you do the math: 84 shots fired, one shot hit the guy.
Harris has 12 prior arrests, including four robberies and gun possession. He’s facing several counts of first-degree and second-degree attempted murder, as well as other felony charges.
Yeah, that’s understandable, being as how the NYPD is swearing he can run faster than a bullet.
If you were much older you would know that the correct phrase is, “faster than a speeding bullet”.
I’m old. I know this crap.
1Dr Micr prescribes 40 hours of remedial handgun marksmanship training for the officers involved. You can’t miss fast enough to win!
2Some serious fire control issues.
384 rounds expended, 6 (trained?) officers, 14 rounds per weapon. 14 rounds is likely the full clip for whatever standard issue pistol NYPD uses.
4A 1.1905% success hit rate (and in an extremity to boot, barely counts except it stopped the perp), wow.
Any word on where the other 83 rounds sprayed out wound up at?
Good choice………I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.
5@Sandridge
Jim Stafford predicted this years ago and wrote Cow Patty to cover this eventuality:
Forty shots rang out forty people fell
6Patty and the killer missed each other
But they shot that town to hell
Maybe they are the good guys with the good guns.
It could be the bullets that aren’t any good.
7Now, I feel the need to dispel a misnomer:
Each and every one of the bullets fired hit a target. Only one hit the fugitive. Why aren’t all the possible victims, not the fugitive, being considered as well?
That’s America
8Micr@6: “Cow Patti” by Jim Stafford… it’s a hoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPAp38bDh4
9Don’t those cops ever do target practice?
10Either the fugitive wasn’t wearing a red shirt or all the cops were StarTrek Troopers.
11The Empire State Building just assayed out as 40% lead,holes included.
12One of my sisters was a cop in DFW metro area and while she dated an FBI agent, she kept a newspaper clipping on her kitchen counter about a shootout in Arizona between FBI agents and bank robbers. Something like 127 bullets fired by agents and not a one hit a bank robber. (Sister later married the agent. We called them “local & fed.”)
13And those other 83 bullets ended up – where – exactly? No one else was hit? Seriously? Very very lucky there.
1484 bullets is actually a lot of bucks and another hole in the departmental budget. Is this gonna come out of their pay checks?
15Poor judgement and rage yes, but have steroids ever been implicated in poor marksmanship? Just asking.
16sheesh.
17Given that they didn’t kill any innocent bystanders this is actually one of the better panicked police episodes lately.
18I remember once reading that unless you are being held when facing a gun, run. The chances of the gun hitting you in a vital place are slim, especially if you are moving and making aim harder.
And often target practice is stationary targets. Still I am shocked at the high number of misses.
19Not surprised…everyone knows that yankees can’t shoot worth a flip…
20El Paso cop, so angry at the waitress who rebuked him for his crude verbal sexual assault & groping her, shot his service weapon in the busy restaurant.
http://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_48e61a4c-575e-11e5-b69a-6f74fd47d1d0.html
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