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As a fellow laymen, I will leave the schooling up to the experts.I get what you are both saying... I just don't like the way po18guy prefaced his arguments:
So to answer his question and comments: No, I am not assuming anything... I'm just following the story in the way that it happened. Why it happened, I do not care. It did, and it happened the way it did.
Being older or wiser or better trained has nothing to do with anything and is IMO a snide, or snarky, or passive/aggressive comment... po18guy posed a scenario where he recommended running down a man exiting a car and coming at an officer while firing a weapon at the officer. I questioned, and still do, a tactic that has an officer or anyone else driving forward into increasingly closer gunfire. I question this as a layman... if there is a LEO trained answer, give it to me instead of an entire page of second guessing what the officer actually did do. That can be talked about in a LEO conference and maybe has been or should be. I don't care. All I care about is the prospect of driving forward into gunfire. I can't think of a good alternative to what the officer did:
Perp stops his vehicle. Officer stops his at whatever distance behind the perp. Perp exits vehicle and immediately begins firing a handgun at the officer. The officer is taking fire. (This is the way the story was related). Actions the officer could take:
1. While under fire, put the car in reverse and drive backwards, while taking fire, maybe trying to duck, losing sight of the shooter possibly rushing towards the car. Driving backwards until out of range. Perp gets back in his car and the chase is on again, maybe backup will come, maybe not. (Note: this tactic always works in the movies)
2. While under fire, sit and wait for backup to arrive.
3. While under fire, exit the vehicle on the drivers side, using the door as cover. Maybe works, maybe not.
4. While under fire, draw weapon and engage the shooter, a gunfight. Maybe works, maybe not.
5. Other alternative action.
So yeah, I'm a layman...school me on what to do when a guy jumps out of a vehicle and starts shooting.
But I would guess (untested theory) the idea is to be ready as soon as the BG stops the vehicle of his own volition and starts to get out - to GUN IT if a weapon is seen.
I would guess almost anyone would be so scared of the 4k pound missile accelerating at them they would maybe get off 1 half azzed shot before either diving back in the car or getting plastered against the door and squished.
If they dove the other direction they could probably still be easily squished, unless they had impeccable timing. In which case I guess the best course of action would be to KEEP ACCELERATING and GTFO away?
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