Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>
> zxcvbob wrote:
> >
> > Point of order: *It was the cops who shot the passers-by*
> >
> > It started out as a routine homicide inside the ESB; one shooter and
> > one targeted victim he had a grudge against. When the shooter was
> > getting away cops outside the building opened fire into the crowd,
> > killing the bad guy and injuring a bunch of bystanders.
>
> My friend was a NYC cop for 20 years, and he took target practice seriously.
> The other guys couldn't shoot straight.
>
> When a situation demanded that he shoot and kill, he did. Other cops fired
> shots that went into the walls, fortunately.

Exactly. The public, particularly the anti-gun types want to believe
that all police are highly trained marksmen when that is simply not the
reality. The average officer gets pretty minimal firearms training and
the average officer is not a firearms hobbyist.