Hi RebelWAC:
If you can aim well, you can basically nail down any sucker from any angle and and any distance.
The IDF training policy for counter-terror units (Lotar) specifically states the requirement of confirmed neutralization of any terrorist.
As soon as a terrorist is down, protocol mandates shooting them in the head.
There have been many cases in Israel where terrorists have either blown themselves up after being shot, wounding and killing others, or cases where they have continued killing after it appeared they were already "down" by a "humane" shooting in the arms or legs.
I don't understand how you expect in a high stress situation of chasing after a terrorist through the crowded streets of the old city, where the terrorist was shooting at him -- for the security guard to hit the terrorist in the leg.
I don't know what training you've done, but we routinely have to run 500 meters with all our gear on before starting to shoot at targets 25 meters away with an M16 (and we aim for the center of the body mass, not the periphery).
Doing the same with a 9mm handgun just doesn't seem doable. Keep in mind that this wasn't a marksman in a sterile situation, but a security guard chasing a terrorist in a residential neighborhood; you want the terrorist neutralized as quickly as possible. There's no time to waste shooting at anything but the quickest and easiest area of the terrorist.
If you can aim well, you can basically nail down any sucker from any angle and and any distance.
The IDF training policy for counter-terror units (Lotar) specifically states the requirement of confirmed neutralization of any terrorist.
As soon as a terrorist is down, protocol mandates shooting them in the head.
There have been many cases in Israel where terrorists have either blown themselves up after being shot, wounding and killing others, or cases where they have continued killing after it appeared they were already "down" by a "humane" shooting in the arms or legs.
I don't understand how you expect in a high stress situation of chasing after a terrorist through the crowded streets of the old city, where the terrorist was shooting at him -- for the security guard to hit the terrorist in the leg.
I don't know what training you've done, but we routinely have to run 500 meters with all our gear on before starting to shoot at targets 25 meters away with an M16 (and we aim for the center of the body mass, not the periphery).
Doing the same with a 9mm handgun just doesn't seem doable. Keep in mind that this wasn't a marksman in a sterile situation, but a security guard chasing a terrorist in a residential neighborhood; you want the terrorist neutralized as quickly as possible. There's no time to waste shooting at anything but the quickest and easiest area of the terrorist.
