'Shoot to startle' Dumbest yet report

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DaleA

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A VERY silly phrase in a news story-'Shoot to startle.'

A story about a police officer shooting a drunk that attacked him with a flag pole had this paragraph:

A makeshift memorial for #DengManyoun outside Smoker's Smoke Shop. Per @jeredowns: pic.twitter.com/FkuWbaRUvz #Louisville #BlackLivesMatter

Officers are trained to shoot to startle if they felt it was necessary. He ended #DengManyoun life over a flag pole. #Louisville

Ashley Belcher, an activist with the group Ferguson to Louisville, told the Courier-Journal that her group was demanding that police release video footage of the shooting immediately.
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I hesitate to bring this up because the paragraph doesn't really read correctly. I mean I can't figure out of they are quoting someone, if so who, or if they are stating a fact about the police in that town. If they are stating a fact the reporter needs to attribute it to someone I think.

Anyway, 'shoot to startle'. A new tactic or the dumbest thing in the news in quite a while?

A link to the entire article but I wouldn't be surprised to find that paragraph rewritten soon.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vi...man-wielding-a-flagpole/ar-BBl8SbF?srcref=rss
 
Shoot to startle... Sounds like a warning shot. And I'm pretty sure that is advocated and taught by the likes of our very own U.S. VP. :p
 
that is advocated and taught by the likes of our very own U.S. VP.
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That's RIGHT. He did say that right out loud and in front of the media so it's out there (I think it's on youtube) for all time. I plan on using it as an example of dumb things gun control folk say and believe. It's not quite as good as the Politian that wanted to ban barrel shrouds "You know the thing that goes up?" but it's pretty close.

Found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0IVSGctQIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U
 
There's a video news story which includes surveillance video capturing the shooting at http://www.wave3.com/story/29316366...-fatal-police-confrontation-in-old-louisville. The guy struck a retreating police officer with a metal flag pole, a device which could have killed the officer.

Shoot to startle? Dumbest suggestion ever. If you shoot, you better be in fear of imminent serious injury or death. Shooting to startle says to me, you're not. You're putting other people at risk for no good reason (ricochets, etc.).
 
Carolyn McCarthy is a piece of work.

"I think it's the shoulder thing that goes up."

Yeah, right. So we don't know what it is or why it's bad, but let's ban it anyway.
 
If the officer shoots to startle and that bullet hits somebody will the officer get a pass or arrested for shooting somebody?
 
Maybe they meant it this way: "I'm startled that the officer shot somebody to keep them from beating somebody with a flagpole."
 
Just in case someone hasn't heard it,,,

Carolyn McCarthy on gun control.

Shoot to startle,,,
Perhaps it's what Robert Heinlein meant.

"Get a shot off fast.
This upsets him long enough,,,
to let you make your second shot perfect."

It's what first came to my mind when I read "shoot to startle".

Aarond

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Heinlein, Asimov and Clark. Three of my fav SF authors.

All served in the military too albeit Asimov kind of got tricked into it. See Clark's novel 'Glide Path' for his story.

Three better men I'll probably never see in my life.

Caje: The coward dies a thousand times, the brave only once.
Kirby: That's about all it takes, ain't it?
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One of my favorite sig lines.
 
If you watch the brief clip by clicking on the Carolyn McCarthy link in a comment above, and then let it continue to play, you will see another good clip with Chuck Woolery talking about the silliness of those who want a so-called assault weapon ban. Worth a few minutes for a few laughs and smiles.
 
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