you can also just as easily stay away from the car whose driver first priority
is obviously trying to get away rather than hit anyone. meanwhile there would be
pleny opportunity to shoot the wheels to prevent the car from getting away.
of course this is all completely hypothetical since the minneapolis police
department's accounts are immediately invented stories to fit with the offices'
actions rather than the result responsible and professional investigations that
could provide actual facts that might take away the need to guess and speculate.
jordan kushner
powderhorn
Bruce Gaarder wrote:
> The likely result of being shot wile trying to run someone down is the
> sudden lack of ability to control the car, keep the gas pedal on the floor,
> etc. It is highly unlikely that the shot person will think anything like
> what Rosalind wrote, if indeed they are able to form any thoughts at all,
> perhaps being instantly dead. Just consider what you can aim at in a car
> coming straight at you, namely a head in the windshield. Not a likely
> candidate for a leg wound...
>
> I do wish that Minneapolis would have kept its drug dealers and police on
> the west side of the river, though, instead of having a shoot-out on West
> 7th.
>
> Bruce Gaarder
> Highland Park Saint Paul
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Rosalind Nelson wrote:
>
> > Regarding the two recent shootings, Bruce Gaarder points out that shooting
> > the engine and tires probably won't stop a car. I don't see how shooting
> > the driver accomplishes that, either. The driver is not likely to think,
> > "Gee, I better move my foot from the gas pedal to the brake before I die so
> > nobody else gets hurt."
