A warning shot to the floor.

[ileus]

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/camera-catches-would-be-armed-robber-hitting-girl-mar-13-2012

The suspect didn’t give up easily, either. Video shows him jumping up on the counter and sliding through a glass window, even pointing a gun at the store owner; however, Thao had a gun too.

Still, Thao said he worried if he shot at the robber, someone else could get hurt too.

“I decided to shoot at the floor,” Thao said, adding that he hoped to scare the man off.

Read more: Camera Catches Would-Be Armed Robber Hitting Girl http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/camera-catches-would-be-armed-robber-hitting-girl-mar-13-2012#ixzz1p6DqiBd0

[rfranklin]

1. Unlike the posters to the gun forum who always shoot and get the robber right between the eyes...

I guess he should have taken one of those gun training classes.

[Johnny Rico]

2. "Between the eyes"? No!

Always shoot for center of mass, and don't forget to double-tap.

[rfranklin]

3. Whatever...just don't think twice about the possibility of missing...eom

[shadowrider]

4. You always think about the possibility of missing

Rule:

Be aware of your target and what is beyond

[TheWraith]

5. Apparently you're unaware shooting at the floor can be very dangerous.

On a hard floor surface you're inviting a ricochet which could seriously injure someone.

[rfranklin]

6. But we don't know what that floor was...

so you are just speculating.

[shadowrider]

8. If you don't personally know any of the pro-2A posters in this forum

You're just speculating.

[rfranklin]

10. Not speculating at all...and I am pro 2A...but

I do not have the chutzpah to think I can always hit the bullseye under stressful conditions. I have noticed a definite tone of arrogance from many posters in this forum concerning their capabilities with a handgun.

"Annual reports of police performance in the United States show that while police officers perform relatively well on low-pressure shooting tests (with hit percentages above 90%), they perform substantially worse when firing in the line of duty (with hit percentages around or below 50%; e.g., Morrison and Vila 1998). "

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142543/

[shadowrider]

11. If you can speculate, I can too. Good for goose, gander etc. That being said

If you look at thread after thread after thread, no one that I'm aware of has ever said it's easy. Matter of fact, the consensus is it's beyond extremely difficult (Increased heartbeat, blood pressure, sweat, aiming at a moving target etc.) to simply shoot to wound.

In this case the man was shot "in the back". The question is, was he shot in the shoulder and the bullet bounced around and found a vital organ or was it directly in the middle of the back? It's not rocket science. He was shot in the rear of his body somewhere and the clerk should and will pay for this. He was wrong, period. The threat was (apparently) over. I say apparently because you don't know and will never know if the guy would have come back with friends.

You and I rarely agree, but in this case I think we do.

[PavePusher]

14. ??? What "case" are you talking about? According to the news story, no-one was shot. n/t

[shadowrider]

15. The shooter apparently shot the guy in the back

according to later information contained in this article. He's now deceased.

[PavePusher]

16. Apparently my Google-Fu is weak today. Got link? n/t

[shadowrider]

17. My bad

I got this one confused with another thread.

For penance, send me $100 and cut my grass. We'll call it even.

[PavePusher]

18. I'll get right on that.... after you pay my tab in Vegas.

[Hoyt]

9. I can hear it now - robber was unarmed, I shot him in chest because a shot to floor might richochet.

"Besides, that's what my beloved lethal weapons trainer told me and had me repeat 75 times."

[aikoaiko]

7. That's a cheap shot.

Shooting at the floor is also dangerous as ricochets are probable and can injure or kill anyone in the way.

There is risk in shooting and not shooting.

[oneshooter]

13. But.....but......but......it's the only type of shot he knows!

Besides, he has the voices that he hears, and must answer.

[ileus]

12. Maybe the answer is always have a blank for the first round.

Of course it probably won't cycle the action on a pistol, so always carry a revolver with the hammer on one empty chamber, and the next chamber have a blank, and the third have snake shot, the fourth a light load FMJ, fifth a FMJ full power, and finally a HP as your sixth...


Unless you have a 5 shot revolver....then you don't get a HP in the rotation.

[Callisto32]

19. I can't tell if you are serious or not.

[oneshooter]

20. If you have an 8shot revolver, do you get two xtra HP's?

[Kennah]

21. Did he fire 8 shots or only 7?

Just doesn't carry the same weight.

[Kennah]

22. What did the floor do to warrant being shot?