Shooting To Wound - Why It's A Terrible Idea

[OakRiver]

Shooting To Wound and Selling Popcorn - The Truth About Guns

TLDR; shooting to wound is a Hollywood plot device that is legally and practically problematic

 

[Ruger-9mm]

Dead men tell no tales, and live one's can sue.

 

[chezuki]

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[OakRiver]

Thank you very much for pointing that out, I have corrected the post

 

[DRob]

If you don't have reason to kill 'em, you don't have reason to shoot 'em.

 

[Overwatch]

If you don't have reason to kill 'em, you don't have reason to shoot 'em.

This. Either you have reason to employ deadly force, or you don't. There is no in-between.

 

[rhino]

The people who think you should "shoot to wound" are usually the same people who believe that when someone is shot or stabbed in the belly, they immediately collapse to the ground dead, dead, dead.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

The people who think you should "shoot to wound" are usually the same people who believe that when someone is shot or stabbed in the belly, they immediately collapse to the ground dead, dead, dead.

Yep. Hollywood all the way.

 

[DownByTheTracks]

The people who think you should "shoot to wound" are usually the same people who believe that when someone is shot or stabbed in the belly, they immediately collapse to the ground dead, dead, dead.

And a shotgun will pick them up, scoot them 10 feet across the room into a wall...

 

[Scout]

"Fire a warning shot in the air"? What goes up must come down…

 

[Bigtanker]

"Fire a warning shot in the air"? What goes up must come down…

Well the vice president told me to!

 

[Paul30]

Your intent is what decides if you go to prison or are released because it was self defense. I'm sure what is implied is that you shot to stop them in a less lethal area hoping to not only stop them, but spare their life. Words mean things, and if someone were to break the golden rule and talk to the police after a self defense shooting and actually state "I was only trying to wound them" the judge is going to hear "I tried to shoot them to wound them". You shoot to stop their actions, it is simply a law of physics that stopping their actions usually happens when they are mortally wounded. In a self defense situation, you don't have time to shoot, wait a few minutes to see if they are going to stop, shoot again, wait a few minutes, etc. You will have to decide on the fly when the attacker is incapacitated enough to stop shooting, and your shots should be center mass unless they seem ineffective and you suspect body armor is prohibiting your rounds from doing their job correctly.

 

[OakRiver]

Well the vice president told me to!

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