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Title: Is it just me, or is police marksmanship demonstrably worse in anti-gun locales?
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on September 17, 2011, 05:17:32 PM: http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2011/09/17/bystanders-wounded-sf-police-shooting/?tsp=1&plckItemsPerPage=10&plckSort=ThumbsDescending&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:72653e30-239b-4e6f-ad2f-f16f6da2f37c

Bystanders shot by police who were shooting at a wanted bad guy.

Makes me wonder where these cops grew up. Their background with firearms, prior to a police academy getting them.

I don't hear about this in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Montana, Kentucky, etc.

I hear about it in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and Washington DC.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is police marksmanship demonstrably worse in anti-gun locales?
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 17, 2011, 05:21:10 PM: It makes sense that an area without gun culture produces cops with less skill in shooting. Less prior experience and less instruction from family/friends.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is police marksmanship demonstrably worse in anti-gun locales?
Post by: birdman on September 17, 2011, 05:35:50 PM: Quote from: fistful on September 17, 2011, 05:21:10 PM
It makes sense that an area without gun culture produces cops with less skill in shooting. Less prior experience and less instruction from family/friends.

Also less interest in firearms (and thus less practice) outside of work. There are plenty of LEO's I personally know on both sides of that line..all the ones who grew up with firearms are phenomenal shots (and shoot for fun outside of work), those that didn't, don't. I was actually surprised (first knowing more of the former) when I when shooting with some LEO friends and was able to significantly out shoot them...when I asked why, they said they don't get a lot of practice, and just do so to qualify. (note, the former were suburban LEO's mainly, the latter was a DC LEO)
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is police marksmanship demonstrably worse in anti-gun locales?
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on September 17, 2011, 06:10:01 PM: hows florida?
Raymond Herisse ring a bell? four wounded bystanders?

or this?
http://www.adn.com/2010/08/27/1428317/seward-police-shoot-bear-hit-bystander.html

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-officer-accidentally-shoots-himself-1715741.php

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-06-01/story/prosecutors-find-no-criminal-wrongdoing-5-jacksonville-cops-who-fired-42
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is police marksmanship demonstrably worse in anti-gun locales?
Post by: Jamisjockey on September 17, 2011, 06:31:28 PM: Unless you can produce some kind of statistics that show it, this ones getting locked to prevent the impending round of cop bashing.