VirgilT7@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/5/98 2:59:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> retroman@together.net writes:
>
> << Police are more likely to kill innocent civilians in a shoot out than they
> are to
> kill the criminals... hmmm
> >>
>
> Right... so surely armed private citizens will somehow manage to shoot just
> the criminals and not each other, right?
Yes. In a situation between criminal and victim, the victim always knows who the criminal is (he's the guy thats trying to kill or rob you), while a police officer is trained to go into a scene expecting everyone to be the bad guy.
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