Reply #61: Then the people who train the LEOs are very stupid. [View All]

For one thing, I'm shocked to hear that cops are actually trained to shoot at all. Most of them that I've seen and heard of can't hit a target worth shit. Just look at number of rounds expended in a shooting by US cops, and compare it to a shooting by cops in Canada or the UK, where they still teach them how to aim. No offense to the good cops, but our training requirements aren't up to snuff, at least in most of the country.

Back to the original point, there's a huge list of reasons why you wouldn't just want to shoot for center-of-mass. For one thing, if that's the only place you can hit a person, then a kevlar jacket can stop you from taking them out. In that case, you need a head shot, as you outlined. For another reason, there are myriad scenarios where you might need to neutralize someone without killing them, and that requires acutal marksmanship.

A LEO should be trained on how to select a target according to the situation, and hit that target, not just point their gun at the center-of-mass and keep pulling the trigger.