Tassie Police don’t fire warning shots - 1 dead

[Maxjon]

Sounds like system fault! If it has anything to do with mothers law. When will it ever really be family law?

[SAnewby]

"There’s something wrong with this occurring with two young kids watching on...they would have already been distraught from earlier happenings"

**The police reaction was proportionate to the threat.
Who was there and their age is irrelevant.

Old mate put those kids in that position, not the police.

As for warning shots, that's the same as the people who expect the police to shoot offenders legs rather than shooting centre mass.

Absolutely absurd!!!

Bladeracer is correct, if you have time to fire a warning shot, you're not in an imminent threat situation which requires deadly force.

[duddley75]

Interesting discussion topic, but as anyone who has ever been trained in use of firearms in a law enforcement capacity will tell you, warning shots simply do not exist. Centre of mass only, after all other possibilities have been assessed, giving due consideration to the extant background of target.

Yep, this is what I was taught (NSW)

Stop the threat, centre mass every time.

You are responsible for every round fired. Imagine a warning shot fired into ground and shrapnel then hits someone else. Or same warning shot fired into air and takes someone out at the end of its flight.

[TassieTiger]

Yep, this is what I was taught (NSW)

Stop the threat, centre mass every time.

You are responsible for every round fired. Imagine a warning shot fired into ground and shrapnel then hits someone else. Or same warning shot fired into air and takes someone out at the end of its flight.[/quote]

Imagine a ricochet from a bone or something behind the soft flesh target...

[duddley75]

Yep, this is what I was taught (NSW)


Imagine a ricochet from a bone or something behind the soft flesh target...

Do you mean passing the target and hitting something behind?

Don't forget most law enforcement are using hollow points.

[TassieTiger]

The likelihood of a warning shot doing damage - either air launched or ground focussed - wouldn’t really be very high in the location where this occurred, probably less likely than a pass through or ricochet. Hollow points still carry massive energy from close range - if you want to surprise yourself, shoot a 1/4 inch pine board and place another behind it...fragments of the HP will scatter into the second board.