Active shooters in schools: Should teachers be trained by police fir

 

Hello Beowulf and Group,

 

A departed friend of mine, Major Harry (Army, retired) among other things trained security guards, also cops who wanted to shoot better, even gave extra training to some police instructors in Chicago.  Silhouette targets were in use, but he told his better students to avoid gut shots if possible and go for upper center of mass to have a better chance of a one shot stop or stopping the target at all.  This concept is also useful today in light of terrorists and other felons wearing bullet resistant vests. Aside from double action revolver shooting and automatics, Major Harry was ahead of his time which I appreciated.

 

So one day I asked Harry why law enforcement still teaches gut shots.  He said that in actual combat, cops  got about 1 hit in 10 shots fired, and were lucky if they got 1 out of 6, and teaching gut shots was maybe the best you could get most (not all) of them to do.

 

Time went by, the .38 Special six shooter ((which can do well with superspeed hollow points or moving up to the .357 Magnum can be a good move as well)) largely went by the wayside, enter the high capacity 9mm later partly replaced by the .40 S&W.  High capacity was to enable a cop to survive an attack by multiple felons.  But problems occurred when some departments moved away from precise aimed fire into "spray and pray".  So how you train cops and how they might train teachers remains a good question.

 

Andrew