Police may shoot rioters claim

[Lab-rat]

Grow up. Effective range of a taser?

 

Lets all just give them a big hug! You grow up!

[Jim Hardie]

Yeah, like it would really have prevented the chaos.

 

One or two looters shot dead might have a preventative effect.

[Lab-rat]

Because they'd never shoot a man waving a table leg, would they?

 

 

Besides, if it is night, set against a backdrop of furniture shops ablaze, with noise and chaos, a wrong decision could never ever be made could it?

 

I take it he's collecting for the Red Cross waving a table leg outside a burning building then is he?

 

I'm with Clint Eastwood on that one!

[Halibut]

One or two looters shot dead might have a preventative effect.

 

I think that's dangerously naive and foolish reasoning. It would ne much more likely to inflame the situation and cause a massive upsurge in unrest and violence.

[gnvqsos]

Well of course the Riot Act was repealed years ago but under its terms you had an hour to disperse once it was read by a magistrate. Maybe it wants bringing back.

 

It will be inoperative where those assembled are not indigenous,or are wearing ipods and hoods to muffle sounds.

[Halibut]

I take it he's collecting for the Red Cross waving a table leg outside a burning building then is he?

 

I'm with Clint Eastwood on that one!

 

Are you being deliberately obtuse or what?

 

Which movie was it where Clint gunned down entirely innocent unarmed men?

[nubile]

I think that's dangerously naive and foolish reasoning. It would ne much more likely to inflame the situation and cause a massive upsurge in unrest and violence.

 

Then pop a couple more.

[ANGELFIRE1]

Common sense to use 5.56mm NATO frangible rounds then:thumbsup:

As a shooter you will know that frangible bullets break up into small, less harmful, pieces upon contact with anything harder than they are. This maximizes the round's transfer of energy to the object and minimizes the chances that pieces of the bullet will exit the object at dangerous velocities. Each of the small fragments quickly loses any energy and therefore pose very little danger to any secondary targets. This means that full-power frangible bullets can be shot at target all the way up to muzzle contact without any worries that the bullet or case will ricochet and potentially hurt either the shooter or others.

 

 

Good post but, my .220 swift 4200 fps could on hitting grass either deflect or break up, still would not like to be on the end of the pieces to be honest. I realise the NATO round mentioned will not attain the velocity of the .220swift but the same applies, still would not relish been struck by the shrapnel of the round.

 

Angel.

[Squiggs]

One or two looters shot dead might have a preventative effect.

 

One or two innocents shot dead might have turned the focus away from looting and into an all-out war with the police, with far more casualties and devastation

[Lab-rat]

MODS.....why is this in Sheffield Forums & not General?

 

In the previous summer riots Sheffield was one of the major cities that didn't riot!

 

Just an observation.