OK…I am 81 and nowhere near as spry as I once was. If the driver is after me, I have no chance to escape, in all probability. Time to whip out the pistols and make a difference. Always a chance he will swerve while ducking or dying…
Worked in the Nam…rains come, you strip and run out of the hooch, soap up and hope 5he storm lasts long enough to rinse off. Didn’t work in the field, though. You just got wetter and wetter.
My recollection of the Newhall shooting is that the CHP officers had been taught to put their empty hulls in their pocket when reloading. You guessed it…they had cases in their pocket. Speedloaders didn’t become popular until 1973, IIRC. Going through the L.A. police academy in mid-71, the...
It is how the report is written! Don’t be an AH! Tell the officer/deputy what happened. REMEMBER, you shoot to STOP! You do not shoot to kill, disable, or anything else. If he/she continues his actions which threaten him, continue shooting. If not stop.