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November 15th 04, 10:48 PM

On 14 Nov 2004 09:29:59 -0800, (Terry) wrote:

I wonder just how much TV has altered out preception of reality.
A LEO that I know, he is a SWL and a sometimes ham radio operator,
told me
about a training event he had to go through. It seems that most police
expect a single, well placed pistol round to stop a bad guy. To knock
them backwards like on TV/movies. When in fact a riffle round will not
always stop an angry/frightened/druged person. Thay shot their service
weapons into suspended 100Lb bags of sand and the bags barely moved,
1/8"
at most. The trainer warned them that they were "Training to die" by
watching TV cop shows or adventure movies. Kind of spooky that TV is
altering our perceptions of reality to the point that a LEO trainer
calls it "training to die".

Good point. On the other hand, the opposite lesson can also be
drawn from other shows. I remember seeing an interview with an
emergency room nurse who frequently sees young people coming in with
gunshot wounds. She says many are surprised that getting shot just
once hurts and that you can't simply keep advancing on the one
shooting you, taking multiple hits, until you're close enough to take
him out.