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SCJeffro wrote:
This is what gets me, half the time the BGs don't even know how to use the guns they have... THANK GOD!
I was called as expert witness in an ADW case, to explain how the "expert shooter" BG could blow through an entire magazine with his Tupperware, missing his intended victim from about TEN FEET, while still acting with deadly intent.
His defense attorney first suggested that he had intended only to SCARE the victim, by brandishing a pistol which he thought was empty, then that it was an AD with a defective trigger (allowing the pistol, which was never found by the cops, to go full-auto), but the video clearly showed his trigger finger moving back and forth, and showed him chasing the clerk (former GF) around her counter. The attorney suggested that, since the BG had a "reputation of being an expert shooter," if he had really intended to harm her, there is no way that he could miss at that range.
It only took me two minutes to explain WHY he missed at that range -- he was holding the pistol movie-thug style, sideways, and pulling the pistol out of line with his target as he engaged in spray-and-pray.
BTW, the look on his face when he went Miller Time without hitting her was priceless!