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Originally Posted by AaronM
No matter how you look at it, they lost control. Cops are NEVER supposed to lose control.
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Just to add to what L-Pink has already stated, there was a 10 person SWAT team hunting in the woods for this guy (the same woods where he had already "executed" another cop. I emphasize "executed" because after shooting and immobilizing the cop, he stood over him and put two more bullets into his head...)
Anyway, so you have a 10 person SWAT team, going through the woods, hunting this guy - and he comes up from under a fallen oak tree and some brush with a gun in his hand - nine of the SWAT members spot him and the a gun and they open fire on him.
Polk County SWAT members carry MP5s. From what I've read in this thread, you yourself apparently are a gun owner and versed in guns, so I'm assuming you are already familiar w/ an MP5 and it's rate of fire. But, for the sake of those reading that are not, it's 800 rounds per minute.
So simple math: 68 rounds hit this guy. 9 SWAT members fired - that's roughly 8 hits per SWAT member (not realistic that you could avg hits out like that - and that each would hit 8 times, but just for math's sake). They're firing a weapon that shoots 800 rounds / minute - that's 13 bullets a SECOND - basically a quick pull of the trigger.
That would mean that each SWAT member pulled the trigger for LESS THAN HALF A SECOND - when they saw this guy coming up from the brush with a gun in his hand.
HOPEFULLY now knowing that they were carrying MP5s you can get a better idea of what what was going on and agree that "68 shots" from 9 SWAT members does not indicate a loss of control in any manner.
