A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

            • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
              7·
              2 years ago

              Those are very small targets. They’d be hard enough to hit on a static range with no pressure. They’d be even harder to hit when moving, in a stressful situation, at close range. If you miss, you could hit someone else. Even if you hit them, the bullet will probably go right through and into whatever is beyond. This is why you aim for center of mass. Easier to hit, less chance of overpenetration, and more effective in stopping an attacker in a life-or-death situation.

              Despite what the movies may show, you can’t just shoot to wound. If you shoot someone in the leg, and hit the femoral artery, they can bleed to death in seconds: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17334183/

                • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  Yeah, for fights that’s very possible. And in fact that would have been preferable if feasible in this scenario, because it’s still far less likely to be fatal than shooting someone.

                  Proper use of a firearm is intending to kill someone. Again, there is no way to use a firearm to be less-lethal. If you shoot someone, you are shooting to kill. Presumably this guy had some CCW training and would know that.

            • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              Nobody that’s ever used a gun is taught to shoot at the edge of the target. Aim center-mass or don’t even pull the weapon.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      But no one was killed

      That’s just luck.

      An inch either way that bullet could have been fatal.

    • FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      You can certainly put them in jail for attempted murder. And that doesn’t require proving they intended to kill that person, it only requires “conscious disregard” of whether their action could kill someone. For example, randomly shooting into someone’s house.