Gun Control means hitting your FUCKING target.

I want to talk about gun control, no I don't mean the anti freedom movement to ban guns, or the elected overlords threats to the second amendment, I mean the ability to hit your fucking target, a concept that is apparently foreign to the New York Police Department. Last week a disgruntled former employee walked up and killed a former co worker with five shots to the head from a .45 caliber pistol, he blamed his former co worker for getting him fired, he did not randomly shoot other people, nor did he actually harm anyone else he killed his intended target and walked away. When confronted by two members of the NYPD, he drew his gun and pointed it at the officers, they did what any good officer would and shot the suspect, however in shooting the suspect they also managed to injure NINE INNOCENT CIVILIANS. So let me get this straight the police that are TRAINED to handle weapons, and have access to free shooting ranges with unlimited practice ammo, fire 16 shots kill 1 bad guy and wound 9 people. I feel safer already don't you? Folks this was a case of panic fire at its finest, the cops saw a gun pulled out their service pistols and proceeded to blaze away without taking the time to even glance at a sight picture. Some of the innocent people wounded were struck by shrapnel from the stray bullets hitting other solid objects, others were actually hit by "friendly fire" seems to me the NYPD really needs to institute some gun control on its officers. These morons carry a gun every day yet they perform this poorly in a real life situation, I am not saying they should all be Olympic level marksmen but for fucks sake an adult male at 30 feet or less is not a hard target to hit. It is long past time for all police departments to require monthly trips to the shooting ranges for all officers, these men are given a gun and then tested once a year maybe on its use. With few exceptions a person with no knowledge of shooting will be a poor shot, letting people with little to no experience with guns have the authority to use them in public as part of their job is ludicrous, I would expect law enforcement agencies to train their people regularly on at least basic marksmanship. If you or I as Joe citizen were to injure 9 people while defending ourselves from an armed assailant we would be run through the wringer and the anti gun nuts would be using this as just one more reason to ban citizen ownership of guns. I have read more than one anti gun propaganda poster that states no one but cops and the military should have guns, well folks the cops are pretty piss poor shots when it comes right down to it, I would rather have a thousand armed citizens that can hit what they aim at over these 2 morons that hit 9 people while shooting at a target 30 feet away. The NYPD is not the only force that has issues with marksmanship all police forces for the most part have this issue, the problem is the agencies do not spend enough time or money training the people and once they have passed the qualification test for the weapon they rarely have to re qualify, so a cop could go years without ever firing his weapon. Over time the skills needed to shoot a gun like any other learned skill will degrade without practice. A visit to the shooting range once a month to re-familiarize yourself with the basics of marksmanship would go a long way towards ending this problem, I shoot several times a year and have never shot that poorly unless I was out goofing off doing things like rapid fire with my weak hand, or attempting to shoot some extremely small target while standing, things that do not lend themselves to good marksmanship. Never have I shot so poorly that I would miss the target that many times with my strong hand, but I have never had to do it under stress either. There are training methods to deal with this as well, there is a product available to law enforcement know as simunitions these are fake bullets that function in real guns. The projectiles are a wax bullet filled with paint they are used for real world live fire exercises, maybe the NYPD should begin putting there officers through a training course using these rounds to break the panic fire spray and pray mentality and help prevent this scenario from occurring again in the future. Now I realize that by doing this and making the streets safer for all would go against the Mayors anti gun agenda I am sure that Mayor Blimpberg can spin this to be all the fault of the gunman that shot 1 person and not the fault of the police that shot 10. I am not asking for a whole hell of a lot here just a little oversight and justice to fall where it belongs. The bad guy did murder another human being but the cops in a panic sent 9 innocent people to the hospital, and 1 bad guy to the morgue, I applaud them for taking down the murderer but in this case the price was just to damn high. These cops should be put on probation until they have been re trained in the proper use of a firearm, and a new policy should be implemented that makes mandatory bi-monthly re-qualification for all officers a reality. But what the HELL do I know I am just an ANGRY HILLBILLY.