# "Shooting to wound" - what % bullshit, medically, tactically and legally? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-to-wound-what-bullshit-medically-tactically-and-legally/693393 "2014-07-17T20:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-to-wound-what-bullshit-medically-tactically-and-legally/693393/21 "2014-07-17T22:27:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > In the other thread, the incident involved a woman who shot at an intruder five times. The first shot missed, the second one hit the suspect, presumably terminating the threat, and there were 3rd, 4th and 5th shots that would have had no additional deterrent effect, which leaves murder as the only remaining motive. As I said in the other thread to this line of stupid reasoning > [@Was this shooting morally justified?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-shooting-morally-justified/693377/46): > > First off how do you know the second shot disabled? Maybe you have ice water in your veins and perfect shot placement and x-ray vision to know exactly where the second shot went, but this isn’t TV and you aren’t Jack Bauer/James Bond/Dirty Harry > > It might have also missed, or been just a nick in his arm. Self defense training and Police training all train that you keep pulling the trigger until > > A) the suspect is down > > or > > B) The gun goes click in which case you reload. You didn’t answer me there, perhaps you would care to answer me here. In the way less than the half a second you have before the bad guy reaches you how do you know that the second shot terminated the threat? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-to-wound-what-bullshit-medically-tactically-and-legally/693393)._