Don't take a knife to a gunfight !

[ManDownUnder]

Police handgun training is a joke. If you stand 3 metres away from your target you should be able to hurt someone else apart from yourself...

Try 50 metres. and then go back to 75 metres.

You'd be lucky to find 5 meters in that shop

[Swoop]

You'd be lucky to find 5 meters in that shop

Exceedingly true...

[Finn]

This reminds me of a guy who tried to rob a convenience store in Texas armed with a knife. The 60 year old lady owner shot him... 12 times, 6 in the head.

This was in the morning and the shop was opened again after lunch.

[Macktheknife]

And they fact they could have, but didn't counts for a lot in my book. They just got my business

They have always had mine, and will continue to do so.

[marty]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10393306

update from harold

[Finn]

Update... I think the father speaks for most of us. Good on him.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10393306

[Bend-it]

I love this!! Hilarious!! Apart from the fact that the idiot will be using claiming ACC and we, ladies and gentlemen, will be paying first for his medical treatment, and second, for his incarceration.

Cause of death: brain hemorrhage, wound entrance diameter : 9mm

[Colapop]

"Like anyone in this country, he doesn't have to have his head bloody cut off before he does something about it."

"We have a duty to the general public not to let people do this. We take our business seriously"

He should be our next Prime Minister!

[Bend-it]

That's right... He has my vote!

[Patrick]

I have chilled beers here at the moment and will happily present them to the shop owners!

"You can do it... you da water boy..." Where have i heard that before?

[Patrick]

Doesn't really answer my question, I know other people are trained to only draw a weapon when intending to use it and a firearm was never intended to warn people, the many verbal or other warnings should of sufficied and after that rounds to the COM till they cease to be a threat.

Hmmm... Are you saying verbal or other warnings should have sufficed first?

As in.. "Stop stabbing me in the chest or I will be forced to shoot you..."

Or,

"Is that gun loaded, coz if it is, I will have to [BANG!]....." Bugger... guess it was loaded...

[scumdog]

My training was similar. Never point a weapon at someone unless you intend to use it. When you do point a weapon at another person squeeze the trigger, and keep on squeezing until the threat is removed. If you try and give a warning you are dead.

True Jantar - and when that was done at Waitara EVERYBODY (well the noisy brainless ones) said 'Why did he get shot so many times" WTF??????

[Brett]

They had better not f#cking do the guy for attempted murder. I mean, the dumb ass broke into a fricken GUN shop with a machete what does he think will happen?? DUMB SHIT.

I think the police should give the guy credit for disabling without killing rather than prosecuting. He is lucky the bloke didn't shoot to instantly kill...i.e a shot in his empty head. I have seen that they stock Desert Eagles there, that would have made quite some mess compared to a 9mm!

[Macktheknife]

I just watchwed the clip on the news and the guy was trying to get up off the floor. No exit wound visible so must have been small calibre, maybe .22.
I find it amusing that anyone with half the brains god gave a loaf of bread could think this was a workable idea. I mean really... what was he thinking?
I know I will go rob a high security GUN store with my trusty machete and demand they give me a gun and some money. No risk of that going wrong!
The owner is not saying that they keep a loaded gun behind the counter because that is illegal, BUT, I know a couple of guys who work in the trade and I believe it is common practice for a 'demo' weapon to be 'out for display/trial purposes'.
Please god, let all NZ's criminal elements be this dumb.

[Macktheknife]

They had better not f#cking do the guy for attempted murder. I mean, the dumb ass broke into a fricken GUN shop with a machete what does he think will happen?? DUMB SHIT.

I think the police should give the guy credit for disabling without killing rather than prosecuting. He is lucky the bloke didn't shoot to instantly kill...i.e a shot in his empty head. I have seen that they stock Desert Eagles there, that would have made quite some mess compared to a 9mm!

It also would have gone right thru him and endangered the rest of the public. No I think the right weapon was used and used well.