The Cameron Independent School District is investigating an incident where students were shot at by a BB gun or Air Soft gun while walking home after school. The school district said it is working with Cameron police to investigate the incident.
and the cost of giving officers that many rounds to practice with is prohibitive from smaller departments. i always favor, and i do favor strongly a proponent of other less than lethal methods. i wish we saw more of them. to require a level of marksman ship that a policy like this might require is going to take a lot of ammunition, a lot of practice, and that s going to be a costly endeavor for a lot of small departments. i hear what you re saying, though it s hard to equate, you know, the cost for small departments and the cost of someone s life that didn t have a gun. we ve seen this time and again, the suspect doesn t have a gun, maybe they have a weapon, maybe they have a screwdriver or something, but they re killed by the police and the public says, why couldn t they just have shot them in the leg to stop them, but bobby, when you say that less lethal methods, what else is there? well, the only less lethal weapon that people know about is a taser, and even that, the
them someplace. but if they re working on that, and they are comfortable with a number of shots their officers get, and their qualifications, maybe it will work. so bobby, do you think that s the big problem with this plan that it s much harder to shoot somebody in the leg? i absolutely do, and i agree with the chief. a couple of years ago the terminology was changed, we shoot to stop the threat, usually that means to incapacitate. and because a gun is a deadly weapon, that often results in the death of person being shot. you re right, the limbs, they re the smaller part of the body, they move obviously more than the torso. the trunk is the widest part, also the most stationary part. if you re going to require a level of marksmanship to shoot a gun out of someone s hand or to shoot them in a very specific part of their body, you re going to have to train those officers and the chief is right, most small departments don t have the budget, ammunition has skyrocketed in recent decades
rentals new york, this is an air soft gun. it s not a real weapon, but whenever i m on a set, i make sure that i hold it up for the talent and anyone else who wants to inspect to mange sure this is a safe weapon. i never load a weapon unless we are actually going to be firing rounds, actually firing blanks, and on top of that, i only put the appropriate amount of blanks in. if the scene calls for two shots to be fired, i only put two rounds in. nothing more, and i announce to the cast, i announce to the crew, the whole set, live weapon on set, discharge two rounds. it seems like there was no communication on the part of this armorer to put the crew at any ease. and the fact that there were supposedly accidental discharges previously in this production, that s a huge red flag, why nobody jumped on that. i have no idea. what you re referring to, and this is according to the new
having me on. a first person should never be touching a weapon. the only person that should be touching a weapon is the armourer, any assistant, and talent, given right before the take and taken back after the take is done. when i m on a set, anytime i have a weapon, it s either in my holster, in a case or i ll take it to the bathroom. an ad should never be touching a gun. they can ask for a safety inspection, they can ask questions, but no crew member other than the armourer or the talent should be touching a weapon ever. according to the affidavit and some witnesses was touching it, and handing it to alec baldwin, and by the way, we also learned that it was on a cart outside of the building where the scene was being shot, so it was resting on a cart outside they said because of covid-19 protocols, i guess, so what does that tell you, that the assistant director is at fault here or the armorer or who?