H N Fiddlebottoms VIII wrote:I'm not suggesting that the gunmen should be shooting to kill.
Shooting to kill? There is no such thing as "shooting to kill", there's "shooting to hit" and "shooting to miss". Guns are alot more dangerous than they might seem. A gunshot to the leg may seem harmless compared to a gunshot to the chest, but incase you forgot, a gunshot to the chest will kill you, dead, gone, forever. People who are shot by guns don't even realize what has happened until it's much too late to do anything about it.
I'm not kidding or making this up, police have been gunned down by men who should be dead, right before they drop to the ground.
Shooting someone in the leg wouldn't just incapacitate you, it wouldn't just break your leg, first of all, you would probably bleed to death, second of all, you would probably die of shock, and thirdly, that kinetic energy from the bullet has to go somewhere, and the only place it can go is everywhere else in the victim's body. The energy from that bullet will spread around, shaking your internal organs around inside you and then you will die.
It's entirely possible to survive a gunshot. Once the bullet is past your skin it's basically impossible to predict what'll happen next, but it's most likely that you'll die.
And if people run into schools shooting wildly without hitting anything at all, people will notice the fact that these incredibly frequent shootings are harmless and just ignore them.
So even if your idea wasn't very crazy, it just wouldn't work without killing people.