I resent the posts inferring that the Jihadists didn't watch their backs. The local media is reporting that this traffic officer was seated next to the unarmed school district security officer when he was shot and the armed cop returned fire.
The school guard was wounded in an ankle & was released from the hospital in about two hours. Why he was on duty there, unarmed, and no additional real cops were present makes me think that the event promoter was charged too much when they had to shell out $10,000 for "added security."
Our member Massad Ayoob has several times mentioned in his magazine writing the case of a USAF bicycle cop who used his Beretta M-9 to kill a man shooting people with an AK-47, at about 80 yards. I think it took one round of military-issued 9mm hardball. This was at Fairchild AFB, WA about ten years ago. If Mas sees this, he may add details. He's talked to the man involved.
Supposedly, FMJ 9mm is useless, if you listen to the .45 fans. My son has killed men with both and saw only a slight advantage to the .45. Now out of the Army, he does carry JHP ammo in both calibers and feels better for that. But "hardball" sufficed when he had to rely on it. Placement counts!
The late David W. Arnold, formerly of the British South Africa Police in what was then Rhodesia had access to field shootings there during the terrorist war. He told me that the 9mm worked quite well, if well placed. David had to carry a P-38/P-1 on duty but preferred the Colt .45 auto, with which he was very proficient. Like proficient enough to be on the Rhodesian national IPSC team...
As time passes, we'll probably learn more about this shooting in Garland. I'm just glad that it ended sooner and better than the Paris attack did. But I think they should have had more police, all armed suitably, where these nuts struck. One man with a pistol was enough, but might not have been.
Oh: who recalls the case just a few years ago, also in Texas, where a civilian gun carrier used a .357 Magnum revolver to deal with a man using a rifle who had pinned down a cop? The range was variously reported as being from 80-150 yards.
