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Carcassonne shooting tragedy |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
I am assuming that since the “French Lieutenant” responsible
was a member of a special intervention group he was also a
skilled user of small arms. If this is the case, it is impossible
that what happened was a total accident.
Certainly it was lunatic to have someone firing even
blanks at a civilian crowd – one of the first rules of
gunmanship is you do not point a gun, loaded or unloaded at
anything unless you mean to shoot it!
However, it is unthinkable that a competent gunman could
fire at and wound 17 people without realising it: you hear the
bullets strike with a distinctive sound; you would also see the
targets react. Secondly, a gun firing blanks does not feel like
a gun firing live rounds, there is a subtle difference dictated
by Mr Newton, “every action has a reaction”, the action being
firing a lump of metal as opposed to a puff of gas out of the
gun's muzzle.
I cannot guess what led up to the situation. I can simply
say that it is unthinkable that the gunman did not know what
he was doing.
Name withheld
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