I was watching Fox Magazine (on the FNC), which was showing some of the more popular stories that aired over the last year. One of the first that was shown was a bit about defense, awareness, etc. in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks (a related article can be found here: FNC Article .
In this piece, Fox reporter Rick Leventhal visited Crucible Security Specialists to learn about such matters. To the credit of the folks at Crucible Security Specialists, the tactics and ideas they presented were very good. However, one thing they did left me conwildered and befused.
To wit, the incident in particular involved the FNC reporter, the CEO of Crucible Security, and two other unidentified chaps sitting at one end of a rather large, open area outdoors. They were seated a few feet away from a dirt embankment, with a target stand directly behind them. The stand rose above them about 4-5 feet and attached to it was one of those plastic/foam human-like target torsos. It was dressed so as to simulate the upper-half of an individual. With the four fellows seated, a sniper and scout, as described by the report, proceeded 'up-range' into a treeline and took up position. Upon the word of the CEO, the sniper fired four rounds at the target, and consequently at the men seated underneath it. From what I could tell, the target was struck twice and there were two misses, from a stated distance of 230 yards.
I could not determine what this had to do with the the rest of the report, as the other parts all dealt with actual self-defense techniques involving hand-to-hand fighting, firearms tactic, and the like. During the "sniping" exhibition, the CEO prodded the reporter to determine the location of the shooter, but that was all that was really spoken about.
That not-withstanding though, how incredibly stupid was this? I'm really aghast that anyone would try a stunt like that, no matter how good the shooter is.
Perhaps someone else saw the show and can clue me in as to something I missed. I understand this report originally aired before the D.C., VA, MD shootings, so it was not a tie-in to that incident.
I guess I'm really dumbfounded by stupidity.
In this piece, Fox reporter Rick Leventhal visited Crucible Security Specialists to learn about such matters. To the credit of the folks at Crucible Security Specialists, the tactics and ideas they presented were very good. However, one thing they did left me conwildered and befused.
To wit, the incident in particular involved the FNC reporter, the CEO of Crucible Security, and two other unidentified chaps sitting at one end of a rather large, open area outdoors. They were seated a few feet away from a dirt embankment, with a target stand directly behind them. The stand rose above them about 4-5 feet and attached to it was one of those plastic/foam human-like target torsos. It was dressed so as to simulate the upper-half of an individual. With the four fellows seated, a sniper and scout, as described by the report, proceeded 'up-range' into a treeline and took up position. Upon the word of the CEO, the sniper fired four rounds at the target, and consequently at the men seated underneath it. From what I could tell, the target was struck twice and there were two misses, from a stated distance of 230 yards.
I could not determine what this had to do with the the rest of the report, as the other parts all dealt with actual self-defense techniques involving hand-to-hand fighting, firearms tactic, and the like. During the "sniping" exhibition, the CEO prodded the reporter to determine the location of the shooter, but that was all that was really spoken about.
That not-withstanding though, how incredibly stupid was this? I'm really aghast that anyone would try a stunt like that, no matter how good the shooter is.
Perhaps someone else saw the show and can clue me in as to something I missed. I understand this report originally aired before the D.C., VA, MD shootings, so it was not a tie-in to that incident.
I guess I'm really dumbfounded by stupidity.
