Study Confirms: Keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch
In his first study, 33 male and 13 female officers of different ranks and years of service, were sent into a room to arrest a “suspect” and to “act in a way they thought appropriate” while doing so. The officers were armed with a SIG-Sauer P226 that was rigged with force sensors on the trigger and grip. All the officers were instructed that if they drew the gun during the exercise, they were to keep their finger off the trigger unless they had made the decision to shoot, per their training and department regs.
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December 21st, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Human physiology. I wish more people understood this. In tense situations people tense up. You may have an unpleasant and tragic outcome. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you have to kill.