[jsprogrammer]

Sorry, I'm discussing the nomenclature: "shoot to wound". It sounds like something someone would do as torture. Why shoot to wound someone? To what end? Just to cause them pain?

However, there would seem to be something worth considering in a "shoot to disable" policy, as opposed to a "shoot to kill" policy.

[krapp]

No, call it what it is. I think "shoot to wound" is the correct way to describe it.

"shoot to disable" sounds too abstract, as if guns were something other than machines designed to puncture human flesh with bits of metal, with the express purpose of causing pain, injury and possibly death. Wounding and killing are pretty much the only settings that guns have.

[msandford]

Yeah that makes a lot more sense! Thanks for clarifying.