With regard to former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper’s chilling account that then-President Trump wanted troops confronting protestors in Lafayette Park to “shoot them in the legs”, I’d love to hear someone ask the follow up question whether Trump understood that people would fall & get hit in torso.
The idea that you can shoot someone with only minor damage is a TV/movie created fantasy. What's more, an FBI agent told me they were trained to aim for the torso, the largest target. If you draw your gun, you better mean to take someone down. A gun is not a toy or a prop.
While the rest of the movie was Crash-level Hollywood pontification, the gun shot scene of Grand Canyon was a great corrective to Hollywood’s ongoing canard that “tough guys” can just grit their teeth through gun shot wounds.
