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From: "Rhino" <no_offline_contact_ple...@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Castle - Probable Cause
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:57:04 -0400
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"JRStern" <JRSt...@foobar.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I turn off pretty much any show with super-criminals, but come on
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I agree that super-criminals are hard to accept as plausible but I think my 
biggest peeve with the episode was the gunfight between Castle and the 
killer.

I know that police officers are taught to shoot for center mass, meaning the 
torso, so it makes some sense that Beckett put several rounds into his 
chest. It was not completely unbelievable that the killer then got up 
unscathed because he was wearing Kevlar. (Mind you, many cop shows I've seen 
indicate that even one round in the Kevlar still translates into a very hard 
hit that can still knock you over and take the wind out of you. You would 
think that six such shots would at least stun someone for a while and 
probably do much worse, like breaking ribs.)

What was totally NON-credible was that Castle then put another half dozen 
rounds in the killer's chest even though they'd just seen ample evidence 
that he was wearing Kevlar. It seems blindingly obvious to me that Castle 
should have taken at least one head shot and preferably several more since 
they knew the chest shots wouldn't drop him.

Or he could have shot him in the legs to make him fall. That was the 
technique used in the famous LA bank robbery at Northridge when police were 
facing off with the surviving robber who was wearing Kevlar over just about 
every part of his body except his feet: one of the SWAT officers shot him in 
the foot to bring him down. Then they disarmed him and he bled out before 
the ambulance arrived.

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Rhino