Whatever AndrewD thinks, I can say I was trained/taught that bouncing shot was one way to use a shotgun. I was issued a shotgun. Then I had to qualify with it hence the training. We had 12 ga. flechette shells which were not mentioned in the training.

Thanks JJ. Your narrative makes sense and is realistic. Knowing that few policemen are actually armed, I assumed they would be targeted early on. I have never been in the train station so have no idea of the ground. I am also not surprised the armed patrols were short ammunition as that seems to be SOP until a hard lesson is learned. It also explains how the squirters got out.

As a shooter, center mass is the aiming point, not so much of all the plumbing in the torso, but because a slightly off center shot will still produce the knock down.

It is tragic that so many were killed and wounded. The terrorists that prey on unarmed innocents should be shown no mercy on the spot. Survivors should be interrogated and disappeared. They are, as JJ says, monsters.

Did anyone notice that for a time they were saying five terrorists were shot? Later, it was four shot and the victims increased by one. Lots of confusion and I am sure more than a few bullets went astray.

I am very surprised that five terrorists escaped.

Troll Alert! @mm who said it was a good idea to use a shotgun that way? Do read my posts? Either you don't read them or your reading comprehension is severely challenged.

I do agree with you that trying to bounce bullets or shot is a bad idea.

AndrewD: I thought you called him a liar because he would not tell you his sources. However, your sources are your friends. Anyway, I thought you called him a liar about the training issue. My bad.

Now you want to talk about tactics. Cool, but there were no 'innocent bystanders.' As I see it, there were only victims, intended victims and terrorists down range. On average, each terrorist killed or wounded 15 people. So I guess you think the soon to be victims would be huddled close to the guys with long knives waiting patiently for their turn. Oh, perhaps the best thing to do is to call a time out and have the intended victims move to the left and the knife guys move to the right and blow the whistle when you have them all sorted out.

Good plan. Now the shooters can carefully do double taps at center mass, even just try to wing em. Very clean indeed.