Post by N on Feb 25, 2009 19:54:43 GMT -5
Martin Bryant, killer or patsy?
It was commented that the kill rate was too high i.e., proportion of wounded to killed.
Joe Vialls, an independent investigator with thirty years direct experience of international military and oil field operations
"Though Australia has tens of thousands of skilled sporting shooters it has very few combat veterans, and even fewer special forces personnel trained to kill large numbers of people quickly in an enclosed space like the Broad Arrow Cafe, which is roughly the same size as mock-up rooms used for practicing the rescue of hostages being held in confined spaces by armed terrorists.
"It is hard to kill quickly under such circumstances for a number of unpleasant reasons, including the fact that shot people tend to fall against other people, shielding the latter from subsequent bullets.
"Targets therefore have to be shot in a careful sequence with split-second timing to maximise kill rates.
"Whoever was on the trigger in Tasmania managed a kill rate well above that required of a fully trained soldier, an impossible task for a man with Martin Bryant's mid-sixties IQ and his total lack of military training, which is an interesting but largely unimportant observation because we have already proved in absolute scientific terms that Bryant could not have acted alone."
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members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/port_arthur.htm
It was commented that the kill rate was too high i.e., proportion of wounded to killed.
Joe Vialls, an independent investigator with thirty years direct experience of international military and oil field operations
"Though Australia has tens of thousands of skilled sporting shooters it has very few combat veterans, and even fewer special forces personnel trained to kill large numbers of people quickly in an enclosed space like the Broad Arrow Cafe, which is roughly the same size as mock-up rooms used for practicing the rescue of hostages being held in confined spaces by armed terrorists.
"It is hard to kill quickly under such circumstances for a number of unpleasant reasons, including the fact that shot people tend to fall against other people, shielding the latter from subsequent bullets.
"Targets therefore have to be shot in a careful sequence with split-second timing to maximise kill rates.
"Whoever was on the trigger in Tasmania managed a kill rate well above that required of a fully trained soldier, an impossible task for a man with Martin Bryant's mid-sixties IQ and his total lack of military training, which is an interesting but largely unimportant observation because we have already proved in absolute scientific terms that Bryant could not have acted alone."
read more here
members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/port_arthur.htm