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the nonsense about bad luck and the police incomptency.

posted 10 years ago by Ramuna
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C'mon, that police Robert was not a first timer with gun, he was doing so good in the shooting lane, the space between tire and rear window was so distance. So to sum it all it was no way he shot the girl accidentally. I would say he get too carried away of how fine he usually did in the shooting lane and then took the matter into his own interest. And his own defense was the girl shouldn't be there in the first place was really lame.

I can't believe he was not being suspended by the force and the matter was brought into further investigation by the internal affair after the incident, but then again it might be also the police incompetency we are being shown. I mean if we think again after the car was found in the forest, why is there no further investigation? Isn't it the standard procedure for the police to do a search/investigation to a certain radius miles around. And with Alex and his grandpa who lives around could avoid at least some sort of questioning from the local police explained something.

[–] One-Eyed_Jack 8 years ago

C'mon, that police Robert was not a first timer with gun, he was doing so good in the shooting lane, the space between tire and rear window was so distance. So to sum it all it was no way he shot the girl accidentally.

This was explained in the shooting range scene. We see that Robert has a good grouping in the center of the target's chest, but his superior calls him out on one of his shots which hit the target in the lower abdomen, about a foot from the grouping in the chest. His superior tells him that he fired too fast on that shot and that's why he hit the target so low.

So the purpose of that scene is to show that though Robert is a fine shot, he messes up when he gets too excited and moves too fast instead of focusing on his target, therefore it is completely plausible that in a real life situation in which he has to use his firearm that the excitement and the adrenaline would cause him to miss the tires and accidentally shoot the woman.