What if an IPSC guy goes crazy?

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Originally Posted by Excalibur

Point taken about the first situation. But I have read many articles about how cops can be taken surprised by a lone gunman. A really good gunman that can shoot faster than a cop drawing his pistol is a scary notion. If he's a psychopath, returning fire wouldn't phase him. To him, they'd just be moving targets.

Granted a skilled competition shooter will be more likely to kill the first guy, but after that the police wouldn't be sending in one or two guys at a time with holstered pistols. There would be dozens of SWAT guys going after him with heavy body armour and assault rifles, with stuff like ballistic shields and sniper rifles which has no analogue to IPSC and is something he would be totally incapable of dealing with. Shooting people who are moving, ducking in and out of cover, coming from any direction and can engages you effectively from a couple of hundred meters out is a lot different to shooting stationary targets along a predicted course of fire within ten or so meters.