Bernhard Goetz Quotes
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
Goetz, Bernhard. Interview by Larry King. Larry King Live, CNN, 17 Dec. 2004.
The great cowboy gunslinger was much a myth in that the few that were very good shots became legends. The best shots in America generally were the hunters of small game like Annie Oakley and the military and sportsmen who studied the gun and practiced endlessly. Almost all were in the Midwest and East. In the case of Oakley, she learned to shoot small game for food in rural Ohio. Her first shooting contest was not on the frontier but in the big city of Cincinnati.
The 1984 New York City Subway shooting took place on December 22, 1984, when four teenagers, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur, were shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan.
