Speaking of hitting what you shoot at, late last week a cop went to shoot a dog that he said was menacing him, he missed and killed a woman instead.
Shooting under stress is hard. I worked for a large police department back in the '90s doing IT for nine years and spend a lot of time with the firearms guys, got a taste for their training. Shooting people is hard. A number of cops quit their job after having to shoot and kill a person. One sobering non-graphic story that I witnessed was I was at the academy and went in to the firearms "shack". There's a classroom to the right as you enter, and normally if there's anyone in it, it's full of buff and fit young people - recruits. This time it was all people in their 40s and 50s. I found the Sgt and asked him what was up.
The entire class had failed their annual firearms qualification and were retraining. The reason they failed? They'd all shot someone in the line of duty.
Contrary to Rick Santorum and all the other idiots that there are too many "soft targets" and getting everyone armed is the solution, it isn't the solution. If the problem was a soft target, why did the El Paso shooter drive 650 miles? I guarantee you plenty of soft targets in his neck of the woods or much closer. He specifically targeted El Paso because it's in the news and next to the border.
I can't wait for Black Friday. How many soft targets then.
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Date: 2019-08-05 02:47 pm (UTC)Shooting under stress is hard. I worked for a large police department back in the '90s doing IT for nine years and spend a lot of time with the firearms guys, got a taste for their training. Shooting people is hard. A number of cops quit their job after having to shoot and kill a person. One sobering non-graphic story that I witnessed was I was at the academy and went in to the firearms "shack". There's a classroom to the right as you enter, and normally if there's anyone in it, it's full of buff and fit young people - recruits. This time it was all people in their 40s and 50s. I found the Sgt and asked him what was up.
The entire class had failed their annual firearms qualification and were retraining. The reason they failed? They'd all shot someone in the line of duty.
Contrary to Rick Santorum and all the other idiots that there are too many "soft targets" and getting everyone armed is the solution, it isn't the solution. If the problem was a soft target, why did the El Paso shooter drive 650 miles? I guarantee you plenty of soft targets in his neck of the woods or much closer. He specifically targeted El Paso because it's in the news and next to the border.
I can't wait for Black Friday. How many soft targets then.