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To: George Varnum
Previous thread.

Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice?

It's kind of funny that they put up an explanation/apology for their "No More Hesitation Targets" if they didn't/don't sell them. It's right there on the page you linked to.

"The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served."

35 posted on 02/22/2013 12:52:48 AM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: TigersEye; Alaska Wolf

Don’t tell Alaska Wolf, he’ll just tell you it’s normal for an LEO supplier to defend doing something they weren’t doing rather than admit they were punked...


39 posted on 02/22/2013 1:10:34 AM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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