[rktman]

Train at Frontsight? Hehehehehe!

[barmag25]

Try adding this one to the arsenal,

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Just a thought

[BBell]

My Dad told me that when he was in Spain during the Franco years the police carried sub machine guns and that it was a very clean and orderly Country with a low crime rate.

[Redcitizen]

Hey Europe, now you see why we’re bitter clingers?

[Billthedrill]

"We don't want necessarily the arms that American police have. We need weapons that can respond," said Philippe Capon of French police union UNSA.

A police uniform is a target. That can't be helped. What can be helped is not sending a guy into a gunfight with a billy club and a whistle.

But here's the real issue: there are more citizens than cops. If they are armed citizens, terrorist punks can't count on a weapons-free killing zone. And that makes it safer for the cops as well. If you think of armed citizens as nothing but a threat you're a damned fool.

[Veto!]

“Unarmed” and “Law Enforcement Officer” don’t really fit into the same sentence. What is the officer supposed to enforce the law WITH?

[MasterGunner01]

If the Europeans decide to rearm their police, then I hope they do a lot of marksmanship training. Here's an interesting contribution from Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, Vol. 1, No. 9 (September 1993):

“Family member Dr. Werner Weissenhofer reports from Vienna. It seems that a felon armed with a .357 revolver robbed a bank. As he left the bank, he was accosted by a policeman whom he murdered with one shot. Great excitement ensued, with the felon taking hostages and racing madly around from one store to another. When the forces of law and order had been mobilized and surrounded the goblin, a policeman volunteered to trade himself to the goblin for two hostages. This offer was accepted, at which time the felon fired at the policeman and seriously wounded him. The forces of law and order opened up with everything they had, which was mostly AUG and Glock fire. Shortly, the goblin killed himself with one round. He had fired three times and achieved three hits. The police, according to their official report, fired 1,261 rounds without drawing blood.

At one time, we used to refer to an event of this sort as a “Chinese Fire Drill.” Later we came to call if “Father's Day in Harlem.” After the interment of the Ayatollah Khomeini, we began to call it “An Iranian Funeral.” Now, I guess we can call it “A Viennese Bank Robbery.”

As I have often stated, if someone wants to shoot at me, I sure hope he does it on full-auto.”

[Travis McGee]

[BuffaloJack]

European police = inadequately armed
American police = over armed and very dangerous

[VTenigma]

Buncha rocket surgeons there.