One is how the police are so well trained. The annual or semi-annual qualification. In fact, me and the boys were at an indoor range just last week and there were 4 local (3 guys and a female) police in there doing their annual. It consisted of about 20 rounds fired at a paper target 15-20ft away. Single handed, two-handed, I don't know the gory details but I could hear the guy with the cards telling them what to do next. All of them were more interested in talking to my 10 and 12 year-old boys who were shooting the CX-4 (One even talked me into letting him shoot it). All real nice folks, they were fun. But to somehow think that doing this twice a year after the training they had 25 years ago will somehow make them experts is ludicrous. Real police training is the social experience they gain through years of dealing with the dregs of society, and these anti-gunners think it's actual training that somehow makes them more capable than me or you. these are just people hoping to God they never have to shoot someone.. just like you and I. The real difference is the hell a cop has to go through if he is actually unfortunate enough to have to put down some lunatic with his weapon... or even pull the trigger and not hit anything. Hall fire rains down on the poor bastards when it happens, it's not fun by any stretch of the imagination.
I guess the other thing I take away is the main argument regarding ex-military. I only hire veterans as a personal policy, even if I have to wait for months looking for one who is qualified. But I have one, in particular, working for me that is a hopeless libtard. He's annoying as hell sometimes. I like the guy, he's smart enough, and I get along with him well, but he's one of those who thinks Bush is the devil and everything evil flows from his time as President. He isn't real outspoken about it because he's a lone wolf in our offices (hell, most of my guys carry concealed at work), but it slips out often enough. He's all anti-gun and thinks people who carry are insane, delusional and paranoid. Little does he know that he is literally surrounded, every minute of every day, but guys carrying concealed (against company policy, I might add). Every single person in my 14 man (and woman) IT department carries concealed except for him. So, next time you call the IT department to get your mouse fixed, think about what's strapped to the guys ankle. We don't pay much attention to a single ex-artillery guy with misdirected political issues. the big joke is "if he only knew". hehehe
It might send him into a PTSD coma if he were to find out. Not to mention if the others are carrying against company policy things could get sticky. So to speak. I guess there are plenty of ex-mils that are of the lib variety and I’ve known a few who are. Head scratcher to me.
Daily Kos is run by an former artilleryman (although an MLRS so technically he did rockets). Although Fort Sill is not an indoctrination center my gut feeling after two six month stints there is that most of the men who leave there are not especially liberal.
A couple of "victims" who go to the range once or twice a month could easily be better equipped to counter their murderous intentions than the murderers are to carry them out.