Posted on 10/28/2002 5:47:08 AM PST by SJackson
Now, I like Marines as much as the next guy, but to compare their jobs with those of law enforcement officers is absurd. I can't vouch for whether Jeff Cooper's rules (three of the four, anyhow) constitute current USMC training doctrine, but even if they do holding a suspect at gunpoint is rather a different matter from killing commies.
Lew Rockwell needs to have a gun writer if he's going to essay into these areas.
No wonder that 'radical' has been flipped on it's head to imply anti-establishment or anti-status quo. Oh the irony! For, the status-quo establishment is anti-root of the primary source.
I also wonder sometimes, if the word 'conservative' is the wrong word for us. I don't want to 'conserve' the status quo. I'd rather 'radically' revert things back to the original Constitution.
The rules are different in live fire environments. There a punch is NOT physical abuse, but a well-earned reprimand that is far less cruel than the potential results from an AD.
A live fire session or range is not a place to play Mr. Rogers with the trainees.
Because of where I live, probably my first answer would be "Fisherman".
But I would expect cops have higher suicide and divorce and heart attack rates... At least from what I have personally seen.
Not at all. But glaring errors on one aspect of an article create doubt about the rest of the writing. E.g., Ann Coulter is no expert on guns, but can write articles concerning gun control without making stupid mistakes - she doesn't pretend to know things about which she knows nothing.
MR The cop is pointing his weapon at a citizen who might be a violent criminal in an attempt not to have to shoot him.
I agree there's lots of mistakes in the article, and in a sense he fails to drive home his point.
These people AREN'T suspects. That red car is at a roadblock, what is that LEO doing? There's no suspect here, unless there's a perp under the shell, and the driver is free to fire. As xsrdx correctly points out, he's using a flashlight to look under the shell. Like a deer hunter looking for his pals through his scope, safety on of course.
Best case a complete disregard of gun safety procedures, worst cast contempt for those motorists at the roadblock he's "protecting".
If I pointed a weapon at someone as much as cops do these days, I'd be in jail.
If you point a gun at a cop, one or both of you will be shot. Fortunately local police, especially non-city police are the most conscientious. The State and Federal police are the worst. For most people when a citizen points a gun at them they'll report the incident to the police. Yet when a police officer is the one pointing the gun I think almost no one reports the incident to the police headquarters. I think most law enforcement agencies require the officer to file a report when he or she un-holsters their gun in the process of detaining a person.
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