So what? It's a training tool. The aversion to killing a fellow human is incredible and at a very primal level. For instance approximately 15% of soldiers in WWII shot to kill and by Vietnam the number was as high as 90%. This is due to training, conditioning the soldiers to kill.
Officers are typically poorly training in gunfighting, the level of shots fired to hits is pitifully low. I have no problem training officers with the best and latest technology & psychology available.
Please tell me this is sarcasm. I find this article very disturbing.
No, not sarcasm. Just saw several of the pics in CHL refresher yesterday.
It's about training / survival.
BTW: no A Jones fan here either
Please tell me this is sarcasm. I find this article very disturbing.
This is about desensitising, not training.
Ignore who the story is from..
The only thing here that has me creeped out is the fact that one of the targets is a pregnant woman... Desensitizing or not, that's taking things a bit too far in my mind.
Can't wait till over-eager cops display "No more hesitation" to shoot little kids with airsoft guns.
I guess the mentality is that hesitation gets people killed? Well so does mindless instant reaction.
Can't wait till over-eager cops display "No more hesitation" to shoot little kids with airsoft guns.
I guess the mentality is that hesitation gets people killed? Well so does mindless instant reaction.
That kind of shit already happens. I remember hearing something last year about some kid who brought a CO[SUP]2[/SUP]-powered BB gun into school and wound up getting shot when he aimed it at a cop. That's why it's federal law that all airsot guns have at -least- a 1/4 inch blaze-orange section at the muzzle.
How old was said kid? What did the BB gun look like? I had one as a kid that looked just like a 1911, especially when pointed at you. Would YOU not use deadly force in response to someone pointing what appeared to be a 1911 at you? Remember, you have a fraction of a second to decide.