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Training is good and great, but I watched several dozen cops fall apart despite decades of training when they were put up against "a stupid untrained civillian" that actually knew more about guns and shooting than they did. They fell apart so badly that two of them said "I saw the gun as he reached for it/pulled it and I knew I was dead" so they didn't do anything, just stood there and took the shots in the chest. Good thing for them it was paint not lead. One of them retired two weeks later after 28+ years as a LEO. The only two who DIDN'T fall apart was one younger LEO with about 6 years under his belt (he started right after high school), he did everything by the book and came out with a single graze to the arm. The other was a Sgt with 16+ years under his belt. He would have been seriously wounded (if not dead) from the torso shot, BUT he put four rounds in the chest of the "bad guy" (good grouping too). Everybody else to a man (and several women) was toast. Out of hundreds of rounds fired by LEOs that day only nine total rounds hit the bad guy. Only five of those would have been fatal. Of the dozens of rounds fired by the bad guy that day there were no misses, three that would have been serious wounds, and seven that would have given the officers a 50/50 shot at survival with good medical help. The rest would have been fatal.
Training works, but ONLY if you take it seriously, and keep it up. When a trained person goes through training, gets the job, then stops doing anything but going on patrol and drinking coffee for years on end?
Some people are untrainable. Some trainers are useless. Some people train once and figure they are the best they will ever be, or figure they don't need more training. All these situations can be fatal if things go bad.
GoodOlBoy
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"The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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