One Degree wrote:I never said anything was 'right' about this. As I said in an earlier post, the shots through the door would only be the result of extreme panic. I was simply trying to explain why this type of panic should not be unexpected in police officers.
No, "panic" should be unexpected in police officers, if they are trained properly. Everyone who chooses to become a police officer knows it's a dangerous job. Jumpy, trigger-happy idiots like this prat should be weeded out as early in the process as possible.
One Degree wrote:Very few police officers in the US ever fire their weapons.
I'm sure that's very comforting to the 1,000 or so who are killed by the police every year.
One Degree wrote:The kind of calm and professionalism you are asking for could only be acquired by a person who had already been in the situation many times before. Someone who had already shot people could do it. Police officers, who have never fired their weapon, can not learn this type of discipline from simple training.
Hang on - the only way you can learn the discipline required to
not shoot someone is if you've already shot someone?
If police officers cannot be trusted to use their weapons responsibly, they are either not being trained properly, or should not be carrying weapons in the first place. Of course, since I wasn't raised with America's insane culture of gun worship and authority worship, my preference is for the latter.
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