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"Cops Win Gunfights Because They Show Up With Lots of Cops"
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"This morning, I read Paul Markel's column for officer.com: Firearms Training Sanity Check; Why do we train the way we do? The answer: 'Rather than examine or address any deficiencies in the curriculum or training program, it's much easier to simply state, that's [the] way we've always done it. Well that’s great. We used to bore holes in people’s head to let the demons out. I'm sorry folks but we've always done it like that is a crutch. ...' Yes, well, what’s wrong with 'it'? How should police be training? Markel's article pulled more punches than a paid-off prizefighter. So I rang him up, expecting some carefully couched criticism. Nope. He let police firearms training standards have it, both barrels . . ." ... |
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