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teebonicus
(1/22/2015)
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It’s a ridiculous argument, and it hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of passing.
The reason police would be exempt under the law is obvious and belies the inane postulation by the bill’s sponsors. Cops have to shoot at people, not circles, and that acclimation is critical to training for self-defense or the exemption wouldn’t exist. By exempting law enforcement, the sponsors have torpedoed their own argument.
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| Comment by:
Millwright66
(1/22/2015)
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Anyone - LEO or civilian - doesn't "shoot to kill". They shoot to live ! And any device/aid improving their odds of succeeding is beneficial. Any confrontation, (let alone a gun fight), is "high-stress" and repetitious training - made as realistic as possible - is one way to reduce "collateral damage" from missed shots.
These current clique of critics need to first submit to some serious handgun training - including time in the "shoot house" to see, first hand, what life is about. Paper is cheap, but for gun owners/users every shot is dear. They "own" it forever.
And how do you "ban" something anyone can create "on the spot" with minimal materials ? |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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