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Police Armed Response Forum Thread, Less than Lethal in Close Protection World Area; Halo, the TASER in a 12 gauge is a reality. The range is 100 yards and will incapacitate a subject ...
Halo, the TASER in a 12 gauge is a reality. The range is 100 yards and will incapacitate a subject for around twenty seconds, which is considered sufficient time for the officers to close down and restrain the subject. It is also possible to have a bank of TASERs as "area denial". God bless America!
Sentinel:
I agree with you on the matter of arming certain police officers, and the idea to arm all police officers is not a good one, as they could end up looking like social workers with guns. The police firearm is issued for one reason only, and that is, as a final option tool to protect life from death or grievous bodily harm. Within the human mind set, it is un-natural act to take another human life, BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS!
The general public perception of firearms is what they have seen in the movies/TV, were one shot kills a person. In reality, unless you are a sniper/marksman, or lucky/unlucky (Depending on if you’re the person being shot) or in the movies/TV media, one shot kills are not realistic, due to a multiple of reasons, one is the physiology of the human body, another is the terminal ballistics of the ammunition, to name just 2 items. A good example is the 1986 April Shoot out in Florida between the FBI and Platt & Matix, after Platt was hit by 12 rounds and Matix by 6 they eventually succumbed to their ballistic injuries. Remember a firearm is a tool, like a screw driver, hammer, which has to be mastered, in the right hands it can be for the greater good, but in the wrong hands, well we know that story… Not everyone is comfortable with firearms for various reasons, therefore it should be up to the individual on whether they carry a firearm, or be given an alternative form of defensive tool, such as the TASER.
What does concern me is you mentioned 3 days training! As a Firearms instructor who trains Law Enforcement (LE) in North America, I can assure you that 3 days training will be insufficient training time for any armed professional. It is a general agreement amongst the members of the International Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) the minimum basic training time should 40 hour or one week, after which the consensus on minimum annual firearms training time, gets fuzzy… Some organisations make the requirement of 16 hours firearms training per year, while others recommend once every 4 months a total of 24 hour per year, and some smaller groups recommend a monthly re-qualification. At the end of the day an individuals firearms skill is a time degradable skill, if they don’t practice at it, on a regular basis, it will degrade.
i agree. a firearm is a tremendous responsibility, and a lot of the people i know who carry one are under qualified or do not practice enough to maintain proficiency.
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