Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:05:31 -0700
IF FED STATE COUNTY CITY ELECTED APPOINTED HIRED BUREAUCRATICS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES - HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT YOU ??? ......... ANSWER IS NONE !!!
Texas legislator Dr. Suzanne Gratia-Hupp said, "How a politician (or really anyone !!!) stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual. as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
Dr Suzanna Hupp SPEAKING BEFORE THE U.S. CONGRESS IN WDC
From John Farnam:
16 Feb 11
"... the world's gone mad today,
and good's bad today,
and day's night today,
and wrong's right today,
and all the guys today,
who women prize today,
are just silly gigolos"
Composed by Cole Porter, for the 1934 Musical, "Anything Goes"
In 1970, when I became an LEO, a five-shot snubby revolver was considered adequate for concealed carry. Actually, it probably was no more "adequate" then than now, but we naively went forward, not realizing the dangerous direction in which world history was taking us.
In fact, in the black-and-white TV era, I remember watching NYPD Chief "Peter Clifford" (played by JD Cannon) lecturing displaced NM police officer Sam McCloud (played by Dennis Weaver of "Gunsmoke" fame) about the impropriety of carrying his (McCloud's) 45Colt SAA in NY City!
"This is all you need... ," screeched the Chief, as he waived his own S&W M36 in the air.
On a different channel (also black-and-white), Defective Sgt Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb) and his loveable partner, Bill Gannon (played by Harry Morgan), on the Dragnet Series, both carried S&W snubbies also. I ever wished I could be as clever and articulate as Sgt Friday!
Today, S&W still sells lots of five-shot, snubby revolvers, but most of us consider them suitable only for back-up. Most of us now, even for routine concealed carry, want a high-capacity autoloader, and at least one spare magazine, all fully-charged with high-performance, controlled-expansion ammunition that represents a quantum leap forward, with regard to terminal performance, over what was the accepted norm just a few decades ago.
I even remember when "hollow-point" pistol ammunition was piously banned within many police departments, particularly big, metro areas. I also remember it becoming incrementally, ever so slowly, accepted for regular police service. NYC was one of the last departments to go over.
Today, "hardball" ammunition is considered acceptable only for practice.
This all happened within a single LEO career!
The real question is, "Are our policies and procedures keeping pace with our technological advances and with the precipitous decline of our civilization?"
Our officers, imitating what they see on TV, are, even today, endlessly command gun-wielding felons to "drop your gun," as the felon points his gun at officers multiple times! When the felon ultimately surrenders without further incident, the naive officer gets congratulated, instead of fired, as he should be!
Today, during an LEO Class here in CO, when asked why they carry a gun, most officers in attendance had no answer, other than "... because they make me." When asked why "qualification" was important, most responded that it was important only because passing is required for them to keep their jobs.
We, for the most part, got away with attitudes like that in the 1970s. We lived through it, through no fault of our own!
Those idyllic days are gone forever! Today, alertness, incisiveness, surgical skill, and, yes, even ruthlessness will be required of all of us, in spades!
If you're not willing to face the challenge squarely, get out now.
"The battle has begun, gentlemen. It's too late to change our dispositions!"
Confederate General Albert S Johnston, at the dawn of the Battle of Shiloh, TN, 6 Apr 1862
/John
(To pick nits, I believe that Sgt. Joe Friday actually carried Colt revolvers in Dragnet, usually the two-inch, six-shot Detective Special. Getting back to five-shot revolvers, for many it’s a case of fact being the greatest enemy of theory – lots of us carry them. So long as you do not envision the need to use them outside your own window of ability with them, I see nothing wrong with them, so long as you carry more than one. In the immortal words of another fictional cop, Inspector Harry Callahan, “A good man knows his limitations.” Personally, I’d rather carry ten rounds in a pair of revolvers, keeping one accessible to each hand, than to carry 15 rounds in a single pistol. If your lifestyle places you at risk for confronting several assailants simultaneously or of encountering rifle-armed jihadists, you may do well to relegate the snubnose revolver to a backup role and learn to dress around something bigger.)
17 Feb 11
This clarification from a friend in the Federal System:
"When a gun-wielding VCA is pointing his weapon at you, you need to be shooting, not 'commanding,' 'pleading,' 'begging,' nor 'reasoning!' Such inappropriate verbalizations make surpassing, tear-jerking television drama, but they represent miserable, indeed suicidal, individual tactics!
According to Tennessee v. Garner, rendered by the US Supreme Court in 1985, 'verbal warnings' are only required 'when feasible.'"
Comment: I'm sure this VCA, in threatening you with a lethal weapon, is only "crying-out for help," and I'm confident his threatening behavior is solely due to the fact that his mother didn't breast-feed him as an infant, his underwear are too tight, he received insufficient youth-counseling, ad nauseam.
Of all those who put forward these laughable arguments, none have ever worn a uniform, been directly threatened, nor fired a shot in anger in their entire, sheltered lives!
Their pampered fannies are not threatened. Yours is! When you're not prepared, and eminently willing, to decisively terminate threatening behavior with gunfire, you need to get out of this business... while you still can!
/John
(Those of you who have read my book may recognize the name of LAPD officer Stacy Lim, who fatally shot the gangbanger who had just shot her in the chest. Many years ago, I heard Stacy describe the incident in person and could not help thinking that had she simply raised her pistol and fired at the man already pointing a revolver at her, rather than verbally identifying herself as a police officer, she would likely not have gone through the experience of being brought back from clinical death twice.)
19 Feb 11
These sage comments about TV "Cop Shows," from a renowned trainer:
"When training LEOs, both recruits and experienced, I ask them: 'You are behind cover and involved in a shootout with a single VCA. You fire several shots, and he goes down. What do you do next?'
The most common TV-inspired response is, '... immediately break cover, approach him, kick his gun away, and then check his condition.'
We all take a breath, and then discuss why and when one would ever break cover in such a situation, and how naive script-writers are infinitely more interested in fabricated drama, and ratings, than they will ever be in the survival of real police officers.
Teaching officers what actions are in their best interests and are likely to prolong their lives, rather than place them in mortal danger, is a formidable task, as you can see! I need to overwrite all programming done by years of watching fictitious 'cop shows.'
My second challenge is testifying in front of grand juries regarding the actions of bona-fide police in life-and-death situations. Non-police, serving on juries, have spent a lifetime in front of those same TV sets, watching the same sewage! In a short time, I must assist them in understanding that their perception of lethal encounters is entirely inaccurate and based upon manufactured fantasy, not reality. Loosely translated, I must persuade them that virtually everything they 'know' about this business, is wrong!
When I am unsuccessful, a competent and courageous officer will face years of litigation for only doing what was moral, right, good, and true... for not choosing to commit suicide!
All martial arts skills, armed and otherwise, no matter how refined, mean little when the individual officer does not have personal victory as his primary motivation each time he confronts dangerous situations and individuals.
"
Comment: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand
"Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth
Cursed be the social ties that warp us from the living Truth
Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule
Curse be the gold that gilds the straightened forehead of the fool!"
Tennyson
Cursed indeed!
/John
(I no longer have a window to current NYPD training doctrine but I know that there was a time when NYPD officers were trained not to approach a suspect whom they had just shot. Rather, because of their emotional involvement, they were to provide cover while another officer, albeit a later responder, made the approach. I see no reason why this policy should have been changed and teach my own students no differently.)
20 Feb 11
Unarmed in Mexico, or "Nothing is too good for our men!"
It has just been confirmed that the two American ICE Special Agents, who were ambushed last week in Mexico by members of a local drug cartel, were both unarmed!
One agent was killed. The other badly injured, sustaining multiple gunshot wounds.
American law enforcement agents assigned to Mexico are apparently all unarmed, as a matter of policy!
All such US agents in Mexico are there on diplomatic passports, so they could be armed. But, those up the food-chain, safe and sound back in the plush, heavily-guarded offices within CONUS, have insured that their agents operating in Mexico are completely defenseless, as a matter of "policy."
I wonder whose job it is to inform widows and orphans about this "policy!"
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is itself hypocrisy!"
16 Feb 11
"... the world's gone mad today,
and good's bad today,
and day's night today,
and wrong's right today,
and all the guys today,
who women prize today,
are just silly gigolos"
Composed by Cole Porter, for the 1934 Musical, "Anything Goes"
In 1970, when I became an LEO, a five-shot snubby revolver was considered adequate for concealed carry. Actually, it probably was no more "adequate" then than now, but we naively went forward, not realizing the dangerous direction in which world history was taking us.
In fact, in the black-and-white TV era, I remember watching NYPD Chief "Peter Clifford" (played by JD Cannon) lecturing displaced NM police officer Sam McCloud (played by Dennis Weaver of "Gunsmoke" fame) about the impropriety of carrying his (McCloud's) 45Colt SAA in NY City!
"This is all you need... ," screeched the Chief, as he waived his own S&W M36 in the air.
On a different channel (also black-and-white), Defective Sgt Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb) and his loveable partner, Bill Gannon (played by Harry Morgan), on the Dragnet Series, both carried S&W snubbies also. I ever wished I could be as clever and articulate as Sgt Friday!
Today, S&W still sells lots of five-shot, snubby revolvers, but most of us consider them suitable only for back-up. Most of us now, even for routine concealed carry, want a high-capacity autoloader, and at least one spare magazine, all fully-charged with high-performance, controlled-expansion ammunition that represents a quantum leap forward, with regard to terminal performance, over what was the accepted norm just a few decades ago.
I even remember when "hollow-point" pistol ammunition was piously banned within many police departments, particularly big, metro areas. I also remember it becoming incrementally, ever so slowly, accepted for regular police service. NYC was one of the last departments to go over.
Today, "hardball" ammunition is considered acceptable only for practice.
This all happened within a single LEO career!
The real question is, "Are our policies and procedures keeping pace with our technological advances and with the precipitous decline of our civilization?"
Our officers, imitating what they see on TV, are, even today, endlessly command gun-wielding felons to "drop your gun," as the felon points his gun at officers multiple times! When the felon ultimately surrenders without further incident, the naive officer gets congratulated, instead of fired, as he should be!
Today, during an LEO Class here in CO, when asked why they carry a gun, most officers in attendance had no answer, other than "... because they make me." When asked why "qualification" was important, most responded that it was important only because passing is required for them to keep their jobs.
We, for the most part, got away with attitudes like that in the 1970s. We lived through it, through no fault of our own!
Those idyllic days are gone forever! Today, alertness, incisiveness, surgical skill, and, yes, even ruthlessness will be required of all of us, in spades!
If you're not willing to face the challenge squarely, get out now.
"The battle has begun, gentlemen. It's too late to change our dispositions!"
Confederate General Albert S Johnston, at the dawn of the Battle of Shiloh, TN, 6 Apr 1862
/John
(To pick nits, I believe that Sgt. Joe Friday actually carried Colt revolvers in Dragnet, usually the two-inch, six-shot Detective Special. Getting back to five-shot revolvers, for many it’s a case of fact being the greatest enemy of theory – lots of us carry them. So long as you do not envision the need to use them outside your own window of ability with them, I see nothing wrong with them, so long as you carry more than one. In the immortal words of another fictional cop, Inspector Harry Callahan, “A good man knows his limitations.” Personally, I’d rather carry ten rounds in a pair of revolvers, keeping one accessible to each hand, than to carry 15 rounds in a single pistol. If your lifestyle places you at risk for confronting several assailants simultaneously or of encountering rifle-armed jihadists, you may do well to relegate the snubnose revolver to a backup role and learn to dress around something bigger.)
17 Feb 11
This clarification from a friend in the Federal System:
"When a gun-wielding VCA is pointing his weapon at you, you need to be shooting, not 'commanding,' 'pleading,' 'begging,' nor 'reasoning!' Such inappropriate verbalizations make surpassing, tear-jerking television drama, but they represent miserable, indeed suicidal, individual tactics!
According to Tennessee v. Garner, rendered by the US Supreme Court in 1985, 'verbal warnings' are only required 'when feasible.'"
Comment: I'm sure this VCA, in threatening you with a lethal weapon, is only "crying-out for help," and I'm confident his threatening behavior is solely due to the fact that his mother didn't breast-feed him as an infant, his underwear are too tight, he received insufficient youth-counseling, ad nauseam.
Of all those who put forward these laughable arguments, none have ever worn a uniform, been directly threatened, nor fired a shot in anger in their entire, sheltered lives!
Their pampered fannies are not threatened. Yours is! When you're not prepared, and eminently willing, to decisively terminate threatening behavior with gunfire, you need to get out of this business... while you still can!
/John
(Those of you who have read my book may recognize the name of LAPD officer Stacy Lim, who fatally shot the gangbanger who had just shot her in the chest. Many years ago, I heard Stacy describe the incident in person and could not help thinking that had she simply raised her pistol and fired at the man already pointing a revolver at her, rather than verbally identifying herself as a police officer, she would likely not have gone through the experience of being brought back from clinical death twice.)
19 Feb 11
These sage comments about TV "Cop Shows," from a renowned trainer:
"When training LEOs, both recruits and experienced, I ask them: 'You are behind cover and involved in a shootout with a single VCA. You fire several shots, and he goes down. What do you do next?'
The most common TV-inspired response is, '... immediately break cover, approach him, kick his gun away, and then check his condition.'
We all take a breath, and then discuss why and when one would ever break cover in such a situation, and how naive script-writers are infinitely more interested in fabricated drama, and ratings, than they will ever be in the survival of real police officers.
Teaching officers what actions are in their best interests and are likely to prolong their lives, rather than place them in mortal danger, is a formidable task, as you can see! I need to overwrite all programming done by years of watching fictitious 'cop shows.'
My second challenge is testifying in front of grand juries regarding the actions of bona-fide police in life-and-death situations. Non-police, serving on juries, have spent a lifetime in front of those same TV sets, watching the same sewage! In a short time, I must assist them in understanding that their perception of lethal encounters is entirely inaccurate and based upon manufactured fantasy, not reality. Loosely translated, I must persuade them that virtually everything they 'know' about this business, is wrong!
When I am unsuccessful, a competent and courageous officer will face years of litigation for only doing what was moral, right, good, and true... for not choosing to commit suicide!
All martial arts skills, armed and otherwise, no matter how refined, mean little when the individual officer does not have personal victory as his primary motivation each time he confronts dangerous situations and individuals.
"
Comment: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand
"Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth
Cursed be the social ties that warp us from the living Truth
Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule
Curse be the gold that gilds the straightened forehead of the fool!"
Tennyson
Cursed indeed!
/John
(I no longer have a window to current NYPD training doctrine but I know that there was a time when NYPD officers were trained not to approach a suspect whom they had just shot. Rather, because of their emotional involvement, they were to provide cover while another officer, albeit a later responder, made the approach. I see no reason why this policy should have been changed and teach my own students no differently.)
20 Feb 11
Unarmed in Mexico, or "Nothing is too good for our men!"
It has just been confirmed that the two American ICE Special Agents, who were ambushed last week in Mexico by members of a local drug cartel, were both unarmed!
One agent was killed. The other badly injured, sustaining multiple gunshot wounds.
American law enforcement agents assigned to Mexico are apparently all unarmed, as a matter of policy!
All such US agents in Mexico are there on diplomatic passports, so they could be armed. But, those up the food-chain, safe and sound back in the plush, heavily-guarded offices within CONUS, have insured that their agents operating in Mexico are completely defenseless, as a matter of "policy."
I wonder whose job it is to inform widows and orphans about this "policy!"
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is itself hypocrisy!"
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