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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (58678)3/1/2018 3:33:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 363154
 
After listening nonstop about the praise of "first-responders"

In this conversation I have neither praised nor condemned them.

now you say that the gun packing first grade teacher is better than the trained police

I never said or implied any such thing. I said that the fact the that resource officer didn't intervene was an argument against relying on them not an argument for relying on them. Not relying just on them doesn't indicate that they are worse or anyone else is better.

That having it been said it is possible for the first grade (or HS or whatever) teacher to be better in at least two ways.

1 - They are on the scene. Its the old "when seconds count the cops are only minutes away" issue. Yes many schools have resource officers, but even then they might not be right on the scene and they may choose not to intervene at all.

2 - Many police departments skimp on weapons training *. Yes a cop in such a force can go out and train on his own time and with his own ammo, but so can the teacher. Yes on the average a cop is going to be better dealing with an armed confrontation than a teacher, but a teacher that puts in the time and effort can easily be better than a cop that only meets the minimum requirement. Putting on a uniform does not make you a superman.

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* -Here’s the dirty little secret about police training…it rarely happens. If the common citizen knew how poorly trained the average cop is there would be complete anarchy. Most agencies have a wholly inadequate firearms training program. In talking to cops around my state as a firearms instructor for the last 15 years, I’ve found that most departments do very little firearms training. Shooting more than 100 rounds per year is unusual.

In Ohio, officers only have to pass a 25-round ridiculously easy “qualification test” one time per year. Beyond that, the state requires between one and four hours (depending on the year) of continuing education training. None of that has to be firearms related. Because the state doesn’t mandate in service firearms training, lazy police executives often say “The state says 25 rounds a year is all we need to do, so that’s all we will do.”

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