Well, not much new has been going on in the last couple of days.
We had two days of light snowflakes falling and not a one bothered to stick so in essence we got no snow. It would have been nice to have had a White Christmas but it seems like its not going to happen.
Although we get rain on Wednesday it just won't be quite cold enough to kick it into anything more than that.
Oh well, dems the breaks as they used to say. :)
As I thought and said some of the pro-gun and anti-gun mess is going crazy and full bore out there.
Some of it is just ridiculous to tell the truth. The head of the NRA apparently said to put armed police/security in all schools nationwide and everybody from the kook down the street to all the media and politicians have slammed him for it.
Well guess what a whole hell of a lot of schools nationwide already have armed officers in the schools. Whether that is school police or some for of local law enforcement I don't know but they sure as hell are there each and every day kids are.
Hell I live in the back of beyond nowhere and the country sheriff has deputies at the elementary, middle and high school.
I can remember the Los Angeles Unified School District Police and a number of other school districts who all had some type of armed security or school police. Hell I even worked for a security firm who was a shoe-in for a district who was planning on either hiring our company and employees who had went through an 832 pc course. (Reserve Police Officer) or forming their own school police department. It might have been 830, after all these years I don't remember exactly.
Well they got a big grant and went with the full school police dept. thing instead of what had been originally planned. So we lost out on that as well as a park police contract because again they made up a park police dept.
BUT THIS WAS IN THE MID-EIGHTIES NOT TODAY. They had lots of cops in the schools back then for crying out loud. They have even more in the schools today.
So yes I actually don't think that saying that we should put at least one in every school is wild and crazy not to mention bizarre as these people are calling the idea. Because we have them in so many already.
Really, take a look and ask yourself how many don't vs all those that do. It might shock you. I would almost bet you'll find more with than without, may be wrong but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that more vs not exists already.
Even the idea of CCWs for staff at schools isn't a bad idea. IF and I stress IF they get extensive police training. Believe me there are ex-cops who teach combat tactics and procedures with reference to a firearm and with that kind of training I don't think it would be a bad idea at all. I had both that and actual academy training through a sheriff department. The training took two weeks at the local sheriff academy and covered several things along with firearms. You could drop the other stuff I suppose unless the school wants you to be actually designated as a police officer as well.
The thing with that type of training is they don't just teach you to shoot. They teach you when to shoot and more importantly when not to. They teach you situational awareness and such things as background, civilians nearby and a plethora of other things that go into making a decision to fire or not.
Plus they teach you to shoot. IF you can't grasp any aspect of the course material including shooting with accuracy, then guess what?
You fail.
I know for a fact that I can do it since I've been in that situation to the point my finger had moved onto the trigger and I was actually pulling back on it when the other party finally got sense into his head and turned around and ran. That was how close it came.
But being able to do that was not the only thing that I took into consideration. I took into consideration that there were no civilians anywhere in the background line of fire, that the backdrop was a solid brick wall and no traffic nearby.
Frankly though with the situation I backed up about as much as I could and if he'd taken literally one more step I would have completed firing that night.
But each and every situation is different and must be calculated based on what is presented to the person at the time.
The problem is that you have to ask yourself just what type and how much training are the general public getting?
I am against any restrictions except people with a violent criminal pasts and who are psycho. But if you're a perfectly normal person without any negative violent background then I believe you should be able to carry.
I do think the training requirements should be expanded to get some type of training along the lines of what I got. It's not overly expensive and doesn't take forever but teaches you a tremendous amount that YOU NEED TO KNOW.
I've mentioned some things already but one I forgot is the physical and psychological aspects of the thing. Adrenalin flooding your body and how to handle it and the mental effect having that gun often has. There is so much more but that kind of training is something I think everyone who wants to carry a concealed firearm should be required to get and I'm not sure if it shouldn't apply to anyone who wants to purchase or has firearms.
I just was watching CNN or one of the cable news networks within the last couple of days when the host mentioned a man who was at the Clackamas mall shooting. He had a CCW and was carrying his gun. Further he had a position of cover when he pulled his weapon out and also had a clear straight line of fire to the suspect.
But he didn't shoot.
Its because he's had some type of training as mentioned above. You see he had no backdrop that wouldn't endanger civilians and there were a lot around behind the suspect in the stores.
So he didn't take the shot because no matter how much he thought he wouldn't miss there was this chance he might and the risk to civilians behind the shooter was just too great.
He did the right thing and something like this is something you'd learn in such advance training. Something you and all the public with CCWs needs to learn.
Oh and as a conclusion the suspect saw this man with the gun pointing at him and at that point blew his own brains out. So even though this man never fired a shot, him being there with a gun resulted in the killing being stopped in THIS particular circumstance.
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