Does this mean we need to start buying targets featuring police, state troopers, swat teams, and Homehand security agents? How about targets featuring certain politicians?
Can we get targets with “Blue Helmented” soldiers and black-uniformed thugs?
If they wanted more realistic targets, they would create them depicting women in aprons clutching a toddler slumped on the floor in their kitchen with a look of terror on her face.
Maybe someone should market targets with certain politicians’ pictures on them. I mean, turnaround’s fair play. First amendment and all that.
No Hesitation poster for the upcoming gun grab?
Oboma believes he's Lincoln. He believes he's fighting a civil war. He believes America is unjust for some insane reason. He's agitating, and trying to get one side - the gun owning right wing - riled up enough to lash out. Unfortunately so far, all the killers and mass murders have been democrats.
He can't get to where he wants to go, the winner of the war, unless we cooperate and start a war. He must be getting pretty frustrated we're not being "nudged" into the direction he wants us to go. Agitating has always worked for him before.
I contend that the least-bad option in this situation is to retreat. These shoot/don't shoot posters are used in training with the general assumption that the participant has just entered a room to find the scene depicted in the target. It might be a legitimate shoot if her gun were pointed at someone else, but not at the viewer. A pregnant woman in this context represents an armed person acting defensively. Even a challenge to the pregnant women to disarm in such a situation would likely only escalate the situation further if she felt she were defending her children, especially if she were illuminated with a bright light. Officers need to be taught that tactical retreat would be the best option in the situation depicted in this target, not that they should shoot without regard to context.
Although much of modern law enforcement tactical training is aimed at overcoming the instinct to hesitate, the situations in these targets go too far. This particular kind of desensitization training can also cause police casualties in another way. A decent law enforcement office who ends up actually shooting a pregnant woman in her own nursery is likely to end up shooting himself several years later, usually after turning to alcohol or other drugs and destroying his family. I knew several police officers whose lives and whose families' lives have been ruined this way from similar situations. The administration that buys targets like these does a grave disservice to their officers.
every single one of these series of targets, every one posted here, is a white person.
this is not coincidental.
Link to current flap re: hoodie wearing (so-called “Trayvon” target)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007686/posts