[Mears]

” ———They should have enough courage and training to protect people instead shooting the hell out of some poor guy just because he “made a furtive movement”. “

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And a miniscule percentage of cops shoot some poor guy for making a furtive movement. Most of the approximately 600,000 LEOs don’t.

My son spent only 3 months at Parris Island yet he spent 6 months in the police academy-———so who is better trained?

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[bitt]

you are so right. 6 months of hell.

[Chainmail]

And that 3 months in Boot Camp wasn't the end of his training, was it? We trained every week that we weren't actually deployed and you know it.

The difference is that we Marines - your son included - knew that we had committed our lives to each other and our country. Today's police officer (I refuse to use the term "LEO") is a unionized sort committed to going home every night with an iffy weight and physical condition standard.

Remember the cops at Columbine? Overweight oafs in body armor that waited until the killers had killed themselves before going in. What were the cops in Vegas doing? What took 70 minutes to finally go into that guy's room to take him out - after he had already killed himself?

I'm all over supporting our police but I'd prefer to believe that they had the guts to take on an active shooter and not shoot me in the process.