At least once a year, police officers throughout Kansas head to the firing range, line up their handgun sights and fire 50 rounds at a body-shaped target.
Once a year?
50 rounds?
That's what "the only ones" consider "proper training"?
No wonder Gov. Kathleen Sebelius "thinks concealed carry creates a risk for law enforcement."
A good number of the folks who would opt to do so consider 50 rounds a warm-up session. Do we really want to subject our officers in the field to such disproportionate and overwhelming competence...?
That's pretty funny. I think in number of magazines. I like to to use 10-round mags at the range because they come out to 5 per box even.
ReplyDeleteI usually run about 15-20 mags per gun per session.
I don't really pay that much attention with revolvers. I just shoot until I run out.
And of course there is the scare-tactic quote at the end:
ReplyDeleteBut the bill would allow Kansans to carry concealed firearms into libraries, churches, restaurants and businesses.
That standard should apply to anyone who wants to carry a concealed weapon, many in law enforcement say.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the LEOs who want that standard really ARE on our side, if that's all they'd require of us.
I hear what you're saying, but thing is, tkd, what "standard" would we be OK with them REQUIRING to, say, own a Bible, not self-incriminate, be secure against warrantless searches, etc.
ReplyDeleteIs the Second Amendment somehow inferior to the others? Why is it OK for them to require ANY standard to exercise a right?
Why is it OK for them to require ANY standard to exercise a right?
ReplyDeleteNever said it was, never said there should or shouldn't be requirements. The context is that of what the LEOS were saying, not the absolutist stance that we don't have to justify our rights. How many LEOs do you expect to stick their necks out and say we should have to meet no requirements at all to exercise our rights? The point was that some LEOs may be helping us out by advocating what are obviously substandard performance standards.
"How many LEOs do you expect to stick their necks out and say we should have to meet no requirements at all to exercise our rights?"
ReplyDeleteALL of them.
How many do I think will do it? That's a different story, and your point is well taken.