...Commissioner Ray Kelly has come out with guns blazing - with a plan to get all 1,000 rookie cops ready to use heavy artillery in time for New Year's Eve, The Post has learned.What, weapons of war? Things with no purpose but to kill as many people as possible? Bullet hoses?
The NYPD wants all 1,000 Police Academy recruits trained to use M4 automatic machine guns - which are now carried only by the 400 cops in its elite Emergency Service Unit - in time for the holiday celebration in Times Square.
The recruits currently at the academy will get three days of training to familiarize them with the weapon, police said.
Oh, excuse me. I mistakenly used the gungrabbers' description for semiautos.
And three days is all it takes to turn rookies loose on the rest of us?
Dang, good thing they're fledgling "Only Ones," and are thus so much more trustworthy and competent and...yeah, good word...elite than the rest of us, who would get over six years if they presumed to be as equal.
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Living under the gun in America.
on the same token, it doesn't bother me that someone, somewhere, carries an assault rifle around in public for some time, no matter what their job is. that could reasonably happen anywhere. hunting dangerous game and protecting one's territory on the border come to mind.
yet, how can they respond to (comparatively little -- take a look at st. louis) violent crime with such wasteful, overwhelming force in the very same atmosphere where they've been busily working on disarming citizens? this is rubber that's already on the road and it can and should and will defend itself.
this is the wrong step, and it will end in tears. some of those rifles are going to be stolen. some criminals will respond by quietly increasing their firepower, and their competition will be edged out of the black marketplace, allowing them to fill more niches.
why would they wait for cops to come find them? look at how CBP performs with all the red tape regarding their arms. when it's clear that this "isn't enough," cities will respond with ghetto creation to gain the same leverage CBP has.
Let's see... 1000 copies of the M4 in the possession of rookie cops patrolling away from immediate support. Sounds like an open invitation for criminals to upgrade weaponry from a revolver or knife.
Aren't these the same people whose "lightbringer" said something to the effect of: "these weapons belong on foreign battlefields, not on our streets"?
The Constitution, equal rights,citizenship mean nothing to these tyrants. Good sense,logic, and law will not prevail with them. Force is all they understand and they are arrogant in the extreme. Arrogant enough to believe they can treat citizens as subjects, use force at will, and never be held accountable. It's getting to be about time to audit their books.
I've been teaching firearms to rookie police and correctional officers since the early eighties and I can have a rookie who has never held a firearm exceeding the required Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) proficiency score the first time he hits the range. That first time shooter is a long way from being proficient or being qualified with the firearm, but the company/agency is satisfied. The 1,000 NYPD rookies will be about as qualified or proficient as the 8 year old who recently unfortunately killed himself with a full auto firearm. And,the people who put the rookies onto the street with the firearms should, but won't, be held accountable for any misuse of the weapons.
"Dang, good thing they're fledgling "Only Ones," and are thus so much more trustworthy and competent and...yeah, good word...elite than the rest of us, who would get over six years if they presumed to be as equal."
Problem here is: If the sgt. says, "Shoot the SOB's!" The poor ignorant rookies will unthinkingly and reactively shoot the SOB's. They've just spent several months in the academy learning to, "do what your superior tells you to do without question." "There will be time for questions after the smoke clears"
Oh my, the city of "contagious shooting."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagious_shooting
Ray Kelly was interviewed earlier by the NY Post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007/news/regionalnews/nypd_hired_gun_aims_at_shootings_regionalnews_murray_weiss__criminal_justice_editor.htm
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the six-month, $500,000 examination by the RAND Corp. will also take a hard look at the phenomenon known as "contagious" shooting, where a group of cops fires reflexively after one of them starts shooting. ...
"I don't think it has been sufficiently studied," he said.
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