The Spirit of Blue Foundation, along with Magpul, is asking consumers to 'get in the Spirit of Blue' this holiday season by purchasing the Spirit of Blue Wreath and giving back to the law enforcement community. [More]
Get into the spirit!
And they even acknowledge how military weapons of war that have only one purpose, to kill, are magically transformed into "patrol rifles."
[Via Jeffersonian]
4 comments:
Disgusting!
I would write that foundation directly, but I don't feel like trying to communicate with idiots.
"Officer safety" just means a free pass to shoot you or me if the poor little jackboot feels nervous today.
There are no good cops. They are tools to enforce all the evil "laws" that The State tells them to, and being tail-wagging, mindless dogs they can't wait to comply.
If there were a good cop, he/she wouldn't still be a cop after the first day on the "job". They'd be fired or their "brothers" with a badge would kill them for rocking the boat and refusing to go along.
I don't currently own any magpul products. Now I see no reason to. These asshats and their double standards just piss me off.
hm, there's an odd coincidence... I know Kurt's article you posted is from 2009, but it features the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and city agencies training more officers to use the rifles.
As best I can tell (and I could be wrong since I'm not an investigator, I'm just a guy at a keyboard), the CEO of the LEO ProCard company is Detective Brian Geller of the West Palm Beach Police Department.
Just a coincidence, but hey, they already think they're above the law when it comes to "minor" law-breaking so it's no surprise to me that this is another area where they feel they are better than you and me. The sad part is, I've probably got more trigger/training time than any 5 of their officers combined. And I don't shoot nearly as much as most of my friends. But we "little people" are not to be trusted with that kind of potential.
Ignorant bastards. (still pissed off about the procard thing)
[sarc] We owe the boys in blue so much, beyond their above average pay, below average retirement age, and special perks like "LEO Professional Courtesy Cards". After all, their lives are so much more dangerous than ours. [/sarc]
Um, oops... Just did a little checking:
2011: 55 police "firearms' deaths (Spirit of Blue, http://www.shootingwire.com/story/249029)
Police Number Estimate - %killed with firearm:
675,734* = 0.00813%
705,009** = 0.00780%
versus General Population:
2007: 31,224 firearms deaths (all causes) (CDC WISQARS, last year data available http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe)
Population: 301,579,895 = 0.01035%
A person in the overall US population is 1.33 times more likely to be killed with a firearm than is a police officer. From 2004 to 2010 police officer firearms deaths are down.
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* FBI, Crime In the United States, 2004, http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/law_enforcement_personnel/index.html
** FBI, Crime In the United States, 2010, http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl74.xls/view
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