NRA slaughters young black man

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Police in the US are not given what I would call excessive training with regards to firearms. Sure, most if not all of them are competent, but there is nothing a police officer learns that a US civilian cannot.

But they aren't getting this training.

To get a firearm for personal 'protection', you don't need to take a test to own a firearm (the Constitution stipulates this 'right'). You simply must be over 21, have no felonies on record, and wait a 48 to 72 hour period after completing the license application. Unfortunately, it's very simple to get a gun in most states.

Police officers are given extensive gun training, which is a vestige of pre-'equipment' (pepper spray and taser) training.

In a potential conflict, the order of operations that an officer follows generally goes like this:

  1. Officer presence - this solves most disputes
  2. Dialogue - "talking them down" from a threat of violence
  3. Sticky hands - getting close to them and ready for fisticuffs while maintaining dialogue
  4. Equipment - if an assault occurs, officers are encouraged to try either their baton or pepper spray before their taser.
  5. Sidearm - If all else fails. It's shoot-to-kill (aim for the heart), and not "maiming" like in the cop shows.
Ideally, the officer must try one option before proceeding to the next. In situations that are already violent, they can skip straight to equipment. These can vary among colleges and departments, but this seems to be the general order from Fuzzy's experience.


Unfortunately, cops are too quick to taser. It's effective and much less paperwork is needed after a taser incident, but tasers are still potentially lethal (over 300 people have been killed by tasers).