Here’s Why People Get Shot Reaching Towards Their Waistbands

By Bob Owens

The goal of law enforcement agencies nationwide is to protect and serve their communities from criminals.

It is not their goal to see just how much punishment and abuse they can absorb at the hands of the feloniously violent, deeply mentally ill, aggressively suicidal, or deeply stupid.

Officers are not punching bags. Deputies are not targets for blade practice. Agents do not have to wait for impacts and wonder, “are a 9mm full-metal jacket, or a 4.5 steel BB, or 6mm plastic pellets impacting on my sternum?”

When men and women signed up to patrol their communities and try to keep the good and decent people in their towns and cities protected from both the vile human predators and the serially stupid, they did not forfeit their basic human right to protect their own lives.

They went to a police academy or community college law enforcement program and took classes. They learned the basics there, and then they went to find jobs. Once they landed on a department, they got additional training in the field. Based upon the communities in which they serve and the training budgets and priorities of their respective departments, they can have very different kinds of specialty training.

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Source:: Bearing Arms