Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice?
What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting a (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The "No More Hesitation" series from Law Enforcement Targets Inc. offers exactly that. For less than 99 cents per target, police can shoot at real-life images "designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training."
Update: The marketing team at Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. sends along this helpful explanation for the "No More Hesitation" series:
"The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served."
Quoting gammie:
No has a right to shoot first and ask questions later when it's too late!!
Quoting LauraKW:
Why would you say that to someone? Fucking disgusting.
Quoting gammie:
This kind of thinking is going to get your family killed.
Quoting Gabeys_Mommy:
The world is getting crazier by the day, they need to be prepared to handle anything.
Quoting LauraKW:
That is irrelevant to what you told this woman about her family.
Quoting gammie:
No has a right to shoot first and ask questions later when it's too late!!
Quoting LauraKW:
Why would you say that to someone? Fucking disgusting.
Quoting gammie:
This kind of thinking is going to get your family killed.
Quoting Gabeys_Mommy:
The world is getting crazier by the day, they need to be prepared to handle anything.
Quoting gammie:
No when you think this Kind of action is okay you do put your family in danger
Quoting LauraKW:
That is irrelevant to what you told this woman about her family.
Quoting gammie:
No has a right to shoot first and ask questions later when it's too late!!
Quoting LauraKW:
Why would you say that to someone? Fucking disgusting.
Quoting gammie:
This kind of thinking is going to get your family killed.
Quoting Gabeys_Mommy:
The world is getting crazier by the day, they need to be prepared to handle anything.
Arm your families ladies, it's coming and the gov't knows it.
Quoting gammie:
There is something wrong with this, shooting at a child who can't shoot straight is just wrong.
I feel from what is going around with Law Enforcements New training It seems to me they are preparing to have a fight with the people in the future?
What is our government getting ready to do that we may want to fight back?
Quoting ShelbysHope76:Arm your families ladies, it's coming and the gov't knows it.
Quoting gammie:
There is something wrong with this, shooting at a child who can't shoot straight is just wrong.
I feel from what is going around with Law Enforcements New training It seems to me they are preparing to have a fight with the people in the future?
What is our government getting ready to do that we may want to fight back?
Quoting gammie:
This kind of thinking is going to get your family killed.
Quoting Gabeys_Mommy:
The world is getting crazier by the day, they need to be prepared to handle anything.
I agree with her. A pregnant woman or child holding a gun is no less of a threat, than a grown man or non pregnant woman.
Quoting gammie:
This kind of thinking is going to get your family killed.
Quoting Gabeys_Mommy:
The world is getting crazier by the day, they need to be prepared to handle anything.
Nope our family will never own weapons.
Quoting ShelbysHope76:Arm your families ladies, it's coming and the gov't knows it.
Quoting gammie:
There is something wrong with this, shooting at a child who can't shoot straight is just wrong.
I feel from what is going around with Law Enforcements New training It seems to me they are preparing to have a fight with the people in the future?
What is our government getting ready to do that we may want to fight back?
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- gammie
on Feb. 20, 2013 at 9:00 AM