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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Righteous: That would be a given. Works pretty damn good for the first line of offense as well, or so I've seen while leveling an M2 machine gun at many a speeding car outside Ghazni.
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I don't know anything about leveling machine guns at cars and I had to look up Ghazni (think the spelling threw me.) But I have been in some pretty hostile situations and I've found talking and patients to be very effective tools. When I first started, right out of the Navy basically, my partner/teacher was a Nam Marine vet known as "Sarge" to his friends. He was 6'2" 210lbs and some 8th degree, god knows what, dojo master. The first thing he taught me was if it never goes past conversation everyone goes home (or to jail) uninjured. That and we were paid by the hour. Before he retired I watch him many times spend countless hours talking people into damn near putting the handcuffs on themselves. Of course I also watched him lay several large men out in less then 30sec too. But his preferred method was always calm conversation.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
The badge is a symbol of authority. A firearm is authority. Perhaps some in law enforcement would prefer to maintain all the authority in every situation they encounter. Control freaks.
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Perhaps? I don't think there's any perhaps about it. The LE profession gives people power and authority. IMHO, all too often power hungry people seek out these positions. And all too often they're hired.