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CHP Training Qualification Concern
GreyGeek:
Since I got my CHP and began carrying, I am struck by how defenseless the law leaves me in so many situations where the danger is the greatest. My wife and I attended the presentation of Verdi's Requiem at the Lied Center last week end. While waiting for the program to begin I thought "wow, completely packed with people but the balcony was roped off, only to be opened to take the overflow. Someone could force their way past the elderly person standing at the velvet rope blocking the door and toss a bomb from the balcony into the center of the auditorium."
Not that I would use my hand gun to play cop, or that a hand gun would do me any good in that situation, but one never knows about timing and circumstance. I am also keenly aware of which businesses allow me to CCW and which do not. Those that do not will never have my business, but they probably don't care because the total number of CHP holders is probably a minor fraction of less than 1% of their business. I think of the laws every time I go to pick up one of my grandsons from their school. A place where the most precious lives in my life spend 8 hours of their day, totally exposed and unprotected by adults who believe, or still think in some way, that a "Gun Free Zone" sign makes them bullet proof. I think of the laws when I am setting in the auditorium at church, surrounded by other equally defenseless people that the law has declared shall submit to being putative targets for madmen. I boil with anger when those same lawmakers exempt themselves and their family from that exposure by being protected by highly trained experts in defense having weapons I can never get my hands on.
SemperFiGuy:
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Bingo!!
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Gary:
get out a set of handcuffs and put them on, behind your back, for several hours. imagine you are with stranger's that are not friendly, and will not answer any of your questions. in two hours or so, they take off the handcuffs, and hand you your checkbook. you have to make out two checks, one to the jail for twenty thousand dollars, for bail. another check for fifty thousand dollars to hire an attorney.
That is what will could happen to anyone that uses his legal right to own and carry a gun, to protect themselves.
now factor in most people never get shot, stabbed, beat up etc. and people that do get shot, 85% live. so would it be better to take a bullet in a confrontation or give one?
one thing I hope a CHP class teaches everyone, is keep your gun holstered. unless you want that handcuff treatment with all that follows that.
Gary:
--- Quote from: Lorimor on April 30, 2013, 09:18:02 AM ---
And frankly, the NE CCW course isn't really enough.
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When is training on anything as complex as a firearm and the use of a firearm, ever over? SWAT team members, are always involved in continuing education.
When I took my CHP class from Bruce S in Fairbury, I was amazed at the amount of printed material I was given, and told to learn. There was no way anyone could remember all of that in a one day class. Once you get home, after class, that is when the real study takes place. I have more formal range time after my CHP class, than I have had in the previous 20 years.
Bucket:
--- Quote from: Gary on April 30, 2013, 11:53:27 AM ---When is training on anything as complex as a firearm and the use of a firearm, ever over? SWAT team members, are always involved in continuing education.
When I took my CHP class from Bruce S in Fairbury, I was amazed at the amount of printed material I was given, and told to learn. There was no way anyone could remember all of that in a one day class. Once you get home, after class, that is when the real study takes place. I have more formal range time after my CHP class, than I have had in the previous 20 years.
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Does that include one-handed Glock breakdown? :)
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