{"id":5725,"date":"2019-03-26T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:17:36","slug":"cop-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/cop-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"COP STUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week I was able to assemble a brain trust of 16 of us for the annual Panel of Experts on Firearms and Deadly Force training for the ILEETA<\/a> (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) in St. Louis recently.  Big thanks to John Farnam, Heather Eckert, Joe Ferrara, Dick Fairburn, Alex Embry, Mike Boyle, Todd Fletcher, Don Alwes, Kevin Davis, Ron Borsch, Laura Scarry, Don Gulla, Ed Santos, Michael Laughlin, and John Bostain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A quick\npreliminary survey showed 434 years of experience in training police\u2026and then I\nrealized I had missed one of the presenters, John Farnam. He has been training\ncops in how and when to shoot for 49 years, two years longer than me.  That brought us up to 483 years total: nearly\nhalf a millennium of teaching peace officers in this discipline, and analyzing\nthe real-world feedback from the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that was\njust the first two hours.  After the\nbreak, I switched it over to the many trainers in the audience, and we went Socratic\nwith their <\/em>even greater cumulative\nexperience for another two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half a day of\nthat intensity can\u2019t be duplicated in a blog post, but I can distill it into\nsome key points for our audience here at Backwoods\nHome<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • The guys and gals who do street\npolicing where the rubber meets the road are, by and large, supportive of armed\ncitizens who defend themselves and others against violent criminals .<\/li>
  • They are more supportive than ever of\narmed, trained faculty in schools given that \u201cschool shootings\u201d have become a\ntrend crime.<\/li>
  • They are as concerned as you are\nabout you becoming a victim of friendly fire if you draw your gun to stop a\nmass murderer, and hate it just as much when a rescuer gets shot by\nmistake.  If you should be caught up in\nsuch a situation and draw your gun to protect yourself and others, realize that\nyou are not readily identifiable as a rescuer. Don\u2019t draw the gun until you\nhave positively identified the threat, and as soon as you have neutralized the\nthreat, re-holster your weapon.  It makes\nyou a target in those circumstances.<\/li>
  • They are deeply concerned about the\nincreasing number of necessary shootings by police that get turned into causes celebre <\/em>of \u201cpolice brutality\u201d by people\nwith political agendas.  When you hear\nabout these cases, withhold your judgment until you\u2019ve heard both sides, and\nboth sides often don\u2019t come out until trial. \u201cFake news\u201d is not a fantasy\ndreamed up by Donald Trump.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Experienced\nlaw enforcement officers and law-abiding armed citizens should be natural\nallies \u2013 and, for the most part, they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last week I was able to assemble a brain trust of 16 of us for the annual Panel of Experts on Firearms and Deadly Force training for the ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) in St. Louis recently.  Big thanks to John Farnam, Heather Eckert, Joe Ferrara, Dick Fairburn, Alex Embry, Mike Boyle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}