Toothless "Protectors"

23 June 07

Why do we adamantly refuse to learn? This, from an LEO friend in the SE:

"I attended a one-day conference on LE Crisis Negotiation last week. The session focused on active shooters. One hundred local LEOs attended, along with military MPs and others. We were on a college campus.

Most attendees were dressed in BDUs or 'duty-casual' (511 pants, golf shirt w/department logo). Many were in full uniform. Others wore logo-emblazoned blazers.

Precious few attendees were armed! I was just about the only one. Most displayed a shiny badge clipped next to an empty holster. Even those in uniform showed up with empty holsters.

Nearly all left their guns in their cars before entering the campus. They apparently look upon their personal weapons as inconsequential accouterments, to be discarded at a whim when in a 'safe' environment, andthis in the very wake of the VA Tech shootings!

Unbelievable! Will we ever learn?"

Comment: So long as this civilization looks upon helplessness/defenselessness as "virtues," we will continueto see this kind of institutionalized stupidity, this lemming-like allegiance to enforced impotence, even among LEOs. And, few even question it!

/John