From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Need Better NRA Ads NOW !
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:35:03 GMT

In article <7p_q9ln@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
}hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
}
}>I am an NRA firearms instructor.  The NRA does not teach police/combat
}>weapons techniques to civilians, period.
}
}Well Jerry, I'm an NRA firearms instructor too and unless you deviate from
}the NRA course materials, in your personal protection course, you DO teach 
}the concepts of retreating to a safe area such as a bedroom, the keeping of
}appropriate weapons, their proper use, the proper use of cover and so on.

I subcontract that part of the course to a police expert, as the NRA
requires.  They teach personal defense as you describe.  That will handle
the usual criminal break-in.  It will _not_ take out half a dozen or more
trained police crack house breakers armed with riot guns and wrapped in
class IV body armor.  I've trained with some of them.  They're good at
what they do. _Very_ good.

}>The above scenario is completely unrealistic in any case and would almost
}>certainly result in the deaths of the homeowner and his family.  The kind
}>of attitudes such fantasies project cost gun owners more votes than a
}>thousand positive ads could ever compensate for.
}
}Why would it almost surely result in the death of the homeowner?  Do you
}think there is some magic that makes a pig an expert shot capable of 
}killing anything in his path?  If the homeowner performs according to his
}NRA training, he will be behind cover, rifle pointed at the door.
}In the immediate aftermath of having his door broken in, he will fire on the 
}first unidentified thing that enters the room.  Since the Mad Dog brigade
}here in atlanta typically storms with 6 stormtroupers or so, the odds of
}a favorable outcome for the homeowner (defined as surviving the assault 
}and being able to place a couple of notches on his pigslayer) is certainly
}good.

Your homeowner will shoot one cop, who will be very annoyed at the smudges
on his body armor.  The remaining five will stop charging and start
throwing in tear gas (_real_ tear gas, not the chicken soup they sell to
us civilians) and flashbangs.  Or they may just open fire with riot guns
and kill everything that moves.  And yes, they are expert shots.  I've
seen SWAT team cops split playing cards edge on at 50 feet.  The people
they send into crack houses are not your average beat cop.

}As to costing NRA support, I suggest not.   This era of a formal Drug
}War on the Constitution is making even people of my parent's generation
}refer to the pigs as pigs.  More and more people are losing the 
}imaginary "Joe Friday" image of cops and are beginning to realize that
}in most places outside the inner city, the pigs are the single greatest
}threat to personal wellbeing going.

KILL file, meet John De Armond.  John De Armond, welcome to my KILL file.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
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