From: me@somewhere.com 
Subject: Need Better NRA Ads NOW !
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 07:17:04 GMT

hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:

>I subcontract that part of the course to a police expert, as the NRA
>requires.  

IN case anyone is wondering what this is about, the NRA will not permit
its firearms instructors, regardless of training or skills, to teach
the tactics part.  They require a piggy for that part.  Any old piggy
will do, even a school crossing monitor.  They make it very clear that they 
are NOT concerned about the quality of instruction but instead are concerned 
about the damn lawyers.  

>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.

Maybe where you live.  Certainly not around her.  The Drug Warriors on the 
Constitution are simply thugs that get to wear the NARC jackets.
Seldom do they use ANY body armor.  In any event, I highly doubt that 
body armor would stop the proper, eg, armor piercing, rifle ammo.   

>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.

Let's see.  I'm in my safe room behind my cover, armed with my H&K 97 or
AR-15 loaded with AP ammo and have trained to fire first at the torso
and then the head.  You really think the lead pig is gonna just dust
off his armor?  Even if the armor happens to stop the bullet?  Riiight.
Remember, the context here is a trained homeowner defending his 
house and family.

You may be right, though.  The pigs will probably try to kill everything
in sight.  Even more reason for the private citizen to train to
go to war with the pigs.  It's EXACTLY this "kill 'em all, let God
sort 'em out" mentality within many departments that so frightens me.


>}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.

Attaboy, Jerry.  Run off and hide when the going gets tough.  Ignore the 
problem.  maybe it will be YOU who someone someday drops a dime on that
brings in the storm troopers.   "... and when they came for me, there
was no one left ...".  

John

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