Don't Mess With Texas

[Mortblanc]

Pete, over here all police officers go through a 6 month training course, conducted by their state and not the local entity, and much like military boot camp. Many of them also have prior military service. Many departments will only hire former military personnel since they are greatly pre-trained and usually in better physical condition than the average guy off the street.

Our police are thoroughly trained in active shooter situations, and they are all armed.

There is almost no such thing as an "ordinary Police officer" in the U.S., meaning one that is not armed. Every patrol officer is issued a handgun and most officers carry long guns in their patrol cars. Unlike over there, we would be insulted if a police officer arrived at our call to handle any and every possible situation and he had no firearm. A gun in a policeman's belt is not considered a threat. It is a difference in culture.

The presence or absence of body armor is not relevant to the situation at hand because only the very top rated body armor with ceramic plates will stop high powered rife bullets. And most departments do furnish body armor for each officer, most require that it be worn while on duty.

And when the county police arrived on scene at the Florida shooting, and they were not SWAT officers, they did not hesitate to enter the building while the local police cowered outside.

Perhaps if our FBI were not so busy acting as a private secret police force advocating a one party political system they could have prevented this without any bloodshed at all. They had reports on this shooter, had his name and address along with his problematic record, and were simply to busy trying to railroad our president to check this shooter out and take him off the street. It is sort of like they wanted it to happen.