I am training a woman to do my job. No, this isn’t a post about my job, but rather her husband’s job. Her husband is a Detective in Massachusetts (he has been a full time police officer of some sort for almost 20 years). She relayed a conversation that they had had a week or two ago.
It seems that the good Detective was at the police station and a lady came in to talk to him (don’t know in what capacity, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t as a suspect). She suddenly noticed the gun and holster on his hip. She asked him to remove it before she would talk to him. As you might have guessed, he declined the offer.
She then insisted that she was scared of guns and she would not talk to him unless he took it off.
Excuse me? I can’t imagine what must have gone thru his head. As the coworker was relaying the story, I was thinking things along these lines, “WTF, she’s talking to an on-duty policeman, in the police station, and she doesn’t expect a gun to be around? Does she think it will suddenly jump out of its holster and take over the place all by itself? Does she expect that if he takes it off, he will be less likely to shoot her? Does she think that regardless of where she is talking to a FREAKING policeman, that he should not have his weapon on him?”
When she found that no one in the station would comply with her request, she finally talked to the detective while he retained his sidearm.
That leads me to this story, brought to my attention by Jay, where the media is shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YA, that many Massachusetts police forces have semi-automatic weapons. OMG, we are all gonna die if they are not returned to the old ways at once (circa 1890 since semi’s & double-action revolvers have been used by law enforcement for a long time)! What in the heck can the cops be thinking - only the bad guys should have guns that can fire without having to manually load/chamber another round before the trigger can be pulled again?!?!
I’m sorry; I want every good guy (and gal) that is competent, ready, willing and able, to have a semi-auto gun or two available. It evens the playing field when the bad guys show up!
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