Found @ Walls of the City
In actual shootings, citizens do far better than law enforcement on hit potential. They hit their targets and they don’t hit other people. I wish I could say the same for cops. We train more, they do better.
Citizens have fewer opportunities for mistakes and, as a rule, we know it.
Also, most of the training LEO’s do is unrealistic. Even the Seattle PD and the three nearby Sheriff’s Departments training programs for non-specialized (aka: SWAT, Narc units) is frighteningly lacking. I have and still do shoot with LEO’s as friends and against them as competitors and all that ever did is hammer home to not rely on a LEO to save my life.
At the age of fourteen I was lucky enough to get to shoot an IPSC match with the pistol team my father was a member of at the Washington State Patrol indoor range against a pistol team from SW Washington and the WSP team. Our nine versus the other team’s eight versus nine Troopers.
Not one Trooper placed in the Top 10. Being young and quick on my feet, I placed ninth.
Thanks for the linkage.
It would be interesting to see actual statistics concerning hit percentages of civilians and LEOs… Perhaps organize some sort of competition between a random sampling of LEOs, and a random sampling of CCW permit holders. It would be difficult to keep the competition as “honest” as possible, but it might be illuminating.