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Video: Obama's Press Conference on Gun Violence

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)12/19/2012 4:08:56 pm PST

re: #264 Political Atheist

First a side note-We have been disagreeing a lot of late. Everyone is upset at recent events. Because we are not social pals, we have little friendly contact to balance. I’d like to reach out and say hey let’s ease up a little, understand we want a friendly exchange of ideas. The tone between us has declined and I think that’s fixable.

I’m sorry, where in my past post do you see a problem with tone? I’m fine with a friendly exchange of ideas. That doesn’t mean I’m going to hold back on criticism.

Yes, the record of the graduates I have seen and shot with. Which is not published except via FBI stats or similar. Which is national with varying levels or training and training requirements. I’m sorry we are on opposite coasts, I’d love to show you rather than tell you what can be taught in a few days. My experience teaching tactical defense skills for more than a decade has shown me how well or poorly people learn. But I can’t write all that up and just post it.

I don’t even understand what question you’re trying to answer here. If it’s this question “Do you have anything showing that CCW holders can respond well in a crisis situation after a six day course? Any reason you do believe its efficacious?” and your response is “I have anecdotal evidence”, then I’m sorry, but why would you think that would be convincing?

And I don’t know where you’re going with the Air Marshall stuff. Why are we suddenly talking about Air Marshals?

From what I’m reading, Air Marshal training starts with a seven week course and then follows that up with a secondary phase that goes for I’m not sure how long. Obviously, a lot of that can be left out for the flight officers, since some of it has to do with laws, etc., but a lot of it is the tactical training.