One of the copy desk’s goals this year is to expand our knowledge on various topics each month.
This month we went to the Wichita/Sedgwick County Law Enforcement Firearms Training Center to learn about, well, firearms.
Talk about illuminating. In addition to broadening our knowledge of terminology and learning to ID various firearms and types of ammunition, we also got some experience in the center’s amazing new simulator.
Trust me, anyone who’s been in the simulator would never ask anything as stupid as “why didn’t the officer just shoot the gun out of the bad guy’s hand?â€
From domestic violence to armed robbery, the situations shown require split-second reactions and a high level of training. To a person we were amazed by what law enforcement faces and thankful that such great training exists.
— Michael
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Good for you! Now you should seek out Massad Ayoob, the country’s foremost expert on self defense, and take his LFI-I course on “Judicious Use of Deadly Force.” Students in that course tend to include law enforcement officers, lawyers, military, and ordinary citizens. Ayoob’s Lethal Force Institute is one of the oldest firearms academies in the nation and he himself is recognized as an expert by the American Bar Association. There is at least one good story in that course for you too. You’ll recognize it within a few hours after the course begins. Whatever you might expect of such a course, you are sure to be surprised.
By the way, women are most definitely welcome in this and other LFI courses, and they benefit greatly.
Be prepared though: Ayoob, like other responsible instructors in this field, requires proof of every prospective student’s good character and spotless history as a condition of enrollment.
Massad Ayoob’s e-mail address is: ayoob@attglobal.net. The LFI web site is at: http://www.ayoob.com.
Please take my suggestion seriously.
+1 on the Massad Ayoob suggestion. You’ll also get information and instruction that’s not tainted by local politics.
Almost every kids want to be a cop when he/she grows up.
Once I was old enough to do so I quickly learned the cops are way under paid for what they do.
Just a quick thanks to the cops protecting our hides!