*TRIGGER WARNING* [pun not intended] Cops and Guns:
"In Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, Britain, and Ireland, police officers generally do not carry firearms. In one of these countries, Iceland, it’s legal for citizens to carry guns—and roughly a third choose to do so."
Why do cops need guns? You can 't tell me it 's because we have guns because Iceland manages themselves fine. Also, why is training so short, in Norway it takes 3 whole years to become a cop, some places in America are starting to require more time, running 1-2 years, but the majority just go through an academy with the average of 16 weeks. There 's probably more too it, but still, doesn 't seem like enough time.
I used to like police officers as a kid, I didn 't have a reason …show more content…
I get it, it 's for quick draw, but do you, no, should you, really need to be able to pull a gun that fast? Where is the time for thought? Even if your plan is not to shoot, I can tell you that the situation you are in just escalated from 0 to 100 real fast, and you just became the bad guy to whoever is on the other end of that pistol. Time to bring it down to a 10 as my friend Zach would say. Seeing that gun on your hip is really intimidating to people around you, and not in a good way. Rather in a way that makes them think "oh, well that guy/girl obvious has a power complex, why else would he/she need to carry that out in the open, must be at least a little unstable and dangerous," not that that 's true, it 's just what people are going to think. Here in good old Ohio, you can open carry without a licence as long as you legally possess your firearm, but most people don 't do it because it makes other people nervous, and when people are nervous they act funny, but not cops, they open carry all the time, with no apparent qualms about how it makes others feel. Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I get it, you think, "well it 's their job to carry a gun for safety," and sure any adult is expected (not say that they can or should) to be able to understand that, but you can 't ask me, a child or any other child for that matter to understand, or be okay with some stranger we don 't know, confronting us with a deadly weapon, drawn or not, ordering us on what to do. That 's going to scare people, and that 's going to scare kids. I don 't care if you tell me "well as long as you follow orders," because frankly, 1. that isn 't true for all officers, 2. guns are scary, when people are scared they don 't think straight, and 3. it 's not my job to know how to act around a gun, since I am not a police officer or gun professional, I am a child, who doesn 't need that extra stress or
"In Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, Britain, and Ireland, police officers generally do not carry firearms. In one of these countries, Iceland, it’s legal for citizens to carry guns—and roughly a third choose to do so."
Why do cops need guns? You can 't tell me it 's because we have guns because Iceland manages themselves fine. Also, why is training so short, in Norway it takes 3 whole years to become a cop, some places in America are starting to require more time, running 1-2 years, but the majority just go through an academy with the average of 16 weeks. There 's probably more too it, but still, doesn 't seem like enough time.
I used to like police officers as a kid, I didn 't have a reason …show more content…
I get it, it 's for quick draw, but do you, no, should you, really need to be able to pull a gun that fast? Where is the time for thought? Even if your plan is not to shoot, I can tell you that the situation you are in just escalated from 0 to 100 real fast, and you just became the bad guy to whoever is on the other end of that pistol. Time to bring it down to a 10 as my friend Zach would say. Seeing that gun on your hip is really intimidating to people around you, and not in a good way. Rather in a way that makes them think "oh, well that guy/girl obvious has a power complex, why else would he/she need to carry that out in the open, must be at least a little unstable and dangerous," not that that 's true, it 's just what people are going to think. Here in good old Ohio, you can open carry without a licence as long as you legally possess your firearm, but most people don 't do it because it makes other people nervous, and when people are nervous they act funny, but not cops, they open carry all the time, with no apparent qualms about how it makes others feel. Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I get it, you think, "well it 's their job to carry a gun for safety," and sure any adult is expected (not say that they can or should) to be able to understand that, but you can 't ask me, a child or any other child for that matter to understand, or be okay with some stranger we don 't know, confronting us with a deadly weapon, drawn or not, ordering us on what to do. That 's going to scare people, and that 's going to scare kids. I don 't care if you tell me "well as long as you follow orders," because frankly, 1. that isn 't true for all officers, 2. guns are scary, when people are scared they don 't think straight, and 3. it 's not my job to know how to act around a gun, since I am not a police officer or gun professional, I am a child, who doesn 't need that extra stress or