I do understand this is reasonably doable, but it also seems like a niche skill for someone really into their hobby. Gun nerds are less likely to be careless or to hurt anyone. Aside from preppers, I very much doubt this is common among problematic gun owners
Police are a hammer. They do a few things VERY well
Police don’t need to be a hammer. They don’t need to focus on hammering skills above all else. While they sometimes do need to be, they need the judgement to correctly find those times, they need to understand better options when it’s not those times, and they do need to understand when compassion/caring is the answer. Police also need the pride in ther role to hold each other to the Hodges’s standards, otherwise they’re a hooligan with a badge. Police forces should focus on “public safety”, not “law enforcement”. I understand that’s a lot of “should”
I do understand this is reasonably doable, but it also seems like a niche skill for someone really into their hobby
Sure, but we’re discussing a world where ammo is made artificially scarce. At the height of “wtf is going on with weed”, 1/3 of all pot-smokers I knew were growers, and some were hardcore at it. It’s far easier to make ammo than grow decent weed. And unlike weed, we’re talking serious logistics problems trying to ban DIY ammo.
I agree it’s not common now.
Police don’t need to be a hammer. They don’t need to focus on hammering skills above all else. While they sometimes do need to be, they need the judgement to correctly find those times, they need to understand better options when it’s not those times, and they do need to understand when compassion/caring is the answer
The most effective police forces in the world are in countries where they generally go unarmed… but I daresay that movements like “defund the police” are looking for that same thing - a force of social workers with at least some logical separation from the guys-with-guns.
But that’s not just about skills and the right employees, it’s about the right list of responsibilities. And frankly, I think they’ve got enough on their plate they can’t do to add animal control in areas where they currently don’t do that anyway. If you look at other emergency services, they do one thing INCREDIBLY well. Then you have police that do a dozen things terribly. And often times when they are called to do one of the peaceful things, they escalate the situation due to their training in others of the things. I am not so jaded to think that the world doesn’t need SWAT teams occasionally. But I don’t think the training that leads to SWAT teams and the training to deescalate a loud drunk are remotely the same.
I do understand this is reasonably doable, but it also seems like a niche skill for someone really into their hobby. Gun nerds are less likely to be careless or to hurt anyone. Aside from preppers, I very much doubt this is common among problematic gun owners
Police don’t need to be a hammer. They don’t need to focus on hammering skills above all else. While they sometimes do need to be, they need the judgement to correctly find those times, they need to understand better options when it’s not those times, and they do need to understand when compassion/caring is the answer. Police also need the pride in ther role to hold each other to the Hodges’s standards, otherwise they’re a hooligan with a badge. Police forces should focus on “public safety”, not “law enforcement”. I understand that’s a lot of “should”
Sure, but we’re discussing a world where ammo is made artificially scarce. At the height of “wtf is going on with weed”, 1/3 of all pot-smokers I knew were growers, and some were hardcore at it. It’s far easier to make ammo than grow decent weed. And unlike weed, we’re talking serious logistics problems trying to ban DIY ammo.
I agree it’s not common now.
The most effective police forces in the world are in countries where they generally go unarmed… but I daresay that movements like “defund the police” are looking for that same thing - a force of social workers with at least some logical separation from the guys-with-guns.
But that’s not just about skills and the right employees, it’s about the right list of responsibilities. And frankly, I think they’ve got enough on their plate they can’t do to add animal control in areas where they currently don’t do that anyway. If you look at other emergency services, they do one thing INCREDIBLY well. Then you have police that do a dozen things terribly. And often times when they are called to do one of the peaceful things, they escalate the situation due to their training in others of the things. I am not so jaded to think that the world doesn’t need SWAT teams occasionally. But I don’t think the training that leads to SWAT teams and the training to deescalate a loud drunk are remotely the same.