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True “courage under fire” is a concept that is sadly lacking in today’s society. Most people live their lives out as decent human beings without coming into contact with those who would do them harm, and as such, have no idea of what it is like to have to act “on principle”, and do things “out of the ordinary” that serve to preserve innocent life, even at the expense of the courageous.

“Courage under fire” is an interesting concept that most people do not understand, and is not limited to military actions, but occurs in everyday life. Most people who exhibit courage under fire are ordinary, mild-mannered, non-violent individuals who have been propelled (actually thrust) into a situation that requires immediate action. Examples include Medal of Honor recipients, those exposed to combat, and yes, those who give their lives to protect our children in our abominable and misguided “gun free zones” called “schools”.

Let’s look at comparisons between our military and veterans who DO exhibit “courage under fire” as a matter of course, and our civilian (but “quasi-military”) “law enforcement” (who should exhibit the same characteristics), but have become more and more removed from this concept of “courage under fire”. You see, in today’s “law enforcement” community, “officer safety” is paramount. Most ordinary line officers will wait for a SWAT team, even on routine assignments, where even the SWAT teams exhibits a degree of caution that results in innocent lives being lost. It appears that the only time police and SWAT teams act with impunity is when they KNOW that they are relatively safe, as in their invasions on individual residences. In today’s “law enforcement” community, “making it to retirement” is the goal. Putting one’s life in peril “for the greater good” is absolutely “out of the question”. Unlike our military and veterans, today’s “law enforcement” runs away from gunfire.

A good examples of this is the latest school mass shooting in which the well-equipped police and SWAT teams SAT ON THEIR HANDS while the carnage was taking place. It most certainly appears that “courage under fire” is an unknown concept in American “law enforcement”. We are being told that this concept of “waiting to act” was abandoned after Columbine, but one can easily see that this is not the case, with the latest example being the most recent school mass shooting, where “law enforcement” hesitated to act.

Of course, “law enforcement” has an “out”. The Supreme Court has ruled that police officers HAVE NO DUTY to protect individual citizens–only “society-at-large”.

In addition, the degree of unnecessary “deadly force” utilized by “law enforcement” has increased greatly. Today’s “law enforcement” has become too eager to “shoot first and ask questions later” because their “official immunity” protects them from prosecution, unlike ordinary citizens who live under much greater restrictions on the use of deadly force. Despite not having any formal “rules of engagement”, “law enforcement” has a much greater degree of sloppy firearms use, where innocent lives are being lost. Good examples of this is where the police fired multiple shots at a vehicle in Washington DC because they “thought” the suspects were inside. Another example is that of the shooting outside the Empire State Building where multiple citizens were hit by errant NYPD gunfire. In both cases, any civilian pulling the same “stunts” would have been prosecuted.

A cardinal rule of firearm safety … BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET. I guess these clowns need more training.

If the majority of these cops are gays or transgenders, then their performance as front line combat troops would not inspire confidence.

**Freud Alert** I used “performance” and “gays or transgenders” in the same sentence.

Same same.

No wonder they don’t want us to have guns. They are afraid we may know how to use one.

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