From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
ACPO themselves have said that nearly all
shootings take place at ten yards or less. The advantage
an MP5 has over a pistol at that distance is negligible.
Or are we seriously saying here that the police
don't have the money to teach their AFOs to shoot
effectively at ten _yards_?
[...]
No, I don't think that is the case.
What I do think is that there is a mentality
that the 'arm makes the man', instead of the 'man making
the arm'.
Obviously there is the kind of thinking that says
merely having a high tech arm is going to somehow impart
a superiority to the wielder.
We are in the age of the simplistic, where nobody
is required to think, but merely act.
It goes hand-in-hand with a lot of reactive training,
where the message is 'don't think, just do as you have been
trained!'
Well, if the training wasn't worth diddly, and if the
mental attitude of the trainee isn't what it should be, then
no arm is going to be anywhere near as effective as it could
well be, no matter how good that arm is.
And, in direct to answer to your comment above,
if the people in positions of authority already have negative
mental attitudes concerning firearms, then it is likely that
they will have the unconscious attitude that such training is
irrelevant, since they already have it in mind that
anybody with a firearm is -- in every way -- superior, regardless
of their skill with such devices.
ET
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I think basically what happened is that whomever came up
with the idea of the MP5 for general AFO issue didn't consider
that shootings would be at such short ranges. Perhaps there
was some SAS tendencies as well, I don't know, MP5s didn't
seem to start appearing in the hands of the police in quantity
until the late 80s.
In any event, I don't think the MP5 helps out much over
a pistol at ten yards. Other than you've got more rounds
to miss with.
Steve.
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