[CaptainCrunch]

I wanted to jump in on a couple of things.


1) Using a pistol to shoot someone in the arm or leg. Its one thing to say that someone should be able to do it, its another thing to be able to do something to that effect on a range, its an entirely different thing when your on the move, you've been running, adrenaline is coursing through your system and your hand is maybe shaking or your breathing hard or erratically, as well we hear about time slowing down in these situations, and I call BS on that, in a few situations where it was fight or flight for me, time sped up.



Pistols are really a center mass weapon. Its the biggest part, it fills the sight to about 10 feet out.


2) I get the idea of taking funding away from the police for social causes or root problem issues. But I believe that if your looking at budget priorities for the police, it should be focused around, how do they recruit and test possible recruits, and background check possible recruits. How to you train a recruit, I think that this is a bit of a failure point right now when combined with the first point. Training has to be better and probably longer, and it really needs to find a way to expose flaws in a person so they can either be fixed or dismissed. Funding the police police and creating a more open and transparent system of internal investigation.


If you want to do a defunding argument, maybe its taking away funds from some of the equipping decisions. and reducing the amount of police that are on the so called sharper edge of law enforcement. Taking that money and plowing it into the above.


just my 2 cents