Gman, I agree but here you can just vote without comment so no one knows who voted or how.
Which is the reason I posted it this way. You don't have to give any information, but if you want to you are welcome to.
Ron
The last sentance +1As a cop, both uniform and detective; pulled pistol too many times to count.
Shot twice, 1 death.
Off duty / retired; once while off duty, no shots fired.
Most folks involved in a killing don't like to talk about it.
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I don't think the premise of the survey was designed to calibrate Police Officers. That is a profession that has inherent risk and the potential to become very bad, very quickly.
I certainly wouldn't expect any LEO or military, active or not, to discuss any firearm incident. It's not our business, and doesn't apply to this survey.
I don't think the premise of the survey was designed to calibrate Police Officers. That is a profession that has inherent risk and the potential to become very bad, very quickly.
I certainly wouldn't expect any LEO or military, active or not, to discuss any firearm incident. It's not our business, and doesn't apply to this survey.
I relayed my "shot without firing" vote because it was just that, if I had fired,.. I don't know if I would want to share, probably not.
Lesson from my WWII Veteran Grandfather, he never spoke of the "bad" times in his service to this country. Right up until the end of his life, and I was older, did he share a "few". His eyes, voice, mannerism, all changed right before my eyes, I never saw him like that before and it was chilling to hear him say what he said. 6 weeks later he passed away.
I respect all that have done their duty whether as a Police Officer, Military, OR Civilian defending their life or family.
Stay Safe
Tom W
The answer is..."not really". The point of my story is "know your target". This happened recently. My wife was out of town. She raises dogs for the show ring. I had just finished bring in the dogs and feeding them. Lights out in the dog house around 7pm. It was dark-ish outside because it was about to rain.
After being in house a couple of minutes the dogs made a great racket. They do that sometimes. Deer come around, cats come around, bunnies come around...and coyotes (so my wife says).
So I think maybe I left a kennel door unlock and a dog is running aroung the dog house causing havoc. I look through the window of the door first, the lights are off it is dark inside...nothing runing around.
I open the door and step in...to the far right there is a person just beginning to rise up from a kennel with an object in their hand. My hand goes to my revolver and begins to pull it from my pocket holster...when I hear:
"Hello, Mr. Worsham! I was just getting something out of the freezer for dinner".
It was the teenage girl from next door. They have remodeling work going on and the workers needed to turn the electricity on and off sooo, my wife had the neighbor put her frig stuff in the frig we keep in the dog house and didn't mention it to me (not that she needed to).
Know your target.
Don, that reminded me of another one. I was first on call for our companie's alarm system back twenty years ago. My boss was getting tired of being "fined" for the police responding to false alarms, so I went in alone, searching a five story building by myself. I was on an upper floor, the only light was by the elevator, and I could see someone poking around an assembly table. I pulled my gun and was tracking him while he walked towards the light, intending on stopping him there. When he got to the light, I could see it was a cop! He didn't see me, so I put away my gun and called to him. He just happened to be passing by, saw a door ajar, and came in to investigate, his story anyway. I was so shook up I wasn't about to question him. It's just too easy to misread a situation.