Business execs trained to use handguns

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Oatka

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From the Atlanta Constitution. Evidently the workers can shift for themselves. I suppose ANY safety training is a plus though.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_83de47c33678014a00b4.html

Toccoa to train armed execs
David McNaughton - Staff
Friday, April 7, 2000

The Toccoa Police Department is looking for executives with $675 in their pockets and guns under their jackets.

The North Georgia town's police force is about to offer a training course for the white-collar world, a five-day exercise in dealing with potentially deadly encounters in the workplace, in traffic or at home. The targets are chief executives, vice presidents and middle managers who already have permits to carry concealed weapons.

"These people have a good amount of disposable income," said Don Savage, director of training at the department's advanced tactical training center. "People look at them as targets for kidnapping, for extortion."

The program grew out of requests from companies that had turned to Toccoa police for help in dealing with the issue of workplace violence, Savage said.

For $675, executives taking the course June 26-30 will get training in marksmanship, combat shooting, unarmed defense, shooting judgment, and practice in clearing armed intruders from a building. They'll also be schooled in how to recognize when the better part of valor is to head the other way.

The course is intended to help executives deal with dangerous situations, not to turn them into armed cowboys, Savage said. "We all know about traffic around Atlanta and the road rage. Not that we want to have a running gunbattle around the perimeter, but it pays, in our opinion, to be prepared."

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Funny. Tom Teepen, a staff editor at the Atlanta Unconstitutional, regularly foments against guns and the NRA in his columns. I wonder if he's gonna go "Harumph!" over this?

Of course, he probably has a CHL...But you or I shouldn't.

Cynthia Tucker, another columnist there, may be calming down as to anti-gun ideas. A recent column read as though it was an NRA press release...

:), Art
 
Art

Are you taking about the same Cynthia Tucker? I've never seen her put out anything remotely resembling "pro-NRA". But then I only take the weekend papers, can't handle the daily fishwrap.

JimR
 
As for Anti's taking a less angry, err, I meant to say, less violent, ooppss, what I meant to say was, more conservative approach to handling their agendas against the Second Amendment.

Let's see in less than two weeks, there have been examples of staunch anti-second amenders having trouble dealing with their anger. PLUS that wench in WDC backing off a little bit, for the time being.

At this particular time we have to gain momentum against them in any way, and manner possible. Be it from NRA memberships, or marches, to Gun Shows, to sane and civil discussion with each other. Ideas have to be opened, exchanged and aired to form a defensive, and offensive to the concept that the Second Amendment = barbarism.

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
Well, good for them, but ... they should also become less elitist about this, and open it up to all honest citizens. But, this is a start.

What a radical admission ... honest folks should be able to defend themselves, and LEO's cannot protect everyone.
 
I can't believe that the Atlanta paper actually printed that article, are you sure it wasn't April 1st :)

Bravo to the business men who take part in this training. Who knows, if one of these business men had been in the building with Mark Barton, maybe so many people wouldn't have been shot?

I like to use the Atlanta paper to clean my guns on, wrap fish guts, and deer guts; that is all it worth. I agree JimR.

DaHaMac

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Well, there are some businesses that could use firearms training for their exec's.

Board meeting - "Da shareholders aint so happy wit you Gino, you gonna fixa your ways hey? Giuseppe has just com-a back from de course hey? he shoots good now... an Antonio there over t'other area, he needs some attention, he bothering la Famiglia hey - i want two executive vicepresidents to pay him a visit - you bin to the tactical center guys?...

Seriously though - in this country - Argentina - Execs are often among the select few that can get carry permits - and many can use the training - I think it was Col Copper that said - 'owning a violin doesn't make you a musician'
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Oatka:


"These people have a good amount of disposable income," said Don Savage, director of training at the department's advanced tactical training center.

For $675, executives taking the course...
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Have I become too cynical in my old age? For some reason this was the main thing I keyed in on... Where does the money go? The "Police Benevolent Fund?" (And no, I don't mean that as a slam - anything local departments can do to raise money without going to Uncle Slick with hat in hand is fine by me.)



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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
 
Outside of inward change in the hearts of America, this is one of the few effective measures left to thwart work place violence and acts of aggression in general. If you get burned when you touch the stove you think twice. Proof: carjacking in Dallas and Houston has declined sharply because the bad guys know they might get their head blown off.

We need to be setting examples when idiots gain access to firearms strving to hurt others. Every school district in the country should have a plan in place to immediately deploy sniper teams to terminate with extreme predjudice any threat to innocent life. The same holds true for plants and office buildings. When a person comes into a public place intent on killing or hurting others, the time for talking and therapy is over. When that punk pulled a gun on the grounds of the High School in Georgia last year, a sniper round should have been put right between his eyes-----any questions? I don't care about his problems, I am more concerned the other 99.5% of the populace who have harmed no one and would not even think of doing such a thing. I guarantee you if heads roll (pun intended) every time a nut case decides to go berzerk with a gun, sooner or later the message will sink in. Instead of more gun control, how about instituting policies in towns and cities across the land that substitute the sniper team for the negotiation team?

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[This message has been edited by Will Beararms (edited April 11, 2000).]
 
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