So you think bad guys don't practice?

This may be unrelated but this thread made me think back to about a month ago, on the local news was the story of a local heavyweight coke distributor. Three of his guys decided to cash out and came into his home with guns drawn. Ended up burning off his his genitalia with a heated spoon in efforts to make him reveal where he kept his cash. On the news was a 3 second clip of the seized suspect's arsenal. A KP-95 Ruger, Carbon 15 pistol and 16" AR-15. Made me think, LEO's must hate that the old Saturday night special mfg.'s got shut down, these street thugs today have to use something else and two of these three weapons could punch their vest like paper. Before it was .25's that didn't even leave a welt. Practiced adversaries or not seems like the ordnance has gotten heavier. Traditionally only desperado armed robbers have been worth a damn in gunfights with police or feds, I think 95% of other career criminals are probably used to just getting what they want upon flashing steel and complacent. Never the less, assume a common street urchin that pulls down to be Clyde Barrow or Verne Miller, Charles Whitman or Michael Platt. When in fact, most likely Chuck Schumer has better skills and tactical proficiency.But...prepare for the worst in any case.

Be safe out there guys.
 
I feel sorry for police officers

who drive about alone in their police cars, forced to interact with disturbed people who behave badly towards other people. I think ccw carriers are cautious people who avoid problems, not run towards them. The problem with criminals is that they shoot first, which defines them as criminals. If I could remove my empathy then I could, too, kill a lot of people when they least suspected it coming. With a silencer no one would ever catch me. We all know how we freeze up and become shaky when the adrenaline starts pumping. Hitting a moving criminal ten yards away will be almost impossible. I think the best idea to have at the back of one's head is to seek cover, to run away from a threat. Pull your hand gun while safe behind a parked car. People who shoot police officers are not cool, they are just showing how empathically disturbed they are. I'm thinking about putting in my will that part of the little money I've got should go to orphaned children of murdered police officers. I think many of the police officers out there aren't the smartest of people. But I guess you have to be emotionally numb to deal with dregs on a daily basis, just like nurses don't worry too much about other people's pain. I think I would be a good police officer though, because my radar goes off if there is a scum bag within a hundred yards of me. But I choose to put my sensitive mind into another line of work.
 
On the news was a 3 second clip of the seized suspect's arsenal. A KP-95 Ruger, Carbon 15 pistol and 16" AR-15. Made me think, LEO's must hate that the old Saturday night special mfg.'s got shut down, these street thugs today have to use something else and two of these three weapons could punch their vest like paper. Before it was .25's that didn't even leave a welt.
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It's called unintended consequences.

When politicians called for bans or restrictions on cheaply made guns, calling them the weapons of choice for criminals, they then forced criminals to find a replacement. Those replacements are simply better guns stolen from dealers and residences. As criminals switch to better guns, the politicians can now claim these have now become the weapons of choice simply because the politicians created the problem in the first place.

Counter-intuitive as it sounds, the government should actually promote production of inexpensive small caliber guns. Why? Consider, if you're a criminal and want a gun, would you spend $400 on a S&W snubby or would you spend $125 on a smaller .32 caliber auto? Most would go with the cheap gun so they have more money for their "cool" stuff. So we promote some small companies to make cheap .32 autos, .32 S&W revolvers with short barrels, meaning low power. Additionally, the government could subsidize ammo companies to make cheap JHP ammo for these that doesn't penetrate deeply. End result? Fewer deaths by criminal handguns because they're using cheap, low powered guns or ammo designed to be a shallow penetrator.

Of course, all of us knowledgeable types will be carrying effective calibers and cartridges. :D
 
Just about every law has unintended consequences, but it seems like legislators spend sometime between negligible and zero time assessing them. I've mentioned it a few times, but it bears repeating: those who are responsible for gun restricting laws should be criminally prosecuted as being facilitators of crime, or at very least heavily sued. Has anyone carried out such? We need it badly. We should treat anti-firearm sentiment exactly like anti-semitism is treated. Why don't we?
 
Because they are not even remotely the same thing?
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Who cares how similar they are? It's entirely arbitrary and purely a product of relentless PR and squeaky wheel politics--selling the public by relentless hammering-- that one particular ethno-religious background is a sacred cow with 12 foot electric fences and armed guards around it while others are not. We should do the same with OUR position. Seriously. Utterly ridiculous ideas get sold successfully as public mantras and great causes of enlightened society, why not ours as WE view it? P.T. Barnum could sell anyone on anything. Lawyers can talk a nail into a corkscrew. If the world's going to hell in a hand basket, why aren't WE trying to grab the hand basket? If the public opinion is swayed by retards, then how hard can it be to take it away from them?
 
This is thread hijack and has nothing to do with the issue of bad guys practicing.

Views about the expression of anti-semitism or antigun views are best discussed in another thread. Personally, I don't want to contribue to a thread hijack of a trolling nature and hope this stops.
 
Very well, back to topic then. Have you ever suspected someone at the range of being a bad guy who is practicing? It makes me suspicious of some I've seen who appear in crowds less than seriously dressed and less than professional in their regimen.


Anyone? Anybody? Anyone at all? Or am I just imagining things here? Or does someone who witnesses a thief or other bad guy never live to tell about it? Or you just don't know?
 
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Must they be called "gang bangers?" Personally I think actors in the adult film industry should be highly offended being compared to low rent hoodlums, but maybe that's just me.
 
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