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Old Jan 10, 2017 | 4:32 pm
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Originally Posted by chollie
Give me a break. Stop distorting my words.

To sum up: I don't think it's too much to expect academy-trained 'federal officers' to perform at least as well as untrained school teachers and school employees. You clearly disagree. You can do so without gratuitous insults or accusing me of things I neither said nor suggested.

No mention of 'Rambo' or 'Rambo wannabes' in my post - only in yours. No mention of unarmed folks attacking armed intruders. Not a word about a TSO making him/herself a target. BTW...I'd like to think that 'academy training' would identify and address any 'Rambo wannabes' in the TSA ranks.
I never accused you of anything. I said someone that would vilify any person that was incapable of stepping up in a incident of this nature, deserve to be vilified themselves. I never distorted your words, I never placed any words in your mouth, I merely indicated some possible situations if untrained people try to step up during an incident of that nature. Anything else you take from my post is simply in your interpretation - not an implication.

One of the reasons I disagree with you, is because of the training most unarmed federal employees get = run, hide, fight - with fight being an extreme last resort. Another reason is, I personally do not expect anyone with (no tactical training, no weapons and) no good option past "get out" to do anything other than "get out" is, it is unreasonable. It is simply unreasonable to expect untrained, unarmed civilians to face an armed individual bent on doing harm to people - especially if those people have the option to flee and remove themselves from danger. People that do step up are to be commended, and recognized.

As for gratuitous insults, there are no insults in what I posted.
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