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<blockquote data-quote="Poke78" data-source="post: 2021833" data-attributes="member: 4333"><p>You say you are going to fund this but I'm assuming that relates to your church planning since you haven't told us that you are Boone Pickens IRL with the associated deep pockets. In the larger scale program you plan for all schools, you (still) have not responded to repeated requests for programs to be de-funded or new taxes to support this large-scale training of indeterminate length. </p><p></p><p>I agree that the active shooter scenario is a most complex tactical problem that is fraught with danger and chaos multiplied by the surprise factor. When your OCPD tac team consultant/trainer starts your ERT training, you be sure to ask him how much the tac team trains on an annual basis and how much ammo they expend. Then ask him what that means for your ERT in that specific context and what he specifically recommends. Then ask yourself if you are ready to spend that time and those dollars just for your church on an on-going basis. Then ask yourself how that is done on the larger scale you proposed in your initial post in the thread.</p><p></p><p>If we had the luxury of backing up time to tell one of those teachers last Thursday that there would be an armed intruder in their classroom the next day and there was no way to stop that from happening or to stop the teacher from being there, what tool do you think they would they choose to personally handle security the next day? They have no time for training, no money has been appropriated to put a cop in every school and it's totally on them to protect themselves and their students. Let's don't make it "special" for some to be able to respond, let's make it normal for all who choose to do so to be able to respond. Sure, offer training but don't make it a pre-requisite for the basic human right to self-defense.</p><p></p><p>I am truly not trying to minimize the need or to deny your sense that something should be done. I just want to inject some political and fiscal realities into the discussion along with a consideration for simplicity rather than complexity as a better path to success. I also want to back away from the creation of another "special" group when the right to life and self-defense is universal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poke78, post: 2021833, member: 4333"] You say you are going to fund this but I'm assuming that relates to your church planning since you haven't told us that you are Boone Pickens IRL with the associated deep pockets. In the larger scale program you plan for all schools, you (still) have not responded to repeated requests for programs to be de-funded or new taxes to support this large-scale training of indeterminate length. I agree that the active shooter scenario is a most complex tactical problem that is fraught with danger and chaos multiplied by the surprise factor. When your OCPD tac team consultant/trainer starts your ERT training, you be sure to ask him how much the tac team trains on an annual basis and how much ammo they expend. Then ask him what that means for your ERT in that specific context and what he specifically recommends. Then ask yourself if you are ready to spend that time and those dollars just for your church on an on-going basis. Then ask yourself how that is done on the larger scale you proposed in your initial post in the thread. If we had the luxury of backing up time to tell one of those teachers last Thursday that there would be an armed intruder in their classroom the next day and there was no way to stop that from happening or to stop the teacher from being there, what tool do you think they would they choose to personally handle security the next day? They have no time for training, no money has been appropriated to put a cop in every school and it's totally on them to protect themselves and their students. Let's don't make it "special" for some to be able to respond, let's make it normal for all who choose to do so to be able to respond. Sure, offer training but don't make it a pre-requisite for the basic human right to self-defense. I am truly not trying to minimize the need or to deny your sense that something should be done. I just want to inject some political and fiscal realities into the discussion along with a consideration for simplicity rather than complexity as a better path to success. I also want to back away from the creation of another "special" group when the right to life and self-defense is universal. [/QUOTE]
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