RoadDawg
Nos nostraque Deo
- Dec 6, 2010
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They do already.
And please understand, I'm not talking about guys like RD or 1time or the other LEOs that we all know. Just by dint of being here, those guys demonstrate that they're on our side of things. When I talk about the "they" in these last few posts, I mean the brass and other guys who stand up and say "the police support this, mere civilians need a license to exercise their rights!"
I wonder how many of those guys would back off that stance if all of their rank and file were suddenly required to jump the same hoops that the rest of us do?
The animosity caused by the “different class” rhetoric... does NOTHING to help this situation.
It pisses on the very folks who you profess to be those you want to “drag down to a lower class level” and hope they will fight beside you to end what most of THEM ARE ALREADY FIGHTING TO END. And in the process it simply makes their position more difficult to digest. Kicking someone in the nuts because you think it will make them fight for you... is foolishness.
We are not a separate class of people because the state recognized that we’ve already satisfied the requirements of the law... by virtue of the fact that we have had far more than the minimum STATE RECOGNIZED CERTIFIED training required to satisfy the law.
Once you’ve passed the requirements for the HQL... Should you be required to do it again each year?
Active LE and Military do... they must qualify each year.
I guess since you don’t have to requalify each year to maintain the HQL... that must make you a higher class of person.
See how that works?