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| We Can't All Be SWAT |
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| Just your gun, your wits, and your training |
SWAT team members and SRT officers are awesome. They train for dangerous assignments and often use their very specialized training to save lives. Narcotic officers are just as awesome - often risking their lives to keep illegal drugs off of our streets. Even the men and women that we casually call patrol officers perform heroic acts that most of us can only imagine.
However does law enforcement's para-military training translate to the very different circumstances and realities facing a civilian who has decided to carry a handgun for self defense?
In fact, if you don't have twenty years to train as a tactical swat team member what good does it do you - a civilian with a handgun carry permit if your instructor teaches SWAT tactics with with weapons and equipment most of which you can't own much less carry?
However does law enforcement's para-military training translate to the very different circumstances and realities facing a civilian who has decided to carry a handgun for self defense?
In fact, if you don't have twenty years to train as a tactical swat team member what good does it do you - a civilian with a handgun carry permit if your instructor teaches SWAT tactics with with weapons and equipment most of which you can't own much less carry?
How does it help when the only thing between you and an attacker is your handgun that you instructor trains men and women in full combat gear to storm buildings to dislodge a barricaded suspect.
How does it help you - a civilian with no law enforcement training that your instructor is certified to guard prisoners, patrol a beat, and conduct criminal and narcotics investigations?
How does it help you - a civilian with no law enforcement training that your instructor is certified to guard prisoners, patrol a beat, and conduct criminal and narcotics investigations?
Does it really matter that your instructor was a SWAT instructor or is certified in Air-Soft?
Does paying dues to a police officers' association qualify your instructor to teach you - a civilian to defend your life?
Will the fact that your instructor patrolled an industrial complex for 30 years as a security guard and special response team leader keep you safe when no one is around but the person intent on harming you?
What difference does it make to you - a civilian with a handgun carry permit that your instructor was a policeman who teaches terrorism/counter terrorism and for a few weeks a year barks and yells at police recruits at a community college?
Unless you're a drug dealer how does being a STOPS Instructor or tactical narcotics officer instructor help you - a civilian with a carry permit to survive a rape, armed robbery, or car jacking?
Unless you're a drug dealer how does being a STOPS Instructor or tactical narcotics officer instructor help you - a civilian with a carry permit to survive a rape, armed robbery, or car jacking?
The fact is that after a lifetime as a police officer it is hard to see the world through a civilian eyes. The former officer often fails to understand that you probably don't want and certainly don't need need police training.
Instead you need instruction for civilians and you need practice -- practice that is as close to the real thing as possible....
That's why we built the most modern firing range in Tennessee.
That's why we founded and operate
Frontier Firearms Training Academy
Where the real world meets the classroom and range!
