JT>  JP> (and qualified annually) at the same standards mandated by NY for
JT>  JP> police.  IMNSHO, said standards were pretty damn minimal.
JT> 
JT> normally 70 percent on a _really_ _really_ easy course.
JT> 
JT> Seriously, if you can't pass the "standard" here in Illinois, you have 
ot
JT> to be blind in one eye, very near sighted in the other, and have a grip 
n
JT> your gun like mother theresa, shaking like a tree limb in a hurricane.
JT> it's pathetic.
Jeff,
Are you saying that those that are possessed of those qualities do not have 
the right to the use of deadly force in self defense? I would like to see 
everybody trained to the hilt, but the fact of the matter is that we (or 
the government, or anybody else) do not have the right to disarm anybody 
based upon competence (excepting the mental variety).  The law does not 
agree with me. If it did, we would be using this fido to trade tapioca 
recipes.
jackson
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