 and Schumacher, civil defense. So police are highly trained. This is something that I hear a lot from the civilian disarmament camp is that you know the police can have these weapons or have this type of weapon or whatever because they're highly trained. So they deserve the guns and they can have the guns but you as an untrained civilian you know you're not qualified right it's basically the line of the line of reasoning. Well I think that's interesting because I read this article today which I'm going to link it below and it's an article that's on a police website a pro police website called police one and the interesting part is is that it goes through this study that was recently published on how the the hit rate for this department that they studied which I think was the Dallas police department and this is no slagon on the Dallas police department this is just you know the study found it was over a period of like 50 years I mean it was a very long study and uh what they found during during this this study is that the hit rate the average hit rate was somewhere between 22% and 52% 22 to 52% of the time that officers shot at somebody they actually hit the person they are trying to shoot at which means that give or take at the at best half the time you're missing one out of two bullets is not hitting the bad guy you pull at your gun you shoot at a guy six times three of those bullets goes god knows where right and the the article goes on to talk about how this can be generalized other police departments and like I said you can read it for yourself but I just think this is super interesting so you you always hear this thing that police are highly trained on average a police officer gets about 16 hours of firearms training a year okay that's a two-day class that's what that is they get about one of those a year on average so when it comes to this line of police officers are highly well trained I just I'm not buying it I haven't been buying it for a long time and I'm certainly not buying it the more information that comes out right the police officers god bless them they have a tough job to do and I wish them all the best and I'm not making fun of them or coming down on them at all but I'm just saying the facts are they're hitting their target at best 50% of the time but these are the people that they call highly trained and that are allowed to carry the guns and you're saying I'm not now if you're a citizen and you're watching this and you think that you can hit better than half the time when you're supposed to now granted maybe you can't because there's a lot of different factors at play here okay someone might be trying to kill you and they might have a gun and it might be dark and etc etc etc there's all kinds of circumstances and you will fall you will not rise to the occasion right you're going to fall to the lowest level of training that you have meaning whatever the skill is that you've mastered that's how you're going to perform that day if you're like yeah I can do my draw when I think about it your draw is going to fall apart that day right if you're like man I can I can really shoot at 50 yards and are ideal conditions when I take all my time in the world you're not going to be able to make that shot today right like you're not you're going to be on adrenaline which is based like being on drugs you're going to have a lot of issues right so your accuracy is going to come significantly down but my point still remains the same which is I believe that you as a citizen as a responsible trained citizen can do at least as well as a police officer can there's there's no difference between you and them after all you're both human beings this whole line of police are well trained only they get guns is complete complete trash and we should not pay that any mind and we should be quick to just get rid of that hogwash okay you can brush that one aside that's not a valid argument in light of facts and reality the second thing is let's all be better if you're watching this and you're a citizen civilian if you're a police officer if you're in the military let's hit the bad guys and no one else right only hits count if I pull up my gun and shoot 10 times and I miss the guy he's still trying to kill me because I didn't hit him with any bullets so let's all shoot better let's all train harder let's all train smarter and let's get really good at this so that these things of 50 percent hit rates are a thing of the past and we're at a point where we care about where our bullets are going because we want them to go into the bad guy and not into the six-year old that's on the playground that has happened to be in the wrong place the wrong time five blocks down right that's not what we want to happen nobody wants that to happen do brave deeds and endure