Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Active Self Protection" channel.

  1. +soldotnaman I already did my time in 91/92, bolo.
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  2. +soldotnaman Im just Civilized.
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  3. +soldotnaman It should make you feel better, that our officers are taught better than you were.
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  4. "DO NOT MOVE!!!!" Uhhhhhh...
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  5. +alexandsimba Would you support the same requirements to vote, or speak publically?
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  6. +Gary Rae You either dont read very well, or more likely, you are willfully ignorant.
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  7. +Gary Rae Wow, you really are slow on the uptake, arent you? Heres my counter offer - review the UK national crime reporting policies. Then we can discuss the 'legitimacy' of UK crime statistics. How about we check with the UN on UK violent crime and 'gun crime' reporting? I mean, what part, exactly, of 'UK conceals gun crimes' did you so misunderstand, that youd refer me to UK official gun crime statistics, to prove your point? FYI, Im in LE education. Practically every law enforcement agency in the industrialized world, is aware of UK's official accounts and we all think they must be an attempt at characteristically British humor. You are hopelessly in denial.
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  8. +Gary Rae What facts? You havent offered any facts. Its really simple - divide the number of firearm deaths, by the number of firearms, for both countries and see who has the 'gun problem'. Furthermore, unlike UK, US openly reports ALL firearm related events, as such; so when we break down those numbers, we get ~62% suicides, ~22% justified acts and ~3% accidents and criminal acts. Again, unlike UK, we can consider these statistics to be legitimate, because unlike UK, US has nothing to hide.
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  9. +Gary Rae ~32% justified acts Didnt want you to get excited about a typo.
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  10. +Gary Rae Sooo... no simple division for you? Are you really this stupid, or just pretending?
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  11. +Gary Rae You are completely oblivious. Go back and reread the thread. Either address what I said, or STFU. Your incessant strawmanning, deflecting and abject avoidance of what I said, is epically ironic, dont you think?
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  12. +Gary Rae Lets ask UN what constitutes a 'safe society' and more importantly, if UK fits the bill?
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  13. +Gary Rae CITATION NEEDED
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  14. +MrMongoose221 Right. I wasnt neccessarily charging you with openly asserting superiority, but as you yourself noted, it came off as though you were criticizing American gun laws. Hiwever, I was making a blanmet statement, in regards to those such as 'Gary', who in fact do openly assert moral and cultural superiority and do try to tell Americans how to govern themselves - there is to this day, a deep objection to Europeans, particlarly English, telling Americans how to govern their own country, you Know? As for the first section, it stands. 'gun crime' is a strawman, as is the arbitrary distinction of 'advanced nations', that is often bandied about as a deceitful qualifier. Of course availability of guns increases gun crime, however availability of guns does NOT increase violent crime, nor does unavailability of guns decrease violent crime; to the contrary, according to most worldwide statistics. Furthermore, as an experienced, professional gunhandler, Ill tell you frankly, that I am deathly afraid of blades, but not so much guns, because a gun can only hurt you, from one discrete angle... unlike blades. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of gunshots are administered at close contact, against a suplicant victim. The circumstances of such acts, makes the choice of weapon redundant. Ill also add that ~85% of gunshot victims make full recovery, with no lasting physical effects, while poisoning, immolation and particularly beatings, commonly leave the victims with chronic, dibilitating injury.
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  15. +Gary Rae NTOA buddie, actually.
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  16. +lumpy368 He probably just poached Bad Dude's robbery.
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  17. +MegaSkilla You are particularly stupid, arent you? Try rereading your own comments and see if you can find the parts where you condem your own dumb ass. And please do cite the statutes from ANY state, that allows you to beat someone down and then 'shoot them in the gut, to die slowly'... you know, because he 'deserved it'. Im guessing youve probably never even handled a real gun.
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  18. Terrible gun handling
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  19. Assumptions that a 'bag guy' is incompetent/stupid/cowardly, will get you D-E-A-D. Anyone who tried grabbing my longarm like that, would not live to regret it. The very worst thing you can do is to grab a longarm, anywhere near the muzzle, because your hand is a fulcrum and an anchor; their simply pulling the butt rearward, or taking a step back, or turning toward you, will swing the muzzle directly into your COM, with far more leverage than your hand can overcome. pressing a hand against the outside of the receiver, only makes it easier, because youre assisting their leverage. If you HAVE to attempt a disarm, DO NOT GRAB a longarm further forward, than mid barrel and preferrably do not lock a hand onto it anywhere. The most practical outcome to hope for, is to break their firing grip, because if they know what theyre doing(and I ALWAYS assume an opponent to be at least my equal), allowing them to maintain a grip on the butt, allows them to correct the problem(you). Youre not trying to take it for yourself, youre trying remove it from the equation to level the field; if youre not trying to possess it, you should not be latched onto it.
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  20. Courage, definitely! However, it overrided his sense and he acted impulsively. It appears he closed in an attempt to directly engage with his pistol (that is, it seems he was aware of how outgunned he was when he engaged), when he might have been effective in fixing the target, with suppression from the defilade of cars. Certainly not Monday morning quarterbacking, but its sometimes more productive to miss a lot and keep the target busy so bystanders can escape the box. Firing long, down the street, presented a hazard to bystanders, but I think the indiscriminate fire from the perpetrators conclusively outweighed it. I think the Dallas BLM march shooting would be a helpful topic. There is a lot to learn from that incident. I understand though, if its too close to home and too recent.
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  21. Where was the dog???
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  22. The man was just as bad at his job. Why no note of that?
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  23. +alex Debroux Id like to see you, the first time you clear a structure with a bunch of other individuals. See how much you 'let stress rule over you' and the mistakes you make. Of course, if theres a woman around, Im sure it will be her fault you fucked up.
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  24. +Okamakiri 'All the officers sucked, but one of the females sucked the worst, confirming my bias, therefore females shouldn't be cops' Love the way you just give the big strapping man with AR15-type assault-style rifle-weapon a pass for being incompetent, while babbling about the women meeting his standard. Hey, dumbass, they were up to his standard, because he didnt know WTF he was doing, either.
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  25. +Scoobie Doobie No, an optician makes lenses, its not an 'eye doctor' Id ask if you feel foolish, but I doubt you possess the capacity.
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  26.  @timhouser7878  Checkout CSAT. Cant say enough good about CSAT. One thing is that theyre kinda serious, in a way that can be uncomfortable or fatiguing to civilians. If you were ever enlisted, it feels like an old glove.
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  27. While you have a point, my generation grew up without gun safes and didnt have a school shooting problem. Guns havent changed, mental illness hasnt changed, access to guns hasnt changed, bullying hasnt changed, we need to start looking at what has changed.
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  28. Fair point.
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  29. While youre right on many points, especially that one, the problem I see, is that everything has become so reactive, on both sides of the issue. Once someone has decided that murdering everyone is a solution to their problem, it becomes extremely difficult to either restrict their access to tools, or adequately modify their behaviour in a timely manner. Such impulses tend to reeamerge at unpredictable moments and 'mental health' solutions are again, reactive. This is a social problem at its core and needs to be addressed on those terms, first and foremost, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
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  30.  @rortiz5694  He was down, the 'gun' was 6 feet away and he shot him 3 more times at close contact. Then, he picked up the 'gun' and shot him again. Hes not a 'good guy', in any respect. You don't give a rat's ass about law and order, or civilized behavior, or facts of the case.
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  31. The problem isnt guns or mental health, its culture. A culture that fosters a perspective that killing everyone in their path, is a valid redress of their grievance. People lime to throw out 'mentally ill', because hey anyone who foes this must be crazy, right? But in reality, this mentality is becoming normalized, by popular culture. I mean, a Presidential candidate said that anyone who couldnt be convinced to vote for them, is 'irredeemable'... like a condemned prisoner.
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  32. Because in most cases, the 'bullying', is nothing more than kids being ugly to each other. The problem isnt with a kid making fun of another kid, its the kid that feels so entitled to inclusion, success, respect, sex, etc., that they have a social justice rampage.
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  33. +R S So, how long do you suppose bullying has been around?
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  34. Guy knew what he was doing... but had a ...380 😕
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  35. I think the guard's first shit was a ND.
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  36. WTF??? 'First shot'
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  37. He showed up for a domestic dispute, with extra mags and ammo, on his body, in his backpack, in his vehicle.
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  38. Tribal culture. People can yell RACIST! as loud as they want, but until 'black' culture civilizes and sheds its tribalism, this will be a daily occurrence.
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  39. +Jay Smack Not true.
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  40. +don carlo What a tough guy
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  41. I think the biggest issue here, is that this guy apparently knew he was being followed, and he TOOK THEM TO HIS HOME.
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  42.  @абвгдђежзијклљмнњопрстћуфхцчџш  Because he stood over him after he was face down with his arms splayed out and the gun 6 feet away and shot him 4 more times. Then picked his gun, leaned over him and shot him in the back of the head again.
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  43.  @RichardCranium321  Ive sat on a Harris Co Grand Jury
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  44. Ive seen a couple of these classes and I can't say I was positively impressed with a lot of the close contact material. Among the more appalling, was extending the support hand as a standoff and ripping off 6 or 8 rounds, from retention 🤦
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  45. Where I am, If yiu can show it, you can use it. Likewise if youre justified to use any force youre justified to use ALL force. As well if youre not justified to use lethal force, youre not justified to use any force.
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  46. This is appalling. How did the DA fuck this up?
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  47.  @ActiveSelfProtection  DA, because they picked the wrong charges and/or delivered a weak case.
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  48. Well, thats one way to avoid prison.
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  49. That was off the chain
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  50. 'That 4th shot finally gets him to drop' The first shot dropped him, the other three were extra weight. Not arguing that it was unnecessary, just that its something for peoole to consider. This is why we train clients for two or three shots and an assessment, before re-engaging. When we study shootings, we find that the overwhelming majority of civilian engagements are resolved with 3 or fewer shots. There is however, a disturbing trend of LEO firing in excess of 5 rapid shots at the same class of threats, where the threat is effectively neutralized after the first round and the following rounds hit a falling target. The goal is to neutralize the threat, not execute the criminal.
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