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<blockquote data-quote="dogdinger" data-source="post: 206696" data-attributes="member: 9616"><p>this is a letter to the editor in my local paper yesterday.....great read.....AJ</p><p> </p><p>[FONT=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>Define roles of 'first responders'</strong></span></span>[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Dear Editor:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">My warmest and richest thanks and admiration for publishing the guest opinion titled, "Good Citizens and Guns," April 17.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">I never in my lifetime expected to see writing of this quality on this topic in any daily paper in America. Never. You amazed me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">I'd like to add to the article by defining two relevant mindsets. These are "first responder" and "second responder" and involve a correct understanding of what they are.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Invariably, the public considers law enforcement officers or other emergency personnel as first responders. We believe that and are programmed to await their arrive. This error in thinking is, quite literally, dead wrong.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">One proper first response to lethal criminal behavior may be for a trained person to use a legally carried weapon to stop a valid threat. It is far more common for a criminal to flee on seeing his victim is armed than for an armed victim to actually fire a weapon.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Yet the usual first response remains that the victim surrenders his or her safety and future to the "mercies" of a potential killer</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">When seconds count, a law enforcement officer is only minutes away. We saw that again as 32 people died at Virginia Tech.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Law enforcement officers staged their "second response" as the killing proceeded.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">A similar second response was filmed outside Columbine, yet action by trained first responders (ie: victims) are considered vigilantism by the sheepish.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">If absolute and authoritative control and "zoning" of weapons is so effective, why are prisons so dangerous? No gun-grabbing law has ever stopped so much as one crime. Not one, not anywhere.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Watch this chilling surveillance video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa-3gbOysdo" target="_blank">YouTube - KFC Robbery Spoiled</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">It's difficult, but in it you see a father realize that a first response is his to make and his alone. What seems to be an alarm in the background hasn't had the desired effect.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">True first responders to assaults in every single instance are either the guy in this video or they are armed and ready or they are ditzy and dead. Any response by a victim is the real first response.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">The sooner we correct our misguided assumptions about the dream of rescue, the sooner fewer families will miss a loved one and the sooner recidivistic career criminals might start figuring it out.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Law enforcement officers and other second responders are priceless in the functions they perform so well. They take over and handle things once on scene. But until that time, you'd best be ready to mount an effective response in your own private moment of dire and desperate need.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">First response. Second response. These are critical mindsets and an ingrained understanding of them will determine what action is taken by whom and when. That can keep you alive when you and you alone are there to respond</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000">Robert E. Gleason, Salida</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dogdinger, post: 206696, member: 9616"] this is a letter to the editor in my local paper yesterday.....great read.....AJ [FONT=ARIAL, SANS SERIF][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][B]Define roles of 'first responders'[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=ARIAL, SANS SERIF][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]Dear Editor: My warmest and richest thanks and admiration for publishing the guest opinion titled, "Good Citizens and Guns," April 17. I never in my lifetime expected to see writing of this quality on this topic in any daily paper in America. Never. You amazed me. I'd like to add to the article by defining two relevant mindsets. These are "first responder" and "second responder" and involve a correct understanding of what they are. Invariably, the public considers law enforcement officers or other emergency personnel as first responders. We believe that and are programmed to await their arrive. This error in thinking is, quite literally, dead wrong. One proper first response to lethal criminal behavior may be for a trained person to use a legally carried weapon to stop a valid threat. It is far more common for a criminal to flee on seeing his victim is armed than for an armed victim to actually fire a weapon. Yet the usual first response remains that the victim surrenders his or her safety and future to the "mercies" of a potential killer When seconds count, a law enforcement officer is only minutes away. We saw that again as 32 people died at Virginia Tech. Law enforcement officers staged their "second response" as the killing proceeded. A similar second response was filmed outside Columbine, yet action by trained first responders (ie: victims) are considered vigilantism by the sheepish. If absolute and authoritative control and "zoning" of weapons is so effective, why are prisons so dangerous? No gun-grabbing law has ever stopped so much as one crime. Not one, not anywhere. Watch this chilling surveillance video [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa-3gbOysdo]YouTube - KFC Robbery Spoiled[/url]. It's difficult, but in it you see a father realize that a first response is his to make and his alone. What seems to be an alarm in the background hasn't had the desired effect. True first responders to assaults in every single instance are either the guy in this video or they are armed and ready or they are ditzy and dead. Any response by a victim is the real first response. The sooner we correct our misguided assumptions about the dream of rescue, the sooner fewer families will miss a loved one and the sooner recidivistic career criminals might start figuring it out. Law enforcement officers and other second responders are priceless in the functions they perform so well. They take over and handle things once on scene. But until that time, you'd best be ready to mount an effective response in your own private moment of dire and desperate need. First response. Second response. These are critical mindsets and an ingrained understanding of them will determine what action is taken by whom and when. That can keep you alive when you and you alone are there to respond Robert E. Gleason, Salida [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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