mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Bullets are one thing the cops always seem to have an adequate budget 
>>>> for ... hundreds of clay pigeons and paper human cutouts quiver in fear 
>>>> at the number of shots expended ...
>>> Sorry, I thought we were talking about the JAPANESE police.
> 
>> We are.  They're terrors out on the shooting range.  They practice 
>> constantly.  No one ever teaches them real-life applications of what 
>> they do in practice.  So, we're mostly safe.
> 
> When I lived there, a guy walked into a koban and killed two of them with
> a knife. He said he wanted to steal the guns so he could commit some crimes.

He's already been hanged.  IIRC, one of the cops was a trainee and the 
older guy died trying to keep the killer away from the inexperienced 
patrolman ... who was killed anyway.  That was one of about half a dozen 
incidents that led to a requirement that every patrolman had to fire 
some large number of times on the range every month.  Now, most of the 
shot fired outside of the shooting range are cop suicides.

-- 
CL