CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Glad to hear they gakked him. I remember one of the guys was a trainee; wasn't
the other highly ranked in kendo, or judo, or something?

Mike