The Glade 4.0

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I started out doing really poorly. Then I realized I'd misread the instructions and was "shooting" with my "holster" hand and vice versa. I backed out to check the directions and didn't care to go back in.

Don't get a handgun Mook.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Huh. Never thought I'd see those words escape your fingers...

So, yeah. I displayed the sort of bias the test is designed to uncover. Honestly, though, I think that's due more to the years of media attention given to black people saying "we're not all criminals!" than anything else. I don't equate young black males with criminal behavior because I've seen a lot of young black male criminals on the streets or in the news. I equate young black males with criminal behavior because I've seen a lot of young black males saying things like "what, so I'm a crook 'cuz I'm black?".
It's reached a point where I can hear myself thinking things like "don't act nervous, don't treat him differently, looking like a gangbanger doesn't mean he *is* a gangbanger" and then wondering why I'm even thinking such things.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

I can't be sure, but those may have been the ones where I didn't click fast enough. That effect is also why the lack of nighttime scenes means it doesn't tell the full story.

I did this once with swinging targets in the dark; there was one of a masked guy pointing a telephone at you just like a gun. The range was dark except for some strobe lighting and lights back by the booth which didn't illuminate the targets beyond being able to see the shape. I shot that picture, and I think almost everyone else in the class did too.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That really seems like more of a lesson to ski-mask-wearing individuals confronted by the police while on the phone than anything else.

The lesson there was after the shooting. That would have been a completely justified shooting, but you would have to articulate why it was justified. They critiqued you on the accuracy of your decription of what you saw (they knew, because they set it up and looked at it first) and your articulation of what caused you to believe it was a gun. You were supposed to treat the entire thing as a real scenario, and if the target "flipped" (turned back so its narrow edge was towards you, essentially making it invisible) that meant they had surrendered or something and not to fire.

So, everyone was yelling at this target to drop the gun, and they didn't flip it back, so it got blasted.

There was a gotcha in there, in that the original scenario was that the reason you were there was a distress call from 2 undercover officers. Of course, this guy turned out to be one of the undercover officers, and the instructors wanted to know why no one asked what they were dressed like. The lesson being make sure you have all the information. Of course, it wasn't as effective as the lesson about articulation because in reality, the dispatcher should just give you any and all information she has, and an undercover cop should know damn well not to point his phone at a uniformed officer as if it were a gun, especially in the dark when that guy is here expecting to confront armed people.

Some training scenarios are better than others.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'll be sure to avoid any guns which require me to shoot with one hand and not shoot with my other hand.

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That should be easy. You generally shoot with both hands.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Not me, I don't put down my drink for nothin

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Yeah, but you should be able to shoot competently with either hand.

Bah. You should be able to shoot simultaneously with both hands, while diving to the side, with shell casings falling in slow motion to the floor...oh damn, wait a sec...

/johnwoo off

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I think I could have done better. At first I kept pressing the holster key when I wanted to blast a MF'er and and the murder key when I wanted to spare a foo.


They should have had a guy holding a can of soda in one hand and a gun in the other.

All I know is, when dealing with cops, keep you hands visible and don't have anything in them. If some one has a gun pointed at you, you should probably listen to them.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Just holding down the shoot key:

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

And on the other side of the spectrum, just holding down the holster key:

Welp, no bias there!

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

You forgot the doves.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yes, but that comes later, and then you're not doing anything with the other hand. You sure as **** shouldn't be shooting a second gun.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I JUST started practicing offhand fire. It ain't east at all even at 10 yards.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

from this test, I have no business being a cop with a gun.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Even for the ambidextrous I'm told; something to do with the aiming is always better on one side.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Because people have dominate eyes, and its much harder to perform any distance task (such as aiming) across the dominate eye.

Don't expect it to get a lot better. I've been doing it for.. almost 9 years now and you just never see that much improvement.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I hate to say it Mike, but you're getting older. If you'd been doing it a long time you'd probably be fine but they're not giving you a lot of time and reactions get slower.

Frankly I think the decision time allowed is far too small to be realistic; it should be at least twice as long.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."