Brother I get what you are saying and I served in the military for 28 years and LE as well. It is a different program. The military is supposed to take lives and break things. When the military guys clear a room they usually follow a frag grenade in. LE has to use a bit more discretion. I also agree that many are not gun guys but he annual qual requirement is usually a bit more stringent than the civilian courses. I taught firearms for 40 years an always stressed the marksmanship is a perishable skill. The idea behind LEOSA was to increase an LE presence due to this countries unrest and terrorist threat. It's hard to stop being LE even when you retire. Most civilians don't have the training to intervein and a civilian CCW was intended for personal protection not safeguarding the public. I get that there are plenty of guys out there that would and could do that, but there has to be line drawn somewhere and differentiating those guys from the rest of the public CCW holders would not be easy.
Like the multiple cases where an armed civilian was able to stop an active shooter???
Like Elishija Dickens who made one helluva pistol shot and stopped an Assault rifle armed active shooter??
The right to bear arms is not predicated on skill and the narrative that "Only cops have the training" is BS as much as Retired Military officers who get on TV and tell reporters "I've seen weapons of war and no one needs an AR15"
And thanks to the main stream media, who kill those stories quickly, before the average American puts down there smart phone and actually start using there brain to figure out that an armed society is a polite well ordered society.
Law enforcement likes to perpetuate the myth that there level of training is well above us mere Civilian's (Even though cops are in that same category), But I've taken many shooting classes over the years, (One which I was the only non LEO) and found out quickly, that the average dept, ran by administrators, do not want to fund much beyond basic qualification and training.
And years of watching body cameras of OIS's has reinforced that view.
I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere on some document written by some old dudes that "All men are created equal" but I guess some feel there more equal then others.
At the end of the day, we all have our views, I've shared mine and I know I'm not going to change the minds of those who benefit having that "Special" privilege.
But as Fletcher once said, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"
