On Monday 24 February 2003 14:20, Greg Newby wrote:
If he had weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for, I'd be more suspicious.
"Weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for" includes pepper spray
in NYC.
And the notion that a guard having a weapon a non-soldier can't get a license for is flawed.
Even in the most statist hotbeds of weapon control, in places like NYC and Washington, security guards can usually be issued a gun upon completion of a short training class (consisting of cartoons showing how guns are aimed...only a slight exaggeration).
There is no weapon a security guard might have which would make me think he's non-civilian, except maybe for a Stinger. Even MP-5s are readily licensed to some security guards. At nuke plants, for example. And, no, they are NOT military. (Maybe former military, but not current, except in Protection of the Reich Alerts.)
--Tim May
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?" --Alexander Solzhenitzyn, Gulag Archipelago
