Cosmoline
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The Nat.Geo channel is airing a new series about Alaska State Troopers. The troopers themselves acknowledge the reality that virtually all of us here are armed and most know how to shoot. What I found absolutely fascinating was the way the NARRATOR includes a number of erroneous and slanderous comments about this fact:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzqNS1rWR0
First of all, we do not need a "license" to own or carry firearms. We never needed one for carrying out of the city, and we haven't needed one for CCW in town since 04.
Secondly, the presence of firearms is not a constant danger to the troopers as the narrator states. A total of four troopers have been killed by gunfire since statehood, while the same number died in general aviation accidents. Considering the fact that most encounters with citizens involve firearms, and virtually none result in any shots fired let alone injury to the officer, I think it's fair to say that our firearms do NOT present much danger to the officers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_State_Troopers#Fallen_Officers
This is a textbook case of a big media producer putting an anti-gun spin on firearm-neutral material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzqNS1rWR0
First of all, we do not need a "license" to own or carry firearms. We never needed one for carrying out of the city, and we haven't needed one for CCW in town since 04.
Secondly, the presence of firearms is not a constant danger to the troopers as the narrator states. A total of four troopers have been killed by gunfire since statehood, while the same number died in general aviation accidents. Considering the fact that most encounters with citizens involve firearms, and virtually none result in any shots fired let alone injury to the officer, I think it's fair to say that our firearms do NOT present much danger to the officers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_State_Troopers#Fallen_Officers
This is a textbook case of a big media producer putting an anti-gun spin on firearm-neutral material.