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By looking to its past, the Dover (N.H.) Police Department has successfully adapted to the challenges of policing today.
Leadership, bravery and initiative in the face of superhuman odds are still some of the most powerful axioms of being an American.
In the peaceful, crime-free democratic country of South Africa (you know, the latest "workers' paradise"), crime is so rampant that the crooks are running out of victims to rob. Recently, the government even decided to stop mailing pension checks because so many old folks were getting' koshed and robbed outside the banks where they cashed 'em.
The decision of whether or not to carry a backup gun, while a personal one in most cases, is just as obviously important in this and many other situations.
Disasters can happen anywhere and, as so poignantly demonstrated in New York, it's our job to manage and mitigate them.
The NAA Guardian is a double-action-only semi-automatic with a fixed barrel fitted inside an open-topped slide. The gun resembles the Seecamp design that single-handedly popularized the pocket pistol so many years ago.
Hundreds of our own were murdered on September 11, 2001, along with thousands of citizens we were sworn to protect. Terrorism has struck the nation, particularly emergency response personnel. This nation’s police officers have been damaged by these criminal acts of terror; we have been damaged as a group and as individuals.
The Scottsdale Police Department has a few clowns working for them and that's something of which they're quite proud. Sure, maybe some other departments have clowns working for them, but the Scottsdale clowns have a mission - one they take very seriously.
Isn't it funny how one little detail can trip up an idiot in the middle of a holdup?
There is something almost mystical about a lawman's guns. Distinctly personal, unlike pens or uniform shoes, a lawman's guns are often as much a partner to them as their flesh-and-blood buddy in the saddle next to them.