Clint Smith

Why wouldn't we teach officers to extend the distance from the target?

I know we have to close the ground to affect the rest, et cetera.

And I was politely told by a couple of people, just sit down and shut up.

And so that was my first eye opener at that.

The idea of what you have a hundred years of tradition unimpeded by progress.

So what you want to do is you want to teach people to not move if you have cover.

But if you don't have cover, the reason you go to cover is to look for better cover.

So it's a tradition of like not moving.

And we already know that that triad for survival for us, you, I, all of us, homeowners, everybody, law enforcement, military is for us.

The military says shoot, move and communicate.

historically over the years i didn't change it because i'm not that good but i did reverse it we need to communicate so stop get out of my house move or take advantage of going to cover or using protective cover okay and there's a difference between covering consumers which you know and then shoot only if i have to because every bullet i fire has a lawyer attached to it which i give credit to my wife heidi to a long time ago 30 years ago we go like hey

You know, every time you pull the trigger, there's a lawyer at the end of that thing.

I mean, you can talk about all the stuff you want and all your rights and everything.

That's all really notable, but it all comes down to what the jury sees as far as your response.

Did you act responsibly and so on?

So I know it was longer than you wanted, but I gave you the answer.

I think, so, you know, in 1971, I came home from Vietnam.

I just spent two infantry tours in Vietnam.

And the first thing I did when we got in law enforcement is they took rifles away from us.

Because they wanted to demilitarize, much like you're hearing now about we don't want guys to have their face covered.