For the longest time, if you went to a gun range your choice of paper targets was somewhat limited: simple circular “bullseye”” targets, or a human silhouette – typically also with circular targets on it. Some decades back a drawing of a thug-lookin’-feller with a gun… a somewhat stereotypical image of a criminal. In recent years, targets have grown to include villains such as Osama bin Laden, and it seems zombies have become popular. The thing linking them all is that they are either designed for precision (the straightforward “targets”), or were meant to represent Bad Guys who desperately needed killin’.
But now there’s a line of targets that, if this isn’t some sort of weird hoax, is designed to help cops get over their natural reluctance to kill children and pregnant women. Law Enforcement Targets Inc. has released the “No More Hesitation” line of targets, which includes:
This is, of course, kinda tearin’ up the internet, with claims that this is all part of The Plan to help institute a police state, where government agents will have no hesitation to shoot American civilians. I suspect it actually is what the company claims it is, but it seems massively impolitic to me. I’ve tried confirming this line of targets on the company website, (a Google search of the website finds links, but at least as of this writing, none of them come up, likely due to server overload) but at least my connection to it seems incredibly slow and collapse-prone… not exactly surprising just now.
I can see some logic in the idea of training police to not hesitate in the face of, say, some kid on a shooting spree. But then… do we *really* want armed government agents who feel no hesitation about gunning down children and women?