{"id":73021,"date":"2024-03-01T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=73021"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:14:16","slug":"the-average-civilian-pistol-permit-holder-is-better-with-their-weapons-than-most-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/the-average-civilian-pistol-permit-holder-is-better-with-their-weapons-than-most-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"The Average Civilian Pistol Permit Holder is Better with Their Weapons than Most Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Average Civilian Pistol Permit Holder is Better with Their Weapons than Most Cops<\/a><\/h1>\n

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New York State, with its liberal politics and\u00a0highly restrictive gun laws<\/a>, might be the last place you\u2019d expect to have a sheriff who actively encourages private citizens to get trained, licensed, and armed in order to help counter the nation-wide rash of mass shootings. However, that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/h2>\n

Paul Van Blarcum is the Sheriff of Ulster County, New York. Back in December 2015,\u00a0The New York Times quoted Sheriff Blarcum\u00a0<\/a>as stating,<\/h2>\n

In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to PLEASE DO SO.\u201d<\/h2>\n

As one might expect, this common-sense approach to responsible gun ownership generated nation-wide outrage. How DARE competent and law-abiding citizens assume responsibility for their own lives and safety! Something must be done about Sheriff Blarcum and his outrageous, and dangerous ideas! \u00a0\u2026or something. His advice seemed pretty reasonable to me.<\/h2>\n

Now Sheriff Blarcum is taking heat yet again for something that he said, but this time it\u2019s related to\u00a0quotes attributed to him in an article posted in\u00a0the National Rifle Association\u2019s online magazine,\u00a0America\u2019s First Freedom.<\/a>\u00a0This is what he had to say:<\/h2>\n

I think the people that are out there who do carry concealed right now are at least as proficient with their weapons as police officers are. Actually, my deputies have to qualify with their pistols twice a year and for many of them that\u2019s all the shooting they do; whereas, people who chose to carry are typically into guns, so they shoot more and are probably even better with their weapons than most cops are.\u201d<\/h2>\n

While a lot of people, especially our readers in the Law Enforcement community, will take issue with Sheriff Blarcum\u2019s statement, I think there is some truth in it. Police officers have many, many responsibilities, of which firearms proficiency is but one. The average officer, in a low-crime area, might never have to use his or her weapon, so they spend their time training for the types of activities that they are more likely to encounter during their day to day police work. In these types of situations, I can envision firearms proficiency becoming, at best, merely a semi-annual requirement. So, I think that the good sheriff is right.<\/h2>\n

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The Average Civilian Pistol Permit Holder is Better with Their Weapons than Most Cops   New York State, with its liberal politics and\u00a0highly restrictive gun laws, might be the last place you\u2019d expect to have a sheriff who actively encourages private citizens to get trained, licensed, and armed in order to help counter the nation-wide…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5442,3312,3786,5445,9583,14221,8994,5477,389,390,391,13,74,1307,2045,1405,981,1928,1635,3986,5754,6265,5396,398,399,483,484,3631,5549,4579,1189,402,15334,2863,10],"tags":[658,159,1411,8490,4551,7418,455,7114,7064,8607,8378],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73025,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021\/revisions\/73025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}