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Most MA LEOs that I've met have the "union mentality". If the chief won't pay them OT, etc. they have no interest in attending any training whatsoever.
Can I ask a basic question? What does maintaining security and law and order have to do with a "medical" corps? Does the MRC have a SWAT team? Seems like every alphabet soup agency has one.Many towns in the greater Boston are organizing a Medical Reserve Corps.
Do you have any experience with the MRC and have you thought about security and how to maintain law and order if a real emergency happens.
It's not a coincidence that DHS's center for domestic preparedness teaches this class:
http://cdp.dhs.gov/resident/basic.html
Can I ask a basic question? What does maintaining security and law and order have to do with a "medical" corps? Does the MRC have a SWAT team? Seems like every alphabet soup agency has one.
I know how to maintain security for myself and what is mine in a real emergency. As for law and order, that's someone else's problem.
If there is a pandemic and the population is told they are likely to get gravely ill unless they get the shot then several things will happen:
- The MRC will be activated
- The area will be quarantined
- The population will panic
The question is how do you keep the MRC teams safe? Who is going to guard the vaccine? Those will be a very valuable commodity. We can assume that security is someone else problem, but the LEO will be overwhelmed.
. When the stuff hits the fan during a pandemic, you can guess what will happen.
Every man will fend for himself and the strong will victimize the weak.
Being armed and being willing to use such arms is the only way to security.
Does the definition of arms include trauma shears? Jeeze, I can't even poke someone with them.
Carry a concealed handgun. If you never need to use it, the DHS overlords will never know about it. If you do need to use it, the fact that the DHS overlords object to you being armed will become irrelevant.
I don't understand, why would I need to do that? I've been told that I will be safe and protected. Plus, I do have the intimidating vest and deadly trauma shears. It's not my place to protect myself in Massachusetts, that's what the goverment does. They're looking out for my best interests. A lowly plebe of a citizen such as myself wouldn’t have the honed law enforcement skills need to protect myself. Thank god for the auxiliary PO’s with 120 whole hours of training.
Carry a concealed handgun. If you never need to use it, the DHS overlords will never know about it. If you do need to use it, the fact that the DHS overlords object to you being armed will become irrelevant.