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COPTALK Massad Ayoob OPINION AND FACTS FROM THE MEAN STREETS Being Armed Off-Duty There are times when the off-duty cop is the only one who can stop the killing. When the time comes, will you have the wherewithal? Glock 31 The Price Of Preparation I t’s human nature to divest yourself from your job when you come home from work. The trouble with “The Job” though, is it follows you home. In the year 2010 in Chicago, five CPD officers were murdered. Four of the five were off-duty. Thomas Wortham was leaving his dad’s house when a gang of high-jackers tried to rip him off for his motorcycle. Thor Soderberg was attacked in the parking lot of the police station as he was taking his duty belt off after work, and killed with his own gun. Michael Bailey had just gotten home from body-guarding the mayor when he was gunned down in his own driveway. David Blake was in his car off At the January 2011 atrocity in Tucson, no good guy with a gun got there before unarmed citizens had taken down the mass murderer by hand. By that time, more than a dozen and a half victims had been shot. Modern holsters let Blocker Compare that to the Trolley you carry a plainclothes Square Mall mass murder that was duty gun in holster and a short-circuited when an off-duty comfortable spare mag in cop with a 7-shot subcompact concealment. a Mach-2 Here is 31 rounds pouch. 1911 .45 engaged the shooter and of potent .357 SIG. pinned him down until responding officers could get there and finish duty when shot to death. Had they “divested themselves of the job”? the job. Common sense tells us The price of preparation is high, and its line items include constant preparedness to fight fire with fire. When lethal and vigilance, and constantly being armed with enough firepower to get the job done. violence erupts, only lethal force In New Jersey some years ago, a retired police chief saw a mugging take place, and is likely to stop it before there are reflexively ran to the rescue, but had stopped carrying a gun. When the mugger turned dead innocents on the ground. on him with a weapon, the chief didn’t have what he needed and he was shot to death. Fight fire with fire, fight gunfire with gunfire. History confirms common sense. Things To Remember Surveys show a stunning number of American law enforcement officers do not regularly carry carry your gun; when you duty, you have a service pistol, at least When you carry your badge, suffice in theory, but not in reality. On- guns off duty. Imagine what would carry your gun, carry your two full reloads, body armor, shotgun go through the mind of one of badge. The common wisdom says a and/or patrol rifle accessible and a those if something like Tucson or helpless, unarmed cop whose badge is backup handgun, not to mention instant Trolley Square did happen in front discovered by felons has a short future. radio contact with dispatch and backup. of them — and they were close The tragic history of “blue-on-blue” Off-duty, you have whatever you’re enough to stop it — but didn’t have mistaken identity shootings, such as armed with — and a cell phone. You do the tool for the job? Is that a face the fatal incident in Baltimore in early carry a cell phone for emergency communication, any of us would care to see in the 2011, tells us when guns are out and don’t you? mirror the next morning, or for the perhaps even being fired, the burden is I remember a cop a decade or so ago rest of our lives? on the unidentifiable person in plainclothes who was off duty when he learned a to let the identifiable responding mass murder was going down at a high officers know he’s the Good Guy as school in his community. He got there opposed to “Man With A Gun.” with a 2.5" .357 revolver and an old vest Power and responsibility are commensurate. he just happened to have in the trunk of When the equal balance his personal car. “It’s enough! Let’s go,” between them is broken, bad things he reportedly told his partners before the happen. Power without responsibility ad hoc SWAT team he joined entered the becomes tyranny; responsibility without building. Ask yourself: would you like to power is the very definition of futility. have a little more than that available on Keep the balance. It’s badge and gun. your person and in your vehicle when the Today’s high-tech subcompact off duty Carry a gun you can win a gunfight mass murder in progress call reached you guns give you shootability and firepower without compromising concealment. with. Carry spare ammunition. If your department regs merely say, “Have a while you were out and about, off duty? The lessons are there, ineradicably “Baby” XD9 mounts X2 InSight light, carries 14, 9mm rounds. loaded firearm with you off duty,” a .22- caliber single-shot Colt Derringer might written in blood. We are fools if we ignore them. * 22 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2011
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