Security guard shot
On a flight once, I sat next to a woman who was a police firearms training instructor from WA. She said occasionally, in one training exercise, the trainees weapon is taken from him by the mock perpetrator. Stopping that from happening being one of the real focuses of the training. What slightly surprised me was, she wasn’t as concerned for those trainees, who she thought were idiots, but more for his or her partner. In the circumstances the partner would have no options left but to shoot the perpetrator. One of her personal motivations in doing the training was to try and stop that from ever happening.
I thought of that woman today, as I read this very sad story in the Sydney Morning Herald. Four men tried to rob a Chubb cash van in the CBD, but as is so often the case in these things, the robbery went terribly wrong. Planning and theory being all very good, but somehow they seem to wilt in the bright light of day. One guard was shot and killed. Those robbers will, in all likelihood, be caught and lives be ruined.
For what?
The only thing they managed to get, was a gun. Off a security guard.
We should all remember that when, in the name of security, parking rangers renew their demands for tasers.
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