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you can teach someone to drop their weapon without having them drop their weapon in class.
James Yeager = internet boob, and modern day idiot....remember this is the same guy that stands downrange during a live fire excercise..
How? "you can teach someone to shoot a gun without having them shoot their gun in class."
what? shooting and dropping items are two very different things. how much training do you need to learn to drop something?
This is just more silliness from Yeager. It's amusing to see him toss around phrases like needing an open mind but sidestepping judgment.
Some training ideas are bad. While the issue of complying with police commands is an important one, his approach borders on being incompetent. First, the biggest issue in complying with police instruction is listening. It is not uncommon for a person to receive conflicting orders, especially if there is more than one officer. And even if there is just one, an individual still may be told to do two things that are mutually exclusive. Getting told, "Don't move!" and "Drop it!" has happened to quite a few people.
Dropping a gun on command (once and just once as Yeager stressed) has negligible value. One of the keys to training is repetition. Having practiced something just once is very close to never having done it. It's not like under the pressure of a gunfight one's mind will clear upon hearing part of a police command and the person will replicate this "trust fall" moment because he did it "just once" in Yeager's class.
There is no need to drop a $500+ pistol in the gravel. This is what dummy guns are for. You can drop those repetitively and actually get people accustomed to dealing with a variety of situations without them being distracted by their beautiful whatever getting a new scar or real damage.
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Officers have been found dead with empty brass in their pockets. How many times do you need to do/not do something for it to become muscle memory?
People do weird bubblegum in a firefight, and I've personally watched an Lt (not mine thankfully) fight to get his M9 back into his holster, instead of dropping it and picking his M4 back up.
M9 was lanyarded to him, it wasn't going anywhere. Don't know why he had the pistol out to begin with.
LOL... as I was reading about the LT. the first thing I thought was "dummy should have his gear lanyarded up!" ... then you mentioned it was. People's brains can "short-circuit" under sudden/extreme circumstances, and for all we know that LT. may have thought about that pistol a week prior, and bang... he just grabs it instead.
The human brain is an awesome concoction, but dang they can be random sometimes.