Pages 76-81, Be Ready!, July-August 2014 issue, by Shotgun News
In Contempt for Cop James Tarr, a former cop, states the obvious, that cops come in good, middling and bad varieties. He goes on to base this piece on dealing with the bad and middling cops in disaster situations—which include your use of a firearm in self-defense.
Mister Tarr reminds us that the LA PD acted like a besieged garrison during its big test; that the New Orleans PD acted like a retreating army; and that the Boston PD behaved like an army of occupation in their latest test. He starts you out with the basic courtesies and precautions necessary to avoid being ground up in the everyday police state America is evolving into, with an eye on disaster bug-out and roadblock situations.
This is a nice piece of writing that is much more comprehensive than I am accustomed to for a magazine. The photo captions are accurately drawn from the text, and the writing was smooth. Mister Tarr even includes a small book review. The best point he makes, and which he utilizes as a guiding metaphor throughout, is equating cops with ‘sharks’, predators that are neither good or bad, but are just ‘looking for something to eat’.
