Sunday, March 1, 2009

Why The Little Guns

Have you ever noticed that in just about every TV series, fiction or real life, that in just about every case where the 'good guys' are battling with the 'bad guys' there is a mismatch in weaponry.

The 'good guys' always have pistols and the others usually have shotguns, rifles, machine guns or even heavier weapons. Why? Is it because the powers that be don't trust their people to have anything bigger than a pistol? Yes, there is the local equivalent of SWAT, but they are an after-the-fact force, typically not on scene when things start or happen.

Given that the bad guys seem to have the better weaponry I'd hate to be the regular office on the street be it regular police or, drug enforcement or any other branch.

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