UPDATED 2/24/13
“Offensive” cut-outs depicting pregnant women, gun owners in residential settings removed from website
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 22, 2013
A company which received $2 million dollars from the DHS
has apologized and taken offline “no more hesitation” shooting targets
which depicted pregnant women, children, and elderly gun owners in
residential settings as “non-traditional threats,” following an online
uproar.
As we first reported on
Tuesday, Law Enforcement Targets Inc. (LET), a Minneapolis based
company that has received almost $2 million dollars in contracts from
the Department of Homeland Security over the last three years, recently
began selling cardboard cut-out targets designed to desensitize police
to “non-traditional threats,” including pregnant women, mothers in
school playgrounds, and little boys, as well as elderly gun owners in
their homes..
The company’s relationship with the DHS, along with
thousands of law enforcement agencies, led to fears that the targets
could be connected with Homeland Security’s purchase of roughly 2 billion rounds of ammunition over the last year, which many fear is linked to preparations for mass social unrest. As we documented, the LET’s contracts with the DHS were for “training aids” and “paperboard”.
In its apology, posted on the company’s website as well as Facebook, LET acknowledged that the targets were requested by law enforcement agencies.
We apologize for the offensive nature of our “No More
Hesitation” products. These products have been taken offline due to the
opinions expressed by so many, including members of the law enforcement
community.
This product line was originally requested and designed
by the law enforcement community to train police officers for unusually
complex situations where split-second decisions could lead to
unnecessary loss of life.
Consistent with our company mission as a training
supplier (not a training methods company), we will continue to seek
input from law enforcement professionals to better serve their training
objectives and qualification needs. We sincerely appreciate law
enforcement professionals for the risks they take in providing safety
and defending freedom.
The company’s excuse that the targets were designed to
help police prevent “unnecessary loss of life” is highly dubious given
that the images were all of armed individuals termed “non-traditional
threats,” designed to ensure “no more hesitation” from police officers
encountering them.
Published on Feb 20, 2013
As you can hear in the YouTube clip above, Blaine Cooper
enquired about the company’s “no hesitation” targets, which also
feature children, elderly gun owners and mothers in playgrounds, and was
told that the target showing a pregnant woman was a “requested law
enforcement target for training.”
The representative refused to answer why police would be
interested in training to shoot pregnant women, but went on to explain,
“unfortunately our world is made up of people, pregnant or otherwise,
that are gun owners not for the right reasons,” adding that the targets
were to “train police officers”.
The woman refused to give her name, accusing Cooper of
being “angry.” “Could you understand why I’m upset if the government is
trying to make targets to kill citizens – I don’t feel that’s right,” he
responded.
The representative also claims that the targets could be
used for “don’t shoot” training, which is somewhat dubious given that
they are called “no hesitation” targets and every single one of them is
described as a “threat” target in the product description.
The shooting targets, intended to “help the transition
for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the
first time,” include “pregnant woman threat,” “older man with shotgun,”
“older man in home with shotgun,” “older woman with gun,” “young school
aged girl,” “young mother on playground,” and “little boy with real
gun.”
Another customer who called the company claims he was
told that the targets were, “strictly for Department of Homeland
Security and other law enforcement agencies.”
Asked by Mike Riggs at Reason about
the targets, the company responded, “The subjects in NMH targets were
chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly
force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during
training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law
enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops
when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or
condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own
kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with
such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time
may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing
their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that
stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of
encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman,
etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range
experience, the officer and community are better served.”
The targets are still available for sale on the company’s website via this link (screenshot here).
Source: Info Wars
Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a
provider of shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security, has
admitted that targets depicting pregnant women were "requested" by law
enforcement agencies.
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DHS Target Maker Providing Pregnant Women and Children Targets to Law Enforcement
This is one of those stories that is almost too sick to believe, but
unfortunately like most of the news lately this one is very real.
Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., the company that supplies the
Department of Homeland Security, TSA, and the Department of Defense with
Shooting Targets, has a sick new product for law enforcement agencies.
The product replaces traditional shooting targets with images of
pregnant women and schoolchildren.
Law Enforcement Targets newest line of targets, called “no
hesitation” targets, depict images of pregnant women, elderly men &
women, and school yard children holding guns. The targets are said to
help law enforcement officials pull the trigger on unusual targets. The
company explains it by saying; the shooting targets are intended to
“help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly
unusual targets for the first time.”
The series of targets contains targets, titled Pregnant Woman, Older
Man 1, Older Man 2, Older Woman, Young Mother, Young Girl, and Little
Brother.
Are these targets really meant to help officers, or are they part of a program to desensitize police and government officials?
H/T Unlawful News
