• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Enlighten me then. What do security guards armed with pistols or batons or tasers train on then? If I hired them to protect my store then why would I want someone who is incapable of killing a threat? I mean of course the description will say “disable” or “neutralize” the threat.

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      10 months ago

      I have no idea, but the wannabe cops you’re talking about are absolutely nothing like the average security guard. The average security guard is a pudgy, retired old person with bad knees who wanted a job where they basically don’t have to work and would literally flee the scene if anything violent took place anywhere near them.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        Yes and I’m assuming most people do not care about some old guy chasing you down for a candy bar.

        The OP said security exists on a spectrum. The job is part power projection and part power execution. No different than a sailor whose job is to sail a destroyer around the world without firing an missile and a marine deployed in Afghanistan. We all serve and protect capital at the end of the day. Some of us more than others.