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There was a siege situation in Sydney recently; a policeman had decided he'd had enough and was threatening to shoot himself while barricaded into his station. It was solved by talking him out of it.
The next day it was a big story on talk radio. One caller in particular called in to describe how hard it was for her husband as a policeman. How he was withdrawn and depressed at times by his work.

Boo-hoo, my poor wittle hubby. Did you make him warm cocoa and tuck him into bed? Of course policing can be a difficult job - at times, it has to be said. Doesn't seem to be too hard sitting in your, provided at the public's expense, air conditioned vehicle zapping unsuspecting battlers trying to get from A to B.

It's just another example the nanny state intruding into areas in which it has no business.

This seems to happen a lot; people complaining about how hard it is - that they need counselling, that things are 'just too much'.

Word is soldiers, too, aren't as tough as they used to be. And after incidents they are offered 'counselling'. Look, it's a soldier's job to be shot at; they know this when they sign up and don't forget they're provided with the means to return fire.
I'm getting so sick of the way people in dangerous occupations are treated with kid gloves. Hey! If you can't handle it, don't join up - simple as that really. Frankly, I don't want sissys in these positions. Policemen and soldiers should be hard. Often in the case of police, I'll see this tiny little woman on patrol around the city drunks. Exactly what is she goin to do when a fight breaks out between 4 or 5 men, tanked up on the sauce? I'll tell you what. Nothing. In a case like that we need big men. Tough men who can intervene with equal ferocity to break up such a melee, not a tiny woman who'll get flattened in about 5 seconds.

And then of course she'll- seek 'counselling' resulting in a tax payer holiday for however many months while she recuperates from her 'traumatic' experience. This applies to weak men as well.

If you're not prepared to see and act upon traumatic incidents, then don't join such a force.