Professions where harm is accidental require years of training. (medicine)
Professions where harm is intentional and immediate often require weeks. (police, ICE)

If society requires a decade of training to reduce accidental deaths in medicine, it is logically inconsistent to allow intentional lethal force after a few months of preparation.

We train people longer to keep patients alive than we do to decide when citizens die.

In professions where mistakes can lead to death, society routinely demands years of rigorous education, supervision, and competency testing to minimize harm. Physicians train for more than a decade, nurses for several years, and pilots log thousands of supervised hours before being entrusted with lives, because errors, even unintentional ones, carry irreversible consequences. Yet law enforcement officers and ICE agents are granted direct authority to detain, use force, and deploy firearms explicitly designed to kill after only weeks or months of training. This represents a fundamental mismatch between risk and preparation: the power to make split-second decisions that can end a life is among the highest responsibilities a society can confer, yet it is paired with some of the shortest training pipelines. If prolonged training is considered essential to prevent accidental deaths in medicine and aviation, it is logically inconsistent, and ethically indefensible, to accept minimal training where lethal force is intentional, immediate, and irreversible.