While, generally, I would applaud increased training hours, range time and additional rounds fired at the range, I think we must remind ourselves that our country is in a severe economic situation with an unemployment rate above 8%.  As a result, many people are struggling to find jobs and many unemployed persons are turning to the security industry.

When the Commonwealth of Virginia, DCJS, mandates additional classroom & range time plus increased rounds to be fired, it increases the cost to the training schools which have to pass on the added expense to the students; many of whom are unemployed and struggle to pay for the current mandated training and registration fees, etc.

I would recommend that this hard fact of economic life be considered before putting these new requirements into effect.  While I am almost always in favor of increased training, there comes a point of diminishing returns and in our effort to improve the security industry we must not lose sight of the human side of the equation.

Thank you.