It is time, past time, for some hard truths. The Police can not keep you safe. Two Supreme Court decisions have confirmed that the Police do not have a Constitutional Duty to protect anyone.
Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone
So the police can’t protect you, even if the three million sworn cops, that is to say Federal, State, County, and City cops, were able to numerically. But they make up less than 1% of the population, so that is obviously impossible. The Government can’t protect you. It is just as impossible.
I remember Katrina, and everyone shouting where was FEMA. The truth is that people imagined this large army of people wearing Sports Shirts and Dockers with hiking boots would descend on an area and provide assistance. The truth is that FEMA was a guy with a Satalite Phone and a Rolodex. There was no army of sport shirt wearing people waiting to rush in and provide succor. FEMA helps organize the response of local and area communities. They call and say we need fifty teams to work on Electircal Lines. We need twenty more ambulances. Whatever, the other towns and cities provide the personnel and equipment. All FEMA has is a Checkbook to pay for the stuff.
The same is true of the cops. They are responsible for investigating the crime that happens to you, but they aren’t able to prevent the crime.
So what can we do to help one another? That is simple. I can give you a fighting chance. Samuel Colt said his invention, the Revolver, was the great equalizer. That is literally true. It meant that someone who had spent a lifetime learning how to fight with a sword was equaled by someone who had spent a hour or two learning how to shoot. It makes the fight fair. It doesn’t guarantee you’ll win, but it gives you a chance.
We’ve covered the reasons for the Second Amendment, the words of the Founders themselves were posted not long ago. All of those truths that our Ancestors talked about, remain just as true today. What has changed is that our citizenry is quite certain about things they do not know. Imagine if a Doctor said that he wanted to bleed you to let the evil spirits out. We all know that is nonsense. We all learned in School about what makes us sick, Bacteria and Virus’s. We know a lot about that, or at least enough to understand that drilling a hole in a head to let the evil spirts out is nonsense.
When we start to feel odd, we immediately rush to the Internet to seek out information, to find out what we have. Yet, we don’t do that for other information, just for Medical and I don’t know why we don’t. Perhaps it’s because we think we know it all already. Perhaps it is just that we are unaware how ignorant we are. Yet, we do just that.
We take the time to read about our child’s medical condition, and we sign up for all sorts of mailing lists, twitter feeds, Facebook groups, to keep ourselves educated and up to date on changes and new information. But when it comes to Guns, all the anti gun people want is the scary things to go away.
The scary things aren’t scary. I’ve never been afraid of a gun in my entire life. The person holding the gun may have my undivided attention, but the gun isn’t frightening.
It isn’t evil, the firearm is not able to choose it’s fate. Like the car driven by a Drunk, it is not responsible for the actions of the person. If someone slaps you, are you angry at the hand that made contact with your face, or the mind that controlled that hand?
If you were honest and applied the same irrational attitude you do with firearms, you would blame the hand.
