[Honcho Bongs]

“Shelter in Place” is no different from the “Freeze” desensitization order issued by the TSA. Now the public is expected to “Freeze” over vast areas that are not even part of the search. Even public transit is halted. It’s sort of a mini martial law without the legal support. The other part of the Shelter in Place was the door-to-door searches by law enforcement. Imagine if that happened in your neighborhood. Would you welcome the SWAT team into your home? Maybe next time the authorities would pull a Shelter in Place for less dangerous reasons, like rounding up illegal firearms.

[mountainlion]

When seconds count the police take hours, even if there are 2,000-3,000 of them. People need to be armed. In my area I would be expected to evacuate because of forest fire. Look how many years it took to catch the guy in Utah that broke into cabins for a living or Dorner.

[freedumb2003]

I don’t think I have ever seen such an overreaction in my life.

A whole multi-million person city shut down to catch 2 guys?

Up there with shutting a freeway down for 10 hours after a fatal accident.

[darkwing104]

This incident is making many American people rethink the liberal orchestrated gun grabbing debate. Obama's Sandy Hook "Never let a good crisis go to waste opportunity" just got trumped by Muslim terrorists.

Tragedies should never be used for political agenda...it only belittles the sufferings of the victims and the people who care for them.

[Nonsense Unlimited]

>> I do have a problem with the people that would have you set there totally defenseless at the mercy of events.

You are only defenseless by your own choosing.

[Navy Patriot]

My Senator would tell me: “I feel fine, I have a gun myself, and you pay for my armed Federal and city officers 24 hours a day. It’s a pity you can’t have one yourself, but you have to matter to get one, and you don’t. I hope I can count on your vote next election.”

[piytar]

It wasn’t a legally binding order. For example some civilians opened restaurants to provide the police with coffee. It was just a strong suggestion.

That said, I would have abided the order. But the. I’m (back) in Texas, so I and my neighbors are all well armed.

[Vendome]

FK dat.

I’d carry and go on about my business...

[LadyBuck]

If nothing else, it was certainly an eye-opener as to how “city-folk” respond to “suggested” martial law.

Now imagine a compete military/LEO shutdown of undetermined duration.

Unarmed and unprepared, people will literally starve to death, or be murdered in their own homes.

Normalcy bias plus brainwashed MSM conditioning...a very bad mix.

This country is even more effed up than I thought, and perhaps the writers of books such as “One Second After” were entirely too optimistic.

Time to up the preps and lower the online profiles, FRiends.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"Shelter in place" means crawl under your bed and whimper when the government has banned all means of effective self defense for you.

This episode might well have turned into a hostage holding situation and even more deaths had things gone differently.

I suspect a lot of Massachusetts gun haters are reconsidering things today, will be if they have any sense, anyway.

[Rodamala]

I am curious how many people are being punished for violation of the “Shelter-in-Place” order.

[mrsmith]

Look at it from the government’s point of view:
They can get a whole lot more money to do it this way!
Once disarmament of the populace is accepted then the taxes to pay for this kind of operation are obviously neccessary.

I bet Mass. eventually gets federal dollars- from the rest of us- for this fiasco of a response.