Flash Mobs – Open Letter To All Urban Residents & Especially Jews

Ammoland.com ^ | 12 August, 2011 | Rabbi Dovid Bendory

[fso301]

I’m NOT saying you shouldn’t defend yourself in a life-threatening situation; of course you should. I’m asking a hypothetical question. What happens when the “flash mobs” are as equally well-armed and carrying as law-abiding citizens?

That is a subjective determination that has to be made based on the totality of circumstances.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Let us all wave a purple finger with defiant pride.

[bdfromlv]

A small machete is much quicker and ominous to stupid people, a lot quicker than a gun just dont conceal it or let the law know it was.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

True enough. I noticed EBH posted something similar. I hate to say it, but it’s only a matter of time before these “flash mobs” of “disaffected youths” will start blasting away.

After all, it’s easier to mug someone when they’re dead, right? /s

Here in Berlin, Germany, I haven’t seen any “flash mobs” yet. Seen quite a few political protests, mostly lefties, but nothing violent. With the protests, there’s as many riot cops as there are protesters it seems like. The polizei let people protest of course, but if things look like they’re getting out of hand, truncheons start flailing.

:-)

[treetopsandroofs]

“The police should call these evil mobs something else.”

It might make their Peas of Sh!t president look bad.

[Jim Noble]

CCW in the face of being cornered by a mob myself...yep, check.

Rerun the scenario a few times.

I'm not sure what the correct response is.

[Ann Archy]

OMG! You are RIGHT!! ALL of Obama’s constiuents are now getting FREE CELLS PHONES with TEXT service!!! It’s for just this kind of thing! Pray for America.

[mdmathis6]

“What happens when the “flash mobs” are as equally well-armed and carrying as law-abiding citizens?”

You have civil war!

[marktwain]

“know the law” — In other words, put the gun away, because unless you’re a cop and you can explain how the unarmed 4 year old girl “made a threatening move to her diaper”, you will be arrested and tried for murder after dropping the thrice-convicted, machine-gun wielding man who just broke into your infant daughter’s bedroom at 3am. And if he’s a “person of color” you can forget the “trial” part — straight to conviction.

It does not happen that way, at least in most states. I post a lot of articles about self defense shootings on freerepublic. You can find them all under the banglist keyword. It is very seldom that a person in a self defense shooting is prosecuted, and even rarer that they are convicted.

Of course, this does vary by locality. You are much less likely to be prosecuted in Texas than you are in New Jersey.

[Mamzelle]

So far, the mobs have been unarmed because they haven't shot anyone, nor have there been any reports of guns. At least at this point, the mobs seem to be made up of vicious teenagers who use their numbers to overwhelm. A lot of them may well be spoiled brats bored of playing Everquest rather than conventional gang-bangers, who'd have weapons. Some of this may even be spawned by the "raiding" behavior in the video games.

I'm also thinking of bear spray as a possible weapon. You don't need a CCW for that. You can also spray and immobilize (and cause great pain) quite a few of these feral humans.

[Doctor 2Brains]

You are right, for the most part. I think it has gotten SOOOOOO much better in recent years. It’s just that some of the cases you hear about are so mind-numbingly horrible, they stick with you for years. I was just venting a bit.

[Mamzelle]

Yeah, I know some libs who live in Texas and hate gov “Goodhair”—but have there been any flash mobs in Austin or Houston?

[meyer]

However, what happens when you go up against a “flash mob”, let’s say, composed of 100 or so individuals, all of whom are armed as equally as you?

Back in the Vietnam era, they often spoke of the "kill ratio", primarily in the context that for every American GI killed, a certain quantity of NVA/Viet Cong personnel were killed. If the mobs start going armed, that term will again become popular. It may be suicidal if there's no escape route, but if you take a few of them with you, you've won your portion of the battle. You just wouldn't be around to enjoy the victory.

Remember what Patton said, - you're not sent to die for your country, you're here to get the other SOB to die for his country.

[sergeantdave]

“these “flash mobs” of violent blacks are no different than the “lynch mobs” of yesterday.”

You’re exactly right, and South Carolina is charging these mobs under its anti-lynching law. Six “youths” were charged under the anti-lynching law in Columbia, South Carolina, and are each facing 20 years in prison for mob behavior. If the person they beat up had died, they’d be facing the death penalty.

Because of this law, SC has very little in the way of flash mobs.

[Biggirl]

Because we have an MSM who CANNOT tell the truth in reporting.

[Menehune56]

...have there been any flash mobs in Austin or Houston?

Good point - haven't heard of any flash mobs in Fort Worth either, or even Dallas!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

The more I hear about SC, the more I like that state.

Combine that law with CCW and defending the civilian’s right to self defense (using lethal force) and you will have no flash mobs at all.

[Biggirl]

Goes to show that in the south, there is NO tolerance for this nonsense.

[crosshairs]

I’m NOT saying you shouldn’t defend yourself in a life-threatening situation; of course you should. I’m asking a hypothetical question. What happens when the “flash mobs” are as equally well-armed and carrying as law-abiding citizens?

I'm guessing that will be the beginning of the CWII.

[Biggirl]

I believe same thing as in South Carolina I believe, CCW laws.