” That’s why I live in a small town outside a big city. Not “enough” cops and concealed carry is just about perfect. “
Our ‘local police force’ consists of an out-of-service Sheriff’s car with a dummy (literal, not the donut-eating kind) in the front seat - we take turns moving it from location to location every week or so.. ;)
We have a County Sheriff car drive through on the main highway a couple of times a week, and a State Police car a couple of times a month...
Our ‘crime rate’?? Zero - as in not one break-in, burglary, or violent incident in the past 4 years that I’ve lived here.. (Well, Carl down the road got drunk one Sunday afternoon and ventilated some clouds with his .38, but by the time the Deputy got here, he was already sleeping it off...)
Aren’t you lucky. We police a rural/farming jurisdiction with a population around 8500-9000 and we have about 20,000-25,000 calls for service per year, not counting other agency requests for assistance.