Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clark's PSA on guns

Scroll down a bit to download the PSA. I can't do a hot link to the file. It's a MP3 file, you can get at the source. This sheriff is one of the good guys. This has gone viral. The lefties have their panties in a wad over this PSA. HAH!!

I’m Sheriff David Clarke, and I want to talk to you about something personal…your safety. It’s no longer a spectator sport; I need you in the game, but are you ready? With officers laid-off and furloughed, simply calling 9-1-1 and waiting is no longer your best option. You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back; but are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We’re partners now. Can I count on you?

there have been and never will be enough professional law enforcement officers to arrive on the scene of a crime soon enough
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Very true.
If one sets their sights on a target, be it next door neighbors, local school, office building YOU have the advantage to create a lot of ‘mayhem’ before ‘help’ arrives.
And todays LEO (apparently) are taught to think before acting and the old days of the first 2 cops arriving on the scene go in ‘guns blazing’ is a thing of the past with several levels of Supervisors, SWAT/tactical teams having to ‘survey the situation’ prior acting.
Back ‘in the day’, something like Columbine/Va Tech would not have went down quite that way as all the arriving officers wouldn’t have been hunkering down awaiting instructions. Some fool or fools (right of wrong) would have stormed the building - possibly creating more havoc BUT would have been doing ‘something’.

If me and a couple of buds are out riding around someday and spontaneously decide that YOUR house is the target, the ONLY defense YOU have is to be provided by yourself - much like a gas station being the target of opportunity - the less you plan and enlist help, the better off you are pulling it off, unless, of course, the clerk also is ‘prepared for any contingency’ or a couple of cops may hap in on you while on a coffee/donut run.

This gets taken up a notch when the attacker doesn’t care if he lives or dies....

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