Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr.
Felber said. "People have the right to defend themselves, but they don't have the right to take the law into their own hands."
Use of force in self defense IS taking the law into your own hands.
Felber is an idiot.
Good for Sheriff Clarke!
Would the mayor discourage citizens from learning first aid and CPR and using that training to save lives while they wait for the ambulance to arrive? My brother’s life was saved by his wife performing CPR while she waited for the paramedics.
Would he tell citizens not to buy and learn how to use fire extinguishers and tell them to always just wait for the firefighters to arrive, rather than trying to put out a small fire before it spreads?
We live in a large metro Atlanta area suburb county (Gwinnett). Our Sheriff issued a very similar public notice, and also keeps it posted on his department’s website. His note was published in all caps.
“I ENCOURAGE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS TO ACQUIRE AND MAINTAIN THE SKILLS TO SAFELY CARRY A FIREARM IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.
SADLY, OUR SOCIETY CONTAINS THOSE THAT WILL HARM OTHERS WHEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY. AN ARMED CITIZEN CERTAINLY PRESENTS MUCH LESS OPPORTUNITY TO THOSE THAT WOULD DO THEM HARM.”
God Bless Sheriff Butch Conway!
I'm not sure if this is a Red Herring or a Strawman; it certainly is a deliberate smear. There's nothing in the spot that can be interpreted as advocating vigilante behavior.
Just who does the law belong to and who's hands is the law in? If the people who "control" the law don't do anything with it then .....????
Sheriff Clarke is a non-nonsense guy who should be admired not only for his leadership but for having the guts to say what may not be politically correct. Too many polticians cower under that fear. Go get ‘em Sheriff!
Calling 911 was never the best option in a sudden life or death, criminal incident.
He's just looking for more tax dollars, attempting to get the people who are already taxed to death, to pay more taxes.
Enough!
Translation: When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
The Sheriff hasn’t seen Dirty Harry? He really needs to, and he would likely enjoy the heck out of it.
Andrew Robinson, the villain, did a superb job as somebody just about everyone could despise. He even got death threats and had to change his phone number. Now that’s the sign of a top notch villain. Ironically, he is a dedicated pacifist, flinched terribly when firing a gun, and felt very bad about scenes where he was abusive and racist.
The director originally wanted the role of Scorpio to go to real war hero Audie Murphy, just for the irony, but Murphy died in a plane crash before he could decide. Eastwood selected Robinson after seeing him in a play.
A police department in the Philippines ordered a copy of the movie as a training film.
Agreed - wholeheartedly!
The president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Roy Felber, said it sounds like a call to vigilantism.
"That doesn't sound too smart," Felber said. "People have the right to defend themselves, but they don't have the right to take the law into their own hands."
Forgive my simplistic thoughts here, but just when did we give up the Right to take the law into our own hands? We, the People, assign part of that Right to our Sheriff and Law Enforcement Community - but never gave it all over. Indeed the Courts routinely hold that there is no expectation that you are due any specific duty to protect absent a ruling from a court, and even then it is usually set as a general duty, not specific.
If there is no assistance to defend at the time needed, then you are within your Rights to defend yourself by any means including excessive force. That is not "taking" the law, it is KEEPING the law in your hands! JMHO