when grandma has a brake light out, normally she is advised as such and told to fix it....didn't you ever see the commercial with the pig driving the convertable??? I agree that police are normally called to respond to situations, but their presence, in many cases (Most) prevent those conditions from developing in the first place.....your gun, and I am an avid gun control protester, will do you no good....you live in Chicago which has strict gun control laws, or matbe California where they just outlawed many semi-automatic rifles....do you have your gun with you at all times?? at the local theater, McDonalds, in church, at the courthouse, are you going to start slinging lead (you have no training whatsoever in situational adaptations) whenever you percieve that a problem might arise??????the police are trained to act accordingly, you hire them, you pay them, you educate them, you pay them their retirement......but you think that you can do it better..........in VERY specific situations, you are right...in most cases, you are wrong.
I am unwilling to cede power to strangers. Not a good idea. The moment you decide to give up a freedom in exchange for liberty you have given up much.
Cops are a necessary evil, but a dangerous habit. Cops today are militarized, ready to shoot. To invite Police or any government power into your life is dangerous.
we self educate our children because we don’t want to give power, money, and control to strangers.
We own firearms because we don’t want to give power money and control to strangers.
We vote for small government, underfunded and frustrated because we don’t want to give power, money and control to strangers.
This is a dangerous, short life in which nothing is safe or guaranteed. Once that tenant of life is accepted then the need for layers and layers of expensive safety purchased with lost liberty become less important.