Posted on 03/06/2019 3:08:58 PM PST by Perseverando
Is this a sign of what is coming for the rest of the nation? In Martin County, Kentucky times are very tough right now. Thanks to severe budget cutbacks, there are only two paid law enforcement officers covering a deeply impoverished 231-square-mile area that sits right in the heart of America’s raging opioid crisis. Needless to say, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk feels greatly outnumbered by the thieves, sexual predators and drug dealers that he has to contend with on a daily basis, and he recently issued a very ominous warning to the citizens of his county…
Before making a wave of cutbacks across his department, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk delivered a grim warning to residents of this hardscrabble Appalachian community.
“Law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist,” he posted on Facebook last month. “WE ARE BROKE… LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG. If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”
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Where I and my folks live it’d be suicide for anyone to come up the trail to our place and the rest of the houses further on up. Even a couple of liberal houses have guns.
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We live in a farmhouse at the end of a 200-yard farm lane. Since there are no children living here we have several defense weapons locked and loaded, and No Trespassing and Bad Dog signs posted.
If you’re 85 years old and never fired a gun...you’ll feel it.
As in: We Don’t Call 9-1-1
Amigo aka Diego, is one loud puppy to warn all ... the big dogs get up at that point.
Don’t shoot, I could just be lost. I’ll hold my hands high so everyone can see em. heh.
Then what are you doing up the road where signs are posted as No Trespassing, Private Road? One and a half miles up a logging road? Lost, heh?
Having deployed to Appalachia 7 years in a row, with a religious org.- Volunteers In Mission, working on local property rehabilitation at the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, the call to- “Lock Your Doors, Load Your Guns, & Get A Barking, Biting Dog!” is SOP for most folks already living in the hills and hollers, but I get what the good sheriff is implying.
That being said- Americans all over the United States would do well to heed this lawman’s advice.
Our old homestead is in the county that’s slowly getting enveloped by the nearby city. We are used to getting teenagers or working joes stopping across the road and coming to our house to use the phone(This was before everyone had a cell phone.)
We knew to expect someone because we could hear them working to start their vehicles, the slamming of hoods and cars doors in frustration, the slightly heard discussions and finally the knock on the door. Our dogs barking to let us know strangers are on the property. Usually a tired, apologetic working man, just wanting to get home to his wife and kids or red faced teenagers wanting to call Dad to come get them. No problem.
We’d open the door and let them if they looked trustworthy or hand them the phone outside the chained door, with a eye to the stand with the .32 Smith and Wesson if they looked quirky.
After our father died and the new road came in, bypassed her, Mom doesn’t get the traffic we once did long ago. Cell phones cut the midnight knocks on the door, too. Still, she keeps pistol in the cabinet drawer. Just in case...
I could of fell out of a damn plane, it’s happened before heh.
Sounds like it’s time for form a Second Amendment militia.
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Our tax dollars don’t seem to be solving the problems. Our court system is a complete train wreck. They’re bleeding us dry and we’re not getting a good return on our investment.
And we don’t have money because our government is spending $70,000 for each illegal that enters the country. The system is broken and it seems only Trump is trying to fix it.
With a sh** grin on their face.
Shame that Mom hasn't fired a pistol since she was 30.
How many western movies did we see where the sheriff and the posse went out to round up the bad guys?
Hmm, was that that splat I heard?
Well, to be fair, I used a parachute, I’m not a full savage.
Sorry about that. I meant to say good luck with that amigo in reference to our many new friends from south of the border.
My little ones only cue on a door being opened, the doorbell, or a knock. They don’t pay attention to my big boys outside.
Oh and handicapped people they will feel it. Oh and young children. Shall I go on?
Of course this is Oklahoma...
Was nearly the worst hours of my life....
“If you’re 85 years old and never fired a gun...you’ll feel it.”
Whatever are you talking about?
85-years-old??!!!???
Sounds like you’re sucking on a barrel of MD 20-20.
Scaredy cat!
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