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Rural Sheriff’s Ominous Warning: “LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS, GET A BARKING, BITING DOG” (TR)
End of the American Dream ^ | March 5, 2019 | Michale Snyder

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?”

(Excerpt) Read more at endoftheamericandream.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Pets/Animals; Society
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To: metmom

:)


41 posted on 03/06/2019 4:50:33 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SkyDancer

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.


42 posted on 03/06/2019 4:51:55 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: sergeantdave

If you’re 85 years old and never fired a gun...you’ll feel it.


43 posted on 03/06/2019 4:54:55 PM PST by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

As in: We Don’t Call 9-1-1


44 posted on 03/06/2019 4:56:23 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: shotgun

Amigo aka Diego, is one loud puppy to warn all ... the big dogs get up at that point.


45 posted on 03/06/2019 4:57:48 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Don’t shoot, I could just be lost. I’ll hold my hands high so everyone can see em. heh.


46 posted on 03/06/2019 5:13:02 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

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?


47 posted on 03/06/2019 5:15:39 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Perseverando

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.


48 posted on 03/06/2019 5:15:41 PM PST by freepersup ( MAGA is the NEW third party, enjoying a parasitic feast off the host Republican body.)
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To: sarge83

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...


49 posted on 03/06/2019 5:15:48 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: SkyDancer

I could of fell out of a damn plane, it’s happened before heh.


50 posted on 03/06/2019 5:18:23 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: kaehurowing

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.


51 posted on 03/06/2019 5:22:24 PM PST by boycott
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To: for-q-clinton
"If you're 85 years old...you'll feel it"

With a sh** grin on their face.

Shame that Mom hasn't fired a pistol since she was 30.

52 posted on 03/06/2019 5:31:00 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

How many western movies did we see where the sheriff and the posse went out to round up the bad guys?


53 posted on 03/06/2019 5:32:34 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Bulwyf

Hmm, was that that splat I heard?


54 posted on 03/06/2019 5:33:38 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Well, to be fair, I used a parachute, I’m not a full savage.


55 posted on 03/06/2019 5:34:14 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: SkyDancer

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.


56 posted on 03/06/2019 5:37:27 PM PST by shotgun
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To: sergeantdave

Oh and handicapped people they will feel it. Oh and young children. Shall I go on?


57 posted on 03/06/2019 5:38:24 PM PST by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: dp0622
Well I had my truck with my two dogs in it returned to me....within 18 hours....

Of course this is Oklahoma...

Was nearly the worst hours of my life....

58 posted on 03/06/2019 5:42:43 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: for-q-clinton

“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.


59 posted on 03/06/2019 5:42:51 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Bulwyf

Scaredy cat!


60 posted on 03/06/2019 5:43:02 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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