This is local politic crap. They always cut the Police and Fire Dept first. This way people feel the pain as opposed to trimming the boards and city council positions.
Sounds like it’s time for form a Second Amendment militia.
First a Chihuahua as an alarm dog .....
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.
Josephine County in Oregon went through this a few years back, when all the lumber mills and logging stopped. Volunteers did the policing.
“If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”
How about we protect ourselves.
I submit that we return to a time where citizens were allowed to protect themselves without fear of lawsuits or incarceration.
Volunteer deputies.
For me, in AA county, it is like living close to Mogadishu...
Coming soon to a county near you.
(sigh)
Friends bought some land in Tennessee. This sort of thing is one of the reasons I’m thinking it may be better to just stay here in Texas suburbia.
Because it seems like if the world goes Mad Max, the first place the good ol’ boys are going to look when they start getting hungry is them fancy city slicker cabins.
They need to treat criminals in such areas like the vermin they are. Shoot’em and string them up on a fence like you would do a coyote.
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.
I had a barking, biting dog. I lost him when he bit a neighbor kid and I had to surrender him to animal control. Lord I loved that dog, a German Shepherd rescue. But if you don’t socialize them as puppies, it is impossible to do so as an adult.
Sorry Rescue Fanatics, but my next GSD is going to be a puppy I socialize continuously from birth. I don’t mind a good velcro guard dog who is a one-owner dog, but I want to be able to walk him without him barking at everything that goes by. On a ranch, that is OK. In the burbs, not so much.
I have a ferocious sounding black Lab that will sound the alarm. But she’s just the early warning system. Me and my Glock 23 are the response team/welcoming committee.
My youngest brother lives in a rural area of Arizona. His next door neighbor has a sign on the fence in English and Spanish that says “if you can read this, you are in range “.
I live in a very rural area in Mississippi and it’s always been the case that you take care of your own security. On most nights there’s one deputy on patrol for the entire county, the chances that he’s within 20 miles of my home when called is pretty small. I have NEVER expected a cop to take care of any criminal activity around my place, the action will be long over by the time they get there. I don’t carry a gun on my body but there’s always a loaded one within a few steps in my home, it’s always been that way so it’s not like I’m some kind of prepper, I have a fire extinguisher handy too. Dogs are the best alarm system ever invented.
What this sheriff is advocating isn’t anything new, it’s just common sense that has been in common usage at 95% of the rural homesteads throughout the south for the last 200 years or so.