I heard on talk radio this morning, a conservative candidate for our county executive position, who related this story. The topic was the shortage of deputies for the rural portions of our county.
She was at a community meeting, and had a guy tell her this story of what happened to him recently. The guy said a thug broke into his home at night. The homeowner HID IN THE CLOSET and CALLED 911. (OK right there, that’s not a plan). The homeowner said to the candidate, that he was in the closet hiding, while on the phone with 911, and waited a full half an hour before a deputy showed up. Then the candidate said where this happened, it was within 3 miles of my farm house.
I am appalled that any man, or woman for that matter, would hide in a closet, on 911, crapping their pants, while a thug robbed his or her home. Yes, most people are panty wastes like that. We are not. How pathetic that he would cower like a whipped dog while someone took his property and potentially could have taken his life.
I relayed this story to my husband who agreed there is a woeful lack of police coverage here. That is exactly why, after I called police two times many years ago, for separate suspicious activity incidents near my house, and had to wait 30 minutes and then 45 for a deputy...why I learned to take care of myself 10 years ago.
As a previous poster said, it is remarkable that so many are becoming first time buyers (that is great) and others are adding to the collections and stockpiling ammo. This is different than when Clinton was in office. This is a whole new level of evil we are dealing with. Gird your loins.
It's not their fault, but when there's one guy covering a territory that takes an hour to cover, you functionally have no police protection.