Sometimes this is helpful and protective. A lot of times it is not. Indeed it cannot be, for another part of government, the courts, have repeatedly ruled that the public security force we employ through government (and the reason that we forbid people from taking security measures into their own hands) *does not have any duty* to protect a specific person. This means that police cannot be sued if they fail to protect you. Clear thinking people know what this means. Dial 911 and die. Where I live, in a semi-rural area. I expect to be on my own for at least 15 long minutes if I ever have to dial 911.
Yet, we claim to be the “land of the free, and the home of the brave”. These increasingly hollow words are forbidden to ring true any longer by risk averse people whose ideology leads them to insist that it is better for innocents to die than for liberties they disagree with to be permitted.
One of those liberties was having the means to effect self defense.
As the bits and pieces that the entire mess with Cho falls squarely in the lap of the left and of fans of Big and Bigger government, from the university administration that refused to deal with him properly, to the court system that failed to report his mental status properly, the calls to “solve” his mass murder through more gun control laws are becoming fewer and far less shrill. By creating a “gun free” zone on campus, liberals also created a “victim rich zone”, their own “killing field”, up on the second floor of Norris Hall
With this news, it becomes almost impossible for the left to blame an inert piece of plastic and metal for this horrible crime, but that will not stop some from pressing on to create their utopia of peace. The only consolation has been that there appear to be fewer on the left still pounding those drums than there were a few days ago.
I have that book and it is true that in most instances the police cannot be sued if you call them and still are hurt before they arrive. I was amused to read of an exception in Chicago, but as I recall, some seven conditions had to be met, all of them seemingly unlikely to occur at the same time.