Recall when you need help is seconds, the police are only minutes away. Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me and I will equalize. This is a saying on the trigger guard of some Frontier Colt pistols.
All the more reason for us to encourage citizens to be armed and prepared.
Amen Mark. Well said...
No, it will be worse because in other countries people are told to run and escape when attacks happen. In the US, we tell people to bunker down and take shelter.
The result is Columbine, Virginia Tech, etc where people are slaughtered on their knees.
In Mumbai, two couples at the hotel made a run for it while the terrorists yelled at them to stop and even shot at them. One couple stopped while the other ran for it.
The terrorists executed the couple who stopped and raised their hands. The other couple survived.
Lesson: You are on your own and when you are out-gunned, out-manned and out-classed by the enemy, get out and take your chances. Staying put only raises the liklihood of your execution.
Gone are the days when the hostage-takers let everyone go. Today, they are competing for who can rack up the highest body count.
Maybe someone will come up with an idea for a “civilian defense force” and make it as well funded and trained as our military. (sarc)
Let the citizens remain armed and remove legislation that restricts self defense.
“At a time when we need more, better-trained and -equipped cops than ever, we’re seeing police layoffs, hiring freezes, and budget cuts.”
This is BS. There are more cops now than ever. They are armed to max like SWAT teams and almost totally militarized. I can’t drive across our small city without seeing at least 3 or 4 police cars. They sure don’t give me any sense of comfort. Even such departments like Indiana’s DNR has a fully loaded SWAT team. We don’t need any more cops.
Burn
All
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First!!!
Notice to LEO’s at all levels:
You only get one Waco.
‘The general consensus of police, military, and national intelligence is that it’s only a matter of time before this nation experiences an incident reminiscent of Beslan or Mumbai: armed, trained, committed terrorists massacring the innocent with automatic weapons and explosives.’
Lock and load, kill ‘em all.
Remember Katrina, folks. Being armed and prepared potentially means being so against the cops as much as it does against looters or rioters.
MUCH better plan then theirs. Not only is defense in depth much more effective than their plan, but this way is less expensive, and it leaves the proper segment of society empowered. You generally don't worry about the neighbors on your block setting up a tyranny you have to resist with armed force at risk to your life. Well, at least if you don't live in an HOA anyway.
The real-world results are not as cinematic. At Columbine, the federally-equipped troops cowered behind their Real Police Armored Cars, with their Real Police Automatic Weapons and chatted for several hours on their Real Police Radio Sets while a teacher slowly bled to death inside.
R J Rushdoony once pointed out that American police forces are -- or once were -- unique in the world in that they were agencies of the polis -- the local community. Elsewhere, the armed and uniformed troops enforce the will of the nation's central government. This seems to be the trend in our country -- and as our cops are converted into occupation forces, their role as protectors of the community they are part of fades into the mists of history. To repeat a typical conversation,
"Let me see your identification." (Zie Papieren, bitte ... the trademark remark of Nazi Germany)
"Why?"
"Because I asked you to."
(parenthetically -- the most extravagant "police action" of recent history was the federally-directed fund-raising circus that led to the largest massacre of American citizens since Wounded Knee, at around this time of year)
Remember Hurricane Katrina is where the POLICE went door to door disarming those private citizens! The “us” vs “them” is ever changing.