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“Where I live in Washington state it would take a deputy forty-five minutes to get to our place. If he’s not busy elsewhere.”
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I don’t doubt it at all. Probably thirty or more years ago I called the Sheriff’s department after midnight for something, I can’t remember exactly what but I was not in immediate danger. The thing I will remember until I die is that on that occasion the woman who answered the phone actually told me, “The Sheriff’s department is closed for the night.” I still have not figured that out. I would not be surprised if I called them in an emergency and they never showed up at any time. The anti-gun fools who say just call the cops and you don’t need a gun are idiots beyond the limits of idiocy. You can’t depend on the police unless you have them living in your house and even then you couldn’t be too confident. As a child I was fortunate enough to have an uncle who was a deputy sheriff who dropped by now and then but if we had needed to call him in an emergency he might easily have been half an hour away even though we lived in the center of the county.