Posted on 09/01/2020 9:50:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Defending your property with a gun if needed is as American as apple pie. Donald Trump will not denounce it.
When rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week burned down and looted businesses, the police did not stop them. We have seen this in cities across the country. No storeowner in Democratic-run areas that are subject to a leftist protest, which can “intensify” into riots, can have the slightest hope that the police will keep it from happening.
That being the case, they really have no choice but to defend their property themselves or let it go up in flames. President Trump will not denounce the constitutional right for them to do so, nor should he.
Trump could not have been more clear in his press conference on Monday that he wants police to handle all of law enforcement. Every sane person does. But it is just as clear that many Democratic mayors and governors are refusing to allow police to do so.
In some cases, this is because local law enforcement is overwhelmed, but in too many such cases Democratic mayors playing politics refuse the help of federal law enforcement. Thankfully, in Kenosha, the National Guard went in and quelled the violence, but in Portland help has not only been rejected, but derided, and the violence persists.
Demands for Trump to condemn such actions follow the alleged killing of two protesters by a 17-year-old in Kenosha last week. He had traveled from a nearby town to assist other armed men in defending local businesses.
Now let’s be clear: that teenager should not have been there. He should have been at a movie with his friends, not “playing cop” in a violent riot zone. But that doesn’t change the basic fact that Americans have the right to use guns to protect their property and property in their communities, especially if the police are not allowed or otherwise unable to do so.
This is a tale as old as America, whether it was homesteaders in the old West, or Korean storeowners during the Los Angeles riots. Americans are not going to see their life’s work destroyed because feckless Democratic mayors refuse to enforce the law. Pretending that armed citizens reacting to widespread destruction by trying to stop felonious behavior and riots are responsible for the riots is as absurd as blaming Trump for them. They are the fault of the leftist rioters themselves, and nobody else.
The corporate media think they have Trump in some kind of trap — as if he has to denounce this or else his criticisms of Biden staffers and Kamala Harris helping bail out rioters are hypocritical. But they aren’t. Telling Americans they have the right to defend their property is still a popular message — maybe not in the Hamptons or among celebrities and Democratic politicians with private security, but it sure is with many, many Americans.
Trump is absolutely correct that defending citizens’ property is a job best done by well-trained professional police. In fact, it is one of the central reasons police, and the government itself, exist at all: to protect private property.
This is why communists who don’t believe in private property want to defund or abolish the police. This is what happens when you defund or abolish the police. People who don’t want to be communists, who want to earn a wage and own property they can call their own, fight for it. That isn’t going to change.
People need to understand that if they try to burn or loot other people’s property, they are in danger of those people using violence to stop them. No matter how many glowing interviews NPR does with authors who find absurd justifications for stealing, people have a right to defend themselves, and they are going to do so.
President Trump is not going to tell them not to. Democrats might. They might say, “Just give the criminals what they want” — in fact, Democrats in Minneapolis literally did that — but no sensible people would even suggest it.
Trump knows he has a winning issue in law and order. It’s been a winning issue longer than the TV show named after it ran, which is a long time. Joe Biden knows it too. It’s why every day he has inched closer to condemning the actions of Black Lives Matter and Antifa without actually doing it.
Something has changed in this election. The media wants to stop that change by making Trump say people aren’t allowed to defend themselves. It’s an absurd notion on its face and shows just how desperate the president’s detractors are becoming.
Your kidding right?
Many cheaters will mail in a ballot AND vote in person. How to combat that? There are millions of rich dems who have homes in two states...and vote in both.
I sure will, and I will only vote R. I will not vote for some Third Party candidate, and I will definitely vote for President Trump
He must be.
Chicago-area police reportedly warned by FBI of gang pact to ‘shoot on-sight any cop’
The alert was sent out by FBI officials last week, reports say:
The Chicago Police Department has confirmed to Fox News the existence of an intelligence alert reportedly sent out by the FBI warning area law enforcement of a pact among street gangs “to ‘shoot on-sight any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public’.”
The “Potential Activity Alert” from FBI officials was sent out Aug. 26, according to ABC7, which says it has obtained a copy of it.
“We have been made aware of this threat by a law enforcement partner,” a Chicago police spokesperson told Fox News on Tuesday. “The Chicago Police Department takes all threats against officer safety seriously and we will take all necessary measures to safeguard our officers.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-confirms-gang-threat
All I can say to that rather foolish author, trying to sound broad minded, is that if American “kids” had not taken up arms when there was a need, it is doubtful we would exist as a nation!
I am getting fed up with “broad mindedness.” That is part of the reason we are in so much trouble. There is just too much compromising with the insanity and stupidity of the left.
Frankly, I think that we may see a lot of 17 years marching off to war if we allow this outrageous behavior to continue.
In any case, it is high time that the president declare what is going on in our cities an insurrection, and bring in the military and put an end to this nonsense.
Whether or not Trump or any other public figure denounces armed Americans acting, if said Americans believe they're on their own against the mob they're seeing/experiencing, they WILL act.
I think instinctively Trump understands this, and probably knows that once that particular genie is out of the bottle, it won't go back until a lot of blood is shed.
Thanks Paladin 2 for the above reality.
Self defense is a right. Call up the militia, Mr. President.
Call up the ammo manufacturers Mr President and get our shelves full again!
(I reload, so I’m good for now, but I’m thinking of the rest of you)
its warming up. with a few embers here and there.
Dead trump supporter in Washington..
2 dead riots in WI.
I don’t think it matters who wins in November, it’ll get worse. Democrats let the cat out of the bag and can’t get it back in.
Thats all many of us are waiting for !!!!
Turned on Fox News for a few minutes on the computer just before lunch. Fox pundit Judy Miller saying it was totally inappropriate for Trump to support militia action by Kyle Rittenhouse including saying he didn’t break any laws. Miller says Rittenhouse broke the law by bringing a weapon across state lines.
(All Rittenhouse did was to defend himself and he took out the trash while doing it!)
“Voting for Trump is the easiest act of Self Defense one can take.”
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Yeah, but it’s not nearly as much as fun as blowing in from elsewhere and injecting one’s self into the middle of a riot to join in the violence.
“I don’t think it matters who wins in November, it’ll get worse. Democrats let the cat out of the bag and can’t get it back in.”
They don’t want it back in. They are tired of all the effort to steal elections every 2 years. I think they want to be done with it and get on to a one party rule.
I agree the defense of one’s property with deadly force is a basic human right.
However, few US states agree. And they are the people who will prosecute you for murder.
AMEN—whether property or lives—we need to be able to defend what is ours.
“How much more “hot” does it need to get?”
It’s not hot until the right asserts its overwhelming battlefield supremacy.
Bttt
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