We have 500,000 troops, and only 130,000 are in Iraq.
It's just that every available person is deployed trying to save people who might drown in the next few hours.
The looters know this, and take advantage.
We have raised a generation of "humans" who only do what is right when they are certain they will get caught, and otherwise do whatever the h*ll they feel like.
Just last week I wrote about how parents trampled one another to get cheap computers in Richmond. That seems so trivial now that looters are shooting police in the head and threatening to take out a hospital.
This almost makes ME want to get some guns. You can't count on police in emergencies, and you apparently can't count on the goodwill of a population raised to behave themselves, because the liberals have been in charge of education for the past 40 years and this is what we end up with -- a generation of lawless rioters and looters barely contained by an ever-increasing police presence.
Have never heard the numbers before... thank you. That's good. I agree it doesn't seem people understand basic values anymore - I'm an "old-fashioned" girl it seems...
I feel the same way about the guns. There is a purpose for having the supplies and tools you need to defend and protect yourself and your family.
The police are only really there to help AFTER a crime has been committed, they are not there to protect us, and depend on them for our survival - we still have to take care of ourselves that's for sure.
"This almost makes ME want to get some guns."
ALMOST?
What would it take?
I urge every FReeper to have at least one firearm, and know how to use it.
Tomorrow, OK? Get on it. Learn to shoot.