Whether you are in Atlanta Georgia, Nashville Tennessee or Somalia you are responsible for your own safety.
In America the cops are not responsible for our safety, they are responsible for investigating crimes and arresting those accused of said crimes. The US Supreme Court put it very eloquently recently.
When they said, “Its not the job to protect the individual person, but to protect the citizenry as a whole.”
Once the country gets its head out of its @$$ and realizes this the better off we will be.
you are correct the primary job of the cops is to investigation crime not to prevent it! (of course they will try if they are near by) but anyway.
Cops here have a direction! Your personaly safety first! (Military doesn´t have this here) the job is to protect and serve.
But maybe it´s just me! I have been in afghanistan and sudan (If have shot a children there)”btw. not fun!” the people we are talking have a lot more arms and more “advanced” arms than every american can only dream about. Still we are there and kill them relative easy if someone tells us. this is why i mean anarchy doesn´t work! they have it! and we kill people in a rate of 20:1 or sometimes 50:1 if they say so. A african with a ak47 is dead meat the only problem he has is that he don´t know it untill “we” shoot him. He/she has not even a chance.
Same for americans. There is nothing wrong to keep your weapons but the biggest failure is that you think you could fight off the government because you could not! The africans think the same! they have AK47s instead of a glock pistol for example! afgain a afrivan armed with an ak47 is just an easy targed. There is no danger from him. We can kill him everytime we want as long he gets not as close to 100 yards. Because sometimes they just have luck.