That is only one possible scenario, and based on what youve been taught it has to be.
I go even deeper than Jerry, I am 100% Declaration of Independence. Like Jerry I am anti excess policing not anti cop. As I said in another thread, on Nanny State, Too many cops is as bad or worse than not enough. How do we solve that?
If criminals knew that EVERY citizen was trained in self defense and use of a fire arm before they left high school, and expected to have one and be able to defend themselves, what do you think that would do o the home invasion, mugging, car jacking rate? It should plummet. Parasites prefer to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Even granny in the wheelchair can pull the trigger. Require it. If the citizen chooses not to use it, their problem.
So even from the right/conservative side, and the cops who think 'more policing' is the answer, youre creating weaker citizens and proliferating the nanny state. Strong, independent people founded and settled this country. The settlers didnt have a squad car around the corner...they took care of business.
So lets take a non toxic subject, former mayor Blumbag's shot at making 1,000,000 oz slurpies illegal. Of course all that shit is bad for you and needs to be curtailed, but my reading of the Constitution says they have every right to sell it. So do you violate the intent of the C and ban it (so it will go underground and create a criminal class you can now put in jail) or do you use plan 'B' and educate people to make their own wise decisions. They did it with tobacco and use plummeted.
Education or Enforcement. Think about it.
We need both but lets through more weight on education. Arent better educated better trained cops generally
better' cops. Tat holds true of the citizen as well.
You need to only have the populace regain a full and total understanding of RESPONSIBILITY and apply it.
We currently are all about DEPENDENCE and fully immersed in it.
"You didn't build that", "It takes a village", "No one goes it alone" - sure, but not the way the new Dem Party means it. Altruism is one thing, controlling the lemmings is another.
Here is a sacred cow for you.......why all the handwringing about PTSD and the care of servicemen?
DEPENDENCE.
Get the Hopelites on the tit, tell them they are "damaged", give them 70 percent for bouts of diarrhea because they lived near a lake that changed colors.
Im not saying guys are not banged up, they have been in every period of service.
Right now though someone has their sights on you and they are tempting to"Just bite the apple, everyone does".
"They" are the same people that hated service people in the 60s.
"They" couldn't get their way with hating you, so now they want to kill you with kindness and buy who they can.
War is good for creating people we can buy so lets engage in the longest conflict in our 240 plus years of history fighting in countries that operate with open sewerage systems. This isn't the soldiers fault. Their fighting has been superb but because they are so good the pols have handicapped them with crappy ROE and no strategic goal other than creating a constant state of war.
Everything was going their way, social unrest, class warfare, drug dependence, a growing number of people receiving entitlements, the war was spreading to our shores and than Trump fucked it up.
You know how much work went into destroying the country and now the New York fool wants to roll it back.
By now the left had visions of Australian style gun confiscation.
The media picked Trump as the Trojan Horse, just like they picked McCain and they picked Romney. Pick the least electable candidate, destroy the others, than destroy "the fool".
Their arrogance backfired on them and that is why they are insane with rage, so close and now its all ruined.
Sadly many in the opposition party are also
.
They don't care about the country they care about their power and privilege.
All these things are symptoms of a very bad disease. Remission isn't enough, we need a total cure.