Agree on most points.
I agree with you on most points, but here is the rub. I own a business and if looters come and confront me at my business then I should be awarded the same rights as a home owner. Sadly In the eyes of the law, I should back down and let the looters do their business. Never mind that it will cost the business owner money, time and a lot of grief. Business owners cannot fight a war on two fronts. You cannot be safe and protect your family and business simultaneously. American society and free enterprise are dependent on a population that upholds it's end of the the social contract. Unfortunately, these looters in Ferguson have decided that they can take advantage of someone else's misery and line their pockets. If Law enforcement cannot keep the peace and protect a person's property then what do you need them for??
Citizens need to be citizens and stop asking government to do what they should already be doing.
You guys are looking for a silver bullet to solve a problem that has been decades in the making. If you think you can solve a problem like ferguson with "just a few bigger weapons" and "just a little looser ROE" well I have heard that before somewhere, and here we are ten years later with less liberty in our own country, NO privacy, and guess what we still have terrorism as big a threat as ever. Now lets consider Ferguson and other places like it. We have a created a whole class that doesn't have to lift a finger to eat and feels entitled to anything that someone with more money, or is who is white, owns. Everything is always someone else's fault, and our own government enables and encourages their lifestyle with program after program that take and take from me and other productive people and give it to them.
Human nature being what it is, am I supposed to be shocked when the results of all this is that we have created a bunch of professional criminals? More to the point, am I supposed to happily give more of my money to create and empower a domestic army capable of policing people that violent, when I know I have to live under that too? Why should I? As usual, the only winners are government, who happily use one problem THEY created to scare us all into letting them have more and more power to solve that problem, which they never will anyway. It is time to let people bear the consequences of their choices, both as individuals and as communities. From the largest "too big to fail" banks to the "too poor to fail" do rag wearing thug, it is not government's job to protect them from themselves at the expense of my liberty and my property. This is the same government by the way that continually wants to limit my weapons and ability to defend myself while uparmoring their own means of control and ability to project force. No thanks, Ill keep the riots instead. If they want to burn down their own neighborhoods, have at it. If you own a store there you ought to know the risks, and if you are dependent on police to defend your property there then you are not the kind of person who needs to be owning property in those neighborhoods.
One thing is for certain, we have manufactured problems in this country that it would take the 1st ID and an armor division to "solve" in cities in every state in America. If thats what y'all want, if thats what you are willing for America to look like just so a convenience store in a ghetto is "secure", then have at it because Ill be long gone by then. I am hoping that yall are smarter than that and can play a longer game. Im hoping that when a bunch of animals collect their free tvs and hair extensions that you are not scared or shortsighted enough to be played by those who want to bring the same means of control they want in Ferguson to every community in America, because that is what we are getting as we speak, and what some of you are asking for whether you realize it or not.
Get this through your heads...the police cannot protect you, it is not their job to protect you personally, and you don't want police that are capable of protecting you. This isn't their fault, and no matter how many bearcats or mraps or full-autos we give them they still won't have the tools to solve it. Its our fault, and our problem to solve. Protecting you is YOUR job. If your community is going to hell in a hand basket do something about it, be a leader, or leave, but dont ask for robocop in every town in America because you were too scared or too lazy to fulfill your responsibilities as a citizen. I'd rather see all the Fergusons burn if a police state is what it takes to keep them, and maybe next time we learn how to build on the ashes a better community in a FREE state.
Cops are for individual crimes like theft, the drunken rowdy on Friday night, domestic squabbles between families or neighbors. It is patently unfair to ask them to maintain the very fabric of society and rescue us from anarchy - they cant do that in a Constitutional Republic like ours. They are not here to prevent us from looking like Mogadishu, that isn't their job in a free society, and if we make it so then we will no longer be a free society. As Slapchop said, you can't have it both ways, there is no free lunch. Decide what kind of country you want, one with the illusion of security or a free one. Stop asking government to do what you should be doing yourself because freedom comes with responsibility or it isn't really freedom.