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Posted By: TechSupport on 2009-03-26
In Reply to: Why? - Pugmom
I think that very few people know how many thousands of times a year ordinary citizens are forced to use their 2nd Amendment rights to defend themselves. The figure I saw for 2007 was over 10,000 - but the press won't tell you about that.
When you're confronted with a potentially deadly situation, you have only one person to depend on, and that's yourself. To believe that we can count on police protection is sheer simple-mindedness, and I know what I'm talking about because I was a cop.
The math is pretty simple. Let's just say I'm sitting in my cruiser down the street when a mugger jumps you, and let's say that a neighbor sees this out her window and calls 911 immediately. By the time that call is processed and I get dispatched, find you, and come to your aid it might take a minimum of 2 minutes - if you're very lucky. It takes less than 30 seconds for the mugger to rob and kill you (hold your breath for 30 seconds and you'll see how long that is). Now, just stare at the wall for 2 minutes and see how long that is.
Citizens who are lawfully armed very rarely commit gun-related crimes, and are very rarely involved in gun-related accidents. By "very rarely", I mean both in real percentages and compared to accidents of other sorts. They don't run around brandishing their weapons, either. If you went out in public today for any period of time, the chances are excellent that you walked right past some citizens who were armed and never knew it or had any reason to know it any more than you would have a reason to know they were carrying a flashlight.
My wife and I both have CCW permits and, from time to time as we think necessary, carry our weapons just like we carry an umbrella if we think it's going to rain. We know that we are responsible for our own safety, and we also know that it has always been a myth that the police will be there to protect us.
In this society, we have become utterly dependent on the support of our infrastructure, both in terms of the physical infrastructure and the institutions of society. We couldn't make it if there were suddenly no electricity, no running water, no gas, no gasoline, no grocery store, no government and no police, fire, or ambulance service. We'd barricade our homes and pretty soon we'd simply die. We're not prepared for an extended disaster and half of us wouldn't be able to name three edible plants that don't come out of a garden. We've become so tethered to the support we get from the services and institutions of society that we're only alive because these things are available...for the time being.
Sorry for the rant, but I know without asking that I'm talking to people who don't have emergency generators, don't have emergency supplies, haven't taken a first aid class for years if at all, and who have little or no survival skills despite the fact that we know about 9/11, we know about Katrina, we know about earthquakes, and all the rest.
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