The Symbolism of Gun Control
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Labels: CDIW, gun control, politics, self-defense
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Labels: CDIW, gun control
Residents were urged to prepare for a number of disaster scenarios, including how to cope for being at least “two weeks on your own”.Two weeks is a long time, but not at all difficult if you have access to Amazon.com
“The message for a lot of us needs to be, ‘Be ready for anything’,” said Battalion Chief Larry Collins. “The message used to be 72 hours, but we’ve seen in disasters like [Hurricane] Katrina, even [Hurricane] Sandy recently, that, really, if it’s wiped out your infrastructure, and your electricity grid and your communications, it will be very likely be more than three days before you start getting food, water and other supplies coming in from outside.”
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Recent comments on gun control by Milwaukee Police Chief Flynn highlight, for me, a problem with law enforcement in this country. Too often, law enforcement leaders confuse all citizens with criminals, and see themselves as “kings” of their jurisdiction instead of employees of the people...Sheriff Schmidt just threw away any chance of running for mayor of anywhere on the Democratic Party ticket.
...Law enforcement in America was never supposed to be about “ruling the people.” We are hired by “the people” to do that part of crime fighting they cannot do themselves. The citizens never gave up their protection against unlawful search of their persons, or seizure of their property, or the right to own guns and defend themselves, in that process...
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