Gentle readers have heard it from me forever, that we are our own first responders. I am not inclined to blame the police, for I recognize that they have a limited role. They are there to prevent crime by their presence; after all, who commits a crime right in front of a police officer. The other job is to draw the chalk outlines of the bodies and find out whodunit. Now, even the American Thinker is saying it in a piece by Mike McDaniel entitled The police won't protect you; you're on your own.
Reality has a way of asserting itself. Post-October 7, American Jews have begun to realize the democrat/Socialist/Communist Party really isn’t their friend, won’t protect them, and is actually allied with monsters that want to kill every Jew. It took until November 15, however, for FBI Director Christopher Wray to admit to Congress that golly, there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of likely terrorists crossing the border and that might be kind of a problem, like, you know, a terrorist problem maybe?
A problem indeed, on top of another problem: when it comes to personal safety we’re on our own. We always have been. The Supreme Court case is Castle Rock v. Gonzalez (2005).
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This might seem outrageous, but it is logical, rational and unquestionably necessary. Particularly in these times when it’s nearly impossible to recruit competent, capable police officers, who is going to take the job if they could be constantly sued for failing to protect people from dangers about which they had no knowledge or ability to intervene? What city could afford a police department? Professional police officers want to save lives, they want to be heroes, but there are very few of them, lots of criminals and far more citizens. They love to catch really bad guys in the act, but that’s rare. In virtually every case, they’re only going to be able to process crime scenes and wait for the coroner.
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The lesson—the reality—is we are solely responsible for our lives and the lives of those we love. Israelis, and Jews around the world, are awakening to that reality. They’re doing what even American democrats/Socialists/Communists have been doing in unprecedented numbers: buying guns and training.
The Director of the FBI hasn’t quite come around to that public realization. He’s busy chasing soccer moms and “traditional” Catholics. Fortunately, normal Americans are more reality based. Now they know, legally speaking, why.
Last night, I was speaking to our vicar. A vicar in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is not yet a pastor, but is understudying an ordained pastor, learning the ropes of giving sermons and ministering to the needs of his future flock. He performs the Leader portion of the liturgy, while the Pastor performs the specific role of the Pastor. In any case, he mentioned that Saturday he will be taking a test in Krav Maga, the Israeli martial art. I have mentioned that Christianity is not pacifist, haven't I? Well, here you go. He had also studied Shorin-ryu, a Japanese martial art.
The point is that violence, like guns themselves, is a tool. You should never initiate violence. But if another initiates it against you, unless you use violence to respond, you will be killed. You have no way to know what is in someone else's mind.
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