Article from Mises Institute by Ryan McMaken.
To many people who aren’t left-leaning journalists, it is hardly “terrifying” that some other private citizens of unknown expertise were armed in the congregation. After all, these people never fired a shot once they saw the shooter had been incapacitated. None of them provided any reason to suspect they pose any risk to anyone else.
On the other hand, 2019 has provided plenty of reminders of what sort of “expertise” and heroism government-provided security forces offer.
In the spring of 2019, the parents of victims of the Parkland school shooting sued the Broward County school board and the sheriff’s office for failing to take timely action against the school shooter who killed seventeen people at the school in February 2018. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, police officers repeatedly sought to protect themselves rather than the victims in the school. An analysis of communications among law enforcement officers at the site of the massacre confirmed there were “at least two times a Broward deputy urges another officer to protect themselves, not confront the killer.”
Meanwhile, 2019 provided reminders that police officers will shoot citizens dead in their own homes for no justifiable reason, as was the case with Atatiana Jefferson on October 12. According to multiple accounts the shooter — a now former cop named Aaron Dean — entered Jefferson’s private property unannounced in the middle of the night. He peered into Jefferson’s windows, and within seconds, the officer had shot Jefferson dead. Jefferson had been playing video games with her nephew.
Read the entire article at Mises Institute.
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The fact of the matter is that in a school or on the battlefield you don’t know how you will react in times of danger. It takes a special breed of person to run toward the gunfire. 90% of our law enforcement officers do just that. We also have trained men and women in the service who react without hesitation. We The People should be able to defend ourselves should the moment arise. Taking away our gun rights will only disarm Law Abiding Citizens NOT CRIMINALS!!!
The fact of the matter is that in a school or on the battlefield you don’t know how you will react in times of danger. It takes a special breed of person to run toward the gunfire. 90% of our law enforcement officers do just that. We also have trained men and women in the service who react without hesitation. We The People should be able to defend ourselves should the moment arise. Taking away our gun rights will only disarm Law Abiding Citizens NOT CRIMINALS!!!
All that I know who owns guns or had until law-in-forced officers came into their house and took them, had trained and knew how to use them. I agree that we do not know how we will act in time of danger. Those trained and know how to use guns should still be able to have guns. It is also their responsible to keep them out of reach of those that do not have the training in their home. That was the problem at Sandy Hook and many other cases. Stolen guns!
A portion of the cops are meat heads or rather evil hearted. They should not be allowed to carry a gun. We need a good vetting method, and try to at least get cops who are moral meaning they abhor stealing in any case. Thus wave a dollar in the face of a cop and his knees go weak sorry the first purpose of a policeman is be MORAL. It is the most important thing! He will have empathy, patience self controlled honesty helpfulness. In short a real christian spirit and courage. These would be our wealth as a nation, not large houses or grand autos, but our cops.