Law Enforcement Calls For Citizens To Exercise Their Second Amendment Rights

[TeddyR]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/01/18/u-s-sheriffs-call-to-arms-urge-citizens-to-help-protect/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Sheriffs across the country have been calling their citizens “the first line of defense” against crime — a call to arms that some say is a new phenomenon following terrorist attacks at home and abroad.

A sheriff in Wisconsin wants “as many law-abiding citizens to arm themselves in this country as we can get.” One in New York state told people who are licensed to carry a gun to “please do so.” In Florida, one sheriff said: “I can tell you the probability of needing a firearm is remote, but it’s more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone.”

The proclamations come after suicide bombers and gunmen terrorized Paris, a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and two attackers – since linked to Islamic extremism – gunned down a crowd at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif.

Good advice. Unfortunately certain areas, like DC, make it virtually impossible to legally carry a firearm, preventing folks from protecting themselves and discouraging others from interfering in a crime, like when a young man was stabbed and beaten to death in front of numerous witnesses several months ago on a DC metro train.

[Lurks Often]

1. That's an interesting "tipping point"

just probably not in the direction the gun control extremists want

[Duckhunter935]

2. any day now

[GreydeeThos]

3. One person was Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey

[pablo_marmol]

4. "Unfortunately certain areas, like DC, make it virtually impossible to legally carry a firearm....."

Chicago would be another example. Isn't it tragic that areas where citizens - particularly poor citizens - are most likely to need the ability to defend themselves are also areas where gun restriction politics makes it difficult, if not impossible to do so?

Liberals like to see themselves as defenders of the underdogs of society - but this horrifying hypocrisy is not only a terrible insult to POC, but a political loser.......since any (informed) citizen with true compassion sees feel-good "gun control" politics as nauseating.