Posted on 03/06/2019 3:08:58 PM PST by Perseverando
Is this a sign of what is coming for the rest of the nation? In Martin County, Kentucky times are very tough right now. Thanks to severe budget cutbacks, there are only two paid law enforcement officers covering a deeply impoverished 231-square-mile area that sits right in the heart of America’s raging opioid crisis. Needless to say, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk feels greatly outnumbered by the thieves, sexual predators and drug dealers that he has to contend with on a daily basis, and he recently issued a very ominous warning to the citizens of his county…
Before making a wave of cutbacks across his department, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk delivered a grim warning to residents of this hardscrabble Appalachian community.
“Law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist,” he posted on Facebook last month. “WE ARE BROKE… LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG. If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”
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This is local politic crap. They always cut the Police and Fire Dept first. This way people feel the pain as opposed to trimming the boards and city council positions.
Sounds like it’s time for form a Second Amendment militia.
First a Chihuahua as an alarm dog .....
Where I and my folks live it’d be suicide for anyone to come up the trail to our place and the rest of the houses further on up. Even a couple of liberal houses have guns.
It’s the Appalachians. I’m almost sure they have lots of dogs, lots of guns and lots of locked doors..
Josephine County in Oregon went through this a few years back, when all the lumber mills and logging stopped. Volunteers did the policing.
“If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”
How about we protect ourselves.
I submit that we return to a time where citizens were allowed to protect themselves without fear of lawsuits or incarceration.
Has anyone here ever been PROTECTED by the police?
Not showing up to take notes after a robbery or mugging.
But actually being RIGHT THERE when it happened and protected you?
I’ve not had that happen.
I’m sure the police are important.
It’s just I don’t recall them ACTIVELY protecting me.
And I don’t go to the black neighborhoods on Staten Island (just telling it like it is) to buy drugs so I’m good.
And coyote snack.
I don’t think that existed with the exception of in wilderness areas.
Volunteer deputies.
You don’t let it out without supervision. Neighbor up the road has one and I can hear it yapping a quarter mile away.
We should be doing that to gun grabbers too. Especially the heinous politician gun grabbers. Leave them hanging till they rot and fall out of the noose naturally.
You hit the nail on the head and that is pretty much the point, there is no way police can be there to protect you....just not possible.
But we still get the preverbial “if not us then who?”. The ole’ thin blue line is the only thing that can save you. It simply is not true, and to believe so is dangerous, dangerous to you and to your loved ones.
We need to return to the base thought that a citizen has a right and a duty to defend oneself and ones country.
Clean_sweep notes wilderness being a place where such a thing is possible, and he/she is correct. It is the roots of our self sufficence.
How about we protect ourselves.
I submit that we return to a time where citizens were allowed to protect themselves without fear of lawsuits or incarceration.
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Self-defense is an unalienable right and no legitimate government would abrogate it. Most people are instinctively aware of that, and anyone cowered by government to relinquish that right is responsible for the adverse consequences.
A neighbor of mine called the cops and told them someone was trying to force her window open. 40 minutes later, a cop arrived, noted the damage, and guessed a passing car’s headlights must have scared the intruder off. The neighbor, partially disabled, bought a gun the next day.
Good move!
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