911 Bug: Don’t Do Anything Until We Get There.

The bugs in the nation’s various 911 systems have been defective since before I was a Los Angeles Paramedic in the seventies. I kept my trap shut while on duty, but after I left the emergency service, I continued to observe the defects in the systems nearly everywhere. That’s more than twenty-six years of observing bugs in the system.

I recommend enhanced 911 for every community, but not an exclusive reliance on it. Here is why.

In time of peace, in time of individual emergency or in time of widespread disaster, many, many emergencies can wait. Traffic accidents can often wait, some emergencies simply cannot. It is estimated by experts that true medical emergencies constitute about 5% of all responses. That has also been my experience of ten years in EMS.

But many crime emergencies are blocked by an armed citizen, and they often go unreported according to the FBI and diligent scholars. This is an invisible solution often ignored by officials, even thwarted by them.

Throughout the history of 911, problems with 911 have been belligerence of operators, operator skepticism of reporting parties and repeat pranksters, unclear calls without precise locations, various policies on 911 hang-ups, an over-burdening and overwhelming of the system, and general burn-out of operators remaining on the job. As I mentioned in my last piece, some 911 operators have even been found asleep at the console. For many citizens, a placed 911 call simply goes unanswered or is met with a busy signal.

Take a look at some of these reports from around the nation.

State Senator Questions 911 Response After Breaking up Burglary Attempt…

Police Search For Panicked Woman Placing 911 Call…

Widow Criticizes 911 Inaction..

And what if you can’t get through?

Faulty Telephone Line Disrupts 911 Service . . .

I’m not over-criticizing: I’m pointing to over-reliance. Emphasis on over.

Police do a pretty good job of breaking conspiracies, busting plots against the nation, disabling drug labs and generally knocking themselves out to make communities safe. However, many individual acts of violence go unnoticed until after-the-fact due to political pressure, and are completed by surprise and for lack of resistance, discouraged by that pressure.

It is this I am addressing, folks. It’s not entirely 911’s fault – it’s the fault of indifferent officials who dictate bad advice to citizens. 911 often follows some of that advice, and often they have no choice.

Personal and household preparedness is vital to the household, in every single situation from food to crime. This is why I’m not coming down that hard on 911 – I’m coming down on the officials who bull-headedly vex constituents and thwart the good sense and legal authority of citizens to manage their crime emergencies in pro persona.

This includes meeting stalkings, rapes, repeat offenders, abductions, robberies, burglaries, home invasions, carjackings – all met and faced down by the target, instead of waiting for police while the criminal has his/her way. Some people are never even found or heard from again.

See the video Confession of a Rat: an anti-gun newspaperman finally admits to his wife and to himself that all of his editorials might as well say that he will not protect his own wife and kids. Check out her reaction.

The political urging – no, the political insistence – of reliance on agencies to the detriment of the household says many things, the first being don’t do anything until we get there. They call it anti-violence. In the final analysis, the net effect is an alliance with criminals.

This political interference is a trap for every single household who trusts political advice from self-interested agencies who urge appeasement, cooperation and, of course disarmament.

Translation: don’t bother to be alert, don’t refuse to be a victim, and don’t use force or have a weapon handy. Call us. And don’t do anything until we get there, or you’ll be punished.

But violent crime can be stopped in progress by the individual’s own sovereign authority, still legal in most states. I said authority. It never left you since the inception of the nation, but millions of Americans are talked out of it by way of political pressure.

Many Americans view this sovereign authority and natural right as a burden and oppose self-defense under color of opposing violence, and they contribute substantially to the problem of violence. Either way, it doesn’t change the truth of the statement that you have that authority and that you are on your own during the most critical moments of the emergency.

Why on earth would any state make it illegal or otherwise punishable for a person to fight back?

Check out that video, and stay tuned. More on the way.

And my suggestion: Enter yourself a Search Engine Keyword Alert with the keyword 911 so you’re notified by e-mail of every 911-related news item as it happens. Study the kind of situation you, yourself, will face.

Unwelcome burden or adult liberty?

Meanwhile, I’m eager to see how the Democrats are going to handle violent crime in America now that they’re in office.

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