Let me be frank: In encountering a wild shooter in New York’s Greenwich Village last week, reservist officers Eugene Marshalik and Nicholas Pekearo died needlessly.
I am informed by police who correspond with me that police are not really trained to handle crimes they witness off-duty. Some write me that it’s discouraged as their departmental policy. What the hell went wrong?
In observing the shooter and determining his location as they had heard the call go down – they went to face him anyway – Marshalik and Pekearo made two fatal mistakes: the first is that they didn’t take cover and faced him openly to ‘talk with him’ it’s reported, and the second is that they were unarmed and had no power to stop him.
Compare this to the off-duty officer in Utah’s Trolley Square Incident where one officer was armed and shot the shooter to death before the shooter could kill more people.
Think.
Understand that whether civilian or sworn off-duty police officer, armed individuals stop crimes in progress millions of time per year – usually armed civilians stopping the criminals in the absence of police.
The majority of states shows citizens carrying concealed weapons legally and with no increase in crime, but decreases in violence, which humiliates so-called gun control.
Understand that individuals are already possessed of that authority in this country. It may seem alien to some who just don’t understand our heritage and history and what our guns are really all about, and who continue to think like Europeans, but in this country, citizens have the ultimate authority, and the legal authority to stop a crime in progress is well established.
Gun control kills people – it kills innocent constituents – by disarming them for the dumbest of reasons – or the shrewdest of reasons – depending on what officials are really thinking. Criminals can not only lay their hands on any weapon they want, but they also ignore several gun laws on the way to their core crime.
I’ll make a few New Yorkers angry, but think it through: people are getting sick of being disarmed by their public servants and being put at the mercy of school shooters or church shooters in known victim disarmament zones, and being punished for wanting to stop them with their sovereign authority. That sovereign authority works as the best solution, and it is obfuscated for political gain. This is the real crime.
Look your mate in the eye and ask whether being disarmed is the right way to plan how your household will manage an encounter with violence when police aren’t even notified, much less en route. Going for a ‘crackdown’ on guns is just stupid, since it meaninglessly touches only the innocent and by definition can never touch the violent criminal. Or, it is shrewd if you want to preside over crisis.
The Court of Appeals did the right thing in banning the D.C. gun ban. And it’s not the only court to do so. The U.S. Department Of Justice found three years back the right to carry is an individual right and not a collective right. Mayors pulling out of the Bloomberg scam are doing the right thing. Mayor Mary Wolf Of Williamsport, Pennsylvania being the latest. Nice work, Mayor Wolf. Praise and thanks.
I think we need to clarify to officials what we need in public service so ambitious officials no longer seek to preside over crisis as their pride and legacy, and good officials preside over prosperity, prosperity in every sense as our joint pride and legacy.
The first thing to do is to better understand civilian rights, civilian authority as superior, and the vital role of civilian lethal force, also superior to officials, and how and why the second amendment was written. Lethal force in the hands of citizens is a safeguard against various abuses of due process.
Safeguard.
The Founding Fathers had had it up to here with abuses of process. Bloomberg’s scam is the perfect example of modern abuse of due process. The Second Amendment to our Bill Of Rights was written to be impervious to such abuses then and now, and for the purpose of furnishing a lethal force in the hands of civilians purely to back up the civilian authority of the nation. The authority of the civilian is superior to that of any American official, including a mayor. Or a presidential candidate.
This is why right-minded courts are ruling in favor of the Second Amendment and why Mayors are pulling out of the Bloomberg scandal. The BATFE has instructed Hizzoner to quit it while they investigate his actions.
Mayor Bloomberg thinks like a European when he should be thinking like an American. We have a few of those at this time in office.
Marshalik and Pekearo died for nothing. They did not take cover and they had no lethal force with which to stop the shooter. By an abuse of due process, no one in the immediate vicinity had that lethal force. In another state or two I can think of, an armed citizen would have taken this shooter out.
And with all legal authority.
Repeal all gun laws.
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Looting of the United States begins with discouraging authority and resolve. See www.TransferOfWealth.net
