Stockton's crime has hit equal to the level of SF and LA..
The police are whining they dont get enough money to do their job.
Things to consider that dont make sense:
The police chief is adamantly against allowing private citizens to carry conceiled weapons, dispite if you have a need/qualifications to carry one. He just doesnt feel that you should be able to defend yourself as you walk home at dusk after getting something to eat.. He feels that his department is doing a damn fine job, and there is no need for anyone to be able to defend themselves (yeah, bzzt, wrong).. I guess he's mastered that teleportation system so his staff will be instantly there when someone pulls a gun on you.. Hmm, personal experience has shown that the teleporter takes about 20 min to warm up and lock onto the pharmacy.. :(
I'm not getting down on the individual officers here.. I know they are just normal people who are trying to do their jobs the best they can. They cant help that they have a bumbling idiot at the helm. 90% of them wouldnt give a rats ass if I carried a piece as I walked back from getting food, but its that asshole 10% with a chip on their shoulder that i'm concerned about. Why dont they bring back the reserve program? I know that i'd donate like a weekend a month to ride around and help out (in exchange for a CCW permit of course)... The sheriff's dept had that program too, but they killed it (i guess? I called wanting more info but nobody ever called me back).
Stockton increased sales tax to 8.00% to build this stupid auditorium/stadium that nobody uses and nobody wanted.. They did clean up downtown (which was nice) and put in a starbucks/movie theatre a few years back.. But a friggin baseball stadium for a minor league team? No way!
Party tonight.. If you're reading this and wanna come, you can stay at my place. There is going to be hot-tub action.
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More guns on the street is always a good thing. Hooray for the blood bath.
If you think the police are there to protect you, you're delusional. Sure they can help you after the fact, but until they have a dedicated police officer following around every citizen, they will do nothing to actually prevent/stop crime..
Get a gun shoved in your face twice during armed robberies, watch as it completely tears your employees apart where they dont want to leave their houses for fear of their own safety.. Then we'll see what you have to say.
lady at gunpoint, and shes carrying (or anyone else within sight) a gun,
I might get killed""
No it doesn't. As far as I'm aware it's perfectly legal for people to have registered firearms in their own houses and yet houses still get broken into and robbed all the time.
All it does is increase the element of risk... But if the robber's also got a gun, then what do they care.
Violence just begets violence.
Having private citizens armed doesnt beget more violence, it just allows you to take control of your own personal safety rather than rely on a inheritly flawed system of law enforcement for which you have little/no control over.. I have to provide for my own food/clothing/shelter, so why cant I provide for my own personal safety as well?
Who ever said robbers were smart? You think if they had any brains they would be robbing places or commiting crimes rather than being a productive part of society? Most of them (at least the 2 we saw in here) were people who obvously saw too many rap videos and think that if you hold a gun sideways you get what you want.. Fortunally nobody got hurt, but 15-20 min after we hit the hidden panic buttons under the counters the police showed up (for reference, it takes me 15 min to drive across town to the pharmacy obeying speed limits and traffic lights). We asked them why it took them so long to get here (since their station is on this side of town) and they said "well our calls are in a priority queue, blah blah".. I think my boss said "We hit panic buttons that are here for when there is a hold-up, we had guns in our faces, what in the fuck could be higher in your priority queue than that???".. So you can see why im a bit bent about wanting my personal safety in my own hands rather than the police.
Still, if you want to kill someone then go for it... Keep a gun under your pillow and live in fear.
However if the said party came in, and starting taking hostages and shooting people to get what they want, then what? We wait 20 min for the police while people are dying? You've just reliquenshed all of your safety to two people, a criminal who's obvously has no regard for your life, or the police whom are not there.
If you have a gun intended for self defense you have to be prepared to use it. The moment it comes out, its whoever can kill the fastest.. Thats the plain, simple and honest truth.. The gun is the great equalizer, thats why criminals use them. Would you go against someone with a baseball bat knowing he's a black-belt in kung fu? Fuck no.. You'd use a gun because thats the only thing that nobody can fully defend against.
I dont want to kill someone, and it sorta pisses me off that you would even think of me as someone like that.. Being self sufficent and not relying on anyone to wipe your ass for you when the shit hits the fan is far from living in fear, its taking responsibility and charge of your own life.
Hmm... I wonder what could have given me that impression...
"if I pull out a gun i'm fully prepared to pull the trigger no if-ands-or-butts about it.."
"The moment [the gun] comes out, its whoever can kill the fastest.."
If it makes you feel any happier, it's nothinhg personal. I've just always been of the opinion that guns were designed to kill and maim, therefore people that enjoy playing with them deep down want to help fulfil the gun's ambition. There's no point to a gun if it's not fired at someone...
"Being self sufficent and not relying on anyone to wipe your ass for you when the shit hits the fan is far from living in fear, its taking responsibility and charge of your own life."
So you'd feel quite happy with the role of judge and executioner and also trust the judgement of all those around you to act in the same way? I'm not convinced that libertarianism actaully works. On it's most simple level it always seemed like an "I should be allowed to do anything I want because I have money" kind of political ideology.