A lot of big-city police chiefs are political appointees who promote gun control, presumably to please their political masters.
They tell citizens that they should passively rely on government rather than take personal responsibility for self defense.
I have no idea if the numbers in this image are correct, but there’s no doubt that a gun is a lot quicker than the cops. Heck, just watch this video and ask yourself whether you would want your daughter armed.
And the cops I know – the ones who actually interact with the public and fight crime – are supportive of the Second Amendment, precisely because they realize they can’t be everywhere and they know there are bad people in the world.
But not all police chiefs and senior cops are mindless bureaucrats. In this video, the Sheriff of Milwaukee County not only acknowledges the right of self defense, but he’s also is willing to help train citizens to resist crime.
This doesn’t necessarily make him a libertarian hero. Indeed, his comments about layoffs and furloughs indicate that he’s also interested in maximizing the size of his staff.
And even though cops are probably my favorite government employees (at least when they’re fighting crime rather than giving me ridiculous traffic tickets), that doesn’t mean we should have too many of them or pay them too much (though, to be fair, they’re presumably not paid as much as cops in Oakland).
But I’ll forgive Sheriff Clarke for pursuing the interests of his staff, even if that conflicts with the interests of taxpayers.
P.S. Here’s a very good joke about what to say when you call 911.
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The Sheriff of Milwaukee County has taken a different approach to crime. Crowdsourcing.
When I watched this video earlier today, all I could think was, “It must chap Jesse Jackson’s ass to no end that this guy is BLACK, and can’t be dismissed as a ‘Cracker teabagger racist'”…