On 7/18/2011 8:50 AM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:28:16 -0400, >
> wrote:
>
>> Don't hold your breath. I was just over an old friends house the other
>> day. Guy is left leaning and anti gun. We were watching the moon rise on
>> their deck and he said "what kind of gun should I buy for personal
>> defense in the house?" and "can I go shooting with you?" He is a well
>> educated very sensible person who finally realized the usual police
>> involvement in a home invasion is to use that fancy chalk to outline the
>> body(s). It is NOT the usual idea that some folks seem to have that
>> there is an invisible police helicopter over their house that will
>> immediately respond when there is a problem.
>
> You reap what you sow. It sounds like your friend is living in an
> area where services are being cut back and that's what happens when
> there are no taxes to pay for them. Soon no one will be filling
> potholes in the streets either and then you can slowly regress back to
> the dirt roads of old, while the rest of us have to listen to how bad
> it is in your poverty stricken part of the country.
>
Talk about drama...

There are no cutbacks involving police protection in his area. My friend
very sensibly realized that they have food and water on hand because
there is no invisible government helicopter hovering over their house
waiting for say a heavy snow storm.

So the same goes for personal protection. There is no invisible police
helicopter hovering over his house. If an intruder breaks in there is a
pretty good chance that the only thing the police will be able to do is
to try to figure out what happened.

So just like having food and water on hand my friend wants to fill the
other protection gap. And he is asking questions and wants to get training.

Have a chat with an honest cop sometime and they will tell you that they
are in favor of folks doing what my friend decided to do because they
can't possibly be everywhere.