Gun Control & RKBA

MicaelS

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21. You can thank SCOTUS for that.

Tue Nov 1, 2022, 11:38 AM

Nov 2022

'The court has held that an individual has no right to expect individual protection from the police. Police are only responsible for society at large. Awful, but those are the facts. That means a person is ultimately responsible for their own safety.

"Though alarming, we simply have no affirmative right to police aid, even when a person, including a helpless child, faces imminent danger. We are all responsible for our own personal safety, whether we like it or not."

https://www.barneslawllp.com/blog/police-not-required-protect

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The whole argument that we need guns to protect ourselves [View all] Eko Sep 2022 OP

Todays society Timewas Sep 2022 #1

Understandable. Eko Sep 2022 #2

Rule #26: Your number one Option for Personal Security is... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 #3

100% Eko Sep 2022 #4

Common ground discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 #5

+1 Kaleva Sep 2022 #11

It's also an indictment on municipal and state police, implying that no_hypocrisy Sep 2022 #6

I feel like that is a second stage problem. Eko Sep 2022 #7

re: Poverty, lack of health care, and immediate access to guns discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 #12

Living in a society where you feel the need to have a gun Eko Sep 2022 #8

You can thank SCOTUS for that. MicaelS Nov 2022 #21

Agreed. Makes a case for the individual claiming Second Amendment rights. no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #22

What about God? keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 #9

Whole different can. Eko Sep 2022 #10

God helps those that help themselves. discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 #14

I'm not so sure how free and safe we've ever been. SYFROYH Sep 2022 #13

There have been those "highwaymen" yagotme Oct 2022 #15

That's why we have people who Eko Oct 2022 #16

The essentials are often ignored by worst casing and under assessing. discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2022 #17

I agree. Eko Oct 2022 #18

re: "...does not work well at all in fight or flight situations... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2022 #19

"Does it work all of the time?" yagotme Oct 2022 #20