Post by whitehorse on Apr 19, 2020 3:51:00 GMT
Thoughts on identifying Gun shops as "Essential"
While it’s easy to understand why grocery stores and pharmacies are vital, because they supply food and medicine, gun shops are also essential because they provide vital goods and services to citizens in exercising their Constitutional rights under the Second Amendment.
With much of the country under a virtual shut-down, millions of people laid off from work and staying home, the economy has ground to a sudden halt due to the COVID-19 situation.
The illness has hit first responders particularly hard. As many as 25% of police officers have been sidelined with coronavirus infections in many large metropolitan police departments. In order to keep as many officers as possible on the streets, many large city department heads have ordered that law enforcement officers make arrests only for the most egregious offenses.
With police departments hampered by illnesses, and the public ordered to stay off the streets, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to deduce that instances of domestic violence are going to rise dramatically. And they have. One big city police chief ordered officers to make arrests in those cases only when there was “more than the usual” probable cause to believe an act of violence had occurred and then only if the complainant continued to insist on pressing charges. That “more than usual” blurb was an actual quote from a big city police chief and was caught on camera!
Other crimes are on the uptick as well, like burglaries, auto break-ins, and strong-armed robberies. And the police have been told to stand down unless they catch a person bent over a dead body, knife in hand with blood dripping off the blade. Of course, that’s an exaggeration, but it makes the point I’m trying to convey here. The police don’t even bother answering calls of disorderly conduct, public intoxication and other offenses.
It’s also been a big item in certain news media that authorities are ordering their jails emptied of all but the most violent offenders. But even those guys are being turned loose on humanitarian grounds because of the risk of them being infected with the coronavirus as well. This doesn’t sound like a good recipe for civil society. It doesn’t pass the smell test of common sense.
Now combine all the factors above, and now combine it with a Supreme Court ruling which held that no police department, or any individual police officer, can be held liable or responsible for any failure to provide protection to any individual citizen.
In other words, when it comes to taking care of yourself and your family, you’re pretty much on your own.
This is where it should become evident that gun stores are vital.
They provide guns for law abiding citizens who wish to take on the responsibility of protecting themselves and their loved ones.
The provide ammunition for those citizens, because a gun without ammo is just an expensive paperweight.
They also offer a wealth of advice and assistance to those who are new to using guns, and how to handle them safely, and properly store them as well.
Many gun stores also provide gunsmithing services. Guns are like any other consumer product. They can, and do, break. When they do, it means they need repair. And you’re not going to get the service department of an appliance store to fix your gun. It takes a specialist.
If any person in their right mind can justify keeping liquor stores open because of their “essential” nature, then how in the name of God can anyone argue that gun stores aren’t essential, especially in times of a national crisis like the one we’re going through now?
With much of the country under a virtual shut-down, millions of people laid off from work and staying home, the economy has ground to a sudden halt due to the COVID-19 situation.
The illness has hit first responders particularly hard. As many as 25% of police officers have been sidelined with coronavirus infections in many large metropolitan police departments. In order to keep as many officers as possible on the streets, many large city department heads have ordered that law enforcement officers make arrests only for the most egregious offenses.
With police departments hampered by illnesses, and the public ordered to stay off the streets, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to deduce that instances of domestic violence are going to rise dramatically. And they have. One big city police chief ordered officers to make arrests in those cases only when there was “more than the usual” probable cause to believe an act of violence had occurred and then only if the complainant continued to insist on pressing charges. That “more than usual” blurb was an actual quote from a big city police chief and was caught on camera!
Other crimes are on the uptick as well, like burglaries, auto break-ins, and strong-armed robberies. And the police have been told to stand down unless they catch a person bent over a dead body, knife in hand with blood dripping off the blade. Of course, that’s an exaggeration, but it makes the point I’m trying to convey here. The police don’t even bother answering calls of disorderly conduct, public intoxication and other offenses.
It’s also been a big item in certain news media that authorities are ordering their jails emptied of all but the most violent offenders. But even those guys are being turned loose on humanitarian grounds because of the risk of them being infected with the coronavirus as well. This doesn’t sound like a good recipe for civil society. It doesn’t pass the smell test of common sense.
Now combine all the factors above, and now combine it with a Supreme Court ruling which held that no police department, or any individual police officer, can be held liable or responsible for any failure to provide protection to any individual citizen.
In other words, when it comes to taking care of yourself and your family, you’re pretty much on your own.
This is where it should become evident that gun stores are vital.
They provide guns for law abiding citizens who wish to take on the responsibility of protecting themselves and their loved ones.
The provide ammunition for those citizens, because a gun without ammo is just an expensive paperweight.
They also offer a wealth of advice and assistance to those who are new to using guns, and how to handle them safely, and properly store them as well.
Many gun stores also provide gunsmithing services. Guns are like any other consumer product. They can, and do, break. When they do, it means they need repair. And you’re not going to get the service department of an appliance store to fix your gun. It takes a specialist.
If any person in their right mind can justify keeping liquor stores open because of their “essential” nature, then how in the name of God can anyone argue that gun stores aren’t essential, especially in times of a national crisis like the one we’re going through now?