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Gun Control & RKBA

virginia mountainman

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5. It is a simple statement of fact...

Reply to GreenStormCloud (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2013, 07:14 PM

Jan 2013

It is a long distance phone call for me to call my sheriffs office....It takes them almost an hour to get to where I live...

Also, their are several court cases that point out, that the Police, are under NO DUTY to protect an individual that is NOT under their direct "care".

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Milwaukee Sheriff Calls for Citizens to Arms Themselves, 911 Sometimes Not a Good Option. [View all] GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 OP

prelude to massive privatization of law enforcement? pepperbear Jan 2013 #1

doesn't seem to be gejohnston Jan 2013 #3

He is a lying piece of teabagging shit. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #2

Police have neither the ability (for obvious reasons) nor the obligation (for legal ones) to School guard Jan 2013 #4

David Clarke is a lying piece of teabagging shit. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #6

So I've heard. But we are paying them to at least make an effort. We aren't kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #7

Courts have established it's not their responsibility to protect individuals iiibbb Jan 2013 #8

Their employment contract establishes that they not sit on their asses kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #11

Correct... they will eventually arrive to investigate the murder of an individual... iiibbb Jan 2013 #13

That doesn't mean they will get there in time to prevent a violent crime from occurring. nt hack89 Jan 2013 #19

Where does it say sylvi Jan 2013 #14

No layoffs huh? Clames Jan 2013 #9

those were a year ago and no furloughs. at all. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #10

None of that changes the fact that there are still fewer LEO's available now... Clames Jan 2013 #12

more cops under obama than romney jimmy the one Jan 2013 #20

More fail from jimmy. Clames Jan 2013 #23

partly truth, partly fiction jimmy the one Jan 2013 #24

Why do you keep bringing up Romney? Clames Jan 2013 #25

what gives jimmy the one Jan 2013 #26

Exactly. tjnite Feb 2013 #30

It is a simple statement of fact... virginia mountainman Jan 2013 #5

honor bound tho, cops are jimmy the one Jan 2013 #15

It's not the refusal... it's the time it takes to respond to some calls. iiibbb Jan 2013 #16

This is it. jeepnstein Jan 2013 #17

to be, or not to be, iiibbb jimmy the one Jan 2013 #21

So you're both wrong iiibbb Jan 2013 #22

My Puha Ekapi Jan 2013 #18

Until the LEOs get a transporter from Star Trek kudzu22 Jan 2013 #27

David Clark is more interested in posting officers on the freeway where the SWTORFanatic Jan 2013 #28

I had a LTE published in the J.S. re Clarke for which I am now being harassed by a pro-gun blogger HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #29