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“Our police are outgunned,” they worry. So naturally, law abiding citizens must once again surrender another chunk of their rights. So it goes.
In fact, as if reacting to an invisible clarion call from the ghost of FDR himself, Democrats and gun control zealots from Dianne Feinstein to Martina Navratilova rushed to social media to make their case that, as the Uvalde shooting clearly showed, a criminal with an AR-15 is such a menace to police — police in Uvalde having concluded that, as Zach Despart “reports” in the Texas Tribune, to take on such a killer would prove fruitless, so the best course of action was simply to clear the building and wait for him to stop slaughtering helpless children and teachers — that the obvious answer is to ban AR-15s, a semi-automatic rifle platform that, as Despart writes, is “less powerful than many rifles, such as those used to hunt deer or other large game [but] has significantly more power than handguns, firing a bullet that has nearly three times the energy of the larger round common in police pistols.” One of the officers involved described the shooter’s weapon as “a battle rifle.” …
As Despart tells us in his piece, an Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting report, released in July of 2022 — while “comprehensive and scathing” — “made no mention of the comments by law enforcement officers in interviews that illustrated trepidation about the AR-15.” Despart, showing a generosity to the officers I’m not certain he might elsewhere, lets this seeming omission over officer trepidation at the prospect of having to face a “weapon of war” linger over his story like a braunschweiger fart: why weren’t we told by the Texas House investigative committee, chaired by Republican Rep Dustin Burrows, the implication is, that the real issue police had was with the shooter’s rifle?
I can answer that. Because it’s bullshit. This was a case of cowardice, calculation, and self-preservation. Nothing more. And because of that, it is abundantly clear that self protection is the best, most reliable form of protection, and that our Founders and Framers, in their wisdom — and having come out of an armed revolution with a new country founded from their particular “insurrection” — knew that the right to self-protection was not only a natural right they sought to forever protect, but one essential for a free people to remain free.n …
Every police officer who responded that day had access to a semi-automatic weapon. Many even had AR-15s. So the obvious question is, why should law enforcement, but no one else, be given access to semi-automatic rifles if not to stop a shooter they had vastly outnumbered and outgunned?
The bottom line is this: They didn’t act because those children meant less to them than their own lives. And that is precisely why it is a potentially lethal mistake to outsource your own safety and that of your family solely to civil servants who have nothing more than an oath they may or may not uphold, at the moment of truth, to incentivize them to act on your behalf.
I like to tell people that, in my house, we are each our own militia. What the Uvalde police — along with the Democrats and their gun control advocates quick to latch on to this latest anti-gun narrative — have proven so magnificently here, is that it takes good guys with guns to prevent bad guys with guns from running amok in a country awash in guns, most of them held legally by people who commit almost none of the gun crime.
A badge, a duty weapon, and the ability to write parking citations or bully kids for loitering in front of a gas station Quick Stop, does not “a good guy with a gun” necessarily make. The audacity of Uvalde police [trying] to justify their own measured calculus by laying the blame on a single weapon they know to represent a cultural flashpoint and wielded by a single, untrained teenager — and for the left to use that cowardice as reason to take away weapons from those who would have been more than willing to rush into that building, to be those “good guys with guns” — is as abhorrent as it is cynical.
— Jeff Goldstein in Democrats for “Assault Weapons”!
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