The following thought is not mine and I really wish I could remember where I first saw it. But someone recently made a profound observation about the police. Police officers actually have two jobs. Their first job is to enforce the law, to protect me from criminals.
Their second job is to protect criminals from me.
Let's say I had a beautiful, intelligent, vivacious young daughter that some demonic person decided to rape, torture and then murder. Normally, the way these things work in this country is that my daughter's murderer would be apprehended, tried, hopefully convicted and given the most serious sentence the law allows, up to and including death.
Know what will happen if you take the whole system of "law enforcement" out of the equation and then let me get hold of this person? My beloved daughter took three hours to die? He'll take thirty. And this individual can rest assured that "never seeing the light of day again" won't be just an expression whether or not I decide to let him live.
Do you think that it would have been exciting or something to live in the American West in the 1800's? Many of the people who would have disagreed with you the strongest would have been the people who actually lived there during that time.
Think of it.
EVERYBODY (with a brain in their heads anyway), every single person you came in contact with, would be packing. Every one. If there's no settled law, you could be quickly dispatched to your heavenly reward simply for looking at someone "funny." And you may have died like Judas died if anyone merely suspected you of a crime.
Small wonder then that the very first thing any Western town that wanted to survive for very long did was to get some kind of law enforcement apparatus going. Who the hell wants to live in a damned shooting gallery?
2 comments:
Well said.
I was recently thinking about the maxim "an armed society is a polite society" but it also reminded me that it depends on a reasonably objective application of the law by an outside authority.
Protection of life and property is similar to education and charity - all begin at home. We've lost that in all facets, outsourcing all three to government.
What we witness in the world today is the result of the failure of government to fulfill expectations they were never supposed to take on, while also neglecting the expectations they are supposed to fulfill.
See Mr. Sailer on this point. What the sorosphere conspirators want is haphazard 'community response teams' filled with their own muscle. Professional police forces are one of the odd institutions which haven't fallen to the woketards.
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