We're the Only Ones Intoxicating Enough

The sheriff of Los Angeles County plans to prohibit his off-duty deputies from carrying their guns while drinking because several have been accused in recent years of firing weapons while intoxicated...

The deputies' union opposes the restriction. Union leader Steve Remige says it would let criminals know that deputies who had put them away would at times be unarmed.

But it's OK if the criminals know you're incapacitated because you're stinking drunk, right Steve-O? Or if LA's finest put the rest of our lives at risk?

Telling me, a responsible, peaceable sovereign citizen, that drunken "Only Ones" are more qualified and trustworthy to be armed than I am, is a stupid, indefensible, offensive lie. That makes anyone who would do so corrupt and despicable.

You and your public employee union thugs have a choice in the matter--to go out drinking, to go out drinking where gangsters frequent...or to be armed. You and your public employee union thugs would presume to take the latter choice from the rest of us.

If we let you.

Incidentally, I'm told that "sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore" is actor James Whitmore's son. What a disappointment that guy turned out to be.

[Via Mike H and Mark of a Freeman]