"Haymarket's acting police chief, Sgt. Gregory Breeden, got his gun back yesterday.
"Breeden had lost his right to carry a weapon two weeks ago after his wife accused him of breaking down their kitchen door with an ax and was granted a temporary restraining order. "
Who among us hasn't taken an ax (Stipulation, Your Honor--it was a sledgehammer) to a door from time to time?
The point here isn't to judge the guy's actions, though. We all know how restraining orders can be used as tools of vengeance, and how our rkba can be denied without any finding of guilt.
The point here is, if the guy wasn't a cop with connections, what do you think the chances for this outcome would have been?
If he was not a cop it would have been AT LEAST three years to get his gun(s) back - IF AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteThis brings up a good point. The police are not on our side. The lie has been put to the blather that police will not follow illegal orders and take your guns in New Orleans last week.
ALL FIREARMS BUSINESSES should refuse to do business with the police - Particularly in CA, MA. NY and the other overboard communist states.
Follow the lead of Barrett Firearms and the Folsom Gun Club in California - ESTABLISH POLICY OF NO POLICE AND NO POLICE AGENCY BUSINESS in states that are hostile to the second amendment.
After New Orleans - anyone that hasn't retired from their police agency IS THE ENEMY.
Do not do business with the enemy. Do not allow them on your range to practice. Let them practice at their own facilities. Refuse to sell them guns or parts or ammunition.
The police at all levels have shown themselves to be the enemy. Firearms companies either support the police or the populace and the second amendment. Your for us or against us.
Why should I go to a range so police can monitor my firearms use or take license numbers from the parking lot or see weaqpons they might "want for themselves"?
The line in the sand has been drawn. I encourage everyone to lobby at their gun clubs to exclude all police and federal agents. Lobby manufacturers to do the right thing and support the people and the individual right over gun confiscating, citizen fearing / hating police.
Thank you
D
The names Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot conjure up imagages of horror and terrible crimes against humanity. However, I posit that they are no more guilty of those atrocities they have been charged with than were the accomodaters. You know the accomodaters. The people that go along to get along. The excusers that support or, at the least, tolerate unjust laws and regulations because they do not immediately suffer the effects of them.
ReplyDeleteWithout the accomodaters Hitler would have been a failed crackpot artist, Stalin would have worked in a mine, etc. But because the could instill fear in a few, they used those few to instill fear in the many, therefore they grew in power because they were accomodated. The accomodaters bear the majority of the blame for the monsters of history. For without the accomodaters the monsters would have forever remained fringe crackpots and failures.
This nation has become a nation of accomodaters. We turn a blind eye to the transgressions of the politically connected and law enforcement. Oh, we may say we don't approve, but we turn a DA out of office for not charging a felonius cop. We never mount a recall of senators, governors, and police superintendents that confiscate legally owned firearms and the only protection a lawful member of society may have in a disaster area.
We make excuses for cops and protect them from the consequences attendant to their crimes and inevitable for any other person committing those crimes. We foster in them an arrogance that becomes contempt for the very people they are supposed to serve.
The wife of the cop in this story now has no choice but to secretly arm herself and kill this sonofabitch when he next attacks. Then she will most likely be charged with a crime against a police officer, instead congratulated for the downing of a criminal that has attacked.
What choice is left her, if she desires not to be harmed by a man that has been assured there are no consequences for his criminality?
Society has indemnified him from the law of the nation. It is a good and right thing that they cannot indemnify him from the laws of physics.
As more and more accomodations are made for abusers of the law that wear a shield the public will be forced to treat them with the same response appropriate for other criminals.
We must demand more character of our law enforcement personnel, and punish severely any breach of the public trust. They are and of right ought to be held to a higher standard, yet we have lowered the bar for them to unacceptable levels for the lowest of us.
Should have read "We do not turn a DA........."
ReplyDeleteD wrote: "Follow the lead of Barrett Firearms and the Folsom Gun Club in California - ESTABLISH POLICY OF NO POLICE AND NO POLICE AGENCY BUSINESS in states that are hostile to the second amendment."
ReplyDeleteGood point, D, but let's not forget that Barrett Firearms sold 50 cal. rifles to the NYPD. The NYPD will now be using these guns in helicopters. As everyone knows, law abiding citizens are essentially forbidden to keep and bear arms in the Big Apple. Now the NYPD has another tool to which the average New Yorker has no access.
Looks like Barrett was willing to "stop" sales to LAPD, but wasn't willing to take the step of NOT SELLING to other LEOs who are hostile to the Second Amendment.
I initially applauded Barrett for his position re: non-sales to LAPD. But when he sells to other Law Enforcement Agencies who take that extra step to disarm citizens, his position rings hollow.
I agree.
ReplyDeleteD
if this guy wasn't a police officer...what would the outcome have been?
ReplyDeleteWould the police on the scene of the crime have then taken him "downtown" and booked him on some charge (disturbing the peace) to clear the scene for the night...to make the wife and kids safe?
How should the previous actions of the guy be held against him (suspended for 6weeks or 15 days)?
Who had the better attorney...the police officer with connections or the scared family?
What is his next action against his family going to be?