Union officials reacted angrily to Ramsey's announcement, which they learned about from a reporter. They said that officers already are exhausted from working 12-hour days and mandatory overtime shifts, and that the initiative could spoil their holiday plans.
"It's just ridiculous," said Sgt. Gregory I. Greene, chairman of the D.C. police labor committee for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1. "The only ones suffering from this are the officers. It's Christmas. It seems like Ramsey is out of answers about how to address the crime problems."
Yeah, no kidding, Sarge. Not that you and your union buddies could do much better.
District murders are out of control and the only thing any of you public servants can think about is your Christmas vacation. That sends a great message to those relying on you for protection--even though you know full well you have no legally enforceable obligation to provide it, and couldn't anyway.
But God forbid you find a resident with the means to protect himself. That's when you get to execute "Home Rule" and spoil some other poor slob's holiday plans.
These are models of dedication? These are the guys that think no one should have the means of personal protection?
ReplyDeleteI suppose they can file the report of your murder in the unsolved file as easily after their nice unspoiled Christmas as easily as they can before.
They don't want others to have firearms though, because if everybody had the means of self-defense that provided for their unspoiled Christmases, why then the cops Christmases wouldn't be soooo special.
We can't have that, why that's ..... that's ... that's tantamount to the abolition of the elite. When they say Home Rule they really mean home RULE. Elites do that,you know. It is their right, they are armed.
Since the population of D.C. is mostly (ahem) those people, and the cops are the way and attitude they are, the situation is ripe,as Lenin would say, for a little change in the weather. All it needs is some high profile incident, involving some of our soul brethren, hopefully something that can be twisted easily by the socialist press,and Viola'! Instant Section 8. And folks would for thirty years make jokes about Christmas and D.C.
ReplyDeleteI live in North East DC. We moved there becuase it was convenient place to live, it was a cheap neighborhood in an out of control market, and most people who live there are good middle class people. Last night I awoke in the middle of the night to several semi-auto pistols rounds being fired in the alley behind my house. Not an entirely uncommon occurance in any DC neighborhood east of the Rock Creek Park.
ReplyDeleteNow, I don't do drugs or frequent liquor stores or hang out in dark alleys, so I can mostly stay out of harm's way. But I know that if someone, God-forbid, came into my house, they would almost certainly be well armed, and I would be entirely at their mercy. I have never had any reason to believe the DC police can help me. But its not their fault.
The brass, not the rank and file, are the ones who tow the unconstitutional line. And they get it from our elected 'leaders.'
I am moving soon to Virginia where I can again freely excercise my right to protect my family (I am originally from the great free state of Florida). But, until then, I have to live in fear knowing that even if I bother to bring weapons I have at my folks place in FL back to DC, I could not use them to defend myself anyway without almost certainly facing a lengthy jail sentence. And I don't think I have to tell anyone that the DC prison is an unpleasant place for nerdy white guys.
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but I made this long post to try and give hope. I was for almost all of my 20s a leftist activist. I am curerntly employed in academia. I used to think Michael Moore was a prophet. I was a member of the Green Party.
After our house was burglarized during our honeymoon my wife and decided it might be best to bring one of my guns from FL back to DC.
After researching the process of owning and registering a gun in DC, I started down the road to totally changing my political beliefs. Of all the lies, half-truths and intellectual laziness of the left, it was the their view of 2cd amendment that brought me to proper side of politics.
Keep up the good work. There has to be more like me out there.
Good for you Gregorscoff! You've 'caught on' that the 2nd is the cornerstone of our freedom. I too used to be a 'liberal', though having grown up in the South I always have been a 'gunnie' too.
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