I think the man is right, I mean, I grew up in a small town in one of the largest counties east of the mississippi, and I think that is pertinent advice for anyone, regardless of where you live. Besides, many people I speak with on a regular basis say “I think that if everyone carried a gun, the lunitics would get off less rounds”

A note for this British INGRATE with sewer mouth and very limited sense of reason: In March 1941, the US Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act specifically for the British need. After WW1, England’s Firearm Act dis-armed Britishers and England mainly became “armless.” Came the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940 and as the German war machine advanced, the British militay was in horrible disarray. Gun-free, the the British were helpless before the onslaught of the 3rd Reich. Luckily Mother Britain had sons and daughters across the Atlantic pond. A group of Americans headed by C. Suydam Cutting moved quickly to help re-arm the British sublects. The groups name was the “American Committee for Defense of British Homes.” The National Rifle Association (NRA) of American alone sent more than 7,000 privately-owned firearms. Other gun clubs donated by the thousands too. The US government, of course, sent more. PM Winston Churchill was grateful and thankful. He wrote in “Their Finest Hour:” When the ships from America approached our shores with their priceless arms, special trains were waiting in all ports to receive their cargoes. The Home Guard in every county, in every village, sat up through the night to receive them… By the end of July, we were an armed nation…Anyhow, if we had to go down fighting…a lot of our men and some women had weapons in their hands…”

Right on Sheriff Clarke! Law enforcement is not under obligation to protect individuals nor prevent crime. Our personal safety and protection is our responsibility.
Robert Boatman is one of my favorite authors on the Second Amendment. I’m posting an excerpt regarding the Citizens’ Self-Defense Acrt of 2001.

Included in the Citizens’ Self-Defense Act of 2001 are the following Congressional findings:

(1) Police cannot protect, and are not legally liable for failing to protect, individual citizens, as evidenced by the following:
(A) The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. For example, in Warren v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981), the court stated: “[C]ourts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.”
(B) Former Florida Attorney General Jim Smith told Florida legislators that police responded to only 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help to Dade County authorities.
(C) The United States Department of Justice found that, in 1989, there were 168,881 crimes of violence for which police had not responded within one hour.
(D) Currently, there are about 150,000 police officers on duty at any one time.
(2) Citizens frequently must use firearms to defend themselves, as evidenced by the following:
(A) Every year, more than 2,400,000 people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals – or more than 6,500 people a day. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
(B) Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
(C) Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, 92 percent merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than eight percent of the time does a citizen kill or wound his or her attacker.
(3) Law-abiding citizens, seeking only to provide for their families’ defense, are routinely prosecuted for brandishing or using a firearm in self-defense. For example:
(A) In 1986, Don Bennett of Oak Park, Illinois, was shot at by two men who had just stolen $1,200 in cash and jewelry from his suburban Chicago service station. The police arrested Bennett for violating Oak Park’s handgun ban. The police never caught the actual criminals.
(B) Ronald Biggs, a resident of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was arrested for shooting an intruder in 1990. Four men broke into Biggs’ residence one night, ransacked the home and then assaulted him with a baseball bat. When Biggs attempted to escape through the back door, the group chased him and Biggs turned and shot one of the assailants in the stomach. Biggs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon – a felony. His assailants were charged with misdemeanors.
(C) Don Campbell of Port Huron, Michigan, was arrested, jailed, and criminally charged after he shot a criminal assailant in 1991. The thief had broken into Campbell’s store and attacked him. The prosecutor plea-bargained with the assailant and planned to use him to testify against Campbell for felonious use of a firearm. Only after intense community pressure did the prosecutor finally drop the charges.
(4) The courts have granted immunity from prosecution to police officers who use firearms in the line of duty. Similarly, law-abiding citizens who use firearms to protect themselves, their families, and their homes against violent felons should not be subject to lawsuits by the violent felons who sought to victimize them.

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hey Mr Clark, if youre ever looking for a change of scenery, theres a job waiting for you in Australia.

This article displays a huge difference between a witted leader-type guy like David Clarke Jr. and the other guys who are lacking initiative and, therefore, incompetent to manage critical situations like reduction of the law enforcement for the public.

Good on Sheriff Clarke. He has it right.
I suggest everyone American who still has a brain, go take a firearms safety course. It is empowering and you will feel more confident handling firearms.

When the bad guy presents to you …. you will know better, how to handle it.

It’s just the smart thing to do. I did it and I feel it was well worth it.

Sheriff Clarke is absolutely correct – ultimately it is up to the individual to protect themselves. Law Enforcement is there to take care of the bad guys – that’s their job, but they can’t be everywhere at once. As Raymond said, “When seconds count, the Police are just seconds away” – no truer words were ever spoken. And to expect that somehow the lives of Law Enforcement are expendable in providing that protection for an individual, is so morally wrong.

You have to be delusional to thing that law enforcement can respond fast enough to protect your life or property.
I have lived in rural Texas most of my life. You are lucky if the Sherrif can find your house let alone get there fast enough to catch a bad guy in the act. People have loaded guns in their vehicles and in their home. But inspite of this, homicide is almost non-existant and robbery does not happen when people are at home. Some people feel secure enough so that they do no lock their house or take the keys out of their car.

IT IS ABOUT TIME A RESPONSIBLE POLICE OFFICIAL STOPPED THE MACHO IMAGE AND ADMITTED THE TRUTH BY ASKING CITIZENS FOR ASSISTANCE IN THEIR OWN DEFENSE. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SHEEPLE HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT WHEN SECONDS COUNT THE POLICE ARE MINUTES AWAY

The sheriff said it himself “I’m not telling you to `Hey, pick up a gun and blast away.’ … People need to know what they are doing if they chose that method — to defend themselves.” That is saying “know what to do.” Law enforcement cutbacks = less officers and less training; less officers means longer response times. what would have been a few minutes to respond can now be more like 15, 20, even 30 minutes for them to respond, and by then the assailant can do whatever they came to do. Liberals, stop being so stupid. People kill people, they have the choice.