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I say we return to the days when rustlers and horse thieves were hanged outright. (One can wish, can't one?)
Get enough rich people disturbed by events and they'll push buttons in an attempt to bring law enforcement back. What's that they say about how a liberal becomes a conservative...?
There's nothing civil about this war.
If armed, platoon sized, elements start kicking in your door, it's gonna suck to have your bullet buttoned AR locked in a safe with a 10-round mag.
You and I are drinking from the same cask, from different sides of the societal table, brother. This scenario is not an “if,” it’s a “when” unless some social mores around law enforcement change in a few major urban areas.
I can pour that ale even darker, though: at current trajectory, we are a decade out from both private security (as @Caballoflaco notes) and cartel-driven protection rackets vying for the public’s security dollars.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
that's a poor recipe for success, and I suspect we are well past whatever minimal impact that kind of approach might have had, and largely ignores the broader current situation.
i know, it's the "easy button" ("hire more cops, pay cops more, get them bigger guns") and I'm not actually opposed to much of it, but it's not going to be effective.
if we're going to equate these things to wars, maybe we need to look more closely at lessons learned from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq and the outcomes thereof. This ain't gonna be trench warfare.
like it or not, ever since 0 won in 2008, the sense of entitlement has been growing. The past year or two hasn't improved things. The media and the "left" keep telling everyone they are "owed" and "due" and that "it's not your fault". The long-term repercussions of this aren't even starting to be felt.
2008. Think about that. 13 years ago. So anyone 18 or younger has only ever been even remotely aware of an entitlement society. Then figure that people probably aren't even beginning to be socio-politically aware until... 13? so you start to see why the great temper tantrum, as fueled by the media to sell soap and the left to garner votes and push the orange man out, really happened. Everyone 25-ish or younger is basically an entitled asshole with zero concept of history or how things really get done.
Atlas will either need to shrug, or get some balloons.
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