08-05-2011, 06:39 PM
One of the biggest misconceptions about Law Enforcement is that their job is to protect you. It is not. It cannot be, given the basic limitations of physics. Their job is to protect the sense of societal order in municipalities, counties, States, and Nations. They are barely equipped to protect themselves in most cases, and most officers don't receive enough training to do even that.
When you are in the middle of a life-or-death scenario that usually comes up on people in a surprising fashion, 911 is minutes away, and response times to violent crimes reported as being perpetrated by multiple suspects don't exactly increase the response times. What person or persons want to rush to their own possible death, whether wearing a uniform or not...
Somewhere along the way, people have surrendered their personal responsibility to assert and defend their own lives and security to unseen, unqualified, absent entities that simply don't exist. The sooner you realize that YOU'RE IT, the more engaged you should become in maintaining a healthy personal protection posture.
When you are in the middle of a life-or-death scenario that usually comes up on people in a surprising fashion, 911 is minutes away, and response times to violent crimes reported as being perpetrated by multiple suspects don't exactly increase the response times. What person or persons want to rush to their own possible death, whether wearing a uniform or not...
Somewhere along the way, people have surrendered their personal responsibility to assert and defend their own lives and security to unseen, unqualified, absent entities that simply don't exist. The sooner you realize that YOU'RE IT, the more engaged you should become in maintaining a healthy personal protection posture.