The Police took TWO HOURS to Show Up! ~#privatizeeverything
Last week, my 75 year old father, for the first time in his life, had to shoot someone. He has been a gun owner and concealed carry permit holder for years and years. His office walls are plastered with shooting targets, among other things. They're riddled with bullet holes in tight groupings, the kind of accuracy you want someone who owns guns to have.
Outside on both entrances are signs that read:
The story goes like this: A homeless man who has been living in tent city, in S. Mpls, was asked by a guy renting out my dads basement to do some painting. He did one job and got paid. He showed up to my dads around 8 am one morning, banging on his front office door, asking for money he was owed for a new painting job he hadn't even done yet. The guy in the basement wasn't home, so my dads wife asked him to leave, as she wasn't inclined to pay him anything. But he refused, clearly on some type of drug. So she called 911.
My dad sat in his office waiting for the police to arrive and escort this man off the property. Then the man cranked things up and broke out the bottom partition to the front door. He then proceeded to crawl half way in and throw something at a glass partition shattering it.
At this point, it has been an hour and a half waiting for the cops to show up and my dad wasn't going to take it anymore. After asking the guy to leave a handful of times, after he entered my dads home and broke some glass, my dad pulled out his revolver and shot the guy in the leg. My dad said he jumped up like a jack rabbit and then proceeded to chase him half way down the block.
Thirty minutes later the police finally show up. Not before anything happened, as to prevent something bad happening, but after the fact that all the bad stuff has already happened.
A detective drove him downtown, got my dads statement, and drove him back home. The guy was picked up by an ambulance a few blocks from dads house, was taken to the hospital, and then jail.
I went to see my dad the next day, making sure he wasn't too shaken up from the incident. But he is a pretty tough guy, even at 75 with 2 new hips.
We had been having some really good conversations as of late relating to the differences between our current political system vs. anarchy. So I couldn't pass up this perfect opportunity to show him the blatant and obvious lack of responsibility and servitude the state police have for its citizens. Maybe you don't already know this, but in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that the police have no obligation to protect you. Imagine buying a coffee at your local shop, and instead of a coffee, they hand you a thimble of left over watered down day old coffee. You'd surely ask for your money back, seeing as you didn't get what you paid for, but in the case of government policing, you don't have that option.
So I asked my dad as he was bitching about the ridiculous amount of time it took for them to show up: "Dad, how do you think a private security company would have handled this situation? Do you think they would have been here faster? More beholden to you as a customer? Wanting to be the best they can so you give them 5 stars and a raving review?" And if they did a crappy job, say they took two hours to show up ;) would you not want the option to switch to a more reputable protection company? One that would do whatever it took to retain your business?
His half crooked smile said it all.
I am glad he is okay and that fortunately he didn't end up taking this mans life. It could have ended much worse.
The saying "When seconds count, the police are minutes away" couldn't ring more true in this scenario. Pack heat my friends, it's the only way you can guarantee your own personal safety. I love you dad.
I can relate. My car was stolen years ago and I actually found it on the street a few days later the next neighborhood over from mine. I called the cops immediately to get assistance with retrieving my car. I had the keys but I wanted to avoid a violent confrontation with the thieves who stole it, so I just watched it until they arrived, just in case someone got in and drove away. The police took two whole hours to come help me out with it, then did zero investigation. Finally after quite a few questions from me and pointing out the gang tags on the inside of the car done with magic marker, they snapped some pictures of the tags. That was it. No talking to anyone in the neighborhood, no dusting for fingerprints, nothing. Never heard from them again. I guess my POS car that I needed to get my poor ass back and forth to work wasn't worth it to them, but it certainly was to me. I'm so glad I've been paying taxes all these years in order to "use the roads and police services."
My tires were slashed one Thanksgiving. I had arrived at a friend's place, and parking is limited on their street. Since it was a mail holiday, I parked in front of a mailbox. I arrived late in the afternoon, so people would have had a good 24 hours to empty their mailboxes before I arrived. I left late at night - well, tried to leave. Some asshole slashed both passenger tires. The cops showed up in a mere 20-30 minutes, and then proceeded to do jack shit to find the perpetrator so I could get restitution despite numerous neighborhood reports of a specific individual who had threatened to slash tires.
At least they had the common sense to not ticket me. But that's it. Fortunately, I had added a full-size wheel to the trunk in addition to the donut spare, and thus had replacements for both wheels to limp 25 miles home.
Top effort from the old guy. My Dad's a good shot too, but lives in Australia.
I thought I heard or read recently that Straya was peeling back some gun laws and easing up a bit? Was I dreaming?
There was a push, but it'll never happen. Too many domesticated people. Victims sometimes realise afterward that a gun would've helped a lot; but a lot of victims don't get an afterwards.
Which really limits their input.
It's really bad here. No pepper spray, no tazers. You have a legal right to defend yourself, but if you carry any item intended for self defence you go away for 2 years, even in your own house.
If you're a big guy, and you can stop your victims from calling the police; you pretty much get free rein to decide what happens to everyone.
Uff-da, that's brutal.
lol, I don't mean to laugh at their misfortune, but it's so true.
Good job, dad! This speaks to me on so many levels and this notion was perfect:
"Not before anything happened, as to prevent something bad happening, but after the fact that all the bad stuff has already happened."
And its absurd that you cant get some kind of recompensation for the bad job the police force is doing, or change your security provider if you find your current one to suck - Yes, you can hire some private security firm from now on, but you still have to pay taxes to fund the police anyway.... plus the police and government controlled justice system still has the last say in whatever your private security firm does... its corrupt.
You can home-school or pay for private school if you don't like the government education system, but you still have to pay for the government schools, too. "Choice" in government services only applies if you can pay for the alternative on top of government demands for their own version. Yet people scoff when I call government a monopoly.
Agreed on all points. Happy to see another like minded individual here, from my ancestors native land no less. Might have to go eat some lefse now. Welcome to Steemit!
Did your dad get into any kind of trouble? While I am totally on your dad’s side here, we took a permit to carry course, where we learned that MN loves their criminals. So much so, that I was almost too scared to even carry afterwards because if I try to defend myself, I could be the one going to jail.
As of now, no he has not. And I agree with you that MN loves their criminals. I took my past two carry classes with my dad, and both times the instructor lamented "don't carry any other means of defense, they will say you had other methods besides a gun. And say nothing to the police until your lawyer is present". Anything to make the perpetrator the victim is the laws goal it seems in MN.
Another popular saying that keeps me from sharing in your fears is "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6".
I live in Canada I can't even carry pepper spray for self defense. Haha. That being said the police show up, like for even internet crimes they come to your house in ten minutes to take your statement. We are kinda over policed to a point.
That's absolute craziness that you can't even carry pepper spray for self defense. The police will definitely show up for something where money can be made for them, like any crime they can fine you for. Personal safety calls in North Minneapolis unfortunately don't qualify.
I thankfully have only had good experiences with the police. Most of them just give you a warning and let you move on. I think being polite and understanding that they are just humans too, like you, doing the 9 to 5 just trying to survive, like us, is important to keep in mind when interacting with them. Not all are bad, not all are good. Every profession has it's fair share of mouth breathers... just how it is. Hope for the best. Keep trying to change the political system you are in and pray it trickles down. Instill values into your family and if one day they decide to take up a job in law enforcement, hope they take those values with them into the job at hand. Good police men and women aren't born in an academy, they are born at home. The police are only as strong as the village they grew up supporting. A good police force starts with you and me and how we treat people around us.
The difference is that all cops are paid with stolen money, primarily to enforce bad laws against non-crimes.
I am also paid with stolen money, but at least all I do is promote literacy. In a free society, my job would be the same and funded voluntarily. Police would be far different. No random checkpoints, ticket quotas, no-knock warrants, arbitrary prohibitions, etc.