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America’s Big City Mayors Have Been Working Hard to Create Millions of
New Gun Owners
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BY DAN ZIMMERMAN |SEP 28, 2020 |3 COMMENTS
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Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Problem
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill,File)
The long-term mismanagement of America’s big cities, now exacerbated by
Covid and their accommodation — if not outright encouragement — of
rioting and looting — has done more to create new gun owners than Barack
Obama ever dreamed of. It has dawned on millions of Americans in these
places that they truly are on their own and responsible for ensuring
their own safety.
An hour and a half after I’d called 911, officers arrived. And it was
then—noon, on Thursday, August 20th that I had an upsetting revelation:
We citizens can no longer rely on the police to show up. And then the
thought hit me: I need to get a gun.
You’ve got to love the irony. It’s the Democrats who push for gun
control, yet it’s the Democrats in power in my city who are leaving me
with no choice but to arm myself.
The truth is I shouldn’t have a gun. I’m a boob when I’m afraid. I lose
all mental and physical capacity. I know, if you get a gun, you’re
supposed to practice at a gun range regularly, and I would. Still, in a
heated situation, I have my doubts that I could even find the “safety,”
a term I know only from watching TV and movie crime dramas.
I emailed two libertarian lady friends with guns—subj: “Jenny From The
Glock”—to ask for advice, and talked to some of the cops, too. The
consensus: I’d do best with some Little House on the Prairie-type
shotgun that sprayed buckshot, giving me the best chance, in a home
invasion, of hitting someone other than myself.
Amy Alkon in L.A.’s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into a Prison
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