April 24, 2021
I recently blogged a piece about blacks and guns, asking the question why more blacks are not buying guns and forming militias. Now that the Derek Chauvin trial is over and he got what deserved, I would like to say that I have a lot of sympathy for the job that good cops are faced with. America is awash in guns. No other country has anything close to the number of guns we have in circulation. Anytime there is a mass shooting or insurrection, the numbers just keep going up. When a cop pulls anyone of any color over for any reason, there is a decent chance that that individual may have a gun at his disposal.
We do not want to defund the police, and we certainly don’t want to disarm the police. Ironically, the more that gun advocates assert their Second Amendment rights, the less safe we and the police get. Crazies are armed with AK-47’s. We have an arms race going on between the cops and the citizenry. The police must be well-armed just to maintain parity with the nuts. In a scenario where everyone is packing, bad results will and do happen. We cannot excuse bad behavior, but we ask the police to do an impossible job because we are unable to police ourselves.
The Spin Doctor 