Law enforcement agencies, at every level of government, excel in post-hoc crime-scene analysis, personal criminal analysis, moral condemnation, and policy publications. Policies, however, don\u2019t prevent criminality at times when preventive measures \u2013 commensurate with threat modalities \u2013 aren\u2019t in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In short, you can\u2019t stop a truck with a policy. And erecting truck barricades wherever a truck could be harmfully used is not possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Violent criminals, including terrorists, prey upon Americans in vulnerable situations, and our free culture presents many risks. It probably always has. Whether we now have more is arguable \u2013 we have to leave open the possibility that we just hear more about them through modern technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Americans have a 2nd<\/sup> Am. right to self-protect, and protect others, from immanent harm. American citizens are their own first line of defense. Policies promulgated by governments that frustrate an individual\u2019s Constitutional right to self-protect, probably increase our risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In any case, common sense says we should not leave ourselves open to crime, and complete security from criminal events is probably not a duty we can responsibly delegate all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why the 2nd<\/sup> Am. is a Constitutional right, and not a revokable license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Law enforcement agencies, at every level of government, excel in post-hoc crime-scene analysis, personal criminal analysis, moral condemnation, and policy publications. Policies, however, don\u2019t prevent criminality at times when preventive measures \u2013 commensurate with threat modalities \u2013 aren\u2019t in place. In short, you can\u2019t stop a truck with a policy. And erecting truck barricades wherever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rights","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}