The “Message”
911 represents, for most Americans, “the first link in our civilization’s emergency response”
Yet, for most Americans, 911 is their ONLY link to any kind of emergency response!
In most jurisdictions, neither the PD, nor the SO, nor the State Police, nor the FD can be contacted directly. All 911 calls go through a “central dispatch.” This centralized system sometimes has its advantages, but only when your call gets through, and only when there is someone on the end of “911″ who will actually answer the phone!
In many jurisdictions, “The System” is badly constipated under certain circumstances (“mass-casualty” events), and predictably congested at certain times of the day/week. “The System” easily becomes overloaded. Emergency calls promptly become backed-up, and you may get nothing more than a pre-recorded message. Sometimes all mobile units are committed, and there is no one to send, even when your call does go through.
Accordingly, every American household should have on-hand: fire extinguishers, guns, trauma kits, a means for rapid, unilateral evacuation.
When 911 operators are not answering your call- when help is NOT on the way and won’t be any time soon- what is your plan?
Marxists (Democrats) in our civilization decry (oh-so piously) “rugged individualism,” “self-sufficiency,” all species of emergency planning on an individual basis.
Ponder the messaging implicit in advice like:
“Run-Hide-Fight,” but never “fight” in any kind of effective way, any way that is likely to keep you alive. Going armed and being in a position to actually “fight” effectively is, to Democrats, unthinkable!
“Don’t be a hero,” Funny, this nation was founded, built, and is sustained by genuine heroes, heroes by any definition! Yet, I’m forbidden to ever aspire to be one?
“Never take the law into your own hands.” Yet, the law IS in our hands. Always has been.
“Call the professionals, and never do anything until we get there.” Trouble is, many die waiting, as noted above!
“Curl-up in a ball” A curious “tactic,” unlikely to impress man nor beast!
None of the foregoing “advice” stresses the notion of “Take-Charge Citizenship,” nor any kind of citizenship for that matter.
Perpetually paranoid leftist elites (Democrats) believe (and are terrified by the thought) that they are incessantly surrounded by ‘armed vigilantes,’ who do not share their Marxist views, and who can be kept in-check only by stripping them of all privately-owned guns, imposing upon them suffocating regulations and taxation, releasing hoards of violent criminals and illegal aliens to prey upon them, keeping them in continual fear and squalor, and convincing them that they are enduringly feebleminded, helpless, and thus are (and should be) utterly dependent.
Real “citizenship” is poised for a comeback!
/John
