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I just watched a "youtoob" advertisement - one of those "skip ad in n seconds" things - preceding one I wanted to watch about the Ruger PC-9 carbine (that used to use the same magazines as the P- series pistols). It was a pretty good ad for USCCA, in which a guy's relating his experience with false arrest and prosecution on a criminal charge of brandishing. Here's the vid address:
The reason I entitled this thread, "be the first to call" is because the guy's story reminded me of several cases I handled as an attorney in Virginia (now retired), in which similar events occurred. When Badguy wants to steal your car, beat you up for changing lanes, or some such, they all seem to know that if you have a gun, you're vulnerable to spurious charges of brandishing or assault. So they back off and call the cops alleging that you were the badguy. And irrespective of cops' personal views, law enforcement management is very down on popular ownership of firearms (much more so regarding carrying in public). So PD/Sheriff's policies usually hamstring cops on the street, who are basically required to arrest the guy with the gun. (Some will no doubt remember my joke about how "the light's better here".) Easy target, easy arrest, easy conviction - adds points to their "crime fighting" statistics, which are politically important and relate to future funding of their little empires.
So my suggestion is that after the initial danger is over, be the first to call, or better yet, have someone else call while you're handling the danger, and report badguy as the attacker right away as a current situation - "Help, my boyfriend's under attack by Badguy, whose license plate number is xxxxx, and is about so high, and weighs so much, is this color or that, and has this color hair!!!! Please help right away, we're located at ......."
The first person to call is the one to whom the cops respond. The person who thinks, "I've taken care of the situation, no need to call the cops." is the one who's going to jail and will incur enormous legal fees (now that I'm unavailable) in defending himself. I have to say that I do recommend both USCCA and Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network for just plain folks, for the same reason you carry insurance on your house and car. We live in a hostile environment because Bloomberg and The System don't like an armed populace - since they rely on violence to create and perpetuate their dictatorship (so why should their proposed dictatorship be any different from those of Stalin or Kim Il-Sung), they can't tolerate just plain folks' being able to defend themselves.
The reason I entitled this thread, "be the first to call" is because the guy's story reminded me of several cases I handled as an attorney in Virginia (now retired), in which similar events occurred. When Badguy wants to steal your car, beat you up for changing lanes, or some such, they all seem to know that if you have a gun, you're vulnerable to spurious charges of brandishing or assault. So they back off and call the cops alleging that you were the badguy. And irrespective of cops' personal views, law enforcement management is very down on popular ownership of firearms (much more so regarding carrying in public). So PD/Sheriff's policies usually hamstring cops on the street, who are basically required to arrest the guy with the gun. (Some will no doubt remember my joke about how "the light's better here".) Easy target, easy arrest, easy conviction - adds points to their "crime fighting" statistics, which are politically important and relate to future funding of their little empires.
So my suggestion is that after the initial danger is over, be the first to call, or better yet, have someone else call while you're handling the danger, and report badguy as the attacker right away as a current situation - "Help, my boyfriend's under attack by Badguy, whose license plate number is xxxxx, and is about so high, and weighs so much, is this color or that, and has this color hair!!!! Please help right away, we're located at ......."
The first person to call is the one to whom the cops respond. The person who thinks, "I've taken care of the situation, no need to call the cops." is the one who's going to jail and will incur enormous legal fees (now that I'm unavailable) in defending himself. I have to say that I do recommend both USCCA and Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network for just plain folks, for the same reason you carry insurance on your house and car. We live in a hostile environment because Bloomberg and The System don't like an armed populace - since they rely on violence to create and perpetuate their dictatorship (so why should their proposed dictatorship be any different from those of Stalin or Kim Il-Sung), they can't tolerate just plain folks' being able to defend themselves.
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