This is why we need guns

[Vonz90]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/ ... need-guns/

[D5CAV]

Police are there to protect and serve their masters. You are not their master. Their masters are your masters. Go re-read "Animal Farm" by Orwell.

The state's priority is protecting itself, not you: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sta ... lf-not-you

...the state is far more punitive against those that threaten the comfort and authority of government institutions and workers than they are against crimes against citizens.

We've seen this over and over again.

For weeks, we saw police aggressively pursuing and punishing peaceful people merely violating arbitrary lockdown orders to go surfing, cut hair, or host a child’s play date.

But in the first nights of the George Floyd protests, police allowed rioters to run amok destroying property, with political leaders dismissing the damage as unimportant.

Police arrest you for driving to Target to buy toilet paper (because you didn't "hoard" it like you should have), but police stand by if you loot the same Target and burn it down afterwards.

Of course, if you use those guns to defend your life or property, you are "taking the law into your own hands" and it's jail for you.

How long before the people figure out they are getting a raw deal out of our "social contract"? The one that says we pay taxes for those police to get extraordinary pay and benefits, but our neighborhoods burn.

[scipioafricanus]

How long before the people figure out they are getting a raw deal out of our "social contract"? The one that says we pay taxes for those police to get extraordinary pay and benefits, but our neighborhoods burn.

Bingo, this is the solution. Stop paying taxes for services not rendered.

[Precision]

How long before the people figure out they are getting a raw deal out of our "social contract"? The one that says we pay taxes for those police to get extraordinary pay and benefits, but our neighborhoods burn.

Bingo, this is the solution. Stop paying taxes for services not rendered.

Except that is the best way to jump to the front of the line for mal-services rendered.

[D5CAV]

How long before the people figure out they are getting a raw deal out of our "social contract"? The one that says we pay taxes for those police to get extraordinary pay and benefits, but our neighborhoods burn.

Bingo, this is the solution. Stop paying taxes for services not rendered.

Except that is the best way to jump to the front of the line for mal-services rendered.

That was exactly the point of the article.

Your building is burned down by rioters? No arrests for the rioters.

Don't file your taxes because your building burned down and your business is destroyed? Arrest for you.

As Murray Rothbard wrote:

“The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.”