U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Money lets you buy what you want. Now that many of our Deep Blue cities have defunded the police and crime has exploded, people with money are buying off-duty police officers to stop crime in their neighborhoods. Though recently covered in the news, the use of private security is an expansion of a long-term trend. What should make news are the billionaires trying to disarm the rest of us.
Rich people live in gated communities and walled compounds. They have their own security force. Some wealthy families have their own private security detail that lives with the owners inside their walled compound. It may have fancy flower beds on the outside, but it remains a castle in disguise.
Watch the progression as the elites worked to disarm us and protect themselves.
- First, the elites buy armed security officers for trips or special events in public.
- They buy armed security details for their homes, offices, and for their vacation homes.
- They pay for legislation that let them travel with their own armed officers.
- They make “campaign donations” so legislators disarm the common man who the elites see as a threat. We need to show “proper cause” to be issued a carry permit. The elites buy retired law enforcement officers for their security detail. Perhaps a banker can get a permit because he handles money. Perhaps a jeweler can get a permit because he has valuables in his store. In contrast, we are denied a permit because we want to defend our children. Our treasure is deemed less important than theirs.. unless we first make a significant campaign donation.
- The elites pressed for legislation outlawing inexpensive firearms. That started after the civil war to prevent recently freed black men and women from having firearms to resist armed gangs like the Klu Klux Klan and the Night Riders. Even then, honest citizens were disarmed yet political gangs had no trouble getting guns. That is true today as well.
Today, the gun-prohibitions have become more subtle. Today the elites impose time-consuming training requirements and expensive licensing requirements before the common man can own a gun. Some legislative proposals demand that we are re-licensed every six months, far more often than most police officers.
Today, we’ve seen the elites buy academic and media organizations to promote civilian disarmament. The familiar adage that if it bleeds, it leads is neither true nor adequate to describe today’s reporting on armed defense. The hired media emphasizes the thousands of times we see a criminal use a gun. The same news media ignores the millions of times that honest citizens use a firearm for legal self-defensive. The media bias is glaring once you know the truth.
Today, the elites pay for multimillion-dollar political and legal campaigns to pass laws that disarm the common man.
Of course, everyone has the right to armed defense. Just buy your own police force as I did for my family. See how simple?
Thanks, and I’ll be sure to follow you for more personal safety tips, but that doesn’t work for us and ours.
We don’t have our own motorcade and security detail. We have to go out at in public at all times of the day and night. We and our families are far more likely than the elites to encounter a criminal. The victims of crime are disproportionally poor and minorities who are live, work, and travel in high-crime areas. Unfortunately, the gun-control laws are written to serve the elites, rather than to serve us.
The elites are wrong. The rich are never safe when criminals flourish by victimizing the poor. Time and again, it is the ordinary citizen who is the first responder to stop violent crime. We use a firearm to make us equal to the task of defending our family. The elites want the use of arms reserved to themselves. Rather than being a problem for society, the armed citizen is the defense that protects our communities. We know that because we live there. We see what happens outside the walled compounds.
The common armed citizen is the moral elites of our society. We are more law abiding than the police. We protect our family and our neighborhoods. Now, we have to carefully watch what our politicians are doing as legislators too often try to disarm us.
It is the right of the people to go armed, not the right of the elites.
About Rob Morse
The original article, with sources, is posted here. Rob Morse writes about gun rights at Ammoland, at Clash Daily, at Second Call Defense, and on his SlowFacts blog. He hosts the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast and co-hosts the Polite Society Podcast. Rob was an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.
Gun grabber seek power over the masses its that simple . Adolph Hitler was a gun grabber that used the line of BS that it will make the children safer and we know how that worked out .
I Think you miss the point on “elites” I have a very good friend who is a wealthy gun guy as much as any serious gun person but he approaches his gun ownership and rights as an elitist counting on his friends, connections and contributions to allow him the freedoms he expects and to intercede on his behalf if he “crosses any lines” and finds himself being “infringed” He is NOT a 2A activist because he expects his money and connections to secure his rights above and beyond us common plebes. Contrast that to “Americans” and citizens who believes in… Read more »
Georgia just passed constitutional carry if I am correct that makes 24 states the movement has shifted and more Americans now own handguns. Some are concealed carry others just owners that have passed the background check. The elite mean nothing in my life those that have joined the George Soros gang of hatters running amok on the streets as the minions of socialist doom and gloom here is a message. Stay out of my home my yard do not enter into my personal space or confront my wife or family. You will not like the outcome of that encounter this… Read more »
The elite are the democrats $40 Billion spent in the Ukraine to date while democrats lie steal cheat and bankrupt the American taxpayer. This gives me a whole new meaning to the first and 2nd amendment. Rob
Not only do the Uber rich have their own private security and politicians have security paid by us, they also have the power to allow themselves personal firearms for recreation, hunting and additional security.
What these so called “elites” are afraid of is another revolution also the French Revolution that cost most of the French elites their heads.
After treading water on the 2nd Amendment for years, the solution seems to be taking us backwards. As the police becomes an obscure concept fading into a distant memory, crime increases, and the cost of guns and ammo become cost prohibitive, are we destined to return to the days of militias? Everywhere in the world where we’ve seen nations with opposing peoples, and militias, we’ve also seen endless violent battles, and the reduction of cities into rubble. What in the world makes us think that we are immune to destroying ourselves. “Live Free or Die” is the official motto of… Read more »
Elites are not important, we make them important. If we ignore them they fail to be important. They are no better than you or I.
“Stop making stupid people famous.”
100% true.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
Rob Morse, Before people grab their torches, pitchforks, and ropes and start hanging “elites,” maybe you could provide your definition. Is an “elite” someone who is wealthier than you? Someone who is wealthier than you and uses their influence to get a carry permit that other people can’t get? Someone who: Is wealthier than you; Uses their influence to get a carry permit; and Lives in a gated community or in a controlled-access penthouse? Someone who: Is wealthier than you; Uses their influence to get a carry permit; Lives in a gated community or in a controlled-access penthouse; and Has… Read more »