Opinion
No city in the USA has more police, nor more laws/regulations/ordinances/restrictions, than New York City!
So, when public order breaks down in NYC (which it has), despite innumerable laws and ostensible “law-enforcers,” the rest of us might get the crazy idea that all those suffocating restrictions on personal freedom may not be having the desired effect.
In fact, they may have the opposite effect!
NYC is the classic “canary in the coal mine.” When NYC descends into anarchy (which it has due to the flood of law-breaking illegal aliens that have invaded the USA & NYC), then the future of our civilization is in doubt.
Predictable advice smugly proffered by “personal-protection experts,” who say that all we need to do is “be aware of our surroundings” and that “there is safety in numbers and in well-lighted places” currently rings hollow in NYC!
Naively saying to yourself, “… this is a safe place,” represents poor strategy, as well as foolish self-deception, as countless crime victims have unhappily discovered.
Drama on the streets of NYC is not like drama on the stage. In the “theater of reality,” sticking around to “watch the show” also represents poor strategy.
The notion that “police will arrive in the nick of time” is yet another common (but false/foolish) belief.
The expectation that “security guards” are anything more than window dressing is equally foolish.
“Symbolic barriers” are just that, and nothing more!
Thus, only fools trust their lives and personal safety to the “security” that others are supposed to provide.
In the end, NYC’s leftist politicians don’t know the way. Never will.
To them, the familiar “more-power-for-them-and-less-freedom-for-us” mantra is the only direction they know, nor ever will know.
The rest of us know or should know, they’ll never change, and we’re thus on our own!
“All political movements, in a hopeless attempt to perpetuate themselves, unavoidably become reactionary and despotic” ~ Tito.
/John
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I have never had the desire to go to NYC, D.C., Baltimore or Philadelphia. I’ve only been to LA, Chicago and San Diego once and that was enough.
These big cities are big shitholes and have been as long as I have been alive. They offer NOTHING an outdoorsman or country boy desires.
A dream vacation spot to me is someplace where there isn’t hundreds upon hundreds of people per square block and not made out of asphalt and concrete. No wonder the crime rate is so high, humans are not supposed to live like that.
l trust absoluteIy NO ONE to provide for MY security.
Laws don’t ever prevent or stop crime. By definition, they “create” crime by declaring an act criminal, and then assigning a penalty or punishment for the act. If the punishment is severe and violators are caught and punished at high frequencies, there may be a deterrent, but laws never prevent those willing to risk or even face the assigned punishment. When laws aren’t enforced, like in blue states, crime skyrockets.
This is just a prelude to what is going to happen after the election no matter who wins and especially when Trump wins. We already know the left is violent if they don’t get what the want. Arm up and carry on even if it is legal or not. I expect O’biden to call for Marshall law and to proclaim that it is illegal to be armed when his command/order is in place. Think the new law that took place after Hurricane Katrina will stop that? Think again, how many laws or rules that have been in place are changing… Read more »
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The nick name needs to be changed to the big horse apple.
this is life for people living in the dystopian cities controlled by progs, who see virtual signaling more proper than actually upholding the laws of America and protecting the citizens, whom they are supposed to, over the illegals and criminals. . if people at this time don’t think, “F the illegal laws that prohibit keeping myself safe, i am going to protect myself. because even if i get caught that won’t stop me from carrying a firearm because criminals do that now with little to no repercussions. only reason i would go to nyc is to visit my neice, or… Read more »
You are confusing anarchy and tyranny. In anarchy there would be no one to restrict you from arming and defending yourself. In fact in anarchy, crime being solved immediately at the time of its initiation by the intended victim is the expected standard. Here we have a situation where there are rulers, laws, and rules, but those rulers who enact and enforce the rules and laws do so differentially based on their personal feelings and political beliefs. While the criminals in these incidents will likely suffer few consequences for their actions, anyone defending themselves or even daring to carry the… Read more »
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