Well not so much an ahah moment as a weird train of thought. Yeah, if you’ve read any of this blog over the years, you’ll know that I’m sometimes prone to them. (Now… Be Nice. After all, no-one is forcing you to read it.)
It started as I was catching up on the news.
I know, that was probably a mistake but there I was, reading various articles talking about defunding the police.
Several images really caught my attention. Specifically those photos where protesters were right up in the faces of officers. I thought to myself, “I couldn’t be an officer.”
Which led me to the unconstrained train of thought leaving the station on Track 9.
If we get rid of the police, then I’m going to be responsible for my own safety. In fact, everyone will be responsible for their own safety. What does that actually mean?
In my case it would mean that any threat would be terminated instantly. Someone gets up in my face… I don’t know what their intentions would be. How crazy are they, will they continue to escalate, do they pose a realistic threat?
My logic is simple. There are too many variables to calculate. Logically the solution is to terminate the problem before it grows worse. Put the threat down, so they don’t get up again.
Which means, if I were an officer I’d be under constant investigation for excessive use of force. As a citizen, caught in a world of insanity without police protection, well lets just say my ammunition bill would increase dramatically.
Without police who would notice that my body count was increasing exponentially? Without police, what would stop me carrying a sidearm in public? There’d be no-one for the various anti-gun “Karens” to call to enforce the gun laws.
Karen: “Oh My God! There’s a man carrying a gun in public!“
911: “We’ll send our thoughts and prayers Ma’am but you’re on your own.”
Who knows? Maybe defunding the police wouldn’t be a bad thing. Imagine all the good that could be done, starting with the wholesale slaughter of the shittier elements of the nation. It could be a good thing, in the short term. It would be ironic if ANTIFA was obliterated by their efforts to get rid of police.
Longer term, it would be bad. Various countries, including ours, have, throughout history settled arguments, legal issues, even insults, by duel. Most countries decided to come up with laws prohibiting such things, and created enforcers charged with keeping the peace. Those enforcers are known as police officers.
I suppose that bodies started piling up and posed a health hazard, perhaps it was just a hazard to everyone’s sense of smell. For whatever reason, societies decided that issues would be settled in court. Which spawned the profession of attorneys at law. (That has since gotten out of control and when police are defunded, it may be that the Attorneys are the first against the wall during the first Purge.)
Just imagine what happens when there are no police and no consequences.
Picture the riots of late, only accentuated with the staccato of gunfire. Or you can just read the Monday morning news out of Chicago. Imagine all that systemic hatred and racism allowed to go from a controllable simmer to full blown boil.
Picture what that will look like…
It was at one time common for bored Highschoolers to drive by gay bars throwing rotten eggs and rocks at patrons of gay bars. The police generally looked the other way. More recently, there was the “knockout game” which was anything but a game for the victims, what happens if that develops into the “shootout game”?
Imagine that mentality in an urban setting. Armed teenagers going on “Hunting Parties” in various neighborhoods looking for trouble. Remember no consequences, right? Or again, you could just picture Chicago on any Saturday night…
If someone walks up to me on the street and starts screaming that I should repent or kneel for my supposed white privilege. I’m going to assume they’re out of their minds and terminate the problem just like I would a rabid dog.
Lets face it, the majority of the people screaming that kind of thing are white people, so it’s not like there’d be much of a racial component. Aside from the obvious stupidity of, “Apologize for the color of your skin,” which I find interesting. If you had the balls to say something like that to a person of color you’d expect to get your lights punched out.
I think the folks screaming to defund the police departments, really need to think about what they’re saying. As soon as the police are spread too thin, these same people will be complaining that they’re not safe, and wondering why that is.