If you are in your home with a cell phone and a weapon, you are in a defensible position. If you flee your home, you don’t know what might be waiting outside your door.

Certainly you should call the police if you can. But the police will often arrive too late to prevent a crime. They can’t be everywhere all the time. If the police aren’t there, then protecting your loved ones and your property is your only option–other than surrender. You cannot depend on the good intentions of a criminal.

I think that most folks in the United States value individual liberty more than is typical in most other countries. We tend to be more self reliant. Self defense is part of that self reliance. Self defense might seem to be lunacy to folks who have learned to be totally dependent on government. But the statism that has infected the people in so many other countries is viewed as lunacy by many people here.

I don’t understand the “very dangerous path” that Ms. Slovenski is referring to. That path would seem to lead to criminals not attacking us and our property because they will realize that government no longer attempts to protect them from harm while engaging in such activity.

The Freedom States Alliance ought to be trying to convince criminals not to attack us and not to try to steal our property instead of trying to render honest citizens defenseless in order to insure the safety of those criminals. Whose side are you on Ms. Slovenski?

Bruce Richardson