That's what Joyce Mangino thought. She thought that if she ever really needed help, she could just pick up the telephone and call the Sacramento County (California) Sheriff's Department.
Then it happened. Last Tuesday at 4 a.m., she was awakened by the sound of someone pounding on the front door of her home and ringing her doorbell incessantly. She told her oldest daughter not to answer the door!
Outside was a crazed man who looked like a biker. With the security screen locked, Mangino cracked open the door. The man said, "Lady, this is your unlucky day." He yelled at Mangino and her husband and kicked repeatedly
at the security screen.
Mangino dialed 911. By the time the call went through, the biker had torn the Manginos' mailbox off its post and was doing donuts on his motorcycle in front of the house. The 911 dispatcher told Joyce Mangino that officers would respond. The man had left their yard by the end of the call, but the frightened family didn't know if he would be back.
No one showed up. Mangino called 911 again. This time, the man was on the next street, yelling at another neighbor, who turned out to be the man's mother. The woman was pleading with him not to hit her. Dispatchers told Mangino that deputies were backlogged. At the same time the Manginos were being terrorized, a man was threatening to kill himself at an apartment complex in the north area of town.
Two squad cars finally arrived...70 minutes after Joyce Mangino's first 911 call. Mangino is disillusioned at the response.
The Manginos are finally realizing what many other Americans have discovered: Dialing 911 does not always bring a potentially violent confrontation to an end. In fact, several court cases have established that the police have no obligation to protect individual citizens--only the public at large. In most cases, they're the mop-up crew. The nasty stuff has already gone down before they arrive on the scene. Researchers say that fewer than 5 percent of all calls dispatched to police are made quickly enough to stop a crime or arrest a suspect.
The only way a law-abiding American can end a confrontation is to do it himself. That guy with the knife isn't going to wait patiently for the cops to arrive before he charges you. That home invader isn't going to wait for the blue lights. That rapist isn't going to listen when you ask, "Could you hold on a second while I dial 911?" You have to take your safety into your own hands.
Just think how that biker's attitude would have changed if the Manginos had shown him a gun. If the Manginos had made it crystal clear that any attack on them would be met with deadly force, odds are that the biker would have turned tail and run. In 98 percent of cases where an attack is stopped by a gun, the gun is never fired.
All of these gun-control advocates who say you should disarm and let the police stop criminals are asking you to play Russian roulette with your safety. Your safety begins with YOU...not a squad car that could arrive in 70 minutes.
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Then it happened. Last Tuesday at 4 a.m., she was awakened by the sound of someone pounding on the front door of her home and ringing her doorbell incessantly. She told her oldest daughter not to answer the door!
Outside was a crazed man who looked like a biker. With the security screen locked, Mangino cracked open the door. The man said, "Lady, this is your unlucky day." He yelled at Mangino and her husband and kicked repeatedly
at the security screen.
Mangino dialed 911. By the time the call went through, the biker had torn the Manginos' mailbox off its post and was doing donuts on his motorcycle in front of the house. The 911 dispatcher told Joyce Mangino that officers would respond. The man had left their yard by the end of the call, but the frightened family didn't know if he would be back.
No one showed up. Mangino called 911 again. This time, the man was on the next street, yelling at another neighbor, who turned out to be the man's mother. The woman was pleading with him not to hit her. Dispatchers told Mangino that deputies were backlogged. At the same time the Manginos were being terrorized, a man was threatening to kill himself at an apartment complex in the north area of town.
Two squad cars finally arrived...70 minutes after Joyce Mangino's first 911 call. Mangino is disillusioned at the response.
The Manginos are finally realizing what many other Americans have discovered: Dialing 911 does not always bring a potentially violent confrontation to an end. In fact, several court cases have established that the police have no obligation to protect individual citizens--only the public at large. In most cases, they're the mop-up crew. The nasty stuff has already gone down before they arrive on the scene. Researchers say that fewer than 5 percent of all calls dispatched to police are made quickly enough to stop a crime or arrest a suspect.
The only way a law-abiding American can end a confrontation is to do it himself. That guy with the knife isn't going to wait patiently for the cops to arrive before he charges you. That home invader isn't going to wait for the blue lights. That rapist isn't going to listen when you ask, "Could you hold on a second while I dial 911?" You have to take your safety into your own hands.
Just think how that biker's attitude would have changed if the Manginos had shown him a gun. If the Manginos had made it crystal clear that any attack on them would be met with deadly force, odds are that the biker would have turned tail and run. In 98 percent of cases where an attack is stopped by a gun, the gun is never fired.
All of these gun-control advocates who say you should disarm and let the police stop criminals are asking you to play Russian roulette with your safety. Your safety begins with YOU...not a squad car that could arrive in 70 minutes.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GRIEGO-08-09-01&cat=KE
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?id=2064
