Are armed neighborhood watches the answer to defund the police?

I disagree. I can carry and you never know it. I can die with it concealed.

I don’t carry because of the odds. I carry because of the stakes.

If you don’t carry, you have one less option - the big one.

And it is individual.

Good for you. I"ve never ‘carried’ and never had a situation that would have been improved by me carrying. But that’s just me. YMMV.

Yes, it’s just you. You ever gone out looking for thugs?

Pistols and Parachutes.

I’ve never been in a plane I could jump out of either. That’s why I quit wearing my parachute on commercial flights.

Commercial flights can be jumped. Pretty much anything that flies can be jumped.

Did you get the point?

No, but nice talk anyway.

There are things in life that when you need them, substitutes just won’t do.

I don’t go looking for thugs so that must cut down my need for a gun very strongly.

Sometimes you just have to learn to win with substitutes.

The Guardian Angels did.

They don’t give out participation trophies after gunfights.

I’ve been 100% successful at avoiding gun fights so far.

I pray your luck holds for you.

Police are supposed to be made up of civilians. They are not supposed to be a militarized bunch of enforcers. That’s an authoritarian idealized police force.

Police are civilians. I agree with you.

I don’t pray for luck. I pray instead of depending on luck. So far so good.

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I didn’t want to assume. I pray then, that you will continue to be blessed.

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