Good For The Country: NYC Officers Marshalik and Pekearo Died For Nothing
By John Longenecker (03/19/07)
Let me be frank: In encountering a wild shooter in New York's Greenwich Village last week, Auxiliary officers Eugene Marshalik and Nicholas Pekearo died needlessly.
I am informed by police who correspond with me that even full-time police are not really trained to handle crimes they witness off-duty. Some write me that it’s discouraged as departmental policy. What the hell went wrong?
In observing the shooter, Marshalik and Pekearo made two fatal mistakes: the first is that they didn’t take cover, and the second is that they were unarmed and had no power to stop him as he approached.
Compare this to Utah’s Trolley Square Incident where an off-duty officer was armed and shot the shooter to death before the shooter could kill more people. In an era where our police are known to be outgunned, where was their training?
Think.
Understand that whether civilian or sworn off-duty officer, armed individuals on scene stop crimes in progress millions of time per year – 2.5 millions as a matter of fact – usually armed civilians stopping the criminals in the absence of police.
Understand that individuals are already possessed of that crime-stopping authority in this country. It may seem alien to some who refuse to understand our heritage and history and what personal guns are really all about, and who continue to think like Europeans, but in this country, citizens have the ultimate authority, and the legal authority to stop a crime in progress is one such authority. Gun control frustrates, obfuscates and outright punishes that authority. It talks people out of even being aware of it.
Think it through: citizens everywhere are getting sick of being disarmed by their public servants and being put at the mercy of school shooters or church shooters in widely-known victim disarmament zones, and being punished for wanting to stop them with their own sovereign authority when stupid policies fail and concealed carry works superbly.
Now it’s time to look your mate in the eye and ask whether disarming the citizen who is in authority is the right way to plan how your household will manage an encounter with violence when police aren’t even notified, much less on scene.
Gun control doesn’t stop mad shooters - it paves the way for them, holds their coat and disarms the victims just as it did in Greenwich Village. Why do officials conceal this personal authority from constituents?
In Washington, the Court of Appeals did the right thing in repealing the D.C. gun ban. Three years ago, The U.S. Department Of Justice found that the right to carry is an individual right and not a collective right. [All of our rights are individual rights!] Mayors pulling out of the Bloomberg 'crackdown' are doing the right thing, too, Mayor Mary Wolf Of Williamsport, Pennsylvania being the latest. Nice work, Mayor Wolf. Praise and thanks.
We need to clarify to officials what we lack in public service so ambitious and tragically misguided and abusive officials no longer seek to preside over crisis as their pride and legacy. Rather, we need to hire good officials to preside over prosperity, prosperity in every sense as our joint pride and legacy, not their idea of it.
The first thing to do is to better understand individual civilian rights put there for a reason, to better know that civilian authority and interests are superior to those of a Mayor, and that the vital role of civilian lethal force anywhere-anytime is a moral imperative, also superior to officials and put there for a reason. Servants need to now how and why the second amendment was written: lethal force in the hands of citizens is a safeguard against various abuses of due process such as we are seeing now.
Safeguard.
Mayor Bloomberg thinks like a European when he should be thinking like an American. We have a few of those elsewhere in office at this time.
Marshalik and Pekearo died for nothing along with the other unarmed citizens that night. The auxiliary officers did not take cover and they had no lethal force with which to stop the shooter. They were fundamentally as much at the mercy of the shooter as everyone else in the vicinity. By an abuse of due process, no civilian in Greenwich Village had that legal lethal force much of the rest of the nation has. In another state or two I can think of, an armed citizen would have taken this shooter out.
And with all legal authority put in place as a civil right.
Repeal all gun laws.
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Looting of the United States begins with obfuscating authority and punishing patriotic resolve. See http://www.TransferOfWealth.net/
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