{"id":55637,"date":"2020-06-05T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55637"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:22:11","slug":"55637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55637","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberal politicians who order police to stand down are the same people who want to ban guns<\/a><\/p>\n

By John R. Lott Jr.\u00a0<\/span>–<\/span><\/p>\n

Minneapolis and other major cities have finally re-opened, at least to looters and arsonists.<\/a>\u00a0For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters destroyed their cities. In New York City and Washington, D.C., on Monday night, police stood by as looters destroyed parts of those cities.<\/p>\n

The same politicians who ordered police to stand down and released prison inmates are the same people who want to ban guns. These politicians prevent citizens from protecting themselves, at a time when police protection cannot be depended on.<\/p>\n

For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters destroyed their cities. Sadly, so many of the victims of this violence have been blacks. Black store owners have lost their businesses. In these heavily black areas, blacks will lose their jobs. Black shoppers worry they \u201chave nowhere to go now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said it\u2019d be \u201cridiculous\u201d to break up demonstrators who violate crowd-size rules for the coronavirus. The president of the NAACP is asking police nationwide to stand down to preserve the peace.<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, you face a $25,000 fine if you open your business during the current COVID-19 lockdown, but criminals effectively have immunity. The few who were arrested for violent acts in Minneapolis were quickly bailed out of jail with financial help from Joe Biden\u2019s presidential campaign staffers.<\/p>\n

As of Sunday morning, more than 255 businesses\u00a0had been destroyed in the Twin Cities. The looting was extensive. Many large companies have reported that they are \u201ctemporarily or indefinitely closed.\u201d Officers even abandoned their own police station, which was then set on fire by protesters.<\/p>\n

Across the country, police have had orders to stand down.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, I watched Seattle burn. Seattle is dying, by fire, looting, weakness of the political leadership,\u201d wrote Seattle KVI radio talk-show host Kirby Wilbur. \u201cWe watched on TV as our law enforcement stood by while vandalism, looting, assaults, pure chaos reigned in the streets of our downtown business district.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the violence in Minneapolis would have been much worse if people hadn\u2019t been able to defend themselves and their businesses with guns. As The Wall Street Journal reported, \u201cAfrican-American owners of GM Tobacco told me they were armed and ready to protect their business \u2014 and that they stand in solidarity with those who seek justice for [George] Floyd.\u201d Visible from the front of the store was Minneapolis\u2019 Third Police Precinct, which rioters set on fire.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time something like this has happened. People may remember the Korean store owners who successfully used semi-automatic rifles to protect their businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.<\/p>\n

One searches in vain for Democratic politicians who have reprimanded the rioters. On Saturday, after several nights of riots, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat, egged on demonstrators by calling for a continuation of the \u201crighteous protests\u201d and necessary routing out of the \u201cracism\u201d that she said is endemic in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Twitter didn\u2019t seem to mind incitement to violence by liberals such as Colin Kaepernick. He tweeted that \u201crevolting is the only logical reaction. \u2026 We have the right to fight back!\u201d Others on Twitter are calling for \u201ca violent rebellion against an entire system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats in Minnesota have been forceful advocates for gun control. Mr. Walz and Mrs. Smith have been strongly endorsed by Michael Bloomberg\u2019s gun-control organization, Moms Demand Action. They have supported banning some semi-automatic guns based solely on superficial appearance. They also support limits on magazine sizes.<\/p>\n

Especially in a riot, semi-automatic firearms that reload automatically are much more useful for self-defense than are single-shot weapons. Hopefully, the presence of a gun by itself will deter an attack, but if you have to open fire it will be a big help to not have to constantly manually reload.<\/p>\n

My research shows that police are the single most important factor in deterring violent crime. But the riots have shown yet again that politicians frequently won\u2019t let the police do their jobs when they are most needed.<\/p>\n

The riots have shown several things that liberal politicians don\u2019t seem to understand. The police themselves know that they normally arrive on the scene after the crime has occurred, and that having a gun is by far the safest course of action when you are confronted by a criminal. It is also the most vulnerable in our society \u2014 namely blacks who live in high-crime cities \u2014 who benefit the most from having the option to be able to defend themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liberal politicians who order police to stand down are the same people who want to ban guns By John R. Lott Jr.\u00a0– Minneapolis and other major cities have finally re-opened, at least to looters and arsonists.\u00a0For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters destroyed their cities. In … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55638,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55637\/revisions\/55638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}