{"id":86925,"date":"2022-10-22T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86925"},"modified":"2022-10-22T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:54:55","slug":"86925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86925","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

People arming up to deal with violence…in San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n

The city of San Francisco is one of the most anti-gun cities on the planet. If they had their way, guns would be completely and totally outlawed within the city limits.<\/p>\n

Actually, they\u2019d be outlawed everywhere, but they can\u2019t really make that call for everyone else.<\/p>\n

Luckily, they can\u2019t go that far. However, between the city itself and the state of California, getting a firearm lawfully isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

Despite that, a lot of people there are doing what they have to do to\u00a0protect themselves from violent encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In June, the\u00a0SOMA RISE<\/a>\u00a0Center, a\u00a0drug sobering facility<\/a>, opened in northeast\u00a0San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0and attracted dangerous drug-addicted vagabonds to the area, causing residents of the once peaceful neighborhood to walk with weapons such as baseball bats and tasers for self defense.<\/p>\n

According to local news<\/a>, a 31-year-resident of the neighborhood named Ghis said, \u201cMore troublemakers settling in, feeling comfortable doing their drugs, pissing and sh*tting in the street blocking the sidewalks,\u201d all because of RISE.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re letting their clients come out here and get high, go inside and get sober and then get high again,\u201d said Mark Sackett, a businessman who said the drug-addicted itinerants have cost him $100,000 in lost business.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so bad, according to\u00a0ABC 7<\/a>, \u201cSome even resorted to arming themselves against the belligerent or violent with baseball bats and tasers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So no, they\u2019re not arming themselves with guns. At least so far as the reporting goes.<\/p>\n

The truth is that anyone who is carrying a firearm in San Francisco isn\u2019t likely to go around telling anyone, especially the media.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the right to keep and bear\u00a0arms<\/em>, not just guns, so if we look at it that way, baseball bats and tasers certainly count. More than that, though, I don\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n

Look, I respect what these drug treatment centers are trying to do. Getting clean and sober shouldn\u2019t just be the domain of the wealthy, after all.<\/p>\n

Yet when these same people are doing this kind of mess in the neighborhood, you\u2019ve got a huge problem. If people are scared, they\u2019re going to arm themselves with whatever they think they can get away with. Yes, I honestly do believe that includes guns\u2013even if those guns are being carried illegally.<\/p>\n

The people of San Francisco tend to prefer gun control. That\u2019s been obvious in their politics for decades now.<\/p>\n

But we also see when they\u2019re the ones facing a threat, they\u2019re going to arm themselves with whatever weapons they have at their disposal.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, handheld stun guns\u2013most likely what they\u2019re carrying instead of actual Tasers\u2013and baseball bats have their serious downsides. It\u2019s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt by one of these homeless people lurking around the streets of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

And the kicker is that, knowing the local government there, they\u2019ll blame the stun gun or the bat and not the homeless drug addict strung out and assaulting people.<\/p>\n

That would just be par for the course for the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People arming up to deal with violence…in San Francisco The city of San Francisco is one of the most anti-gun cities on the planet. If they had their way, guns would be completely and totally outlawed within the city limits. Actually, they\u2019d be outlawed everywhere, but they can\u2019t really make that call for everyone else. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86925","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=86925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86926,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86925\/revisions\/86926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}