The Mason County Commission Chair made a couple of statements last week, one which he stands by and one which he doesn’t.
He is, for the time being anyway, still standing behind his statement that Mason County citizens should arm themselves, especially if cuts are going to be made in the county police force and that it is open season on violent criminals inside the county (as it should be everywhere).
However, he backed off the statement that because urban dwellers in places like Seattle rely so much on their constabularies to “protect” them, that they are wimps.
They are. They want to live the lives of children, having nothing to fear but the rain. This includes the protection of their lives and property. There is a reason that everyone I have ever known who has lived in an urban setting has had “Crime” in their top five reasons for moving to the burbs or further.
Urban crime is rampant and their is little that the local departments can do, and in a lot of cases, will do. You can only stand for having your car pilfered through so many times or the sidewalk in front of your house littered with broken bottles and trash from someone’s car for so long. For me it was waking up to find a stolen car ditched in front of the house every 3-4 weeks.
I see in the Constitution, laid out in pretty clear language, the requirement for government to stand a police department between myself and the criminals (as well as a court system for after the arrest and jails for after the sentencing). Yet these are always the first things to be cut.
Nice to know that those elected to oversee these things care so much about us.