You’re very close to realizing the truth of the matter, which is this:

the “sheep vs sheepdog” thing is complete bullshit. We “sheep” don’t need protected from the wolves. We’re perfectly capable of doing it ourselves, thanks much. We ‘ve just agreed to outsource that duty to the “sheepdogs” because that’s what you do t create a more just, even, and fair society. You see, we sheep, when compelled to protect ourselves in the past, we’ren’t terribly concerned with ideas like “justice” and “fairness” and such. We’d generally just string the wolf up and call it a day.

We agreed to give up that ability because vigilante justice isn’t justice, and is a very ugly thing. So we hired men to specialize in administering true justice, in a fair, balanced, and even way. In short, the police exist, and were created in very large part, TO PROTECT THE WOLVES, not the sheep.

The “sheepdogs” are there to protect the wolves from the excesses of the sheep’s vigilantism. That’s why you see the wolves prosecuting the sheep who fall out of line so vigorously, and why they don’t seem to be as motivated to searching out the wolves anymore.

What happened at Uvalde is exactly what this “sheep vs sheepdog vs wolf” narrative leads to eventually, and it’s also what causes the whole system to break down. As soon as the sheepdogs stop punishing the wolves, they’ll find out that the sheep are, and always have been, perfectly capable of punishing the wolves themselves, thank you very much. It’s just not very pretty, not very balanced, and not very fair or just.

We’d all do well to remember this.

I do not need the police. I’ve agreed to cede my duty to protect my things to them in return for a more civilized society. BUt if the police don’t hold up their end of the agreement, I absolutely intend to take my duty right the fuck back.

To all you police out there, if you honestly think that your 3 weeks of training makes you somehow capable of superhuman feats of justice that nobody else can do without your input, I think you’re about to get a lesson, real soon.

We don’t need you. The criminals do. We agreed to allow you to take on the duties that you’re eschewing on the agreement that you would actually take them on. Keep neglecting them, and you’ll get your lesson.

Honestly, show me the stats on how many cops disobeyed orders to enforce municipal mask mandates.

It was eye-opening.

Chill out, bro. Realistically, it’s unlikely anyone died at Uvalde.

I can most certainly understand this sentiment and respect it, but any cop who feels this way should immediately resign and find another line of work.

Yes. That’s the job. Don’t like it? FInd another line of work.

Honestly, if I’m ever faced with such a situation, even with full understanding of the fact that I have literally zero training and have no idea what I’m doing, I would at least try. Some things aren’t worth living with.

If all that happens is that the kids get a 15 second reprieve while the perp is shooting at me instead of them, then so be it. It’s someting. It means I don’t have to live with the fact that I chose my own life over those of children that needed my help.

But the reality is that the majority of these cowards off themselves as soon as they face even half-assed resistance. You’re not going up against a spec ops SealRangerDelta Operator, here, you’re going up against an 18 year old neckbeard that has spent his life in his grandma’ basement. Given that reality, I’m going in, even if all I have is rocks to throw back. The chances are just the token resistance is going to have him eating his own glock and the situation is over.

You can phrase it however you want, there is literally zero excuse for what the Uvalde cowards did.

The police are Divesting themselves of you.

So fund or don’t, you’re alone.

The police are gunmen and will have no trouble finding better paid employment with much better backing from the Boss, who wants to live.

That’s why there’s been a hiring explosion since January 2021, go to https://www.watchdogjobs.com/ and see…
off the charts. Domestic more than foreign.

You wanted a 3d world country and you’ve got one.

Yes, you did. Every GOP voter is for sale for HUD grants – but no diversity please – every GOP contractor is for war – but not them of course.

Every GOP politician gets their real orders from donors or the contractor class [you're government is a contracting brokerage].

Every widdle Karen including especially GOP Karen’s are against police brutality, nods that Chauvin committed murder, tsk tsks at bad pictures from Iraq..

Every Dem voter is honest and just wants swag and power, and diversity as long as they don’t live there…

Everyone wants ‘good schools’, you damn sure can’t stand to have the widdle monsters at home.

Everyone wants safe communities but every election cycle – now every 2 years – we fluctuate back and forth between safe streets vs police Brutality.
As if Brutality wasn’t the core of safety.

Brutality is the core of safety.
no Brutality then live in fear.

Not one of you precious voters isn’t for sale, and ye wonder that ye have no liberty.

A liberty none of you would risk a hair or a penny for, but you’ll betray those that did.

By all means, defend yourselves. I’ll believe it when it happens.

You wanted this, you got it.
You don’t have me, and I warrant you don’t have us.

Have fun with your varied and diversified pets.

You are getting what you wanted, all of it and it’s just what you deserve.

Americans absolutely want this type of highly capable and dangerous man; the only people who don’t are people like rat faced movie producers who get anxious over the idea, because on some level they instinctively sense that in such a state of affairs, it would not be out of the realm of possibility for them to find themselves standing on the wrong end of such a man’s gun.

Which form such tradition took of course being royally commissioned marshals whose primary job was the organization of all upstanding men in the local community in training the arts of mars, and lead posses of those same men in dealing with any particularly thorny problems.

People who say ‘defund the police’ in the 21st century naturally are not saying this because they desire for property owners to gain greater power in organizing the utilization of force, but because they want to remove any vestige of impediment to their depredations of their desired victims – however tentative, intermittent, or inconsistent they may be.

Echos of this adaptive tradition can still be felt in more rural areas of the state, where the deputies of the sheriff’s office are also all your neighbors. City cops, of course, are products of the city machine; zogbot only club.

The ‘criminal justice’ system is made to provide exactly that: justice for criminals. The only reason felons are not dying in droves left and right is because the Whig state has been working very hard for generations to stop citizens from killing them.