Arms and the President*

*With apologies to Sir Winston Churchill

This Is Not the Time to Demilitarize Police Departments, President Told

. . . "Police said Farook and Malik fired at least 65 shots in their attack, and they exchanged gunfire with police in the wild battle on a suburban street that eventually ended with their deaths.

“ 'Countless lives could be saved by equipping patrol officers with the appropriate weapons and giving them the training needed to engage terrorists immediately instead of waiting for specialized units to respond,” Lynch told the New York Post.

"He wants every NYPD patrol car to be set up as a “mini counter-terrorism unit.' ” 

"Of course, setting local police departments up with the weapons Lynch said are needed to battle highly trained and equipped terrorists is nearly impossible thanks to President Obama’s order to demilitarize police departments across the United States." . . .

"Hackel said if Obama really wanted to make police officers safer, “first thing tomorrow morning (he should) rescind that order.”' 

Top Cops Warm to Idea of Armed Citizenry to Confront Terrorists   . . . “A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,” [Detroit Police Chief James] Craig told the Detroit News. “If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.' ” . . .

Simpsonville, SC Gun Shop Gives Props To Top Salesman… Barack Obama…

On Guns, Californians Practice ‘Irish Democracy’ and Ignore Bone-Headed Laws
. . . "the city of Sunnyvale demanded that residents hand over all firearms capable of accepting magazines holding more than ten rounds — effectively, everything except revolvers and some single-shot rifles — and the good men and women of Silicon Valley responded by turning in a grand total of zero firearms." . . .

Expect lawsuits if there was no banned firearms sign on the entrance of the San Bernardino shooting site.