Americans Need Guns as Police are Demonized

By Ammoland

Titusville, FL – “We need personal firearms because police are becoming wary of confrontation with violent criminals,” Snyder added.

“Citizens themselves have to be able to get and use handguns to stop these criminals,” he said. “People have to be able to protect themselves and their families from violent criminal attack. This is true generally for people, including people living in poor neighborhoods.”

Snyder said a Wall Street Journal article indicated the demonization of police activity against violent criminals has created a situation in which police hesitate to pursue and arrest violent criminals.

In the article on The New National Crime Wave, Heather MacDonald wrote that, “The most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months.”

She noted, “President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, before he stepped down last month, embraced the conceit that law enforcement in black communities is infected by bias. The news media pump out a seemingly constant stream of stories about alleged police mistreatment of blacks, with the reports often buttressed by cell phone videos that rarely capture the behavior that caused an …read more

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