Now You Need A Gun More Than Ever

By Gregory Smith

If you’ve been hesitating about buying your first gun, consider what’s going on around you. The police are being demonized, they fear shooting the bad guys, so if you were counting them on saving you (which rarely happens in the best of times), forget about it.

“Americans need handguns now more than ever,” gun rights expert John M. Snyder said here today.

“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, …read more

Source:: Selling the Second Amendment