Violent Crime Fatal Fantasies

By John Farnam

By John Farnam : Opinion

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance, when the need for illusion is deep.” ~ Saul Bellow

It represents enormous conceit to believe that police can do anything to stop crime, particularly violent crime. What we do is deter/displace it. We discourage it at a particular moment, and thus move it to other places.

That’s about it!

There is nothing we can do to “make people obey the law.” All we can do is make them wish they had. In most of Western Civilization, our tools for accomplishing the latter are extremely limited and largely ineffective, and becoming less effective all the time!

As individual Operators, we can make ourselves, our routine, and our personal environment, as invisible and unattractive as we are able, to both conventional criminals and violent leftist political ideologues. There is little we can do to influence world events, which are currently more than a little frightening and ominous.

Something every Infantry Officer learns early in his career:

“Any position can be taken, when the attacker is willing to pay the price”

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