Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Some local folks lost their home for non-payment of real estate taxes.\u00a0 Their son allegedly showed up at the county offices, threatened some staff, broke a window.\u00a0 A restraining order was issued but staff wasn\u2019t satisfied.<\/p>\n
\u201cA piece of paper won\u2019t keep him away, he might come back with a gun. We need protection,\u201d they told the County Manager.<\/p>\n
Like what?\u00a0 A guy with a badge?\u00a0 We have that, the private security guard at the door.<\/p>\n
No, he\u2019s just a rent-a-cop.\u00a0 We are a unit of County government, we want a Deputy Sheriff.<\/p>\n
Pull a deputy off patrol to babysit an office building?\u00a0 How about a Reserve Deputy?\u00a0 Wears the same uniform and badge, is that okay?<\/p>\n
No, Reserve Deputies don\u2019t carry a gun.\u00a0 We want a real deputy.<\/p>\n
So what you want is a Good Guy with a Gun to defend you from the possible Bad Guy with a Gun?<\/p>\n
Not necessarily, it could be a female deputy; but basically, yes.<\/p>\n
So we got one, she\u2019s been sitting in the squad in the parking lot. \u00a0With her gun.<\/p>\n
Amazing how being personally targeted clarifies one\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n
Heather Martens would be appalled.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, I for one think Heather would\u00a0looooove\u00a0<\/em>a police state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some local folks lost their home for non-payment of real estate taxes.\u00a0 Their son allegedly showed up at the county offices, threatened some staff, broke a window.\u00a0 A restraining order was issued but staff wasn\u2019t satisfied. \u201cA piece of paper won\u2019t keep him away, he might come back with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,51,129,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54612,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608\/revisions\/54612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}