Detroit Police Chief - "If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them.." - Granite Grok

Detroit Police Chief – “If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them..”

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Former “long time anti-gunner” and current Detroit Police Chief James Craig, is saying things that will not be well received by the professional left.

“Coming from California (Craig was on the Los Angeles police force for 28 years), where it takes an act of Congress to get a concealed weapon permit, I got to Maine, where they give out lots of CCWs (carrying concealed weapon permits), and I had a stack of CCW permits I was denying; that was my orientation.

“I changed my orientation real quick. Maine is one of the safest places in America. Clearly, suspects knew that good Americans were armed.”

If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday.

Urban police chiefs are typically in favor of gun control or reluctant to discuss the issue, but Craig on Thursday was candid about how he’s changed his mind.

After living outside the false-reality constructed for him by the progressives he discovered something. The likely presence of armed law-abiding citizens really does decrease  crime, and violent crime  well.

Those still trapped in that false-reality will never learn until they escape. They will continue to repeat the chapter and verse of the anti-gun left, paying homage to the deceptions they have been taught to repeat.

The ultimate irony, of course, is those who chant the psalms of Brady and Bloomberg while living under the very umbrella of protection that these armed citizens provide.

And then there are arch-hypocrites like New Hampshire Democrat Stephen Shurtleff, who is free to carry concealed almost anywhere he goes, but continues to work to whittle away at gun rights he himself will never have to give up, while living under the umbrella of protection from high violent crime rates afforded by the kind of law-abiding gun culture we have here in New Hampshire.

I can only hope that the Detroit Chief supports his fellow Michiganers in their effort to defend themselves.  Far too many people have been sacrificed on the alter of the Democrat parties lies about gun ownership in that city already.  Lives ruined, families destroyed, women raped, homes robbed.   All in defense of lies whose sole purpose is to give the government a force monopoly.

Democrats are too arrogant to accept responsibility for all that blood and misery, but Chief Craig is proof that some folks can be saved from the lies of the party of death.   Never enough to be sure, but every step takes us in the right direction.

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