Trego's Mountain Ear

I was reading the Bugscuffle Gazette, and saw an article about outsourcing your security. The author was looking at how long it took the Aussie cops to get to the shootings at Bondi – and it turned out four were right there on the beach, and they were keeping under cover as a couple of half-assed jihadis shot about 20 people. He stressed that one of the shooters had a bolt gun (4 shots), while the other had a pump shotgun. The one with the pump gun was the one neutralized by a middle-aged bystander.

The author mentioned the Uvalde police – where the crew hung around outside the school as a jerk shot up kids. Then he stressed that you can’t afford to outsource your security.

The author explained “If the government is going to take the right of self-protection away from the citizens, then it is incumbent on that government to actually, you know, provide protection. If the government can’t provide that protection, then get out of the citizen’s way.

This is what happens when you out-source your personal security to the government.“

So I got to thinking about Montana History, as it started in Bannack and Virginia City. There, the baddies were the police. The good guys were the Vigilantes. Nobody read Miranda rights – the phrase was “Men, do your duty.” Outsourcing security to a government police force does seem to provide more options for the bad guys and better treatment. Vigilantes, lacking jails and jailers, tended toward more permanent solutions.

I’m in Trego – I figure it takes (on a good day) about 20 minutes to get a cop out here from Eureka. That will be close to an average – if the dispatcher radios and there is an office at milepost 168, it will probably be a little less. If the officer is north or west of the big town, it can be a little longer. Somehow, I don’t believe that my neighbors have outsourced their security. There may be a gun-free home in Trego – but it isn’t the way I would bet.