Instead I wake to find myself in a low-budget Charles Bronson movie.
Conduct your desert hikes heavily armed, Citizens, because Mexican drug cartel assassins.
[Pinal County Sheriff Paul] Babeu went on to say he is concerned that potential violence between the assassins and those looking to steal drugs could harm “innocent Americans and my deputies.”
Babeu said people who choose to celebrate Memorial Day in Pinal County’s western deserts should be armed in the instance they come across smugglers or sicarios.
Well. That’s going to do wonders for tourist-dependent businesses in Pinal County. If any.
Savor it with me for just a moment, brethren and sistren. On the one hand, yes, our society is degenerating into Mad Max territory and we’re all gonna die. Horribly, trussed to the front of the Great Humungous’s bizarre hybrid vehicle. That’s kinda bad. But! On the other hand, a law enforcement officer outside Detroit finally threw up his hands and admitted – publicly, out in front of God, Shannon Watts and everybody – “No, we were lying all along, all that ‘call 911 and leave it to us’ business was just a scam, you better get yerself a gun.”
Yeah, the wanton uncontrolled violence is bad. But on the bright side, whatever makes Michael Bloomberg gnash his teeth in frustrated anger brings a smile to this old face.
I sense a market niche here. Drug-smuggler hunting! Could be a substantial boost for the local economy too. Gun rentals. Bounties. Hunting guides (to help the hunters distinguish between legitimate targets and local citizens). The pay-per-view rights could also be quite lucrative.
Interesting idea. ATF could open a weapons franchise; they’re always bitching about lack of adequate income streams.
Alternately, it’d make a great reality show for some faded celebrity idiot like Seagal or Nugent.
It isn’t as though it’s a surprise to anyone paying attention to that corner of the desert. It’s pretty common knowledge in the valley that if one is travelling down 8 at night it’s best not to stop for anyone or anything. It is both troubling and refreshing to hear an official admit it.
I guess the adage it is better to have and not need then need and not have is very true in this environment. But on there other side of the coin there will always be “this guy.”
http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/man-rescued-after-hiking-north-mountain-with-beer-no-water/215787692?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Joel, comments for the rest of us are definitely OFF in the next post.
Yeah, weird. Don’t know what I did to deserve that, but it’s fixed now. By the brute-force method of blowing away the post and replacing it with one that looks just like it.