They must be in on it!

I got a different idea.




Think I'll be hanging onto my phone.

I got a different idea.




Think I'll be hanging onto my phone.

Sadly, I have family members who think precisely the way the Minneapolis police chief described.  It's OK, though, if we ever have a home invasion, I'm here to protect them, let's just say it won't end well for the perpetrators.  There will be a "homegoing".  Thank God for Castle Doctrine.

The Glock (mine is 19, 9mm) is one of the finer things ever created on this earth.  However, for concealed carry, I prefer this little chihuahua:

A little on the shrimpy side, but it gets the job done, doesn't have that horrible trigger pull that the Ruger LCP does (I sold my LCP for that reason), and conceals very nicely in the pocket on one's khaki shorts.

A little old lady was upstairs in her house one night and heard someone trying to open the backdoor.  She called 911 and told them there was an intruder.  The dispatch told her to hide in a closet because the cops couldn't get there for 15-20 minutes.  Five seconds later, the dispatch picked up another call.  It was the little old lady again.  She said, "Don't worry about rushing over here, I shot the intruder and i'm safe now." 
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Just 2 minutes later, the old lady's house was surrounded by cop cars, with a helicopter's spotlight hovering overhead.  The detective asked the old lady, "I thought you said you shot somebody?  We can't find a body."  The old lady said, "I thought you said it would take 15-20 minutes to show up."

MPD is a miserable police department for a lot of reasons, but the article in question is rather exploitative.  It gives the impression that MPD sent out an email to residents of the third precinct, the purpose of which was to tell them to just bow down to criminals, full stop.  
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But the actual email sent out (provided in full in the article) has the purpose of prevention, and it gives quite a few recommendations to citizens to avoid being robbed.  It is true that the email says if you are being robbed you should be prepared to give up what you have, but this is a boilerplate public safety recommendation (obviously its merits are debatable, but there certainly are times when it is better to recede than to fight, and police typically assume the average citizen is not of the mettle and training to effectively and victoriously emerge from a violent ambush).  The recommendations for what to do when you are being robbed make up a small portion of the email.
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The real story here is that Minneapolis has seen a significant increase in robberies and carjackings since this time last year, and that the increase is occurring in the area that the philo-sodomite Jєωιѕн mayor happily gave up to rioters for kindling.