MAB32

Not saying that there isn't legislation or court decisions about whether I am obligated to protect you or not, I just haven't heard of any in Ohio yet and we never recieved that memo to stop doing our job. When you take an oath in Ohio to be LEO, you swear to uphold the Constitution of this wonderful country, the laws of the state of Ohio, and to protect and serve the community in which your jurisdictional powers lay. I will protect you if I can get there fast enough or if we are both lucky and I am right there, but at least in my department the elected official is more worried about his cars getting banged up then he is saving our little corner of the world. I have said this before in other places and I will say it again here for the record:

"I cannot always be there when the crap hits the fan for you, therefore, please, I beg of you, get a firearm, become qualified to use it and practice, practice, and practice, and if the moment of truth arrives do not hesitate to use it. I have absolutely no problem coming to your house reading you your rights and in the same breath telling you to shut up until your lawyer arrives! Again any LEO out there that tells you to your face that he is the only person who should be able to own and carry a weapon should be considered literally armed and very dangerous to the public. He is on his own little ego trip and needs his sidearm to show you that he is in charge!"