The Kansas Infidel: Detroit Police Chief Has Epiphany!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Detroit Police Chief Has Epiphany!

Low and behold! An urban police chief, James Craig of Detroit, publicly stated that armed citizens deter crime. After 28 years of drinking the liberal anti-gun Kool-Aid in the LAPD, he became police chief in Portland, Maine, in 2009, where he began to see that armed citizens aren't dangerous and are responsible. He also noticed how safe it was to live in Maine and correlated that with the number of CCW permits he saw coming across his desk. Now that he's in Demoncrat run, anti-gun Detroit, he's speaking out. I bet the city is wishing they'd asked him about this before they hired him!

He also said:

“When we look at the good community members who have concealed weapons permits, the likelihood they’ll shoot is based on a lack of confidence in this Police Department,” Craig said at a press conference at police headquarters.

We can assume that he meant by this statement that citizens know when you need the police, they're minutes away, and you're ultimately responsible for your own protection. In reality, the likelihood they'll shoot is based on the threat in front of them. People don't shoot in defense based on a lack of trust in the police department. They shoot based on the nature of the threat and how they've been trained. As the NRA documents in every monthly magazine, guns are used everyday to deter crime, and usually the mere presence of a gun is enough to deter the cowardly criminal.