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911 can’t help you.  It is up to YOU to protect yourself and your family.  This story, from the Peoples Republic of California, should illustrate this truth (as if you needed another example of big liberal nanny government failing to live up to the ridiculous expectations of the subjected subjects?)

WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) - A woman was asking a 911 dispatcher for help when her pleas were interrupted by gunshots, then silence. She was shot to death.

The woman told the dispatcher someone was trying to break into her home in upscale West Covina, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Dan Rosenberg said. “Deputies heard gunshots followed by silence and an open phone line,” he said.

Deputies arrived at the house, 20 miles east of Los Angeles, a few minutes after Wednesday’s late morning call.

Late morning… broad daylight. Upscale area. Talking to the 911 operator… dead. Husband couldn’t help either, even though he got there shortly after the cops did.

While police were investigating the shooting, a man arrived at the home asking about his wife.

When he heard that the woman had been shot and killed, he collapsed and started to cry, saying “No! She just called me. You lie.”

The man was placed in a patrol car and taken to a sheriff’s station, police said.

Another Los Angeles news story reads like this

WEST COVINA - An intruder shot a woman as many as five times as he chased her around her gated, high-security mansion while she called 911, investigators said.

Hsiao Hsu, 45, the mother of two, was shot and killed just before noon Wednesday as she pleaded with a 911 dispatcher for help. Her attacker chased her around the house and at least two of the shots were fired as she talked with the dispatcher, authorities told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

Multi-million dollar, gated, high-security mansion…   Don’t get me wrong, I praise God for our military, our docs and EMTs, and our LEOs, but they can’t protect you, they can only come take away the bodies.   And this next statement is a little too common, but it underscores that none of those folks are going to be there if and when it’s your turn to face the goblins

Investigators said witnesses told them they had seen one or more males running from the location. Residents said there had been multiple burglaries in the neighborhood in recent months, but police and deputies said there was nothing unusual in the area lately.

No residential burglaries were reported in the neighborhood during February and March was clear until Wednesday, West Covina police Lt. Dan Brooks said.

Multiple burglaries in recent months, then nothing for a few weeks, eh? Sounds safe to me then. Don’t worry, be happy.

Folks, it is up to you to be prepared to defend yourself. Ladies, wives, daughters, I’m looking at you too. Self defense is your responsibility as well. My wife knows I can’t protect her if I’m not here. And no, she doesn’t particularly enjoy shooting, or going to the range. I don’t have to worry who’s gunnie wish list we buy from next, or who’s ammo box is getting low, because I’m the only one interested in that aspect of it. But my sweetie knows where they are, how they work, and she’s shot ‘em herself. But best of all, she has no illusions about someone down at 911 dispatch being able to protect her. And she’s younger and doesn’t have a tremor either, so she can probably outshoot me, which is just fine by me.  Here’s an Oleg Volk poster that is especially fitting. 

And then there is this, from The Washington Times

LONDON — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the maverick Democrat who split with his colleagues just six years after he was their party’s vice-presidential nominee, had a choice to make: Travel to the Middle East and Europe with Republican Sen. John McCain, or celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary at home with his wife.

He chose to join the 71-year-old senator from Arizona, who no doubt feels lucky to have him along.

The two men, at times legislative partners in the past, have now also hitched themselves to each other in this election, so much so that Mr. Lieberman is a state co-chairman of Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign and told a Connecticut newspaper last week that he will attend Republicans’ nominating convention “if Senator McCain thinks it will be helpful to be there in some capacity.”

“I am not going to attend the Democratic convention for obvious reasons,” Mr. Lieberman told the Stamford Advocate.

These two buddies, along with Lindsey Gramnesty, were recently travelling the Middle East together looking quite like a team, and trying to look Presidential. And I’ll give them that, compared to the recent Democrat hijinks, McCain’s last week was almost boringly “Presidential”.   And as much as I cannot stand the Democrat candidates and what they represent, I’m having a difficult time getting past McCain-Lieberman “the Gun Show bill”, and McCain-Lieberman “the Global Warming bill”.  And let’s not start on the amnesty debacle. Or McCain-Feingold.  It certainly makes sense, in a “middle of the road” sort of way, for two guys who are more known for hacking off their respective parties, for losing previous big contests, and for leaving or threatening to leave their parties, to join together and try to carve out the middle of the electorate, winning not by honestly held conviction or the strength of great political truths, but by playing for the win.  Fantastic. 

So tell me again why you want me to wear a “McCain-Lieberman” button?

I think I’ll get one of these instead.

Hawkins has a great piece to start the day, over at Townhall, titled 10 of the Greatest Pieces of Conservative Wisdom.  Included is this jewel

“In the early decades of the Republic, equality meant equality before God; liberty meant the liberty to shape one’s own life….A very different meaning of equality has emerged in the United States in recent decades — equality of outcome. Everyone should have the same level of living or of income, should finish the race at the same time. Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty. The attempt to promote it has been a major source of bigger and bigger government, and of government-imposed restrictions on our liberty.”
- Milton Friedman