Supreme Court Weighs Gun Ban In Delaware Parks And Forests
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 1 month ago
They are, after all, the king’s forests and king’s parks, never forget.
Valihura also pressed Durstein about an individual’s right to carry a gun for self-defense, which he argued is less acute in a park tent or cabin than in a person’s home. Durstein said the trade-off for banning guns is a commitment by the state to provide law enforcement in state parks.
“Your own regs state that camping is at your own risk, state forests are a public use area and there are no after-hours, nighttime or weekend security,” Valihura noted.
With no evidentiary record to draw on, Justice James Vaughn also wondered about the protection being afforded park visitors.
“We have no idea how much police security is actually provided in these state parks, do we?” Vaughn asked. “I’ve been in them. Occasionally you’ll see a ranger go by, something like that, but I don’t seen any police presence in there.”
Why the hell does the legal system keep promulgating this idiotic myth that the police are there to protect anyone? They aren’t, and they know it. And the police know it. The only people who don’t know it are the peasants who think the police will come to their rescue.
In the 1981 decision in Warren v. District of Columbia the D.C. Court of Appeals concluded that it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.” In Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005), the Supreme Court declined to expand any requirements for protection and ruled that the police cannot be sued for failure to protect individuals, even when restraining orders were in place.
Your life depends on it. When in a non-permissive environment you may have to improvise, but improvise you should.
On September 15, 2017 at 7:07 am, Fred said:
It’s the fallacy that the more like a prison we make a place (or the nation) the safer it will be. The exact opposite is true.