The Concept of Self-Defense

It’s oftentimes been said that seconds count when the police are minutes away. It has also been said that one should carry a gun because a cop is too heavy. That couldn’t have been truer than in this instance in 2015, in which a Utah woman’s pleas for help to 911 dispatchers were never answered. A stranger had broken into the home of Bre Lasley and began attacking her and her sister. A fight ensued and ended up in the basement after she and the perpetrator had fallen down the stairs. Despite the repeated attempts to fight back against the attacker, the knife-wielding man was able to overpower Lasley and had stabbed her multiple times.

Cases like this, where we watch as a helpless victim is brutally attacked, like Bre Lasley was, should be a wakeup call to everyone.

Throughout this horrific attack, Lasley did what anyone would have done in this situation: she called 911 for help. In fact, she didn’t just call emergency services once, she called them four times. Her repeated calls were filtered through a new system utilized by Salt Lake City’s dispatchers from a company called Priority Dispatch. It was said that this technology’s intention is to assist dispatchers in gaining important information from callers in order to expedite the process of getting help to those who need it.

Although in this case, Lasley hadn’t spoken in a way the system could recognize what she was saying; as a result, help never came. Luckily for Bre Lasley, her sister was able to leave the house to try and get help. When she did, she came across officer Ben Hone, who just happened to be patrolling nearby. He immediately rushed to the scene and was able to neutralize the suspect and save Lasley’s life in the process.

Why We Have the Second Amendment

We hear from politicians and left-wing activists alike that the second amendment is in reference to the weaponry one would need to go hunting. You can rest assured the second amendment in its inception had absolutely nothing to do with hunting. It had everything to do with self-defense and standing tall against a tyrannical government.

This case, in particular, has nothing to do with standing up against a tyrannical government, and everything to do with the concept of self-defense. The right to defend oneself is not given to us by government, and therefore is not one the government has any say-so over, whatsoever. It is clear the founders understood that our rights weren’t derived from the government and that they came from God. One of the most important of those rights is the ability to defend oneself against those who seek to do them harm.

When You Can’t Wait For Police

What happened to Bre Lasley should be a lesson to us all. We watch celebrities and politicians alike travel the country with their hoards of armed security personnel, while they lecture us about how we should rely on law enforcement in times of crisis. While we all have the utmost respect for the brave men and women of law enforcement, the reality is that when we need them they are oftentimes minutes away.

Throughout this country, we have thousands of brave men and women who serve as dispatchers and law enforcement personnel, but in emergency situations they are oftentimes minutes away. This is precisely why the 2nd amendment is so important.

It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of ourselves and those we love.

It is essential that we continue to fight for and support our right to bear arms despite the ever-increasing calls for not only gun control but outright gun confiscation. When faced with the prospect of gun confiscation in the United States, many like to believe that it would never happen here. Never forget those were the famous last words of a great many people before they were stripped of their rights and sent off to the concentration camps.