We know that something similar to what was forced on him, where we suddenly find ourselves having to defend ourselves against a previously unknown threat, could happen when we least expect it. And we know that police and prosecutors will often be personally and politically incentivized to treat us like criminals, and to interpret events to support their interests rather than ours. [More]
It could happen to you.
Yeah, the old “One, Two!”
“One”, you get to become a victim of a crime, or at least an attempted crime.
And, “Two”, you get to become a victim of the so called “Criminal Justice System.
But you have probably noticed that in no US jurisdiction is that government branch called the “Victim Justice System” or anything along those lines.
That should be a clue.
Only if you dig into it enough, or it digs into you enough, do you come to the part usually referred to as “Corrections” or something like that. By that time it is often too late.
About ten years ago a retiree in East Helena, Montana returned home to find a unfamiliar pickup truck parked in his driveway; fearing for his wife (he didn’t know she had left earlier) he went into his house with a handgun. There he confronted a professional burglar, and shot him in self defense. Two years later the county attorney indicted him for murder, claiming his act of entering his own home with a gun in his hand made him “the initial aggressor” and thus not protected under the Castle Doctrine laws of Montana. He ultimately won acquittal, but used his retirement savings. This was written up in American Handgunner magazine, one of the Ayoob Files.
The judicial (correctional?) system doesn’t appear to be set up for everyday Americans going about making a life for their families in the US. Think how much worse it must be elsewhere in the world for the average Joe, and what further deterioration in justice could soon mean here; or maybe we ought not.