Re-learning a hard lesson on safety and security from Buffalo, NY

 

The mainstream news media have been deafening in their silence about widespread looting that broke out in Buffalo, NY after the epic winter snowstorm there last week.  The New York Post is one of the few that mentioned it, and then only in passing.

Looters ransack snowbound Buffalo as cops are stuck elsewhere

Deadly blizzard conditions in upstate New York gave cover to local looters over the weekend as they robbed businesses while police were stuck elsewhere.

“I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown raged to reporters Monday.

“They are the ‘lowest of the low,”’ Brown said of the opportunistic crooks.

Some businesses had their windows smashed and merchandise damaged and stolen as snow and ice pummeled the region, local TV station WRGZ reported.

. . .

“They’re not looting foods and medicines, they’re just looting items that they want. So these aren’t even people in distress,” the mayor said. “These are people who are taking advantage of a national disaster and the suffering of many in our community to take what they want.”

There's more at the link.

Gun Free Zone provides links to a number of video clips on social media showing the extent of the looting.  Here's a screen capture from one of them, showing part of what's left of a Walmart supermarket there.

The author goes on to warn:

With the police busy dealing with people who underestimated the harshness of the weather, the Savages who prey upon the civilized set upon stores and businesses to pillage and plunder.

This shows just how tenuous our grasp on civilization really is.

Some sub zero temperatures and a few feet of snow and am American city goes Lord of the Flies.

This is why self reliance and the ability to self rescue are so important.

People will venture out and get stuck.  Law enforcement will go to rescue them.  The savages will use the lack of available law enforcement and the cover of darkness and bad weather to prey upon the helpless, and nobody will come to rescue you.

When the snow piles up, cracks will form in civilization and you are on your own.

Be prepared.

Again, more at the link.

He's right, of course.  That's exactly what we're seeing in Buffalo, and what we're seeing more and more often in many of our Big Blue cities.  When law and order is deliberately downplayed, hamstrung, ignored . . . then the low-lifes come out to play.  Snow was a factor in Buffalo, but it's far from the only one.  Heat, power outages, failure of the EBT benefit system, and a host of other factors might all, jointly or severally, provoke such an outbreak of crime.  Groups such as Black Lives Matter, or Antifa, or others might also deliberately orchestrate such events, to demonstrate that the city administration has to negotiate with them, or else.  (Personally, I think the "or else" option is greatly undervalued, and that salutary lessons need to be administered to such groups and their followers:  but not everyone sees it that way.)

What's even worse is that the flood of illegal aliens crossing our borders almost unchecked is merely adding to the problem.  Most of them come from countries where this sort of thing is rampant.  Do your own research into criminal and gang activity in South America, where most of these illegal aliens come from.  They're bringing those attitudes across our borders, and I'm willing to bet they'll act on them as soon as they realize the welfare money is finite, and they (legally, at least) don't qualify for many of our generous entitlement programs.

If you're fortunate enough to live in a town like ours, where the administration and the police and the populace as a whole are all united in their emphasis on law and order, you'll be spared much of that.  In a Big Blue City, where the cops are underfunded, understaffed, and under pressure from liberal District Attorneys who free many of the criminals they capture . . . not so much.  Again I repeat:  if you live in such a city, get the hell out of there while you still can.  Don't wait passively to become a victim.  Your life, and the lives of your loved ones, are worth more than that.

If you see this sort of criminal axe coming down, get out from under it, and move back to civilization!  Remember the Killhouse Rules, particularly:  No-one is coming to save you.

Peter