Soap Box

The recent killing of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge were not the result of some demented person getting out of bed one morning and deciding to gun down a couple of cops.

The Dallas shooting was choreographed, orchestrated and carried out in a fashion reminiscent of a military sniper operation, with the shooter picking his vantage point in advance, able to carefully lay out his line of fire for maximum damage.

While the shooting in Baton Rouge was less sophisticated, the sniper was still able to set the scene and be in place before the police ever arrived gunning down six policemen, three of which died.

While every murder of a policeman is just as despicable as the other, these latest shootings have taken on the appearance of a more sinister character, the planning and execution of the killings more like a military operation with target accessibility and acquisition and the capability of the weapon to do the job well thought out in advance.

This is not the action of some nut walking down the street with a Saturday night special randomly popping off at every badge he sees. This is cold and calculated.

So far, most of the killings have been carried out by lone wolf types acting in solo, but how long will it take for two, three or more like minded misfits to figure out how much more carnage they could cause by operating in concert.

When radical groups like Black Lives Matter march to slogans about wanting dead cops put in a blanket and fried like bacon, the mayor of a major city tells police to "let �em destroy" and not to control the mobs who are ravaging a neighborhood, when a president has agreeable things to say about the organization and when every policeman who pulls his or her gun in the line of duty is automatically guilty in their eyes before the evidence is ever presented, the obvious next step is what we are seeing on the streets of America.

And what we are seeing on the streets of America is not just the settling of scores with police, it is anarchy and anarchy has it's very own Pandora�s box, once opened it can spread in ways that cannot even be imagined.

Who is to say who will be the next to come to the notice of these depraved people who think the way to push their sick agenda is with a gun.

Who or what will they go after next?

Politicians they disagree with?

Minority leaders they think are too soft?

Groups of people with a different political ideology than theirs?

Lawyers and judges?

Amenities aside, the difference between living in America and living in Afghanistan is law and order pure and simple, we have a protector who stands between us and those who want to harm us.

Without the police and other law enforcement agencies America would become a jungle, a daily personal battle to protect your family and property with no cavalry ever coming and no relief in sight.

Our police take their lives into their hands with every call they respond to, every darkened door they walk through, and every arrest they make.

The difference in life and death is made in decisions of milliseconds.

Is that a gun or a knife he's pulling out?

Is that the barrel of a rifle in that window?

What am I going to face when I get to the driver's side of that car I just stopped?

If I have no choice but to use deadly force, are the powers that be going to back me up, or will they side with my detractors to make a few political points?

Imagine yourself in a deadly situation and try making those decisions in a split second.

It's a tough and many times thankless job and it takes a thick-skinned tough person to do it.

Unfortunately, there are a limited number of those around and it's high time our politicians and media started respecting the ones we do have.

God bless and protect our men and women in blue who prove every day that all lives matter.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels