Today's "Pass it on."

You are responsible for your own protection

I don't know why the Zogby Poll result showing Most Americans Can Name Three Stooges, But Not Three Branches of Gov't caused any comment at all this week. Jay Leno has been demonstrating this sort of thing for ages.  Anyway, if folks don't know that John Roberts is Chief Justice, they sure as hell don't know this. "Mr. Derby is an English teacher, so perhaps he can be forgiven for not knowing that the U.S. government has said our individual security and safety is not guaranteed by the law enforcement in this country. There are several Supreme Court decisions that hold citizens have no constitutional guarantee of protection by police (South v. Maryland and Castle Rock v. Gonzalez come immediately to mind), and many more decisions have been made at lower levels (in the case of Warren v. District of Columbia, for example, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that “a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”). Despite what Mr. Derby says, we are responsible for our individual safety. The law enforcement community performs a valuable service each and every day, but any cop will tell you that they can’t be your personal bodyguard." Cam Edwards, An end to the 2nd Amendment?