A 9-1-1 operator who tells a terrified woman that she is unable to send any police officers to her location effectively illustrates the importance of gun ownership.
The woman who barricaded herself inside her house and told the operator that her violent and enraged ex-boyfriend, who had previously put her in the hospital, was outside her house trying to break in, is the subject of the 9-1-1 call that went viral on social media.
"You don't need a gun. The police will protect you!"
The police:
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“My ex-boyfriend is trying to break into my house. I’m not letting him in, but he’s like trying to break down the door and he’s trying to break into one of the windows,” the woman tells the operator. “He put me in the hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been trying to keep him away. I told him I was going to call. He’s now trying to break into the window. He’s trying to jimmy it open.”
The operator informs the woman that there are no officers available and that she will have to fend for herself after realizing that the caller’s life is in danger. She is then told to ask her irate ex to “go away.”
“Okay. I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the operator says. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away or do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?”
The woman stays on the phone with the operator a while longer explaining the circumstances that led up to the phone call, however, the dispatcher ultimately tells her “the Sheriff’s Office doesn’t work up there. I don’t have anybody to send. And we don’t dispatch for him. Like I said, it’s an unfortunate situation.”
“Okay, I’ll have to take care of myself, I guess,” the woman concedes.
It turns out that the call, which originated in Josephine County, Oregon, in 2013, concluded with the woman, unable to get a police response, being raped and suffocated by her enraged ex.
The sheriff’s department in question at the time reportedly lacked funding, according to The Daily Mail:
The episode is being used as a shining example of why people should arm themselves with firearms to defend themselves instead of depending on the police, who can respond to an emergency in a matter of minutes.
— Curtis Talmage (@CurtisRTalmage) December 28, 2023
Why bother answering the call if three have no one to send. What a damn joke. Always have a gun. Always.
— Ancap Boomer (@burtwalker) December 28, 2023
If only someone would invent a handheld device that would allow a smaller weaker person to defend themselves from a larger aggressive person intent on doing them harm. Maybe something could harness the power of expanding gasses to expel a projectile toward the aggressor?
— NunyaBidness2a (@Nunyabidness2a) December 13, 2022
Every woman should own and know how to operate a firearm. Guns are the great equalizer
— SPACE GHOST&T (@Doutit81707) December 28, 2023
If you can.
Buy guns.
Lots of them.— Logen Ninefingers 🏴☠️A (@Logen9f1ngers) December 28, 2023