One of the major indicators of the decline of our civilization is our failure to favor law-abiding citizens over criminals. In one of the most egregious cases you’ll see, police in Swampscott, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) arrested a man who stopped an armed thief who broke into his truck.
This isn’t even a gun-rights case. The hero in this case was unarmed, and disabled a criminal carrying a knife and a billy club. Nevertheless, the police charged the hero with a felony, and only after considerable media pressure was applied did the DA agree not to prosecute. Even then the DA pointedly refused to say that the police had acted incorrectly.
The message is clear: no one is to stand in the way of criminals plying their trade.
(Via Instapundit.)
