As the public sadly learns after every mass shooting, and as first year law students are shocked to learn, the police have no duty to protect you. There is a large and growing body of legal precedent where judges affirm, somehow with a straight face, that police have no duty to protect you.
Author: H. Gera Meyman, Esq., Meyman Law PLLC
The Supreme Court reasoned that the exercise of a constitutional right does not require individuals to demonstrate some special need for exercising the constitutional right in question.
If you are new to carrying a handgun, you are most likely going through a Shakespearean dilemma: “to chamber or not to chamber?”, or putting it in more modern terms, “should I carry a pistol with a round in the chamber?” The purpose of this article is to provide some thoughts and considerations on the subject.