“If you’re looking for security from door-bells, door-knocks or vacuum cleaners, you’re looking for a dog!”
If you live in a city where the police are afraid to enforce civil order, you need security. If you moved away, but not far enough, you need security. And even if you are no less safe than before, if you are more fearful, you need security.
Young and bored to death with schoolwork? Your neighbors need security doors and iron bars for their windows. Their neighborhoods need security gates and perimeter defenses. Talk all day about the internet-of-things, but there is nothing more brick-’n’-mortar than a wall.
We socialized home security to the police, and that worked pretty well where almost no one was a criminal, anyway. The police are defaulting just when they are needed most, and, hence, self-defense had devolved to from whence it first emerged: You – your self, your spouse, your family, hour homestead, your work, your values. Home security is a growth industry because you know that, ultimately, there is no one to defend the things you love but you.
That’s why Americans are buying guns, too, but passive defenses avoid bloodshed by sending bad impulses elsewhere. That would be ‘privilege’, I should think – and give me excess of it! Civilization is people fighting – and dying, if necessary – to sustain their values.
That’s a heavy burden! If you’re in Metropolitan Phoenix, my nephew – Tim Brannum – can help: Lockology, 623-800-5900.
In other news:
Redfin: Urban Single-Family Homes Are Seeing the Fastest Price Growth as Buyers Return to City But Still Crave Space. More little-riot-lies from Redfin: They are documenting the demi-flight from urban cores to ring suburbs – which I have argued will prove to have been a mistake. Their charts are always fun, since the text yammers on about the pandemic, but the results document the riots. What’s going on with apartments, Redfin? What’s going on in CHAZ/CHOP? If you’re walking on tiptoes over there, afraid to speak the truth out loud, remember that your CEO has posting privileges here. 😉
CNBC: February home prices see the biggest gain in 15 years, S&P Case-Shiller says.
Fox News: California, New York among states likely to lose House seats in Census data; Florida and Texas set to gain. Arizona got screwed, but so did everyone: The census preceded the exodus from riot-friendly states. State populations are by now very different, a process that has not ended and may not for quite a while.
American Thinker: Where to get straight news.
ClickOrlando.com: This Florida man was homeless. Then he made $10,000 from YouTube.
