"The Nightmare is over." Nightmare? Really???

 

Shot and caught two miles from the Canadian border, escape murderer David Sweat discovered the limits of his survival skills when NY Trooper Jay Cook incapacitated the prisoner with two shots from his service pistol, ending a 23-day hunt for the last of two Clinton Correctional Facility escapees.  But was the drama surrounding the Matt and Sweat escape really, as the media desperately tried to convince us, a "nightmare" for communities of northern NY?

As a well-armed American, living in the gun-friendly Midwest, I was completely unimpressed by the "danger" Matt and Sweat presented to the communities in which they hid. Yes, two violent felons evading police capture in your neighborhood is a disquieting thought, but there are dangerous paroled, previously released, and yet to be arrested violent criminals roaming the streets of our communities every second of every day. Regarding the Matt and Sweat escape all I can say is, "so what?" In a free society we are responsible for our own protection.

No armed American should ever fear murderers, rapists, or violent sociopaths. Leave that to the anti-gun left and the laws they create to obviate their own freedoms and personal discretion.