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Always Be Prepared

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On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article that illustrates the necessity of being prepared to defend yourself.

The article reports:

The debate about gun control takes up so much bandwidth that we forget the Second Amendment isn’t just about owning and carrying guns – it’s about “the right to keep and bear arms” – and one carjacker found that out the hard way.

The Sunday incident occurred when a teenager tried to force an older Lyft driver to give up her car at knifepoint, WJLA, a Washington, D.C., TV Station, reported. However, the driver feigned compliance, but instead of handing over her key, she retrieved a can of pepper spray given to her by her father and sprayed the carjacker in the face.

“I reach over and I grab the bear spray and I sprayed him and I took out the knife and I started juking with the knife, then I opened the door and I fell out,” the driver, identified as “Angie,” said in an interview that aired Monday evening. “He grabbed the knife and then I sprayed him again. He ran and he came back again and he reached in the car to take my phone.”

“When he went to take my phone, I put my body on top of him and we start to fight,” Angie continued. “I saw him drop the knife. I started punching him in his leg. He somehow pushed over me and he got up and he ran away.”

A neighbor witnessed the incident and called 911, WJLA reported. The carjacker was later taken into custody, still suffering from the effects of the bear spray.

Thank God that the Lyft driver had the can of pepper spray. Hopefully the teenager will be charged with a crime and tried as an adult.

Where The Free Market Helps The Little Guy

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Yesterday The American Thinker posted an article about the future of Uber and Lyft in New York City. New York’s socialist mayor, Bill de Blasio, has decided that on Tuesday he will move to limit the number of Ubers and Lyfts in New York. If you have ever tried to get a cab in New York City, this is not good news.

The article concludes with the real purpose of the move to limit Uber and Lyft:

What’s more, the bulletin boards of New York are rife with talk of what this really looks like, which is a bid to raise the value of taxi medallions, which the city profits from, and which well-connected political cronies get their hands on. (Such as President Trump’s now-ex lawyer, Michael Cohen, a medallion owner whose net worth should rise.) New Yorkers know that’s always been a corrupt racket.

Quite an achievement for a socialist champion of the little guy, taking away their taxis in the rain. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg only went after their salt shakers on their diner tables. This guy goes after their transport. Which shows the rest of us again what happens under socialism.

You’ve got to hope they’ll finally get ‘woke’ and start protesting the heck against him, because obviously de Blasio has dismissed the interests of New York’s ever-stressed working class and has just handed them a s– sandwich.

The people who own the medallions will make money and the people trying to find a way to get to Brooklyn will be out of luck.

Allowing Uber and Lyft to operate freely in New York City would provide needed transportation for people as well as possibly keep cab fares from rising totally out of control. That would be the free market at work.