Call to Arms in St. Louis: A city alderman frustrated with the

police response to rising crime called Tuesday on residents to

arm themselves to protect their lives and property. Alderman

Charles Quincy Troupe said police are ineffective, outnumbered or

don’t care about the increase in crime in his north St. Louis

ward. St. Louis has had 157 homicides in 2008, 33 more than last

year at this time. “The community has to be ready to defend

itself, because it’s clear the economy is going to get worse, and

criminals are getting more bold,” Troupe, 72, said Tuesday.

Troupe said that when he and residents approached a district

police commander last year, they were told “there was nothing he

could do to protect us and the community … that he didn’t have

the manpower.”

http://www.newsmax.com/us/alderman_guns/2008/12/02/157388.html

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !