The Only Security They Have Is What They Provide Themselves

Leftists getting mugged by reality is not as entertaining as you might think. San Franciscans arm themselves to walk to work past drug clinics | The Post Millennial

In their on-going efforts to help the poor, homeless drug-addicts, the city of San Francisco is screwing over everyone else.

In June, the SOMA RISE Center, [run by HealthRight 360,] a drug sobering facility, opened in northeast San Francisco and attracted dangerous drug-addicted vagabonds to the area, causing residents of the once peaceful neighborhood to walk with weapons such as baseball bats and tasers for self defense.

Now I am usually armed for my own self-defense, so I see nothing wrong with that. (When seconds count, police are only minutes away.) What I find amusing is that Leftists who for generations looked down their noses at anyone who brought up self-defense, are suddenly confronted by the reality that the System cannot protect you. They are suddenly looking for options to defend themselves.

And in this case, I would say, that "The System" in the form of San Francisco city hall, is actively making their lives more dangerous.

The "sobering center" is a safe place for drug-addicts to come down off a high. Couple that with San Francisco's "it's perfectly OK to do drugs in public" attitude, and you have people getting high, all over the neighborhood. Sometimes they go to the sobering center. Sometimes they pass out on the sidewalk.

Bill, another local, said that since the location opened "'Every morning it's a roulette. When you show up at your office, are there going to be 10 people passed out in front of your building? Are they going to be violent? This was never a problem before HealthRight 360 moved in."

One businessman estimates that he has lost $100,000 worth of business because his (former) customers are staying away.

My guess is that some of the people impacted, like that businessman, will abandon the city like so many others are doing. And is it really helping addicts by facilitating their addictions?

For thoughts on the whole way we deal with addicts and the homeless, see Seattle Is Dying from a news organization in Seattle. They have a similar set of problems as those being visited on San Francisco, for the same reason: insane policies of the Left.

Is this situation really what the voters in San Francisco want? Who are the politicians serving? I know homelessness and drug addictions are complex problems, but this policy seems insane.