Judge warns: 'Arm yourselves!'

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"Arm yourselves!" warned a local judge in one Ohio county after more than half of the sheriff's department was let go following budget cuts, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

"We're going to have to look after each other," said Common Pleas Judge Alfred Mackey.

The people of Ashtabula County, Ohio, to the east of Cleveland along Lake Erie, have been advised by the local judge to arm themselves after budget cuts drastically reduced the number of law-enforcement officers available to patrol the county.

The sheriff's department was cut from 112 deputies to 49, with just one vehicle left to patrol the 720-square-mile county. Meanwhile, the county jail is down to 30 prisoners because there are not enough guards to lock up the 700 people waiting to be incarcerated.

Area gun dealers and instructors are noticing a sharp increase in weapons sales and interest in self-defense classes. Law-enforcement reductions are not limited to Ashtabula. Other counties in Ohio and across the nation are experiencing similar consequences of massive budget cuts.

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