GUNS: Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries

Saturday, December 2, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/israel_and_gun_control.html

americanthinker.com
Israel and Gun Control
By Jessica Geraghty

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Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries typically known to be anti-gun, including Australia and England, says Stern.He believes that recent media narratives paint an all-too-forgiving picture of the willingness of Israeli leaders to arm and protect their citizens.

Jessica Geraghty is an established freelance writer and blogger who has over 15 years of experience writing for businesses, political candidates and news publications. Most recently, topics she has written about include human resources, informed consent, the Second Amendment and real estate.

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So, all the pictures of gun toting Israeli’s is “bull <synonym for excrement>”!

No wonder the October 7th attack by Hamas was so successful. The people were like lambs to be slaughtered.

It’s a well known meme about Germans were disarmed and then you got the Holocaust.  A lesson that has been repeated several times in history. 

So when do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

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GUNS: 2+ mile shot seems impossible

Friday, November 24, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12770127/Ukrainian-sniper-claims-new-world-record-picking-Russian-soldier-2-36-miles-away-using-Lord-Horizon-gun.html

Ukrainian sniper claims new world record after ‘picking off Russian soldier from 2.36 miles away using “Lord of the Horizon” gun’

  •     A Ukrainian claims to have the record for longest sniper kill in history
  •     The SBU sniper reportedly managed to pick off a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles
  •     The previous record was held by a Canadian special operations soldier 

By Perkin Amalaraj
Published: 04:33 EST, 20 November 2023 | Updated: 08:58 EST, 20 November 2023 

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The Ukrainian military gave no other details, such as when or where it was filmed, nor did it say how it had confirmed the sniper’s effort.

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I suspect all these claims.  Personally, it’s hard enough to hit a static target at great distances.  The least little wind or hand tremor can make a shot miss widely.  And at those distances, you need to compensate for the bullet drop and maybe the rotation of the earth.  In this specific case, was the unlucky Russian soldier just standing around?  Goofing off down range is a sure way to get killed. Even the article cites several seconds between trigger pull and target dropping.  That implies that the target was a sitting duck.

Maybe this is just more propaganda for the Ukraine War, the rifle maker, and the military?

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GUNS: “Never ever give up your guns, because the minute you do you become a helpless victim”

Monday, October 30, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/hamas_massacres_the_new_face_of_gun_control.html

americanthinker.com
Hamas Massacres: The New Face of Gun Control
By Hank Vanderbeek

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Blizovsky told the Times he believes the atrocities committed by Hamas could have been avoided if more Israeli civilians had firearms.

Never ever give up your guns, because the minute you do you become a helpless victim. You never know when something like an inhumane attack on the homeland will happen. We have open borders through which illegal immigrants pour in from the entire world. We are not just talking about refugees from Central America and Mexico. Deranged Middle Easterners are entering unfettered. What are their plans? Entire terror cells could be walking across the borders.

Don’t believe someone who tells you to give up your guns to make society safe. The Second Amendment allows us to keep and bears arms to keep us safe, not to take our arms to keep us safe. 

In the end, Stern said the Israeli government’s restriction on civilian firearms ownership cost hundreds of civilian lives. That grave injustice should never be forgotten.

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Sorry, but the Gooferment is the “gang that can’t shoot straight” and can’t protect its citizens.  The police come after the fact and draw chalk lines around the dead victims.  

We need to go back to the Old West ethic that everyone is responsible for “keeping the peace”.

Everyone needs to be armed at all times if they feel capable of doing it.

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GUNS: Society must defend itself from all threats especially when the Gooferment fails to do its job

Saturday, October 14, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/when_american_do_the_job_their_police_wont_do.html

When Americans Do the Job Their Police Won’t Do
By John Klar

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As former Northfield police chief John Helfant offered in a comment for this article:

If the law isn’t going to protect people then people are going to protect themselves. Criminals should promptly be held accountable by the system or the system is useless. Criminals need to know that there are swift consequences for their actions, like pretrial detention, enforceable curfew conditions, etc. The system worked in the past, and it can work again if the Legislature and the courts would tighten things up.

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Maybe “We, The Sheeple” are waking up to the chaos being caused in our society by the “liberal” elite.

As we learned from the recent Hamas terrorism, the Second Amendment has the purpose of allowing EACH individual to defend themselves, their families, and their communities.

We ignore this lesson at our own peril!

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GUNS: Use the DMV for other permits?

Friday, October 6, 2023

https://bearingarms.com/ranjit-singh/2023/09/28/five-simple-policy-suggestions-for-lawmakers-in-second-amendment-friendly-states-n75437

Five simple policy suggestions for lawmakers in Second Amendment friendly states
By Ranjit Singh | 5:31 PM on September 28, 2023

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2) Integrate carry permit applications and issuance at the DMV

(Full disclosure: I am repeating an idea I heard from Attorney Mark Smith at the Four Boxes Diner YouTube channel.) Local DMV offices are well-positioned to process carry permit applications. They have cameras, computers, desks, paper forms, pens, etc., and employees who know how to process driver’s license applications. Processing carry permit applications is well within DMV employees’ abilities. States with pro-Second Amendment majorities should add carry permit applications to the portfolio of services offered by their DMV offices, and advertise the new service loudly and proudly.

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I think this is a great idea.  Let’s turn the “DMV” into a people-centric resource for deal with the Gooferment!

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GUNS: Don’t threaten people

Monday, October 2, 2023

One of Colie’s defense attorneys Adam Pouilliard said that his client felt menaced by the 6 foot 4 inches tall Cook during the confrontation, which was designed to provoke a reaction and to draw viewers to his YouTube channel.

Moment YouTube prankster Tanner Cook’s stunt goes badly wrong when shopper he is targeting pulls out a gun and shoots him in the chest | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12583491/Moment-YouTube-prankster-Tanner-Cooks-stunt-goes-badly-wrong-shopper-targeting-pulls-gun-shoots-chest.html

Seems justifiable to me. Big guy was inside the “knife zone” (i.e., 9 foot circle) and was behaving irrationally. IMHO. I might have done the same thing!

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GUNS: Protect schools with real resources

Thursday, September 21, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/time_to_get_serious_about_protecting_our_schools.html

Time to Get Serious about Protecting Our Schools
By David Huntwork

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Many years ago, Israel faced waves of terror attacks against soft targets. The Israelis responded by seriously hardening their schools and other more vulnerable locations. Much of that added security was in the form of well armed and well trained personnel specifically designated to deter and defeat the type of threats we are now seeing directed at U.S. schools. What we do not see now is anyone successfully targeting or attacking Israeli schools. There are good reasons for that, and we should not be afraid to learn from the hard lessons of others.

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I remember that when the Israelis hardened their schools, they were reported to be using grandparents as “extra security”.  I remember thinking at the time about how smart that was.  Grandparents would willingly sacrifice themselves for their grandchildren.  And, no one would be more vigilant about “school security” than they would be.

As this article suggest, let’s not put an added burden on police but have a real force who’s mission was singularly focused.

Bring sanity back to society.

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GUNS: Virginia 6-year-old is a danger to himself and others

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/boy-6-who-wounded-teacher-boasted-i-shot-that-bitch-dead/

Virginia 6-year-old who wounded teacher Abigail Zwerner with gun boasted: ‘I shot that bitch dead’
By Yaron Steinbuch  — August 9, 2023 9:42am Updated

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The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his teacher with his mother’s gun later bragged about it to a school employee – shockingly claiming, “I shot that bitch dead,” according to newly unsealed search warrants.

After the first-grader shot Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6, reading specialist Amy Kovac held the boy until cops arrived, according to the documents obtained by WTKR.

“I did it … I shot that bitch dead,” the pint-sized pistol packer bragged, the docs show. “I got my mom’s gun last night.”

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In a statement to WTKR, the Newport News School District said in response to the search warrant that “unfortunately, FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, prevents schools from releasing information from a student’s education record.

“U.S. Department of Education guidance states ‘schools must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student’s education record,’” the statement says.

“Newport News Public Schools is unable to comment on this matter in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act,” it adds.

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Sorry but it sounds like the prosecutors are letting this go to easily.

Lot of blame to go around, but let’s focus on how the 6 years old gets a gun into school and learns to talk like that.

And, the school district seems to be hiding behind “privacy” to hide the records.

Argh!

Seems like Gooferment Skrules are as dangerous as prisons!

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GUNS: Seems like Moms and Nannies need to arm for self-defense

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/san-francisco-kids-with-bats-attacking-moms-nannies-picking-up-children-after-school/

San Francisco: Kids With Bats Attacking Moms, Nannies Picking Up Children After School

  • Women have also been robbed in similar ways in another area of San Francisco.

Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 07:00pm 86 Comments

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Last week, The San Francisco Chronicle reported on a number of attacks on moms and nannies in Noe Valley as they picked up children from school.

Women told the publication a person in a ski mask with a bat or their fist attacked them. They also said the people targeted those with smartphones.

One mom, identified as C.W., told The Chronicle a person in a gray ski mask ambushed her as she walked to get her daughter from daycare.

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“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

First of all, these are not “kids”!  They are young maybe but the use of a weapon entitles them to the label “criminal”.

There is no excuse for the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah from disarming people for self-defense.  

While I’m against the Gooferment “death penalty”, I am all for “self-defense”.  The little L libertarian NAP (i.e., non-aggression principle) demands that everyone defend themselves.  It’s everyone’s God given right.

Put a few holes in these asshats and watch the end of this crime wave. 

Using my “sheepdog” analogy, everyone doesn’t need to be armed.

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/

Even SCOTUS recognizes that everyone is entitled to defend themselves.

Argh!

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GUN: Five agian one victime demonstrates the need for a gun at the ready

Sunday, May 28, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/local/2023/05/23/maryland-father-killed-protecting-his-son-from-bullies/

Maryland Father Killed Protecting His Son From Bullies
Elaine Mallon  —  23 May 2023

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A Maryland father is dead after three teens and two adults showed up at his house on Friday demanding to fight his 14-year-old son.

The fight first broke out at Brooklyn Park Middle School, and the gang reportedly came to finish it at Christopher Michael Wright’s house, WBLA TV reported. The 43-year-old told the assailants that his son would not be going outside to fight them. Wright’s fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky, said the group threatened to come inside and take him. She heard the group tell her fiancé that he had to go outside and fight in his son’s place.

His three children were all home at the time, and a neighbor’s video camera caught the incident on camera.

Wright suffered a traumatic brain injury.

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“Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.”

Maryland is a gun control state and look how that worked out for the poor dad.

Time to send all five to jail for a long long time for murder.

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GUNS: When seconds count, the police are late to the scene

Friday, May 26, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/05/21/man-is-brutally-attacked-by-mob-of-cyclists-in-downtown-la/

 Video shows man brutally attacked by mob of cyclists in downtown LA

By Ronny Reyes 

May 21, 2023 6:21pm

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A man driving a pickup truck was pummeled by a group of young bicyclists during a broad-daylight attack in the downtown Los Angeles jewelry district.

Video footage captured the moment the victim was knocked to the ground by a group of people who stomped and kicked him ruthlessly near Hill and 6th Street on Thursday.

A witness said the fracas started when the cyclists claimed the man struck one of their bikes.

The victim, who has not been identified, covered his head as the assailants delivered brutal kicks.

A group of local jewelers quickly arrived and yelled at the group to stop.

One bystander could be seen removing his belt and whipping it around to scare off the cyclists. 

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One msn versus a number of thugs; how to even the “playing field”?

And, the police arrive after everyone has left.

If the victim had been armed, then the incident probably would have never happened.

And if the attackers were shot at, shot, wounded, or (heaven forbid) killed, then I am sure we would see the victim prosecuted and the attackers lauded as “good little children”.

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GUNS: Criminals don’t seem to be well trained and that’s a good thing

Thursday, May 11, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12050727/Terrifying-moment-three-assassins-board-school-bus-try-shoot-boy-aged-FOURTEEN.html

Terrifying moment three would-be assassins board school bus and try to shoot boy aged FOURTEEN in ‘targeted’ attack that only failed because their gun didn’t fire

  •     Three would-be assassins boarded a Maryland school bus in masks before attempting to shoot their victim at point-blank range
  •     When the gun jammed and bullets fell to the floor, one of the attackers pistol whipped the boy before fleeing the scene 
  •     Cops believe all three suspects are juveniles, and investigations into the incident are ongoing

By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:03 EDT, 5 May 2023 | Updated: 08:40 EDT, 5 May 2023

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Chilling photos show three would-be assassins board a Maryland school bus to try to shoot a 14-year-old boy dead in what appears to have been a targeted attack. 

The unidentified youngsters burst onto the bus in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Monday afternoon when their intended victim was the last student on board.

They tried shooting the middle-schooler – who has not been named – in the chest at point-blank range with the boy’s life only saved after the gun malfunctioned.

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Its only on TV and in the movies that guns are 100% reliable.

One of the many things that a responsible gun owner learns to do is to clear a jam quickly and under pressure.

A good think that criminals are so stupid and don’t train with their chosen weapon.

I hope these criminals get prosecuted as adults and sentenced accordingly.  

I’d like to know the motivation behind it.  If “drugs”, then I hope that the accessories get convicted as well.

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GUNS: The Pepuls Republic of Washington has voted to disarm the People

Saturday, April 22, 2023

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/was-momentous-new-gun-laws-draw-a-line/

Editorials 
WA’s momentous new gun laws draw a line
April 20, 2023 at 3:06 pm 

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That pivot has been driven by the need to do something in response to massacres across this country that are plowing down children and other innocents every week. The vast majority involve legally purchased semi-automatic weapons.

On Wednesday, officials put their final touches on a law banning the sale, manufacture and distribution of assault rifles, a move that looked inconceivable just 15 years ago. The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.  

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These laws cannot guarantee that all citizens will be safe from indiscriminate slaughter. But they do draw a line, indicating where the bulk of this state’s electorate — who put a gun-control majority into office — stands now. 

The Seattle Times editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen, Alex Fryer, Claudia Rowe, Carlton Winfrey and William K. Blethen (emeritus).

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This liberal State has just crossed a very interesting line.  

First, as usual and expected, it fails to realize that there is no such classification as an “assault rifle”.  Pushing that to the side, the “editorial” concedes the “vast majority involve legally purchased semi-automatic weapons”.  This law will do nothing to eliminate the “gun free zones” that crazy people, who are not stupid, seek out for their sick rampage.

Second, whenever a dictator takes over a country, the first thing that they do is disarm the people.  Ask the German Jews how well that worked out for them.  Then go to Russia, Communist China, Cambodia, and various places in Africa for further evidence.

Finally, these is that little objection about Constitutionality.  SCOTUS has made it very clear that the RKBA is a fundamental human right.  The current doctrine of “incorporation”, means the States are bound to observe the Second Amendment, And, no amount of wishing can wish it away.

So, the TL;DR summary is a piece of feel good ineffectual legislation will generate a ton of costs and legal fees for no effect. 

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GUNS: Schools need to be hard targets; not shooting galleries

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/mother-of-nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-shared-several-gun-control-posts-on-social-media/

News nashville school shooting
Mother of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale shared several gun control posts on social media
By David Propper 
March 27, 2023 8:04pm Updated

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The mother of the Nashville school shooter who killed six people — including three 9-year-olds — appeared to be a gun control activist who once urged friends on Facebook to sign a petition calling for keeping firearms out of schools.

“So important!” Norma Hale wrote in a March 8, 2018, Facebook post as she shared the petition to “Keep Guns Out of School” that appeared to be from the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.

The webpage’s domain to the petition did not appear to exist anymore.

In another post from Feb. 21, 2018, Hale shared another petition from Sandy Hook Promise urging lawmakers to “Make Large-Capacity Gun Magazines Illegal.”

Hale’s adult child, Audrey Hale, carried out Monday’s horrific mass shooting at the Covenant School on Monday morning. 

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Like the war on drugs, Gooferment seems to deliberately fail at its mission.

Schools should be “hard targets” like a bank.  You don’t hear about “mass shootings” at banks or pawnshops. Hell, my local jewelry store had better security than that school apparently had.  The shooter blew out the glass front doors. Most datacenter are secure by “man trap” entrances.  You don’t just waltz in unchallenged.  Schools in New Jersey require visitors to be admitted; hell, parents don’t even get in without a “pass”.

I feel sad for the parents of all involved.  It’s a cold cruel world out there populated by crazy people and evil doers.  We need to end gun-free zones and reengineer our society to protect itself.

I note that the shooter skipped another target because it “had too much security”.  So while these shooters are evil, they are not stupid.

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GUNS: Seems necessary use of force to protect the resident

Monday, January 9, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/01/03/alleged-intruder-enters-home-window-gets-shot-dead/

Alleged Intruder Enters Home Through Window, Gets Shot Dead
AWR Hawkins3 Jan 202396

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An alleged intruder entered a Lake County, Florida, home through a window Monday and was shot dead by a person inside the house.

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Baring further evidence, it seems that this is a sad but necessary outcome.

Hard to imagine this is his first attempted break in.

While I’m pro-life, I think this is the best possible outcome  — only the bad guy pays.

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GUNS: Where there is a will, there is a way.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/12/28/bb-guns-live-ammo-n65667

Thai man arrested for modifying BB guns to fire live ammo
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 PM on December 28, 2022

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Like I said, creative.

Yossakorn would allegedly buy BB guns for about as much as 8,000 baht, or around $230, and sell them for 15,000 baht, or about $430.

Not too shabby of a profit, really.

Understand, Thailand has all that gun control. If gun control works as advertised, how could anyone turn a BB gun into a fully-functional firearm?

And I’m trying to figure out what video he watched on YouTube, especially since the site is known to be hell on anyone showing American audiences how to build guns, even though that’s perfectly legal here. So I’m curious just what he was watching and when did he watch it.

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Put this in the “Criminals Are Not Law Abiding” and people have God-given inalienable right of self-defense.

Feel sorry for this poor guy trying to make a few bucks empowering others.

I too am interested in what YouTube video he watched.

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GUNS: Gun-free zones are just magical thinking

Monday, December 26, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/5_freedombased_solutions_to_mass_shootings.html

5 Freedom-Based Solutions to Mass Shootings
By D. Parker

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1. Get rid of gun-free zones.

Gun control and gun-free zones are based on the absurd idea from the left that if no one has a gun, no one needs a gun.  Except that when these inevitably fail because criminals don’t obey the law, the excuse is offered that this happened because guns came in from the surrounding areas.

Innocent people are thus being deprived of their commonsense civil rights under a false pretense: that you will be safe and won’t need a gun because no one else will have one.  

The problem is that the gun-grabbing ghouls contradict themselves with this “logic” because there will always be a surrounding area that can be a source for firearms.  (They can’t seem to explain this with island nations like Australia, New Zealand, or the U.K. — are dolphins smuggling AR-15s?)  Thus, the only solution is to simply stop depriving people of their rights and let them deter crime themselves.

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Any politicians and bureaucrats proposing such stupidity are guilty of “magical thinking”!

“We, The Sheeple” need to hold them accountable.

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GUNS: It seems when you go out into the “wild” that you can no longer assume that you are the predator; you might be the prey

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/a-coyote-unexpectedly-killed-a-human-in-2009-scientists-now-know-why/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Science, Biology
A Coyote Unexpectedly Killed a Human in 2009. Scientists Now Know Why

  • It’s likely due to an unexpected dietary adaptation.

Monisha Ravisetti
Dec. 12, 2022 3:27 p.m. PT

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In 2009, 19-year-old folk singer Taylor Mitchell was attacked by a pack of coyotes while on a hike at the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Canada. She was just about to start the popular Skyline Trail when climbers in the area saw the animals close-in, unprovoked. 

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“These coyotes are doing what coyotes do, which is, when their first or second choice of prey isn’t available, they’re going to explore and experiment and change their search range,” Gehrt said. “They’re adaptable, and that is the key to their success.” 

From those movement devices, the team tested to see whether coyotes in the park were just familiar with people. However, patterns showed that the animals largely avoided areas of the park frequented by people. Instead, they preferred walking around at night.

“The lines of evidence suggest that this was a resource-poor area with really extreme environments that forced these very adaptable animals to expand their behavior,” Gehrt said. Or as the paper puts it, “our results suggest extreme unprovoked predatory attacks by coyotes on people are likely to be quite rare and associated with unique ecological characteristics.”

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Hard to imagine that a pack of coyotes could take down a human, IF (BIG IF) that human was armed.

While I’d be most afraid of running into a bear, I’d like to be prepared.  I’d be most comfortable with my COLT 1911 45.  I think that would discourage most predators — permanently.  

With nine in a magazine, and at close range — say 10 feet — I’m pretty (overconfident) that I could his the target.  Especially if it was moving towards me.  I’d also assume that the predator would not like the loud noise, flash, and smoke.

I figure that I could deal with any “no hunting” objections as long as I was still alive to dispute them.

Seriously, why would you be so naïve as to think you don’t need protection.  Back in the 70’s, in Nevada, away form the cities, I saw most folks packing some sort of firearm,  At a gas station, I ask one attendant why he was pack in at the gas pump.  I expected “crime” as the answer; “rattlesnakes” was the reply.  “They ain’t afraid of humans; horses yes, humans no”.  I filed that away in my memory banks and correctly answered the question in USAF survival school: “What animal is most dangerous to a human alone in a survival situation?”  Not bad for a city boy and I shot expert too; guess I had watched too many westerns.

YMMV but preparation beats regrets.

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GUNS: In Civil War 2.0, it appears that insurgents always win; war 5.0 will change the paradigm of war AGAIN

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

https://qr.ae/prp8Rx

Aditya Sharma
Moderator at the Munitions Annex2y

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If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how hard would it be for the US military to stop them?

With all due respect, good sir, I do suspect that you’ve framed this question incorrectly. Instead of saying:

“If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how hard would it be for the US military to stop them?

You should have asked this:

If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how long would the government last?

Why would I say this? After all, doesn’t just about every defense study from the post-war era rank the U.S. Military as one of the most powerful armed forces in the world? The answer to this question, you see, is really simple.

There are 100 million gun owners and at most 3 million members of the military and police[1][2][3].

Even if we round up the numbers of police and military to 5 million, it would still be quite a stretch to see them fighting a well-armed group that is nearly 20 times as large as they are. This is despite ignoring several facts that don’t look good for the military:

Supply chains largely dependent on civilians

If the reason for civil war is gun confiscation, it’s highly unlikely that the military, being mainly conservative, will support war against it’s own citizens[4]
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Continous failures throughout history to successfully defeat insurgencies. Let’s look at three examples to prove my point:

  • Vietnam: The US entered a poor, devastated, war-torn nation. Should have been an easy fight, right? Wrong. After all those years, they had to pack up and leave – and we all know the result
  • Iraq 2.0: They should have taken this one easily – flat terrain, overwhelming firepower, willing politicians, and poorly-trained and led opponents. Yet after 20 years, there has been no result.
  • Afghanistan: Same as the last two. A nation of illiterate goat-herders pushed back the world’s strongest fighting force. This was, of course, only a short while after they kicked out the Soviets.

None of these three examples looks good for the US. However, it gets worse. American gun owners are better equipped, educated, and funded than any of Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Iraq ever were. Not only are American gun owners well equipped, but they are well led too, with 18.2 million veterans – many of whom are likely experienced with asymmetric warfare from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam[5]. They understand the doctrines and policies set in place to combat an insurgency – and how to work around said doctrines.

Ignoring all these drawbacks that the military faces, and negating any pragmatic and moral argument and simplifying this motion down to a question of numbers, the military still does not win. Under any circumstances. Sorry.

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All politicians and bureaucrats need to run out in front of the parade and pretend to be leading.  If the parade turns on them, then they are toast.

‘If a battle can’t be won, don’t fight it,’ cautioned Sun Tzu, the revered Chinese warrior from 544-496 BC ”The Art of War’

“Let us hope our weapons are never needed – but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.” – Edward Abbey

“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
— Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.)

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Armed neighbors stop home invasion, protect woman and her two children – Bearing Arms

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

 
— Read on bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/30/armed-neighbors-stop-home-invasion-protect-woman-and-her-two-children-n64838

Of course no media coverage because it goes against the anti-gun narrative.

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GUNS: Taking all the gun away from the people in the USA — not very likely

Thursday, November 17, 2022

https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-we-create-an-agency-to-specifically-collect-guns-from-gun-owners-in-America-It-will-consist-of-1000-members-and-will-make-an-announcement-for-every-house-It-will-ask-the-owners-to-come-out-with-their-hands/answer/Ferdinand-Reinke?prompt_topic_bio=1

FROM QUORA, by a troll, obviously looking for clicks

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Why can’t we create an agency to specifically collect guns from gun owners in America? It will consist of 1000 members and will make an announcement for every house. It will ask the owners to come out with their hands up if there’s any hesitation.

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Just out of curiosity, where do the families of these 1000 Gun Confiscation agents live? Do you think they will survive. Read that novel “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross (if you can find and afford a copy). A cadre can start taking out family members and see how long any agency lasts.

I think the reason that the powers that be want this book scarce is that it gives a “how to manual” for how to defeat the US big Gooferment. Killing by random unconnected patriots in a decentralized fashion would make Viet Nam or Afghanistan look like a cake walk. Never mind all the gun owners; how about all the other patriots. Talk about real ugly real fast. Once people have nothing to live for, it can get real dangerous for the ruling class real fast.

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.” — character Sergeant Charles Zim in Starship Troopers, a book Robert A. Heinlein, author

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GUNS: Could the US Gooferment ever sieze all the guns?

Thursday, November 3, 2022

FROM QUORA

Kelly Jones
Knows a bit about firearms, and about physics

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If firearm confiscation were to become law, and gun owners fought against it, how many fatalities of either police or civilians would gun control activists be willing to accept before abandoning the effort?

Why would there be ANY fatalities?

Let’s think about the sides here:

On one side, you have gun owners, who aren’t willing to surrender their rights. They have guns.

On that same side, you have police, who (for the most part) are in favor of ‘civilian’ ownership of guns, and who (for the most part) have taken an oath to defend the constitution. They, also, have guns.

The only ones on the other side are the misguided citizens and politicians who illegally voted for gun confiscation. They, for the most part, have no guns. How, exactly, are they going to pose a lethal threat to the other side? This just seems like a non-starter, and possibly the shortest conflict ever.

The only question is, how will the victors handle those who sought to deprive them of their rights?

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Sorry, but it is an interesting “thought experiment”.

I’d think it would be interesting to consider what would happen in the “inner city” first.  I’ve often written that the drug gangs would be a fine example of a guerrilla militia since Viet Nam.  Farmed by day; warrior by night.  The police can’t currently control the guns in the streets today under today’s rules.  What will happen if the elite Gooferment officials (i.e., ivory tower politicians and bureaucrats) declare it “open season”.  I doubt that police would enforce those orders.

Now let’s consider what happens in the rural areas where the average hunter may have better and more practiced with arms.  That’s not going to be pretty.

Now let’s consider all the arm chair keyboard warriors.  I’d bet that half give up their guns, but the other half would give a good account of “from my cold dead hands”.  That will be be a blood bath. 

In short, it would be short, bloody, and a reaffirmation of the RKBA.

Consider that in the USA there are probably a lot more guns than people.  And, those trains will not be loading willing participants.

Most patriots will remember the Holocaust, the Japanese American interment, the Trail of Tears, and Gooferment’s violent history of suppression here and abroad.

Yes, how will the trials after work out for the gun grabbers.

Hope it never comes to that.

Peace.

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GUNS: Armed citizen stops attack on pregnant woman

Monday, October 31, 2022

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/10/26/armed-citizen-stops-attack-on-pregnant-woman-outside-florida-grocery-store-n63656

Armed citizen stops attack on pregnant woman outside Florida grocery store
By Cam Edwards | 11:30 AM on October 26, 2022

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A bystander drew his gun on a man accused of beating and stomping on his pregnant girlfriend outside a Publix super market, ending the “brutal” attack, Florida deputies say. The incident occurred around 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the parking lot of the Largo grocery store, according to an arrest affidavit. The woman told Pinellas County deputies that her boyfriend, Cole Danisment, 27, got angry and punched her in the face repeatedly. She fell to the ground, and Danisment is then accused of stomping on her head and upper body.

The woman told deputies that Danisment knew she was 14 weeks pregnant with his unborn child. A man who witnessed the attack said he feared for the woman’s life, prompting him to intervene. Danisment didn’t stop brutalizing the woman until the witness pulled a gun on him, according to the affidavit.

According to police, Danisment had a no-contact order issued just last week after another domestic violence arrest that prohibited him from being anywhere near the woman he allegedly assaulted. That court order didn’t stop him from allegedly carrying out the brutal assault of his girlfriend, obviously. It took a stranger who was lawfully carrying concealed to bring the attack to a close without it escalating any further.

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Court orders don’t protect victims.  A gun gives them a fighting chance.

The court order should come with a loaner gun and quick training session from the local sheriff or deputy.

And, if the domestic violence suspect comes close enough to be shot, then that is a de facto “good shooting”.

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

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GUNS: Responsible gun owner stop s robbery with no shots fired

Friday, October 28, 2022

https://palexander.substack.com/p/i-will-take-concealed-carry-anytime?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=80411577&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

I will take ‘concealed carry’ anytime over the knife, see what this piece of garbage faced when he pulled the knife on the supermarket cashier; gun owner was responsible, others might have opened up
Dr. Paul Alexander

# – # – # – # – #

Every time I get engaged about concealed carry it seems to be after a disaster (i.e., young girl killed by a shot at a fleeing criminal).  I’m forced to defend the principle in a specific bad example.

Here’s a good example of the principle in action.  No shots fired; no one hurt; and robber stopped cold.

Concealed carry does NOT equal “Wild West” shootouts.  (Which by the way were very rare. “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein)

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GUNS: Man’s hand continued to twitch after it was chopped in Huddersfield | Metro News

Thursday, October 13, 2022

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/mans-hand-continued-to-twitch-after-it-was-chopped-in-huddersfield-17555276/?utm_source=fark

​Good thing there are no armed citizens in the UK.​

Not like you wouldn’t notice a guy with a machete!

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GUNS: “Gun rights are women’s rights, but they are also human rights.”

Thursday, September 29, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/gun_rights_make_for_good_manners_and_safe_nations.html

Gun Rights Make for Good Manners and Safe Nations
By J.B. Shurk

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No woman on the frontier protecting the family’s homestead was complete without her rifle, and no woman living in today’s increasingly lawless society is complete without the means and capacity to put down quickly any potential attacker, no matter the aggressor’s size.

Gun rights are women’s rights, but they are also human rights. No person — regardless of sex, size, color, nationality, or any other phenotypic reality — should ever be forced into a position where self-defense is not an option. Any person walking down the street should be in near total control over whether that walk will be his last. Police forces, no matter how vigilant or dedicated, do not supplant a civilian’s sacred duty to fight back when pressed.

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When my sainted paternal grandmother was asked by a social worker if the rifle over her fireplace was loaded, her typically terse response was “weren’t be no good if it wasn’t.”

When the author wrote “No woman on the frontier protecting the family’s homestead was complete without her rifle”, I immediately thought of her as twelve year old new married woman with her thirteen year old husband leaving Germany dirt poor and eventually traveling the Oregon trail in a Conestoga wagon to meet and settle down with relatives in Portland Oregon.  I never got the chance to ask her his she had to use that rifle.  But I have no doubt that she would. 

“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown

“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
Ferdinand John Reinke

It’s hard to imagine that the USA disarms women in the hope that it makes them “safe”.  It makes them “victims”.

Argh!

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

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