GUNS: If we respected people’s constitutional right, and provided practical means for citizens to exercise that right … … 

Monday, December 22, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/us-news/queens-senior-citizen-who-fatally-shot-would-be-mugger-headed-to-prison-for-four-years/

Metro
Senior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger is heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws
By Kevin Sheehan and Ben Kochman
Published Nov. 20, 2025, 5:16 p.m. ET

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A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.

Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen

Foehner was not charged with manslaughter after claiming self-defense, but pleaded guilty to a lesser gun charge.  But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood. 

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“If we respected people’s constitutional right, and provided practical means for citizens to exercise that right, Mr. Foehner would not be in the position he is in today,” Kenniff added.

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So, let me understand this, the Queens DA Melinda Katz didn’t prosecute a “hard to win” case but did prosecute an “easy to win” one and insisted on a harsh punishment.

Sounds like “prosecutorual misconduct” to me.

Buffing up the old political resume and punishing self-defense.

Without allowing “self-defense”, “We, The Sheeple” has no defense against career criminals and the crazy insane that are allowed to roam at will.

Fighting this injustice is a just a war of attrition against a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds.

One would hope that:

  • the Queens voters would put a curse on the Queens DA Melinda Katz at the next election.  
  • And, that Queens DA jurors would “inflict” justice on their prosecutions by jury nullification of the top count in EVERY trial.
  • Additionally, Queens residents should lodge Bar Complaints on EVERY lawyer in the Queens District Attorney’s Office
  • Badger the Governor Kathy Hochul to correct this miscarrage of justice
  • Everyone should vote against EVERY incumbent lawmaker in New York City and Albany who have “repeatedly frustrated the rights of law-abiding Americans, New Yorkers, that possess firearms.  All candidates should be questioned on this issue.

That should get the attenton of ALL current and potential politicians and bureaucrats.

Where is the Federal Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats standing up for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.  At the very least, federal funds for “law enforcement”  should be impounded until rights are restored.

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GUNS: In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

FROM FACEBOOK

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Terri Dufrene

Some words to the wise. Shooting Advice from various Concealed Carry Instructors. If you own a gun, you will appreciate this. If not, you should get one and learn how to use it:

 

  • Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians.
  • It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
  • Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
  • Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
  • Never say “I’ve got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off. (I prefer the sound of a round being chambered when you load a shotgun)
  • The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
  • The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win – cheat if necessary.
  • Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, cause it’ll be empty.
  • If you’re in a gun fight:
    1. If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.
    2. If you’re not loading, you should be moving,
    3. If you’re not moving’, you’re dead.
    In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!
  • If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about? (I call it being prepared)
  • You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language. AMEN!
  • You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.

If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, please forward.

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I remember reading that freezing occurs when the brain can’t quickly determine the best action.

Like in a crisis: 10% panic, 80% freeze or ignore it, and 10% act.

In USAF basic training, immediate obedience to orders was “DRILLED” into us.  I remember one DI yelling at another boot: “Just don’t stand there, DO <synonym for the act of procreation in real time> SOMETHING NOW!”  It made a huge impression on me. Laugh!  Scary lessons last forever?

[JR: This started off about guns and somehow got into freezing.}

https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/amanda-ripley-crisis/

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People took the time to gather books they were reading and other things. They would shut down their computers before they left. But most of all, the first thing people did was to talk to each other.

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During the FRIST WTC bombing, when the alarms went off, I was away from my office.  My second-in-command called me and said: “The alarms are going off and we have been told to ignore it.”  My first words to her were: “You evacuate our people NOW.  Ignore everything and leave PDQ.”  She responded:  “ said we can’t and won’t get paid.”  I said: “Evacuate now and I’ll take the heat.”  To which I got: “Yes SIR” in a very snotty tone, Laugh!  Later when my team was home safely, and were checking on a conference call that we always had set up, she reported that as they were leaving so was Honcho So and So. In our “after action” meeting in our “lessons learned”, it was entered on the board by her, “If an alarm sounds, evacuate first and then figure out all the other stuff.”  N.B. Mister so and so left the company about a month later with no explanations.

Not that I was smart or a great leader, I just didn’t want to kill anyone with stupidity.

“Yesterday, I learned, that when someone makes a decision based on their heart, mind, soul, and experience, — good or bad — agree or disagree, the time for me to opine, cajole or even argue is OVER. And the time for support, understanding, and “damage control” has begun.” — Ferdinand J. Reinke 2019-Sep-22. I don’t remember why I saved this quote but it seems always appropriate.

“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

Hope this helps some one some where some time.

RETURN WITH HONOR GB GBA  (The codes “GB” and “GBA” do not have specific meanings universally recognized in POW communication. However, they may refer to specific messages or signals used by certain groups of POWs)

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GUNS: When governments disarm the people, freedom does not survive

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

https://rumble.com/v6zn56m-lockstep-digital-id-canadas-tyranny-deadline-christian-persecution-rises-da.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Lockstep: Digital ID, Canada’s Tyranny Deadline, Christian Persecution Rises | Daily Pulse Ep 117
ZeeeMedia

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STORY #2 – Canada has given citizens one year to surrender their firearms, calling it a “voluntary” buyback. But the reality is clear—by October 2026, anyone who refuses will face criminal charges.

Officials claim no one is being forced, yet once the deadline passes, simply keeping your own property will make you a criminal. That isn’t voluntary—it’s mandatory thinly disguised as choice.

History leaves no room for doubt. The British disarmed the colonies before the Revolution. The Ottomans before the Armenian genocide. The Soviets and Cambodians before mass killings. Even Australia, long praised as a model, later sent soldiers into the streets during COVID—dragging citizens into quarantine camps against their will.

The warning is unmistakable: when governments disarm the people, freedom does not survive. The question now is whether Canadians will defend their rights—or watch history repeat itself on their own soil.

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Adolph Hitler famously said, “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”

“…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.)

“Victim Disarmament” is the first step to the trains and death camps.

“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

Look at England and look at Australia.  

How many genocides do we have to have in recorded history before we learn the lesson?

Let’s itemize some.  Just off the top of my head:

  • The genocide of the American Indians glorified in Hollywood films
  • The people of Melos were slaughtered after refusing to surrender to the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War (learned that in High School)
  • The massacre of Cathari during the Albigensian Crusade in the 13th century (also High School)
  • 1915 Armenian massacre by the Turkish-led Ottoman Empire (learned from Armenian neighbors)
  • Nearly complete extermination of European Jews, Roma Gypsies, and other groups by Nazi Germany during World War II (from neighbors who survived)
  • the killing of some three million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s 
  • the killing of Tutsi by Hutu in Rwanda in the 1990s.
  • The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, for example, portrayed its use of chemical warfare against the Kurds in the 1980s
  • The slaughter in former Yugoslavia 
  • Killings in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
  • Myanmar persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
  • The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State 
  • Persecution of Uyghurs in China
  • Stalin’s starvation of the Ukrainians

Right down to present day … … 

 … … both Israel and Hamas fighting to control of the Gaza Strip and killing innocent women and children.

Sorry, but giving up your guns to any gang is a recipe for disaster.  Even if that gang is the Gooferment!

Gun Rights are the palladium of rights  —  the God given right of self-defense!

“from my cold, dead hands”

https://youtu.be/vNk6qT69dIc?si=2tp18YsSBJkU9Oo3

Remember the camps can happen here.

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MEME:Teach the criminal to fear the victim by LtCol Jeff Cooper

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Jeff Cooper Meme

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GUNS: A burglar shot and killed … on parole

Saturday, August 23, 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15011581/shelby-hurd-joliet-illinois-burglar.html

Burglar shot and killed by mother protecting her baby during home invasion is identified – and his past is terrifying
By MARYANN MARTINEZ and JIMMY MCCLOSKEY, US DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS
Published: 14:19 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 18:13 EDT, 18 August 2025

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A burglar shot and killed by a mother as she hid her baby in a closet during a home invasion was a serial criminal who’d only recently been freed from jail.

Shelby Hurd, 36, died last Tuesday after being blasted in the head with a bullet while entering the unidentified mother’s home in Joliet, Illinois.

Patch reported that Hurd was only freed on parole in February this year over a slew of previous burglary convictions.

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Sadly some people never change or learn.  Guess he can be nominated for a Darwin Award.  Does not say if he was a “father”.  It does say a lot about the Illinois prison and parole system.  As a felon with multiple convictions, parole should NOT be considered.

As far as the lack of a “stand your ground” law in Illinois, I’m not surprised given that it is a “blue state”.  The criminal must be afraid of the citizen.  That can only happen when people have the means of “self defense”.

“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. … The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” ~ St. George Tucker 1803

Remember if having guns in civil society was a problem, given the number of guns and gun owners in the USA, we’d known it.

“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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MEME: RKBA is not about defending against deer

Sunday, August 10, 2025

 

Robert W Malone MD from “Who is Robert Malone”

Sunday Strip: If You are Going to Think…

Think big.

Robert W Malone MD, MS

Aug 10

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GUNS: Kentucky young man defends his home; Davy Crockett would be proud

Saturday, March 1, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/14-year-old-kentucky-boy-shoots-kills-two/

14-Year-Old Kentucky Boy Shoots and Kills Two Home Invaders With His Father’s Handgun

by Ben Kew Feb. 20, 2025 9:15 am

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The two men have since been identified as 44-year-old Roger D. Smith and 51-year-old Jeffrey M. Allen.

Smith was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries, while Allen was pronounced dead at the scene.

Manchester Police Chief Jeff Couch told NBC News that the boy was on his own at the time of the incident.

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FAFO

Exceptionally good shooting under stress.  

Two ne’er-do-wells have been forcefully retired.  Wonder what their rap sheets look like.

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ADHOC: Car thieves steal fobs

Saturday, October 26, 2024

https://local.nixle.com/south-brunswick-twp-police-department

Alert: Crime Alert – Police Warn of Suspects Trying to Steal High-End Cars

# – # – # – # – # 

Breaking into houses to find the fobs.

Comes under the heading of: FAFO.

How long before they eventually break into the house of an armed citizen?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

“I told you that ‘juvenile delinquent’ is a contradiction in terms. ‘Delinquent’ means ‘failing in duty.’ But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a ‘juvenile delinquent.’ But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.”  ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers    

I’m a gun owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian; not a “victim”.

I’m sorry if a “juvenile delinquent” gets hurt or killed, but that is the price of crime that they have to pay.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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GUNS: The Left likes “school shootings” to advance their gun control agenda

Sunday, June 12, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/the_most_terrifying_reality_about_school_shootings.html

June 6, 2022
The Most Terrifying Reality about School Shootings
By Charles Turot

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Here is the terrifying truth: the radical left wants mass murders in schools. They are useful for gaining power. I can no longer blame friends who imagine that the killers are some sort of Manchurian candidates, released to further a narrative and serve the purposes of the left. I don’t believe that, but the idea follows logically from the same conclusion I’ve drawn about school shootings: the left likes them. The left is powerful. There will be more. We could prevent them. We won’t.

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One has to believe based on the evidence — like California STOPPING reporting violent threats — that the author is onto something.

Of course, we have to harden the “soft targets”, end “gun free zones” aka target rich environments, and allow people to defend themselves.

Argh!

So simple,

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GUNS: Eliminate “gun free zones” as a small step towards safety?

Saturday, June 4, 2022

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/28/private-gun-carriers-self-defense-against-public-shooters/

Guns
Private Gun Carriers’ Self-Defense Against Public Shooters
The Charleston (West Virginia) incident from a few days ago, the FBI 2021 statistics, and more.
Eugene Volokh | 5.28.2022 5:32 PM

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Finally, always keep in mind that active shooter situations should not be the main focus in the gun debate, whether for gun control or gun decontrol: They on average account for less than 1% of the U.S. homicide rate and are unusually hard to stop through gun control laws (since the killer is bent on committing a publicly visible murder and is thus unlikely to be much deterred by gun control law, or by the prospect of encountering an armed bystander). But people talk about them a lot, so I thought I’d offer a perspective on them for those who are interested.

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I read this very calm and seemed to be neutral After Action review of the particular Charleston West Virginia incident.

The only quibble I have is, and I agree, with to paraphrase “criminals are undeterred by laws and probably an armed bystander”.  What about “gun free zones” being an attractive nuisnece.  We know from Columbine that the criminal in that case traveled further to a movie house that was “gun free”.  This assuring that even the slight risk of a “good guy (or gal) with gun” might interfere.  

So perhaps eliminating all “gun free zones” and allowing unlimited concealed carry by non-felons, we might make their rage a little more “inconvenient”.

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