A Sobering Look At Ferguson On This Thanksgiving Day

A Sobering Look At Ferguson On This Thanksgiving Day

First and foremost, I’m sure the law abiding citizens who armed up before the verdict are thankful they live in a state that respects their right to keep and bear arms for self defense.  No doubt the fires, looting and riots would have been much more expansive had the mob been unopposed by those willing to stand up for themselves and their community. But this article isn’t about the common sense of being armed against a mob. I read something this morning from a New Orleans Saints player, Benjamin Watson, who encapsulates the entire sentiment of the Ferguson affair in a level headed and objective way. From Watson’s Facebook Page: At some point while I was playing or preparing to play Monday Night Football, the news broke about the Ferguson Decision. After trying to figure out how I felt, I decided to write it down. Here are my thoughts:...
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Ranger Jane Coming Down the Pike..Will They Earn It?

Ranger Jane Coming Down the Pike..Will They Earn It?

As if Demi Moore’s portrayal of a sailor attempting to be the first female SEAL member was a portent for things to come, the US Army is being forced to include women in all combat roles by 2016.  To be honest, as a former soldier I am not against this.  If a woman wants to put her life on the line in order to defend this great country of ours I’m all for it. IF… that woman is able to maintain the standard.  The lowering of standards just to allow women to pass is not only a disservice to the female soldiers but also endangers lives for the placating of political correctness.  That is something that should be unacceptable.  US Military personnel are all ready hemmed in by rules of engagement that are sewed up by political motivations, no need to compound the difficult job soldiers have to do...
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Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Despite not being an open carry state, nor its moderately high cost of a CCW, Florida is not known for being a hotbed of Gun Control fever.  That is why I was so surprised to hear about Florida Statute 790.29.  The statute expressly prohibits paramilitary training; teaching or participation.  Basically anything that could very loosely be described as a militia. I heard about it because a man was facing 30 years because he violated it. Here’s the statute in it’s entirety: 790.29 Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited.— (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the “State Anti-paramilitary Training Act.” (2) As used in this section, the term “civil disorder” means a public disturbance involving acts of violence by an assemblage of three or more persons, which disturbance causes an immediate danger of, or results in, damage or injury to the property or person of any other individual...
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Rookie Cop Shoots Innocent Unarmed Man In the Dark – No Accident

Rookie Cop Shoots Innocent Unarmed Man In the Dark – No Accident

This story is FULL of fail. In Brooklyn this past Thursday night, a man and his girlfriend were leaving her apartment a little after 11pm to go out for the night.  The elevator wasn’t working so the couple decided to take the stairs down from the 7th floot.  The boyfriend, 28 year old Akai Gurley entered the stairwell first, when his girlfriend followed after him a shot rang out from above and Gurley was shot in the chest. He and his girlfriend both fled and made it to the 5th floor before Gurley succumb to his wounds. So, if you didn’t read the title of this article you would probably assume that a stray bullet rang out, a case of wrong place wrong time, or maybe you’d be cynical and think that it was a crime related hit. It was none of those.  It was a cop who doesn’t have...
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NH Dem Shows True Colors, Vows To Infringe EVERY Right To Thwart Libertarians

NH Dem Shows True Colors, Vows To Infringe EVERY Right To Thwart Libertarians

In case you are unfamiliar with the Free State Project, it is a socio-political experiment conceived back in 2001 in which Libertarians would pledge to move to a state en masse in order to establish a Libertarian run state government, an example of true Constitutional governance.  The state eventually chosen was New Hampshire and the number of people required being 20,000. After 13 years, as of October, the number is at 16,174 pledged with another 1,654 “early movers” who took the initiative and moved before the 20K pledges were hit.  In other words 17,828 people have all ready committed.  Organizers of the FSP believe that they will hit their objective and begin the mass migration to the New Hampshire before the 2016 election. While I love seeing this finally coming to fruition and am really looking forward to what New Hampshire can become, not all from the Granite State...
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More SAFE Act Nonsense: False statistics used to back bogus claims of success

More SAFE Act Nonsense: False statistics used to back bogus claims of success

Leave it to the liberal left to start spewing out statistics in order to promote what a “success” New York’s SAFE Act has been in reducing crime. There’s only one problem…the statistics cover the two years BEFORE the passing of the SAFE Act.  By that I mean that all the numbers that the gun grabbing zealots are crowing about occurred PRIOR to the civil rights infringing horror that is the SAFE Act. From Liberty Unyielding: First, the study is based on statistics collected duringthe years 2011 and 2012. The SAFE Act was passed in January 2013. Therefore, no matter what one’s feeling on Cuomo’s gun grab, there is no way of claiming the study is an endorsement of the SAFE Act, which didn’t take effect until after the study was published. Second, the gun violence study liberally draws statistics from suicides to inflate the researchers’ numbers. For example, the state with...
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Pro Abortion Radical Wants To Ensure Children Aren’t Protected Even After Birth

Pro Abortion Radical Wants To Ensure Children Aren’t Protected Even After Birth

As if anyone really needed more evidence that gun control zealots don’t give a damn about safety or preventing violence but really just want to CONTROL people, I give you Anna Eskamani.  Eskamani is a your general all around liberal true believer. A self proclaimed, “Organizer, Writer and Feminist”, Eskamani has a extensive history of fighting for abortions being the Regional Manager for Florida Planned Parenthood PAC, the Director of External Affairs for Greater Orlando Planned Parenthood and the former Young Leaders Advisory Council Leadership Chair for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  Suffice it to say that Anna Eskamani believes in abortion. Coincidentally enough, since Ms Eskamani doesn’t believe in protecting the life of unborn children viewpoint has recently evolved to ensuring that children who are born also are denied protection. I’m referring to a recent article that Eskamani penned for the Central Florida Future. In it Eskamani vehemently comes out...
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PA Sheriff Offers FREE Optional Firearm Training Class

PA Sheriff Offers FREE Optional Firearm Training Class

When it comes to training I find that the majority of gun owners believe in it.  I also find that, like myself, they don’t believe that it should be mandatory.  The First Amendment doesn’t require you to do research into what you are spouting off about, you don’t have to actually KNOW the issues in order to vote etc.  That doesn’t mean you SHOULDN’T, just that the government doesn’t and shouldn’t dictate the terms of which you can exercise your rights. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania we have no requirements of training in order to purchase or to carry a firearm.  Outside of a background check we have unfettered access to purchasing firearms and for $20 and another background check we can carry concealed.  And we can save the $20 and hassle if we carry openly as that is free so long as we aren’t otherwise prohibited. Training on...
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Ferguson Cop tells citizens: Arm up, we can’t protect you

Ferguson Cop tells citizens: Arm up, we can’t protect you

As we wait for the grand jury’s decision in the case of the shooting of convenience store strong arm robber, Mike Brown, local police are doling out some common sense to the residents for  the potential fallout of the decision.  In the Cop Talk forum of voactiv.com, an officer from Ferguson had some sobering and frank advice to give to the residents of Ferguson. From Liberty Unyielding: According to Vocativ’s latest update, the “cop talk” forum, where a user who posts as a local policeman gave the warning, was taken offline on Monday evening. But before the site was taken down, Vocativ copied this from it: Under the name “A Concerned Cop,” one person shared a warning: “If you do not have a gun, get one and get one soon. We will not be able to protect you or your family. It will be your responsibility to protect them. Our gutless...
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Gun Control Zealots in Wisconsin Try to Spin Low Gun Crime Statistics Into an Epidemic

Gun Control Zealots in Wisconsin Try to Spin Low Gun Crime Statistics Into an Epidemic

Unfortunately, the state of Wisconsin has recently suffered it’s 100th homicide in which a firearm was used.  Note what I just said…the STATE of Wisconisin…that’s the entire population of rougly 5.75 MILLION people.  Bad things happen, but those 100 murders in a relatively gun friendly state is a LOW number. For an apples to apples comparison, let’s look at a right’s infringing state of the same size: Maryland.  Maryland and Wisconsin are 19th and 20th most populated states in the Union.  Yet, while Wisconsin gets a respectable C- grade from the Brady Campaign (strive for that F) Maryland receives a stomach turning “A” and is ranked the 4th most freedom oppressed state in the country behind California, Connecticut and New Jersey.  Maryland even ranks higher than New York who comes in fifth even with enacting the SAFE Act. According to gun controllers, with all of those restrictions and rights...
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Out of Control Police Execute Innocent PUPPY That Was Walking Away From Them

Out of Control Police Execute Innocent PUPPY That Was Walking Away From Them

Regular readers of this site know that I’m pretty fair when it comes to my viewpoints on police.  Sure, I will lambaste a crooked cop who bullies the innocent and hides behind his shield when violating the civil rights of the innocent but I will also defend the officers who get railroaded based on some trumped up race card because the 280 pound attacker trying to beat him to death happened to be a different color than him. But sometimes a situation occurs that makes me despise the entire profession because not only does some rogue crooked cop do something reprehensible but it is followed by an organizational stone wall for justice as the officer’s higher ups circle the wagons around him. In Racine, Wisconsin such an event took place. Police were called in after a puppy had defecated on a neighbors yard.  The owner of the dog, Kurt...
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A Teacher Willing To Act, Yet Disallowed From Stopping 4 Students Dying

A Teacher Willing To Act, Yet Disallowed From Stopping 4 Students Dying

Over the past three weeks, as victims of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooter added up, the story came out about Megan Silberberger, the teacher who tried to stop the 15 year old spree killer.  When others paniced, Ms. Silberberger kept her wits about her and tried to stop the madness. Yet, since she was in a school, and that school was  gun free zone, Silberberger had no ability to effectively stop someone who wasn’t going to be slowed down in the least by a stupid, pointless sign of political correctness. Silberberger was WILLING to intervene and try to save lives…but thanks to the policies of liberal gun-hating zealots, she was denied the right to be ABLE. So this teacher, who was cool and calm when all around her was going to hell picked up her cell phone and called 911 as four students were executed in front of her. What if the...
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Ferguson Residents Turn To The 2nd Amendment To Protect Themselves

Ferguson Residents Turn To The 2nd Amendment To Protect Themselves

As was the intent of the Founding Fathers, the people and shop owners of Ferguson Missouri are exercising their God given rights to defend themselves which is causing a spike in gun sales. The law abiding people of the city have little faith that the police will be able to contain the crowd of rabid rioters who will explode onto the streets when they don’t hear what they want to with regards to the Grand Jury decision concerning Officer Darren Wilson’s fate.  Officer Wilson, as you may recall, shot dead convienince store robber Michael Brown when Brown attacked him through the window of his police cruiser. But, since Brown is black and Wilson is white, the race  baiters and Obama administration (redundant, I know) have poured fuel on the fire to make sure this is a matter of a black man being shot by a white man, not a...
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Blue Christmas: UN Arms Trade Treaty Goes Into Effect Dec. 24th

Blue Christmas: UN Arms Trade Treaty Goes Into Effect Dec. 24th

The United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs has announced that on Dec. 24th 2014 the UN Arms Trade Treaty will begin it’s enforcement.  To refresh your memory on what the UN Arms Trade Treaty actually does: “The treaty includes export/import controls that would require officials in an importing country to collect information on the ‘end user’ of a firearm, keep the information for 20 years, and provide the information to the country from which the gun was exported. In other words, if you bought a Beretta shotgun, you would be an ‘end user’ and the U.S. government would have to keep a record of you and notify the Italian government about your purchase. That is gun registration. If the U.S. refuses to implement this data collection on law-abiding American gun owners, other nations might be required to ban the export of firearms to the U.S.” So what will that mean for the United States...
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Business Thrives As Owner Offers Discount to Gun Owners

Business Thrives As Owner Offers Discount to Gun Owners

In a story that no doubt has the mouth breathers of the gun control zealot crowd fuming, a restaurant owner has bucked the pressure from gun control groups to ban firearms from his establishment and in fact has offered discounts to those who come in packing heat. Keven Cox, owner of Bergeron’s Restaurant in Port Allen Louisiana, decided that his establishment would not cave to the pressures of groups like Mom’s Demand Action and become a place of bigotry and denials of civil rights.  Unlike businesses like Target and Starbucks, Cox has made a stand for freedom and was not cowed by the bleating of the gun controllers. In fact, not only has Cox continued to allow people to patron his restaurant while carrying a firearm, he has even incentivised doing so by offering a 10% discount to anyone who is carrying a firearm. The discount went into effect...
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The Betrayal of Chris Christie

The Betrayal of Chris Christie

No doubt Chris Christie, head of the Republican Governor’s Association, will attempt to take credit for the upset wins by Republican Gubernatorial Candidates in Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts.  Yet the bullying loudmouth, Soprano wannabee from New Jersey is just a two faced opportunist looking out for his own self interest and should not be trusted or praised by Republicans. Chris Christie abandoned Republican hopes for New York, not only by refusing to contribue RGA funds in helping Republican candidate Rob Astorino take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo but by being his usual bloviating loudmouth of an ass self and saying this: “We don’t pay for landslides and we don’t invest in lost causes.  If the New York race becomes competitive, I’ll consider campaigning in the New York race, but right now, by the public polls, there’s a lot more competitive races like this one in Connecticut.” First of all, by...
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GOP, You Just Won Back The Senate…What Are You Going To Do Next?

GOP, You Just Won Back The Senate…What Are You Going To Do Next?

In what appears to eventually be a 9 seat pick up in the Senate, Republicans have ousted Harry Reid from the Senate Leadership position and regained control of the upper house of Congress.  As a gun owner, my question is: “What are they going to do now?” Killing all gun control talk is great…I suppose…but with Republicans controlling the house since the 2010 elections, that has been a pipe dream for Democrats anyways.  And with Obama in charge of nominating judges, the best the Republicans can do is block the extreme anti gun jurists but they are unable to put forth their own pro 2nd Amendment replacements. In other words, defense is not what I am asking about.  I want to know what offense the newly empowered Republican party is going to take in order to strengthen our 2nd Amendment rights. First off, National Reciprocity. My Driver’s licence is...
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New Jersey Lawmakers Look To Add Further Roadblocks For Gun Ownership

New Jersey Lawmakers Look To Add Further Roadblocks For Gun Ownership

In the state that hasn’t met a gun control measure it didn’t like, a bill (A3764) was introduced into the New Jersey Assembly that would add to the all ready onerous time and costs just to BUY a gun.  The bill would make it mandatory that those applying to buy a handgun would first require training or “experience.” First off, the fact that you even need to apply to BUY a gun, let alone carry it, is ridiculous and the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves at the thought. Secondly, while I agree that knowledge and proper training are important and people SHOULD do so when purchasing a firearm, there is NO requirement to know a damn thing before you vote.  And since this is election day, I find the comparison compelling. In order to vote you don’t have to know one single issue, not one detail about how...
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