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Surprise Suprise, gun free zone fails again

Surprise Suprise, gun free zone fails again

What happens when you take a so called “gun free zone”, place it in a state with some of the strictest gun control measures in the country and all but ensure you have disarmed the law abiding? You get a shopping mall in Paramus NJ and only by the shooters intent was the only one killed himself. Richard Shoop, 20, of Washington Township NJ entered the mall, armed with a sporting rifle that he stole from his brother, apparently with the intent to commit suicide either by killing himself or via suicide by cop.  He had ample time and opportunity to shoot innocent bystanders but did not. While the people of the mall are extremely lucky that Shoop’s main agenda was to harm himself alone, a note was recovered at his house, one cannot disregard yet another stunning failure of gun control and so called “gun free” zones in...
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R.A.G.E – The best way to deal with bullying

R.A.G.E – The best way to deal with bullying

          I read an article at Clashdaily.com  that dealt with an issue that has been in the news a lot recently, bullying.  Here is an excerpt: Here is what I’ve learned over the years about handling bullies from my brothers, my father, John Frycek and the bullies. And I’m grateful to them all and dad was right, I even made friends with some of them after we “settled” things. The best anti-bullying campaign is R-A-G-E! And it stands for: Readiness – You must be prepared to the best of your ability to defend yourself. This is half the deterrent already because bullies prey on the weak and the vulnerable. They look for an easy mark so don’t become one. Relying on a teacher, a principal or a parent to talk sense into a bully or his parents, will rarely work. There’s a reason that he’s a bully and,...
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The Importance of the Virginia Governor’s Race

The Importance of the Virginia Governor’s Race

Voters in Virginia are set to hit the polls tomorrow to vote on who will lead them for the next four years. For the Democrats you have Terry McAuliffe and for the Republicans Ken Cuccinelli. With voters hitting the ballot box within 24 hours one wonders, ‘How does this effect gun owners in both Virginia and the rest of the country?’ The answer has many facets.  First you have the fact that Terry McAuliffe is a rabid gun control supporter.  That is no surprise as many Democrats who run for office are.  What is a surprising is that McAuliffe is vocally running his campaign as a rabid gun control proponent…in VIRGINIA. If McAuliffe ends up winning this election folks like Bloomberg and Soros will see that gun control champions might be a winning bet again and begin flowing more millions of dollars into campaigns across the country.  Any statement/momentum...
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Oregonian Man Wins Lawsuit After Being Unlawfully Detained While On His Front Lawn Getting His Mail

Oregonian Man Wins Lawsuit After Being Unlawfully Detained While On His Front Lawn Getting His Mail

Kevin Hall of Corvallis, OR brought a suit against the city for the unlawful detention he experienced last October. While walking to his mailbox to retrieve his mail, while also open carrying a firearm, Hall was approached by Corvallis Police Officer James Dodge.  When Dodge approached, Hall asked him if he was being detained, Dodge replied no but would like to talk to Hall.  Since he wasn’t being detained and wasn’t doing anything wrong Hall started to return to his house when he was stopped by Dodge and told him NOW he was being detained. I guess, according to Officer Dodge, you are free to leave until you actually try to leave, then you are detained.  This is akin to the stories of the good ole boy Sheriffs’ who bash out taillights and then give you a ticket for it. The Officers defense becomes the theatre of the absurd...
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Federal Judge Rules Lawfully Exercising Right = Nullification of 4th Amendment

Federal Judge Rules Lawfully Exercising Right = Nullification of 4th Amendment

While taking a walk one day,  legally open carrying a firearm, Christopher Proescher was stopped by police, questioned and arrested.  The local prosecutor, seeing the Mr. Proeshcer committed no crime dropped all charges.  In response to the false arrest Proescher reasonably filed a lawsuit against the officers. Fast forward to Federal judge William S. Duffey Jr. who made the inane decision that while the arresting officers were wrong in arresting Proescher (you know, because he didn’t break any laws) that carrying a pistol openly constitutes reasonable suspicion of a crime, which authorizes officers to detain the person who is carrying and as such the officers acted properly. Allow me to rephrase: By exercising your legal right, you have forfeited your 4th Amendment Rights and as such will be subject to detention and false arrest with no recourse. That is what Judge Duffey has ruled. I  think of other Rights that this could impact,...
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Did the TSA have it coming? LAX, an inevitability?

Did the TSA have it coming? LAX, an inevitability?

When I ask if the TSA had it coming, i’m not referring to the TSA official, Geraldo Hernandez, who lost his life in Los Angeles at the hands of alleged shooter Paul Ciancia, but rather did the way the TSA as an organization harass, molest, humiliate and intimidate people over the last decade lead to this as an inevitability. Are the TSA and it’s agents little more than the bullies we find in situations like Taft Union High Schol and New Bedford Massachusetts? Situations where those being bullied and picked on eventually were driven to crazed acts with terrible consequences. I’m not condoning their actions, but I see public service announcements every day decrying the evils of bullying and how people should not tolerate it.  I shake my head because, just like real life, telling someone usually just makes it worse. If you don’t stand up against a bully...
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St. Gabriel Possenti – Patron Saint of Gun Owners

St. Gabriel Possenti – Patron Saint of Gun Owners

There seems to be patron saints of nearly everything.  Last year I discovered a Saint that surprised even me. Today, being All Saint’s Day, I thought I would take a moment to bring to light the story of that particular Saint;  Saint Gabriel Possenti, the Patron Saint of Handgunners. In 1860, Saint Possenti was attending seminary in the mountain village of Isola.  He was also dying of tuberculosis which would eventually take his life less than two years later. When a group of 20 armed marauding bandits, from Garibaldi’s army, came to the village to pillage and rape, the villagers hid the best they could and hoped that the terror would pass them by. Think of them as your standard gun control advocates who prefer to hide and hope that someone else will protect them. And so they hid, everyone except for Gabriel Possenti.  With the permission of the Seminary...
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Sanford, FL knee-jerks guns out of the hands of volunteers

Sanford, FL knee-jerks guns out of the hands of volunteers

When political knee jerk reaction meets the void where common sense has been sucked out you apparently get Sanford Florida. In the city where Neighborhood Watch member George Zimmerman saved his own life by stopping a man who was beating him to death, Sanford will release new parameters at a community meeting on November 5, stating explicitly that residents acting under the “authority” of the neighborhood watch may not carry a firearm or pursue someone they deem suspicious. I can understand the second part of this directive.  Members of the neighborhood watch may not be trained in surveillance and their pursuit might put them in a dangerous position, such as when George Zimmerman was attacked and almost murdered by the suspicious person he was following who doubled back and tried to beat him to death. The problem with Sanford’s new guidelines is that you are now mandating that people put...
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Gun Control Sandy Hooker Claims Victim Would Rather Die Than Carry A Gun

Gun Control Sandy Hooker Claims Victim Would Rather Die Than Carry A Gun

A rather amazing thing has been going on in the schools since the Sandy Hook tragedy last year; common sense seems to be gaining a foothold.  School boards and districts are finally realizing the danger of believing in so called “gun free zones”.  With this realization comes the next step: action.  In many places across the country that action is the revocation of the bans denying teachers their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. I wrote yesterday that this isn’t just in Texas or deeply red states but in places like St. Helens Oregon. You can go ahead and add Briggsdale Colorado to the growing list as well. School administrators in the tiny Colorado town of Briggsdale will allow an unspecified number of teachers to carry concealed handguns in the classroom as long as they agree to participate in ongoing training. Participants must commit to hitting the firing...
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St. Helens School District erupts with common sense; Lifts ban on armed teachers

St. Helens School District erupts with common sense; Lifts ban on armed teachers

The St. Helens School Board in Oregon lifted a ban that had prevented teachers with concealed carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. School board chairman Marshall Porter said, “The current law in Oregon allows for anyone to concealed carry on school grounds. To exclude our staff seems like they’re being punished. They should have a right to protect themselves if they choose.” According to ABC News, the decision impacts seven schools within the St. Helens School District. This includes “two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and three alternative schools.”     Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/2013/10/oregon-school-board-teachers-concealed-licenses-can-carry-classrooms/#WWWzV3vGRsmBGwII.99 The school board voted four to one to allow teachers with concealed carry to keep their guns with them on campus. My question is what was that 1 nay voter thinking? If you have a Concealed Handgun License in Oregon then schools from K-12 have no legal right to bar...
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If we can’t trust Obama on Health Care, why should we believe his claims on guns?

If we can’t trust Obama on Health Care, why should we believe his claims on guns?

First and foremost, I hate the idea of being forced by the government to buy something as a stipulation for being alive. But putting that aside, Obamacare, in shades of gun controls misdirection, isn’t about given health care to everyone, it’s about the government controlling healthcare. Why is this?  Because millions of people who currently buy their own health insurance have gotten or will soon be getting a cancellation notice of their policies forcing them to enroll in Obamacare which is a bloated, overpriced monstrosity of a cluster. If you haven’t had your head in the sand the past couple of years you’ve no doubt heard the President go on and on about how if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. I’ve heard that tune since 2009 right up through the government shutdown.  Yet now that Obamacare is actually being enacted, the truth is coming out...
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Bloomberg’s NYC: A Place where women can be knifed to death, free of the moral quandary of shooting their attacker

Bloomberg’s NYC: A Place where women can be knifed to death, free of the moral quandary of shooting their attacker

Once again, empowered by gun control, a knife wielding man hacks yet another women and her four children to death. In Sunset Park Brooklyn, 25 year old Ming Dong Chen took a knife and went on a rampage killing 37 year old Qiao Zhen Li and her four children; William (1),  Kevin (5), Amy (7), and Linda (9). Another tragic reminder that gun control does not equal crime control.  In fact, gun control promotes INEQUALITY, leaving people victims to those with greater strength.  How could this woman have saved herself and protected her four children?  Sam Colt gave her a way a 175 years ago, but Mayor Bloomberg has denied it for the past 11. His fevered dream of a gun control utopia has been realized in New York City. Yet, as I wrote a fortnight ago, a gun free city does not mean that murders don’t happen or...
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Gun Control Fails to Save Teacher From Being Murdered by Bigger and Stronger Attacker

Gun Control Fails to Save Teacher From Being Murdered by Bigger and Stronger Attacker

How was Danvers High math teacher Colleen Ritzer killed? With a box cutter by someone who was bigger and stronger than she was. After school, the accused murderer, Philip Chism, followed her into the girls bathroom.  The “whys” of what happened are still being investigated, whether this was a rage killing or attempted rape has not yet been discovered but one thing was for certain, Ms. Ritzer was beaten and stabbed and never left that bathroom alive. Video from the school showed Chism rolling a recycling bin through the school and it was found near where he dumped her body. My question to the school and to the state of Massachusetts was, “how exactly was Ms. Ritzer supposed to survive?” She was in a confined space, cornered with no place to escape, where an armed attacker who was bigger and stronger than she was began to beat her before pulling out...
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Unlike the methods of Ostriches and Gun Controllers, Alaskans teach children gun safety so to avoid tragedy

Unlike the methods of Ostriches and Gun Controllers, Alaskans teach children gun safety so to avoid tragedy

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Earlier this week, about 150 sixth graders headed to the firing range to learn about firearms.  Floyd Dryden Middle school runs a program that teaches any 6th grader in Juneau who wants to, how to safely handle and shoot rifles, as well as hunting ethics, conservation and management, navigation and other outdoor skills. But don’t misunderstand, just as the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting, neither is this program.  Program Director Ken Coate stresses: “We aren’t here to create little hunters. We’re here to teach firearm safety, firearm handling, how to treat a firearm with respect, how to keep a kid from getting in trouble with a firearm — and everything else is a side benefit.” Jesse Kiehl, who has been with the program for six years goes a little...
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And he who has no sword, let him sell his coat and buy one – Luke 22:36

And he who has no sword, let him sell his coat and buy one – Luke 22:36

  It makes for a rather fantastical tale — Indiana Pastor Carl Sanders walked into a Dollar General store to purchase Gatorade and found himself in the middle of a heist. The store seemed unusually quiet Friday night, Sanders told NBC local news affiliate WFIE. The Covenant Life Ministries preacher entered to witness a man in a bandana ordering the store clerk to hand over cash. The robber, later identified as 25-year-old Jermaine Dewayne Marshall, turned to Sanders with his hand wrapped in plastic. The concealed object was found to be only a spoon, however at the time, it was impossible to judge. – See more at: http://patriotoutdoornews.com/ At that point the pastor pulled out his concealed firearm and ordered the would be robber to the ground where he remained until police arrived. The image of a gun slinging pastor may foster for some images of spaghetti westerns and Clint Eastwood but...
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TSA to use gun permit system to single out gun owning flyers

TSA to use gun permit system to single out gun owning flyers

The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information. What else does it include?  Well, if you are a gun owner with a CCW permit, it includes that.  If you live in a state that requires you to register a firearm, it includes that.  If you live in a state that keeps a database of firearm purchases, it includes that. Why is that a big deal? Because instead of looking for terrorists, the TSA will be directing extra scrutiny at law abiding gun owners while the guy from Nigeria with a pound of C-4 in his underwear will be waved by since the TSA is more comfortable with planes being hijacked than being accused of racial profiling. Also, what does the exercising...
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“News of the Strange” – Squirrel Shootouts and Water Assaults

“News of the Strange” – Squirrel Shootouts and Water Assaults

In a pair of head scratching stories involving guns a police officer in TN goes full on Robocop to handle a squirrel and in FL a 19 year old women gets arrested for an unprovoked water gun attack on her boyfriend. In the first story Officer Overkill Jody Putman was in a Dollar Store in Mountain Tennessee when the employers noticed that a squirrel was inside the store.  Putman leapt into immediate action and deployed his pepper spray on the furry little interloper.  When that failed he responded by pulling out his sidearm to dispense woodland justice to the trespasser. So in a scene reminiscent of a slapstick comedy,  people were fleeing the store hacking and coughing from the contact with the spray while Putman is firing live rounds at a little squirrel. Putman then tried to cover up his involvement in the great squirrel hunt of 2013 by refusing to file a...
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CA Court of Appeals lays foundation for near total gun ban

CA Court of Appeals lays foundation for near total gun ban

On Monday October 21st 2013, California’s 4th District Court of Appeal held that the Second Amendment does not apply to semi-automatic firearms like “AK” platform rifles. At first, while a setback for the 2nd Amendment, a person might try and rationalize this ruling as a ruling against so called “assault” weapons and considering it IS California after all that is not too surprising.  But as they say, the devil is in the details and this ruling is much more insidious than simply undercutting the right to keep and bear AK-47’s. In their ruling the court states:  “We construe Heller as standing for the proposition that the right secured by the Second Amendment is ‘not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose’ (Heller, supra, 554 U.S. at p. 626), but is instead the right to possess and carry weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes...
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