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New York charges homeowner when he stops vandals

Village of Clyde homeowner Jesse Daniels has found himself victim of two crimes. The first is having his father-in-law’s house (located next door to his own) broken into and vandalized with damages in excess of $50,000. The second is that after capturing the four culprits and holding them in a closet until police arrived, Daniels is being charged with a crime. As for the first, the hoodlums ransacked Daniels father-in-laws house with graffiti and wholesale destruction. Below is a photo of just one room that they worked over. While the vandalism is bad the truly abhorrent crime is that the Wayne County DA charged Daniels with 4 counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Seriously?!?! Now, the hoodlums ages ranged from 8 to 10 but in the middle of the night, doing $50,000 of damage and armed with hammers, these kids are lucky they weren’t shot. Though this...

Oregon “Glock Block” adds new dimension to Neighborhood watch

With the average police response time to the outlying areas of Portland Oregon being between 6.5 to 7 minutes, a neighborhood in bordering Clackamas County has decided that 7 minutes is just too long to wait. After a growing amount of crime overflow from bordering Portland entered Milwaukie, OR the residents decided that a simple neighborhood watch wasn’t enough, that the County Sheriff miles away wasn’t enough, so they have done what are founders intended. They have taken up arms to defend themselves. Affectionately known as “Glock Block”, a group of neighbors have acquired their CCW’s and trained with sidearms in order to defend their neighborhood. They have gone out and hung fliers to alert criminals that they best move along and find easier targets. Of course…if other neighborhoods follow this example the criminals will have little choice but to move to another state all together that abhors...

Zimmerman on the tracks to be railroaded – A cautionary tale to gun owners

The trial of George Zimmerman has barely begun and one can see the outrageous steps that an overzealous prosecution and complicit judge will go to in order to get a conviction. Before we get to that though, we must start at the beginning. I still contend that if George Zimmerman went by his mother’s maiden name and was Jorge Mesa that the nation never would have heard this story. But when you get someone with a white sounding name shooting a black guy, facts and objectivity be damned for the national media. The railroading began almost immediately. Do you recall the pictures that the media was showing of the two? George’s picture was basically a poor looking mugshot, while his attacker was shown almost as a toddler. Something like this: And I guess the media just overlooked for MONTHS the actual damage that Martin did to Zimmerman when...

The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc

This site isn’t just about guns…it’s about liberty. And sometimes, especially on this day, the anniversary of D-Day, we should take a moment to remember that freedom has rarely been given and has mostly been won. How is freedom won? At the point of a sword, at the tip of a spear, at the muzzle of a gun…with brave men and women willing to die for the achievement or preservation of liberty. Like the boys of Pointe Du Hoc: I shiver to think that a mere 70 years since so many gave so much for the liberation of a foreign land, that we find ourselves on the precipice of losing our liberty through apathy and acquiescence. Corrupt government agencies targeting American citizens to disagree with policy. Over reaching big brother agencies trampling on civil rights. The executive branch, backed by billionaires, seeking to undermine our last refuge of resistance....

Massacre that wasn’t due to an armed Principal

Mayor Bloomberg claims that he doesn’t know what good a gun would do in stopping a school shooting. Allow me to remind him of Pearl High Schooland a would be massacre that occurred on Dec. 17, 1997. ”Would-be” being the operative term. Bookish and overweight, a 16 year old kills his mother with a butcher knife, puts on a trench coat, hides his .30-30 rifle under it and drives to school. Upon arriving in the parking lot he opens fire killing two and injuring others. He would have continued his killing spree, killing countless others, until hero assistant Principal Joel Myrick heard the shots and ran to his truck. He unlocked the door, removed his gun from its case, removed a round of bullets from another case, loaded the gun and went looking for the killer. “I’ve always kept a gun in the truck just in case something like this ever happened,” said Myrick. The shooter, surprised that anyone...

I guess stopping a shooting spree doesn’t make you a hero

Or at least that is what the press would have us believe. The anti gun media, with their sensationalism will go on and on about how unarmed people acted bravely as they died at the hands of a lunatic, but nary a word about an armed person stopping a massacre before it barely begun. I’m speaking of the actions displayed by Nick Meli. Actions that gun control zealots and the media would have you believe didn’t exist. You see, before the Gun Free Zone facilitated 27 murders in Newtown Connecticut, there was an attempted mass murder clear across the country in Portland Oregon. A masked man stormed into the Clackamas Mall and opened fire, killing 2 and injuring 1. The shooter had no intentions of stopping. That is when Nick Meli made his move, drew his concealed pistol and lined the shooter up in his sights. As with many of these...

Samuel Whittemore, American Patriot and old Bad-ass

I think all that is to be said about this election has been said. Therefore, I am going to tell you the tale of American Patriot Samuel Whittemore. Whittemore was an immigrant to this country. Born in England in 1695 he fought for the Crown through 50 years of military service. At the age of 50 he served as Captain in His Majesty’s Royal Dragoons (an elite cavalry unit feared through much of the world) in Canada against the French in the War Austrian Succession then came back 13 years later to whoop up the French again in the French and Indian War. Beating down the French at the age of 64 is just a taste of where this story is going. Four years after laying a pair of smackdowns on the French in successive decades he led troops against Chief Pontiac in the bloody Indian Wars that raged...

St. Gabriel Possenti – Patron Saint of Gun Owners

Today, being All Saint’s Day, I thought I would take a moment to bring to light a particular Saint and his story. 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. Everyone hid except for Gabriel Possenti. With the permission of the Seminary Rector, Possenti, suffering from tuberculosis, gathered his strength and walked into the center of the town alone and unarmed. One of the rogue soldiers had grabbed a young woman and was dragging her off to rape her and scoffed at the sickly monk...

Saved by a Semi automatic “assault” rifle, the story of Koreatown during the LA riots

Because the opponents of liberty have tried to demonize and mislead people into semi automatic rifles are lead spewing machine guns by calling them “assault” rifles, I will first explain the difference. A semi automatic rifle, your AR’s, AK’s and the like are weapons that fire a projectile every time the trigger is pulled, same as a pistol. But because these rifles tend to be black, the gun grabbing zealots wish to cast aspersions on them saying these dangerous black guns shouldn’t be in the hands of everyday citizens. They like to infer that just because you have a black gun that you are going to go on a kill frenzy. Just because a gun is black does not make it a machine gun or a true assault weapon. The National Firearms Act of 1934 heavily regulated all machine guns and assault weapons, what was known colloquially as “gangster weapons”. The Act...

How bloody do you have to get before you can defend yourself?

That is the question facing a motorist who was viciously attacked by a cyclist. After being struck through his window, seven or more times according to witnesses, Edward Meyers shot his attacker who died later at the scene. The event occurred when the cyclist, Henry Enoch, ran a red light and struck the side of Meyer’s truck. Enoch being oblivious to his fault in the matter sprung up, raced around the front of the truck to Meyers open window and began pummeling him. After the salvo of punches did not slacken Meyers shot Enoch, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Now prosecutors are deciding whether or not to charge Meyers with a crime. Michigan law states that you can use deadly force if you think your life is in imminent danger, you’re in fear of sexual assault or to save yourself from great bodily harm. Fear of death? A person...

In the heat of the moment, true stories of split second decisions to shoot

I got a little blowback from some about my recent blog post about the recent shooting at the Empire State Building. I heard a lot about how dangerous the profession is and how in the heat of the moment you can’t shoot straight so I thought I would look into some other recent examples. First, let me direct you to what an NYPD officer himself said on reddit.com: “Any average CCW citizen who practices more than twice a year pretty much has most of the department beat in terms of training” You can read more about the officer’s insight here. Training is definitely important for all gun owners, be they wearing a badge or not. As I said, some kept telling me that “if you’ve never been in that situation you can’t criticize”. I question that logic too, now that I think about it. I’ve never been President of the...

But what can you really do?

I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day in Pittsburgh and while he is a homeowner with a home defense gun he doesn’t believe in the the bearing of firearms actually making a difference. His reasoning behind this? He never sees it in the news of someone who stopped a tragedy because he was armed. My friend is an intelligent man, an engineer, a man of science but his statement just dumbfounded me. I had to explain to him that 2 things stop real world self defense stories from being told by the national media and neither of them have anything to do with the examples not existing. First, media tends to not like guns. You can see this on how often the inanimate objects are vilified and demonized…as if a Glock .40 just decided to one day hope up and go on a crime spree....

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