Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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In this video, you’ll notice at least the following things. Feel free to add to them in the comments. I’m going to address my remarks to the response of the people, not LEOs. I don’t care, per se, about LEOs in this commentary because I’m not focused on LEOs.
The music is loud. Being in such venues under these conditions means that at least one of your senses has been effectively removed because you can’t hear threats. The crowd is densely packed. It was hard to move around when the shooting started.
The reaction is lethargic and extremely delayed. Even when the music stopped and the shooting was identified, the people on the video laughed rather than sought cover or concealment. The venue itself was effectively a confined space, with an overwatch from the hotel (and perhaps other hotels or buildings). This gave a shooter great position to use a long range, standoff weapon in relative safety while he perpetrated his evil.
Even after it was recognized that there was a shooting and they were in danger, the people stopped to take videos, laugh, talk, and variously jibber-jabber and yak about what was happening. With this kind of response, it’s a miracle that hundreds more didn’t die.
Folks, confined spaces are dangerous. They can kill you. You can be trampled, you can be shot, you can be knifed, you can be run over, and you can be assaulted. You are usually hemmed in on one or more sides, and concealment and cover is usually limited in venues like this. Confined spaces also concentrate gases, contaminants and dangerous biological hazards. Here they were in a confined space with no protection, and yet they were lethargic in their response.
Remember the three E’s. Evasion, Egress and Escape. Evade the initial danger, find suitable egress from the danger, and escape the location. Get out without delay. Better yet, avoid crowds like this, and examine the nature of the venue before you ever go. In conditions like this where there is an “observation post,” or conditions are good for one to have been set up, make your escape before anything happens. In other words, begin thinking about your safety at all times and in all locations.
With America behaving like this, with lethargy being the order of the day, and with safety and security being the last thing people consider, and also with the influx of MS-13 members, Islamists and other bad actors across the borders, we are set up for disaster and many more events like this, of much greater magnitude.
Don’t buy the hype or the progressive talking points. Gun control won’t help this situation. With the foundations for civil unrest or even civil war being laid by the deep state, and with the porous sieve that defines our Southern border, this cannot be dealt with simply or with another law or regulation. America needs to think differently about her future.
However, one member of the band went even further, posting a lengthy message on Twitter about his personal response to the attack. After spending the night fearing for his life, Caleb Keeter, the group’s lead guitarist, spoke up about gun control.
“I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was. We actually have members of our crew with [Concealed Handgun Licenses], and legal firearms on the bus,” Keeter wrote. “They were useless.” He continued:
We couldn’t touch them for fear police might think we were part of the massacre and shoot us. A small group (or one man) laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of fire power.
Enough is enough.
Writing my parents and the love of my life a goodbye last night and a living will because I felt like I wasn’t going to live through the night was enough for me to realize that this is completely and totally out of hand. These rounds were just powerful enough that my crew guys just standing in close proximity of a victim shot by this f—ing coward received shrapnel wounds.
We need gun control RIGHT. NOW. My biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn’t realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it. We are unbelievably fortunate to not be among the number of victims killed or seriously wounded by this maniac.
So part of being a proponent of the second amendment for you is believing that a handgun would be of any use against a long range, standoff weapon like a long gun? And in spite of the fact that the shooter didn’t use handguns, you project the evil of what happened on your own guns that you consider worthless for self defense, disregarding the fact that they would have been quite useful had the shooter decided to engage close quarters battle with you? And you didn’t ponder the fact that a handgun would have indeed been useful to someone who did engage the shooter in close quarters battle?
I see. Why don’t you stick with music and leave the thinking to thinking men.
Fox News strategic analyst Ralph Peters said “the Founding Fathers didn’t want every juiced-up psycho to have a machine gun collection” and argued that “an armed crowd” would have only made the situation worse after a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert left at least 58 dead and more than 500 wounded.
“The idea that an armed crowd would’ve made a difference — if it made any difference, it would’ve been worse,” Peters told Stuart Varney on Fox Business. “And I am a gun owner. I will always be a gun owner.”
“But the Founding Fathers didn’t want every juiced-up psycho to have a machine gun collection,” he continued. “We need to look at what kind of weapons they had — clearly, this guy had military-grade weapons — and where he got them. Because automatic rifles are illegal for the average citizen to own.
How the hell do you know what the founding fathers wanted beyond what they wrote, drama queen? And I assume that you have a clinical definition for the phrase “juiced-up psycho?” Let’s hear it, doctor. Give me your clinical definition. We’re waiting. Oh, I see. You don’t have one. Okay, on to the next point.
As to this notion that the founding fathers didn’t want “civilians” to own “military grade” weapons, you expect us to believe that the patriot fighters during the war of independence, who had risked their lives, livelihoods, families and fortunes, and who shot cannon when they had powder and ball, and who used these weapons against the government, would not have wanted machine guns if they had access to them? You only think that because you’re an idiot.
I told my sons Joshua and Joseph about your commentary, Ralph, and we all agreed that we care more what our dogs had to say about gun control than we did what you have to say. Joseph asked Roxie, his Chow, a very sweet girl, and she looked at him like I look over the top of my glasses at somebody stupid.
At 3 a.m. on September 14, David Dunstan was alerted to a suspicious noise on his Bungowannah, NSW farm where he lives with his wife and three children. When he went outside his house to investigate the disturbance, Dunston came upon a man armed with a piece of wood and a knife.
Concerned for his family’s safety, Dunstan, a licensed gun owner, retrieved a .22-caliber rifle from a locked gun cabinet, and without loading it, confronted the trespasser. Describing his mindset to the Herald Sun, Dunstan said, “I went into protection mode … I yelled out to Andrea (his wife) to get the key to the gun cupboard.” Dunstan then used the unloaded rifle to detain the knife-wielding man until police could arrive. Police later determined that the trespasser had attempted to enter a child’s bedroom at another home before going to the Dunstan property.
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When law enforcement came to Dunstan’s farm to investigate the incident, police confiscated the rifle he used to defend his family, along with two others. Upset, Dunstan told the Herald Sun, “What are you supposed to do if someone was breaking into your house… I don’t know what, as a law-abiding citizen of Australia, we’re supposed to do?” Dunston went on to say, “The police have handled this the wrong way (and) I can’t get an answer out of them.”
Lamenting the lack of respect for armed self-defense in Australia, Dunstan told Yahoo7 News, “You go and break into someone’s house you can be expected to either get arrested, shot or you could be maybe killed… And until that happens this sort of stuff keeps going on.”
Gun rights advocate and Liberal Democratic Senator for New South Wales David Leyonhjelm has come to Dunstan’s defense. In an interview with Yahoo7 News, Sen. Leyonhjelm said, “Dave was defending his family against a threat. He did what any normal father would do.”
Speaking with the Border Mail, Dunstan remarked, “I just don’t know what I should have done, what would have been the right way to do it.” Sadly, in the Land Down Under there doesn’t seem to be a “right way” for the law-abiding to fight back against criminal violence.
Thanks to the NRA writers for bringing this to our attention. This is what it looks like with state monopoly on violence at the worst inflection point, the extremum.
A man must allow a criminal to violate his home and property, harm his children, and potentially rape his wife of even kill his family members because only law enforcement is allowed to have firearms.
A government that abuses its people and violates or gives up that “mandate of heaven,” as Mike Vanderboegh used to call it, must confiscate weapons because of that fear. Confiscation of weapons cannot admit to any stipulation or suffer any exception. Weapons means all weapons, for any purpose at all.
Having no weapons means that a man cannot perform his God-given duty of defense of family. Thus, you cannot allow the state to confiscate weapons, no matter how much they fear you and want you disarmed.
“When you see Judge Moore pull out a gun at a public rally, that is a threat,” Schaeffer told MSNBC “AM Joy” host Joy Reid. “This is the act of a fascist. This is not American. People don’t do this.”
“The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live – this lost world – means that we desert the people who need our greatest help. What if you come upon a big, burly man beating a tiny tot to death and plead with him to stop? Suppose he refuses? What does love mean now? Love means that I stop him in any way I can, including hitting him. To me this is not only necessary for humanitarian reasons: it is loyalty to Christ’s commands concerning Christian love in a fallen world. What about the little girl? If I desert her to the bully, I have deserted the true meaning of Christian love – responsibility to my neighbor.”
Right Francis, and not only that, but you should do more than hit him. If necessary, you should put a bullet in him. Hey Frank, your daddy is more of a man than you’ll ever be in a thousand lifetimes. And your atheism is a shame to you and your family, and most of all means that you’re on the wrong side of history and life.
MARSEILLE, France/PARIS (Reuters) – Two women were stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by a soldier in the southern French port city of Marseille on Sunday in what officials described as a “likely terrorist act”.
Police sources said the suspect had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) in Arabic as he attacked the women, aged 17 and 20, at Marseille’s main railway station.
Two police sources said one had her throat slit while the other was stabbed in the chest and stomach.
An Islamic State militant was responsible for the attack, the group’s Amaq news agency said.
It might have been done by a “warrior of hope.” I feel sure no one has figured out a motive yet.
But to the collectivists, there are still tried and true, staid institutions such as the military, and even football. The Marxists have managed literally to transform the culture of the college campus, a battle that was begun some 50 years ago and won well before the attention turned directly (rather than opaquely) towards white, middle class, Christian America. The battles aren’t just beginning for them. This is the end game for them, unless America turns to weapons to settle the war decisively.
The end game involves the terraforming of the institutions in which America has [foolishly] placed its trust.
In a Reddit post regarding Manning, Rapone spelled out some of his motivations for remaining in the military and exactly what he wanted to accomplish while serving as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. Those motivations included Manning’s decision to leak national security documents to WikiLeaks.
Notably, Manning was also part of the 10th Mountain Division.
“I’m currently an infantry officer at Ft. Drum, NY assigned to the same brigade that she was while enlisted,” Rapone wrote in a post. “Every single day I think of the contradictions of being a communist while in this organization, and her courage and tenacity gives me strength to continue the long march through the institutions.”
The “long march” comment refers to a strategy of institutional infiltration and subversion coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke but originally developed by Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist thinker whose thought developed in the wake of the failure of economic determinism to bring about a revolution.
Think deeply about what you’ve seen happen over your lifetime and what you’re seeing now and this will all make perfect sense – if you’re even half awake and sentient.
The couple had moved to their house on Arroyo and Bohmen avenues less than a month before. The former tenants included a known gang member, Timothy Tafoya.
Pueblo police identified Tafoya as a person of interest and obtained several search warrants, including one to look for evidence of graffiti material, devices that hold photos and messages, gang paraphernalia and jewelry — but not a weapon — at the house that Tafoya hadn’t lived in for about two months after his family had been evicted, according to the lawsuit.
Police watching the house said they had seen Tafoya, who was wearing an ankle monitor, outside the residence, according to the lawsuit. But they did not see him enter or leave the house. Officers and SWAT were given a description and photos of Tafoya. Then, they surrounded the house.
But instead of a 21-year-old man walking out the front door, they were met face to face with a 60-year-old man with a bad back.
Officers shouted for Duran to put up his hands, which he did.
He exited with his hands up and was told to back up toward the SWAT officers, which he did until he backed into the barrel of a firearm at the back of his head, according to the lawsuit. He was then handcuffed and given to Officer Jackie Torres.
She forced him to bend over and walked him to a police SUV, putting him in the back. Duran has previously had surgery on his back and said he was screaming, “My back! My back! I’m disabled,” according to the lawsuit. Deborah Duran was also handcuffed and detained.
About 10 minutes later, Det. Glen Fillmore uncuffed William Duran, taking him out of the car, and saying, “Obviously, you are not the people we are looking for,” according to the lawsuit.
Good Lord. The guy they were after was wearing an ankle monitor. How much easier can this get? Do they have such things as detectives in this part of the world?
But hey. Most 60 year old and 18 year old men look the same to me too. The good news is that even though the cops violated the most basic rules of gun safety and reduced margin in the defense in depth to killing someone by pointing the muzzle of their weapons, at least they got to go home safely at the end of their shift.
As far as I’m concerned, nothing is more important than that. Not constitutional rights, not the fourth amendment, nothing. I know you all feel the same way.
Leyland — a member of the Naval Academy’s 2017 heavyweight crew team — entered a woman’s house during the night by breaking in through a side patio door, police said.
When he was confronted by the woman, police said he refused to leave and locked her out of the home when she walked outside.
Police surveyed the home with guns drawn and found Leyland in the master bedroom, Miguez said. At some point while officers were in the home, Moore fired his gun, but the bullet did not hit anyone.
Miguez said in August that Leyland was shirtless and unarmed during the alleged burglary.
Police said Leyland jumped out of a window, sustaining minor injuries, and resisted arrest after officers caught up with him outside.
Miguez said officers having their weapons drawn when called to a report of a burglary is “common when we’re searching any building we think there might be someone in that has been broken into.”
“It’s easier for someone lying in wait to initiate an action than for us to react to what’s in front of us,” she said.
Moore incorrectly had his finger on the trigger while surveying the home, Miguez said, and not removed from the trigger to prevent such misfires.
Moore, with no history of such incidents, will go through retraining to reinforce proper gun safety, she said.
Gosh, I hate it when that happens to me. I remember the last time I pulled my gun on someone at the grocery store and put my finger on the trigger. I almost shot somebody, but thankfully, the cops came along and wanted to coach me on the rules of gun safety.
All is well now. They left feeling like I had learned my lesson. No charges, no harm, no foul. Except for the glass I shot out and the people I almost killed. Thank goodness all I had to do was get a little schooling from the good guys.
I see this issue of American Rifleman has an article on the Ruger American Ranch Rifle in .450 Bushmaster.
I also see that American Rifleman already tested it. I confess to intense interest in this rifle. I had not studied the .450 Bushmaster before, but to get such a big thumper and wallop in such a small package as this rifle is appealing to say the least. And it’s an aesthetically pleasing gun too.
Do any readers have experience with the .450 Bushmaster for hog hunting, or just range shooting or carry as a bush gun?
