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Law and Order: Home Invasion
No Charges For Homeowner In Killing Of Long Beach Burglar
It is common knowledge that our legal system has its roots in English Common Law. However, in some cases, our system of justice can be traced back to Mosaic Law. Take the recent case in California where a home owner caught two home invaders in the act of burglarizing his home. The home owner was able to get to a gun and shoot one of the burglars as she was attempting to flee, killing her. Under normal circumstances, it is illegal to shoot at an outlaw who is fleeing; but, home invasion is a special case (with qualification), as pointed out in the book of Exodus 22:2.
Home Invasion is a special case, as well it should be. I can think of no other crime that is more detrimental to society than that of invading someone else's home. Even in times of war, our homes are considered inviolable.
The home owner, in the California case, was not prosecuted for his act of killing the home invader, even though she was attempting to flee.
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America's VetDogs
Getting Ready For A Life Of Service
Four golden retriever puppies enjoying a cozy nap together. One day each one of these pups will be a hero to a veteran in need of a service dog.
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Civil Rights
So, who are the real 'gun-nuts'?
When you listen to the hoplophobe's vibrate about our civil right to keep and bear arms in America, you would think that we have a problem with guns. Well, we have a problem allright, but the problem is not with guns, or civil rights — as Bill Whittle points out in this video:
A friendly wag of the tail to Bill Whittle for illustrating the truth.
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Situational Awareness
Cognition
There is more to 'situational awareness' than just threat perception; it also involves things like not being absent-minded enough to try and board a commercial aircraft with a firearm. Everyone should know by now what happens when you forget that you have a firearm in your luggage or briefcase. This TSA report will serve as a reminder.
There is a proper way to transport personal firearms aboard commercial aircraft.
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Gun Free Zones
Safe Haven: Gun Free Zones in America.?
"Gun free zones" have proven to be a dangerous and deadly failure.
Townhall editor, Fox News contributor, New York Times best-selling author Katie Pavlich discusses her new documentary film Safe Haven: Gun Free Zones in America.? [coming soon on the Outdoor Channel]
A friendly wag of the tail to GunsAmerica.com
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Weather
Life on the North Sea
It didn’t make much news in the United States last week, but a churning low-pressure system dubbed Storm Rachel battered the United Kingdom.
The Atlantic storm swept across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland with rain and high winds topping 100 mph, causing power failures, floods and travel delays.
Out in the no-man’s land of the North Sea, an offshore oil rig worker captured amazing video that reveals the ferocity of the storm.
How good are you with the Beaufort scale? What is the Beaufort number in the above video?
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American History
Fascinating Find
BAKER, NV – On November 6, 2014 Cultural Resource Program Manager, Eva Jensen working with the park archaeology team, noticed an object beneath a Juniper tree. Getting a closer look she discovered that is was a rifle. The 132 year-old rifle, exposed to sun, wind, snow, and rain was found leaning against a tree. The cracked wood stock, weathered to grey, and the brown rusted barrel blended into the colors of the old juniper tree in a remote rocky outcrop, keeping the rifle hidden for many years.
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Jones Act
Coastwise in Arizona?
About 10 years ago, we put a Canadian built boat into domestic charter service along the Gulf Coast of Florida. Due to a law known as "The Jones Act", it literally took an act of Congress, but with a little patience and paperwork we were able to get through all the hoops and hurdles. In short, the process involved obtaining a "Jones Act waiver"; we had to show that no American jobs would be lost or put at risk due to our choosing a foreign-built boat for 'coastwise' service.
Well, I guess that foreign-built vessels are no threat to the jobs, nor do they present a threat to the shipbuilding industry, located along the coast of Arizona — because one of the senator's from that great state is trying to do away with the Jones Act. But, the shipbuilding industry around here is gearing up for major battle!
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Gun Issues
It has become very obvious that anyone whose knowledge about firearm issues is based solely on what they have read or heard in the mainstream media can quickly make a fool out of themselves when discussing those issues.
A recent case in point:
The problem is that all of the "smart guns" that have been produced so far have suffered from increased cost and diminished reliability. I know, some people seem to naturally gravitate toward the condition of increased cost and diminished reliability, but you won't find any resolute gun owners in that group.
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Home Security
Machete-wielding Intruder
A man is facing up to 15 years in jail after breaking into an apartment while wielding a machete.
Twain Thomas, 54, from Potacello, Idaho, was threatening residents with the weapon in his building in February 2013, when he kicked down the door of James Cvengros and his girlfriend Kaila Gearhart's home.
Mr Cvengros manage to capture the moment on a digital camera after he heard the commotion and decided to press record.
He then shot Thomas after the pair had screamed at him, demanding that he leave.
The residents in this case were probably renters and had no say in the matter, but this video illustrates why having a hollow-core door for the entryway to a residence is not a good idea. Ideally, all entrance doors should be solid, reinforced, preferably steel.
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Safety
Report cites lowest number of accidental firearm fatalities since 1903
NSSF has posted its latest Industry Intelligence Report on firearms-related injury statistics. The 2012 Center for Disease Control and Prevention WISQARS accidental fatality data contained in the report is the latest available, having been updated on the CDC website in November 2014, and shows the lowest number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities per year ever reported (going back to 1903). No password is necessary to access this important report bearing positive news about firearm safety, a topic NSSF and the firearms industry has long been dedicated to improving through programs such as Project ChildSafe, safety literature brochures and safety videos for schools. View and download the NSSF Firearms-related Industry Statistics Industry Intelligence Report.
Safety education and training pay off.
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Civil Rights
Knowing Your Enemy
This video is slightly dated, but it points out a strategy of the anti-gun movement in America.
Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) was a failure, primarily due to the unprincipled character of the membership. Now, Bloomberg is making a more furtive effort at destroying one of the core civil rights of American citizen's — by financing and using groups of citizens who are easily influenced by his money, and misled by their ignorance or emotions.
Freedom is not free, nor can it be bought with money.
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VetDogs
PTSD Service Dog Program
America’s VetDogs is excited to tell you about the roll-out of our new PTSD service dog training program. The goal of this program is to help change the life of a veteran whose primarily disability is post-traumatic stress disorder. Each dog will be specifically trained to meet the client’s needs, and additional tasks can be added upon request.
America’s VetDogs will also be partnering with Western Kentucky University to complete a professional three-year study on the effects that PTSD service dogs will have on a veteran’s life. The study will help America’s VetDogs evaluate and incorporate changes to our PTSD service dog curriculum and tasks to ensure that we are providing the best-quality dogs possible. America’s VetDogs also wants to provide government agencies and the public with concrete evidence that these dogs will make a difference in the lives of veterans, and foster understanding within their local communities of the issues veterans with PTSD face, and how service dogs can help.
If you are a veteran or know one who would benefit from this PTSD program, please CLICK HERE to learn more and pass this information along.
Hoplophobia
Vibratory Patterns
This from a recent article by Dr. Brian Anse Patrick, Professor of Communication, University of Toledo:
The recent Susan Douglas controversy at the University of Michigan has captured considerable attention from various publics. Professor Douglas, chair of the Department of Communication Studies, published what many (something like 4,000 online commentators) have interpreted as a hateful invective against Republicans and political conservatives.
Douglas was apparently unnerved by the volume and intensity of the digital outcry after she referred to millions of citizens, many of whom are UM donors and alums (and taxpayers), as hateful dogmatists and intolerant supporters of authoritarianism, so much so that she has allegedly requested police protection.
Being intolerant of liberty and freedom, the typical pattern of an insecure left-wing ideologist is: Land on a lofty perch; spout off defamatory anti-american invective; become "unnerved" by the protest; request "police protection."
I wouldn't be surprised if Ms. Douglas tried to get the University of Michigan alumni added to the SPLC list of domestic terrorists.
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Law & Order
Not at war?
Today on Albert Mohler's Briefing:
We are told over and over again by our political leaders that we are not at war with Islam. But these kinds of reports make very clear that there is a pattern that is undeniable and the math adds up. The numbers of persecuted Christians, the lands where Christians are virtually being evacuated, the lands where it can be a capital offense merely to confess the name of Jesus Christ as Lord, these lands are increasing not decreasing and the level of danger faced by Christians is likewise increasing, not decreasing.
Maybe this worldwide pattern is the underlying reason why some domestic pacifists claim that the United States is no longer a Christian nation; a wimpy attempt at avoiding conflict with an evil worldview. The fact is, if you are truly a Christian, like it or not, you are at war! And, it's best to remember, nebulous rhetoric makes very poor cover.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
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PBS
Frontline: Caught In A Lie!
Here is some more hysterical anti-gun propaganda aimed at destroying the civil rights of American citizens. This time, the NRA takes one for the club!
Alan Korwin presents the case:
"PBS has once again demonstrated its lack of qualifications for public funding by producing another blatant anti-rights propaganda hit piece against a civil-rights organization with which it disagrees, this time the National Rifle Association."
"Among the compilation of lies and distortions broadcast, PBS imagines the NRA is the most powerful lobby in Washington. This is emblematic of the rest of the show's integrity and accuracy. Can they truly be so ideologically driven that didn't they think anyone would look?"
PBS said (and believes) NRA is the most powerful lobby in Washington.
NRA isn't in the top 20 -- familiar, predictable influence peddlers are.
The accuracy of the rest of the PBS broadcast is similar, virtually zero.
Credit: the Center for Responsive Politics.
It's the same picture by industry -- AGENDA-DRIVEN PBS LIES:
"The entire PBS premise is bogus: fundamental rights of American citizens to defend themselves, own constitutionally protected property or keep and bear arms are in no way measured, as PBS seems to believe, against the angst of people whose lives have been disrupted by heinous criminals murdering innocent people. Conflating crime and individual rights is a sign of hoplophobia, a serious mental illness. This calls for an intervention and medical treatment for PBS staff, not propaganda film production. Maybe they could show good faith and publicly sign up for a permanent personal felony-level gun ban, just to be safe."
"Misguided attempts to dispossess the public of private property it already owns, in the name of fighting crime and acted-out psychosis is so misplaced it destroys the station's efficacy as journalists, let alone entitlement to the public dole. Experts believe PBS could not survive without the tax-funded handouts."
"The PBS balance-lacking mockumentary is an embarrassment to the writing profession, and while the First Amendment protects them, their right to our money to exercise it should end. The laws that grant PBS funds in the first place violate the separation of press and state. Federal funding of the "Propaganda Broadcasting System" must stop."
"Ethics requires a corrections broadcast, but no one expects one."
"P.S. I'm not giving anything away here about NRA power either -- Media Matters complained that the broadcast perpetuated the myth that NRA has much power at all. Go figure. NRA is gun owners' main voice in Washington, but it is up against an enormously powerful array of anti-rights enemies of freedom. The real power rests with 100 million gun owners, who vote, contribute, demonstrate, and are armed."
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Hoplophobia
The term's "gun-control" and "gun-ignorance" have become synonymous
This recent video from the Bloomberg-backed "Mom's Demand Action" is typical of the many attempts to circumvent the civil rights of American gun owners.
The MDA bunch acts like they are the only ones who are upset when some nut-case guns down innocent victims; the fact that the nut-cases seem to always choose 'gun-free-zones' just doesn't seem to register with them. They talk and act like they have never heard of the Brady Bill, but then ignorance and unbridled emotion are, no doubt, prerequisites to becoming a member of MDA.
Not once is the organized education of children in firearm safety mentioned in their video; obviously, that topic is way over MDA's head.
With the increasing risk of random islamic violence on top of ordinary criminal threats, the last thing that we need is more infringement on a citizen's ability to defend themselves.
These "Moms" would do well to cut back on their streetwalking (with placards) and spend a little more time studying facts.
It's a good thing that not all mom's are like the MDA bunch!
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History
The Modern Sporting Rifle
It has long been the opinion of patriotic Americans that every able-bodied, law-abiding citizen should be familiar with our nation's service rifle. What better way to be familiar than to own a civilianized version of that rifle?
As this article from the December 1964 issue of Guns Magazine illustrates, it's been a half-century since the AR-15 rifle first put on civilian clothes and started its development into what has become known as the Modern Sporting Rifle (MSP).
Today, the AR-15 looks like the M-16 service rifle that first saw combat in Vietnam. To be sure, the AR-15 does not look like a traditional sporting rifle. Neither, in their time, did the Spencer or the Springfield. What the AR-15 does look like is the latest iteration of a modern rifle that employs advanced technology and ergonomic design to produce an exceptionally reliable, rugged and accurate sporting rifle. Produced in different configurations and chambered in a variety of calibers, AR-type rifles not only can be used for, indeed are exceptionally well suited to, many types of hunting, precision target shooting as well as personal protection. In recent years, AR-type rifles have become among the most popular sporting rifles sold in the United States.
Unfortunately, some anti-gun organizations have worked hard to mislead the public by calling the civilian versions of service rifles, "assault weapons." This anti-gun strategy is a clever ploy, much in the same way that prohibitionists labeled alcoholic beverages, "demon rum." True "assault weapons" are in fact light machine guns capable of fully automatic fire. Machine guns of all types have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.
While AR-type rifles do look different, they function the same way as models of semi automatic rifles and shotguns (one shot per pull of the trigger) that have been in the sporting marketplace for many decades.
From the Kentucky rifle to the most modern sporting arm, accuracy has always been the hallmark of the American rifle. Accuracy should too be the hallmark of any firearms debate. —NSSF
While 50 years ago, the first civilianized "AR" was chambered for .223 caliber, MSR's are today available in different calibers.
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Civil Rights
The 2nd Amendment: Liberals Can’t Argue, They Can Only Bully
Left wing liberal's can 'progress' their ignorance to the point of being downright creepy, as a recent hypo-factual rant in The New Yorker illustrates; e.g. while referring to a legal brief in a civil proceeding, the author of the rant writes: "the numbered paragraphs give it an oddly religious feeling, like theses nailed to a church door..."
Of course gun possession can deter crime. Why does this goof think policemen carry weapons? And does he seriously think there is no such thing as self-defense? Honestly, how dumb can you be and still get published in a rag like the New Yorker?
The factual propositions asserted by the New Yorker are not “inarguable.” On the contrary, they are argued all the time. But to participate in the argument, you have to know some facts. [emphasis added]
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Rescue
Just In Time
Mix wind, current, hypothermia, and fatigue with people in the water, and things can go sour in a hurry. If a person is the least bit hypothermic, it's best that they not let go of their flotation and try to swim. This one was cutting it close!
Semper Paratus.
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