Gun Control thoughts

Nikolas Cruz: Poster boy for gun-free zones  "Nikolas Cruz is not a need for gun control. Nikolas Cruz is a cause for permitting teachers and school officials to be armed, and he is an unimpeachable argument for doing away with gun-free zones.

"Cruz is also a reason for We the People to point out the failure of the gun-control crowd, who are determined to seize upon every opportunity to advance their damnable agenda.

"Gun control hasn’t stopped violent gun crimes; rather, it is in a part large responsible for the escalation of same. The Nikolas Cruzes were not coming onto school property and killing people when I was growing up. As I have shared many times before, when I was in high school we routinely carried our guns to school in our cars and pickup trucks. Periodically, we would settle a dispute with an obligatory punch and wrestle in the parking lot after school, but no one ever reached for his gun in those situations." . . .

Contacts in Pennsylvania informed me that civilian government types there sent emails to employees instructing them that if a shooting situation occurs, they should hide from shooters, and that if possible, pick up a stapler or some other heavy object and throw it at the shooter. Apparently they believe throwing a stapler at a killer with a gun is more effective self-protection than a triple tap center-mass from a Glock 21 Gen4, .45 ACP.

 The One Gun Law that Might Work Is One that Democrats Will Not Allow

After Parkland massacre, the left wants to disarm ‘gun-clingers' yet ignores gun violence in black community  "Two days before a 19-year-old former student left 17 dead and many injured in a Parkland, Florida high school this past week, two 14-year-olds from Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood were shot. 

"From Feb. 1 to Feb. 17, 2018, twenty Chicagoans, mostly black, were killed, and 65 others were shot and wounded.  But you won't see the dead's faces and names 24-7 on CNN or MSNBC.  The same mainstream media that cover school shootings involving mostly white suburban students with pictures and bios for days after the carnage give gunned down black youths, some caught in the crossfire of gang violence, a few seconds or so on a local or national news roundup.  

"In the leftist media's perpetual war on Bible and gun "bitter clingers," the slaughter of blacks and Hispanics in Democrat-run cities, where guns are easily bought, stolen, traded, and sold neighbor to neighbor, doesn't serve their interests. " . . .

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Hero Aaron Feis, the Disarmed School Guard

Aaron Feis Hero Football Coach Died Shielding Student from Shooter
"He leaves behind his wife, Melissa Ann Feis and their 8-year-old daughter named, Arielle Lilly."

"According to a statement from the school, Aaron Feis:

‘selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. He died a hero and he will forever be in our hearts and memories.”

Patrick Jakeway  "This raises the question of why only one person was trained and armed to fight back against an assailant.  One reason is that the "Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990," originally passed as part of the Budget Control Act of 1990, bars school personnel from arming themselves.  18 USC § 922(q)(2)(A) states:

It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.

. . .
. . . "What would have happened if Aaron Feis had had a a Glock on his hip when the Code Red went off?  Two cases from the last several years serve as pertinent compare-contrast examples.

"On May 3, 2015, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas where a free speech event was being held with about 150 people in attendance.  Simpson and Soofi were armed with three pistols and three semi-automatic assault rifles.  Despite being heavily outmatched in firepower, a single police officer working as a security guard at the event armed only with a .45-caliber Glock pistol shot and wounded the attackers and stopped the attack without any loss of life.  Contrast this to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris on January 7, 2015.  Heavily armed men attacked Charlie Hebdo where they shot and killed 11 people and wounded many others.  The first responder was a bicycle cop named Ahmed Merabet.  As with Aaron Feis, Merabet had been disarmed by his government, as France has some the strictest gun control laws in the world, much stricter than those now being emotionally advocated in the United States.  Merabet was shot and wounded and lay helpless to defend himself against his AK-47-wielding attackers, who then calmly walked over and shot him dead in the street." . . .

. . . 

"Aaron Feis was ready, but he had been unconstitutionally disarmed.  How often must we watch innocent children die before we realize that the illusions of weaponless dreamers aid evil men?"

Understanding the California Mind

"California is no longer really a single state. Few in the Bay Area have ever been to the southern Sierra Nevada foothill communities, or the west side of the Central Valley, or the upper quarter of the state. Coastal California is simply far more left-wing than other blue states; interior California is far more right-wing than most red states; increasingly, the former dictate to and rule the latter."

Victor Davis Hanson

"Nancy Pelosi gave a marathon speech on illegal immigration the other day. But how would she know much about the realities of open borders, given her palatial retreat in Northern California and multi-millionaire lifestyle that allows wealthy progressives like herself to be exempt from the consequences of her own hectoring? In the end, the House minority leader was reduced to some adolescent racialist patter about her grandson wishing to look more like his Mexican-American friend.

"I was thinking of the San Francisco Democrat’s speech last week, during a brief drive into our local town, in a region that is ground zero of California’s illegal immigration experience.

"Illegal immigrants are neither collective saints nor sinners, but simply individuals who arrive from one of the poorest regions in the Americas, without legality or much in the way of English, or high school education.

"They encounter an American host that has lost confidence in its once formidable powers of assimilation and integration as well as its ability to mint Americans from diverse races, religions, and ethnicities. Instead, American culture has adopted an arrogant sense that it can ensure near instant parity as redemption for supposed past –isms and –ologies. That may explain the immigrant’s romance for Mexico to which he fights any return, and the ambiguity about America in which he fights to stay.

"We dare not mention illegal immigration in California as a factor in the state’s implosion. But privately, residents assume it has something to do with the 20 percent of the state’s population that lives below the poverty level. Illegal immigration plays a role in the fact that one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients lives in California and that one of four state residents was not born in the United States—or that one-half of all immigrant households receives some sort of government assistance, and that one in four homeless people lives in California." . . .

Adam Schiff Discovers Who Was President During Russian Meddling And Donald Trump Takes Notice

RedState  "In my view, there were two salient findings in the unsealed indictment brought in by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday. First, the Russians began laying the groundwork for their low-level meddling in 2013. Second, it is very obvious that the FBI was aware of their activities from 2013 through the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. All of this, as I posted, begs* the question of why, if this was an existential threat to the republic, did Barack Hussein Obama allow it to continue?(See my post on the subject)

"Adam Schiff, darling and intellectual godfather of the never-Trump movement and the #Resistance, was at a forum at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday and he addressed that subject." . . .

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. . . "But, this is an amazingly lucid statement from a usually deranged Schiff.

"And President Trump noticed:

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Finally, Liddle’ Adam Schiff, the leakin’ monster of no control, is now blaming the Obama Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 Election. He is finally right about something. Obama was President, knew of the threat, and did nothing. Thank you Adam!

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Now that Adam Schiff is starting to blame President Obama for Russian meddling in the election, he is probably doing so as yet another excuse that the Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn’t I a great candidate?

Chameleon Mitt Romney tries changing colors from blue to red in U.S. Senate bid

Strident Conservative

"As expected, Mitt Romney made his decision to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Orrin Hatch official on Friday. Despite fears to the contrary, Romney–who wants the people of Utah to know they can support his carpetbagger campaign because he’s “a Utahn at heart”–assured GOP party bosses in the Beehive State that, while he will continue to “call them like (he) sees them,” the Massachusetts liberal sees Trump differently now than when he called him a fraud in 2016, and he will now support the New York liberal’s agenda.

"Romney isn’t called the Etch-a-Sketch politician for nothing." . . .

Update:  Romney Is a Misfit for America

What is constant about Romney is his civic-minded desire to serve in office and his confidence that he can do a good job. He is probably right that he would do well in office. He is wholesome, efficient, industrious, and faithful. But he combines all this with a barely concealed panic; he has no idea how to make a majority of voters choose him for the job. And so each new persona seems like a new attempt to condescend to us.

Florida shooting: Family who took in Nikolas Cruz call him a monster and say they saw no warning signs

UK Independent  "The family who took the Florida school shooting suspect into their home after his mother died have labelled him a “monster”.

"Kimberley and James Snead said Nikolas Cruz was lonely and depressed, but they saw no warning signs. 
. . . "We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know, "Ms Snead told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "We didn't see this side of him." 
"Mr Snead added: “Everything everybody seems to know, we didn’t know. It’s as simple as that.”
"Mr Cruz went to live with the Snead family after his adopted mother died of pneumonia last November.
"Mr Cruz went to live with the Snead family after his adopted mother died of pneumonia last November.
"Their son asked whether he could join them in the family home. 
"As well as providing him with a roof over his head, they registered him in adult education classes and helped him get a job at a local pound shop.
"They were forced to teach him basic chores such as how to cook, use the microwave, wash his clothes and tidy up after himself.
" 'He was very naive. He wasn't dumb, just naive," Mr Snead, an army veteran, said. "I told him there’d be rules and he followed every rule to the T."
"The parents said they were alright with the teenager storing guns in the house as they long as they were kept in a gun safe. They told Mr Cruz he had to ask permission before taking out the guns." . . .
"Mr Snead told the paper he thought he was the only person who possessed a key to the safe, but he now thinks Mr Cruz kept a key for himself." . . .

Happy Presidents’ Day, And Yes, He Is Your President

Michelle's Mirror  "I’m simply tired of the Left’s latest round of “debate” over gun control and immigration “reform.” It’s beyond tedious at this point, and I blame the Russians."

(Snarky comment and photo here)

"And another thing I’m sick of: the Winter Olympics. Not the games so much as the coverage: How NBC Flubbed Its Coverage, Reported The Wrong Gold Medalist, Then Botched The Correction Of One Of The Most Stunning Upsets In Olympic History.

"This was the race in which snow boarder Ester Ledecká, who entered the women’s Super-G on a whim and a set of borrowed skis, ended up taking the gold in a field of very accomplished women skiers. Looks like Lindsey Vonn won’t have to worry about going to the White House after all. As Ann Coulter pointed out (h/t Drama Queeen):



"She’s been Trumped, bigly. Next chance to see Lindsey lose is on Wednesday, in the Downhill.
"Happy Presidents’ Day!"

Brothers Share Private Texts During Shooting . . .

Mad World News  . . . "Out of several students who undoubtedly sent a plea for help through a desperate text, two brothers, Sam Zeif, 18, and Matthew Zeif, 14, had a heartbreaking conversation during what they feared were their last moments on earth. Fortunately, they were both able to come out alive, but now that they are safe and sound, Sam has decided to share their private conversation, which occurred during the shooting. Within their texts, there were three words said that will undoubtedly send chills down your spine.

"The brothers were in different classrooms when the 19-year-old gunman began his attack, according to Daily Mail. Shortly after the shots began, Sam instantly worried about his little brother and began the conversation by desperately asking, “Are you okay?” You can almost feel his sigh of relief when he gets Matthew’s answer, a simple “Hopefully.” However, he would soon add, “Just know, I love you forever and you’re the best brother,” which probably made his brother’s heart sink, knowing his younger sibling was doubting whether he’d make it out alive." . . .

Russian hoaxers ‘hijacked’ Mizzou protests to inflame racial tensions, says military researcher

We are so easily manipulated; the Left must love the sheep they have to mold and shape. The Obamas were willing operatives as Michelle went from campus to campus posing as a victim of racism, and Barack as the defender against racist police. Will honest liberals ever grow sick of this Democrat Party and what it has become?  TD

Kayla Schierbecker - St. Louis Community College-Meramec .  
. . . “ 'The cops are marching with the KKK!” wrote @FanFan1911. “They beat up my little brother! Watch out!” The tweet included a photo of bruised black child, ostensibly the Twitter user’s younger brother.

" 'Like many other alarmist Mizzou-related tweets that day, it appeared to have been widely shared.

" 'The only problem, Prier quickly determined: The photo had been lifted from 2013 news reports of alleged police brutality in Ohio.

" 'He suspected the heightened notice the tweet drew was no accident. In addition to well-meaning users who shared it, the tweet had been boosted by dozens of apparently fake accounts.

" 'In an act of one-off online vigilantism, Prier fired back at @FanFan1911: “[S]top spreading lies.”

" 'It didn’t work.

" 'Mizzou was not embroiled in chaotic street-by-street fighting, but these outwardly authentic social media hoaxes scored an apparent win: goading Mizzou’s student body president into tweeting that the Ku Klux Klan was on campus."

Federal abuses on Obama's watch represent a growing blight on his legacy

The Hill   "In all of the discussions about the political weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, alleged corruption at the highest echelons of those agencies and serial abuse of the secret FISA process surrounding the 2016 election, one name has been conspicuously absent: President Barack Obama.

"High-ranking officials and other major players in those agencies — which Obama oversaw — are increasingly embroiled in the growing scandal: James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weissmann, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr.

"Given the tight control Obama exercised over every part of his administration and agenda, the idea that any of these appointees and loyalists freelanced their activities without at least his tacit approval or that of his White House strains credulity.

"These kinds of abuses of power were nothing new, given the Obama team’s long history of this type of misconduct on everything from the Benghazi terror attack to the political misuse of the IRS. They weaponized the most fearsome government agencies to target, monitor and presumably illegally unmask political opponents, including members of Congress, journalists reporting unfavorable stories, Trump allies and average Americans.  

"These dark institutional offenses didn’t just materialize out of thin air. One of the criticisms of President Nixon was that even though he wasn’t aware of the Watergate break-in, he had created an environment in which such an action was acceptable.

"Decades later, Obama created a climate in which the potentially criminal misuse of the DOJ and the FBI, as currently being unraveled, was not just acceptable but perhaps encouraged, thereby giving rise to what could be the most dangerous scandal in American history." . . .

Emphasis mine, TD

A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider

David French at National Review

Gun-violence restraining orders (GVROs) make us all safer while empowering the individual and protecting liberty.

"To understand the American gun-control debate, you have to understand the fundamentally different starting positions of the two sides. Among conservatives, there is the broad belief that the right to own a weapon for self-defense is every bit as inherent and unalienable as the right to speak freely or practice your religion. It’s a co-equal liberty in the Bill of Rights, grounded not just in the minds of the Founders but in natural law." . . .

. . . "there is broad conceptual agreement that regardless of whether you view gun ownership as a right or a privilege, a person can demonstrate through their conduct that they have no business possessing a weapon.

"Felons, the dangerously mentally ill, perpetrators of domestic violence — these people have not only demonstrated their unfitness to own a weapon, they’ve been granted due process to contest the charges or claims against them. There is no arbitrary state action. There is no collective punishment. There is, rather, an individual, constitutional state process, and the result of that process is a set of defined consequences that includes revoking the right to gun ownership.

"Now, let’s back up for a moment and apply this reasoning to our contagion of mass shootings. Time and again mass shooters give off warning signals. They issue generalized threats. They post disturbing images. They exhibit fascination with mass killings. But before the deadly act itself, there is no clear path to denying them access to guns. Though people can report their concerns to authorities, sometimes those authorities fail or have limited tools to deal with the emerging danger.

"What if, however, there was an evidence-based process for temporarily denying a troubled person access to guns? What if this process empowered family members and others close to a potential shooter, allowing them to “do something” after they “see something” and “say something”? I’ve written that the best line of defense against mass shootings is an empowered, vigilant citizenry. There is a method that has the potential to empower citizens even more, when it’s carefully and properly implemented." . .  .

"I’ll believe that a restraining order can give a family the power federal incompetence has taken away — the power to save lives."