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To: RMF who wrote (873524)

7/18/2015 9:31:00 AM

From: Brumar89

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GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE: Gun-Free Zones Kill People

By Baron Bodissey

Those signs at the Naval reserve center and the armed forces recruitment station are the greatest outrage of the Chattanooga jihad story.

Or rather, they should be, but — given the universal government and media devotion to “gun-free zones” — they won’t receive enough attention to dial up public opinion to the point of outrage.

The clearest photo of one of the signs was from the location where the Marines were killed:

Despite the distortion caused by the fracture lines in the bullet-riddled glass, the image is of high enough resolution that the text is quite readable:

p>The two questions that military leaders and federal government officials should be asking themselves are:

How many lives have been saved by our federal gun-free zones policy?

And then:

How many lives have been lost due to the same policy?

But those questions will never be asked, much less answered. The Powers That Be are totally committed to the “narrative” about gun control, and no evidence will change their minds. That’s their story, and they’re sticking to it. The Marine corpses may pile up as high as the Iwo Jima Memorial, but those Marines will never be allowed the same Second Amendment rights that their civilian neighbors enjoy. And nobody else on those federal premises will be allowed to pack heat to protect the facility from armed attackers.

Imagine for a moment that your name is Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. You’re a good Muslim, from a normal Muslim family, a poster boy for the successful weaving of Muslims into the great rainbow fabric of American multicultural diversity.

And then you happen to read some extremist literature in the bookstore down at the local mosque. After that you get radicalized further on the Internet. Then, during a vacation trip to a holiday resort in Yemen, you happen to run into a radical imam who turns you into a full-blown extremist.

After you get back to Tennessee, you decide it’s time to commit some workplace violence. But to do the job properly, you need some heavy-duty weaponry, and you can’t get what you need legally. But that’s no problem — you talk to a couple of big-bearded guys you met at the mosque, and they put you in touch with a shady gun dealer, the kind who doesn’t worry about federal laws or background checks. Before you can say “Osama bin Laden”, you’ve got the arsenal you need.

Now it’s down to the Army recruiting center to ventilate a few of those uniformed boys. You pull up in front of the place, raise the AK-47… and see a sign on the door that reads: Federal Installation — Firearms are prohibited in this facility.

Aw, shucks! Now what?

You throw the AK into the backseat and burn rubber getting out of there. It’s a bitter disappointment — but someday, somewhere, you’ll find a place where guns are allowed. That’s when you’ll spray bullets at a roomful helpless kuffar to your heart’s content. Yessiree!

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Yep, that’s the way it would happen.

What other outcome is possible?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2015/07/guns-don-kill-people-gun-free-zones.html#more

To: RMF who wrote (873524)	7/18/2015 9:33:40 AM
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I would avoid fringe media like CBS, NYT, HuffPo, Politico, etc.

To: RMF who wrote (873524)	7/18/2015 9:36:49 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1575608

Houston Store Clerk Kills Two Of Three Armed RobbersPosted by Bob Owens on July 16, 2015 at 5:22 pm A family-owned convenience store was the target of a trio of armed robbers Monday in Houston for the second time in two weeks. The violent Democratic thugs stormed into the store and began pistol-whipping the men behind the counter. They didn’t apparently see the clerk on the floor, who drew his concealed weapon and started dispensing instant justice. Police are investigating after a convenience store clerk shot two suspects during an attempted robbery in southwest Houston. According to the Houston Police Department, as the getaway driver waited outside, three masked men stormed the Super K store off Beechnut and pistol-whipped a clerk. The owner’s brother was on dinner break near the cooler and saw the robbery unfold, so he grabbed his gun and opened fire, striking two suspects. “Another guy, holding the door, hold a gun to me so I shoot them,” said Dien Tu, the man who fired his gun. The incident was recorded on surveillance video. All four suspects took off, but the two injured ones were dropped off outside an apartment complex in the 7500 block of Beechnut. They were taken to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Police say they don’t believe they survived. The owner says his store was robbed July 1 so he and his brother were prepared with guns to fight back. The clerk in that robbery was beaten so badly, he hasn’t been able to return to work. Note well that this was not the first robbery that the family-owned business has survived. Robbers with a similar modus operandi attacked the store on July 1 and beat the clerk on duty so bad that he still hasn’t been able to return to work. At that time, the store’s staff was unarmed. They learned from their mistake. They were better prepared this time, and instead of being victims, they were armed to deal with the threat… with finality. I’m not a gambling man, but if I was, I’d be willing to wager that the surviving members of this gang of armed robbers won’t be coming back again anytime soon. http://bearingarms.com/houston-store-clerk-kills-two-three-armed-robbers/

To: RMF who wrote (873524)	7/18/2015 9:37:48 AM
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Violent Drug Abuser Escapes Ambulance, Invades Home, Gets ShotPosted by Bob Owens on July 16, 2015 at 8:23 am A Florida Democratic drug addict high on the street drug “Molly” forced his way into a home and threatened to kill the home owner early Wednesday morning. The home owner, a retired law enforcement officer, issued a terse, single-note response. Boom. Officers were called to the 2600 block of Thomasville Road around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after receiving multiple calls about someone trying to break into homes in the area. The homeowner, a retired law enforcement officer who did not wish to be identified, told WCTV that he and his wife awoke to a loud crashing sound. When he opened the bedroom door, 27-year-old Jarod Clemons was in the house and repeatedly saying “I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill you,” according to the homeowners. That’s when he fired one shot that hit the Clemons in the chest. The home shows visible signs of a confrontation, the glass door is completely shattered and there are dirt markings in the doorway. Clemons threw a 50 pound planter trough the glass front door. Neighbors told WCTV they saw a man jumping fences and going door to door, banging on them and trying to break into homes. Mr. Clemons had taken the drug earlier in the evening and had a series of psychotic breaks that saw him flee his girlfriend’s car, then go to a police station to try to get help, and them flee the ambulance that the police called after first assaulting an EMT. It was after escaping the ambulance that Clemons started banging on the doors of homes threatening people, before finally breaking into the home of the retired officer and collecting a single well-aimed shot. It’s sad how many of the defensive gun uses (DGUs) we cover come as a result of drug abuse. We’ve covered several home invasions so far this year where someone attacked residents while high on drugs. The 2013 Gardena police shooting we covered yesterday was the result of a man who was high on meth and alcohol interjecting himself into a police stop of two other men and acting erratically. We’ve covered many defensive gun uses where the criminals were committing crimes so that they could steal money or property to use to finance their next fix. This abuser crime doesn’t even scratch the surface of the larger issue of the thug culture in this country that is financed primarily through the trafficking of illegal drugs, and which spurs so much of the nation’s gang violence. Addicts can be very, very dangerous people. The homeowner in this situation could only take Jarod Clemons at face value when he threw a 50-lbs planter through their front door and stormed into their home, screaming that he was going to kill them. The retired officer may have taken the shot, but Jared Clemons killed himself.

To: RMF who wrote (873524)	7/18/2015 9:38:55 AM
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Armed Robber’s Mother Protests Lack Of Charges Against Man who Shot Him, Saved ClerkPosted by Bob Owens on July 15, 2015 at 9:48 am If you've seen that sign carried by a protestor that "No mother should have to worry about her son being shot while robbing a store," well this is an actual case of that. No one is disputing that Tamon Stapleton was shot and killed while pointing a gun at a convenience store clerk in Knoxville, Tennessee. That isn’t keeping his mother from insisting that the man who shot him should have called 911 instead, and shouldn’t have gotten physically involved. Stapleton’s mother held a candlelight vigil Monday night at the store where he was killed. Family and friends gathered in front of the Breadbox store on Asheville Highway for prayer. They also held signs saying they want justice. Joy Stapleton says two wrongs don’t make a right and she feels Scruggs should be charged for killing her son. “Of course it hurts my heart. My son is dead when easily 911 could have been called and he could possibly be in jail right now. I’m hurt. I’m hurt,” she said. It seems quite obvious that Joy Stapleton is a failed parent that is part of the thug culture that is responsible for so much violent crime in this country. That allowed, Joy Stapleton’s complaint that her son’s killer should face charges would seem to have some merit, because the man who shot and killed her armed robber son was also a criminal with a record of violent crime dating back more than two decades. TEMPORARY HERO? Isaac Scruggs has a violent criminal history dating back to the 1990s, but will not face charges for pulling a gun he had illegally to shoot an armed robber. Isaac Scruggs is a convicted felon with a long criminal history, including two convictions each for unlawful weapons possession and aggravated assault, but Tennessee’s self-defense laws are so strong that they retroactively protect Scruggs for his actions, after the fact: A previous felony conviction would ban Scruggs from carrying the gun he used, but Tennessee law says the fact he protected someone else means the gun charge doesn’t matter. “It trumps any other firearms charges that might exist per statute. Now, the only thing that could come in play is it doesn’t preclude the federal government,” said Knoxville attorney Don Bosch, who is not directly connected to the case. Knoxville Police and prosecutors consider the case closed, and the while they confiscated Scruggs’s gun, the only legal threat the convicted felon faces is if the Department of Justice steps in with federal weapons charges, which is highly unlikely. I have mixed feelings about the outcome of this incident. I don’t want anyone with a long history of criminal violence being able to carry a weapon. At the same time, even violent felons like Scruggs are capable of acting to to help others, and he did put his life on the line to intervene in this situation where he thought that the clerk’s life was in danger. In this instance, do you think justice was better served by shielding Scruggs after the fact from what would be his third illegal weapons possession conviction?