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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (966540)	9/23/2016 9:09:11 AM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574544

Wow....I guess people really do not believe anything Obozo says....(can't blame them I guess)

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (966540)	9/23/2016 11:30:10 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pogbull Respond to of 1574544

Video: Home invaders pick the wrong house The lady looked Asian and she was apparently a restaurant operator - thus the boxes and packages of paper towels stacked in her house. Restaurant owners are often targeted by robbers at their homes early in the AM hours ... they bring home receipts late at night to be taken to the bank the next morning. An Asian restaurant owner in this area was just killed a week ago by two robbers who showed at his home as he was leaving. Three men kicked in a door, guns in hand, looking for trouble — and found it in a woman who had prepared to defend herself. WSB in Atlanta has the video from the surveillance system from the home invasion a week ago, showing the resident taking the initiative and shooting at her would-be assailants. Police released the video late yesterday because they want to find two of the men. They already have the third … in the morgue, a result of his own very poor choices. The video makes it very clear that the woman faced a life or death situation: Police are hoping someone can help identify two home invaders. They were caught on camera as a woman in the house shot at them. “She exercised her right to defend her livelihood and property,” Cpl. Deon Washington with the Gwinnett County Police Department told Channel 2’s Nicole Carr. Surveillance video from inside the home shows the Gwinnett County woman rush from her bedroom and then unloads all her bullets on the three men who kicked in her front door. … She heard the three intruders break into the home around 4 a.m. Friday. Video shows the men have guns clearly in hand. In other words, they had a clear intent to do grave harm to whomever they found in the house. The woman and her housemate were in clear danger of their lives, and without effective self-defense in the form of firearms, would almost certainly be dead today. Police know this, in part because of the unusually extensive surveillance system in the house. Given the crime scene, though — door kicked in and a dead armed suspect outside — it wouldn’t have taken investigators long to figure it out even without the video. One reason to highlight this video is to remind readers that firearms are a necessary part of self-defense. But this video also touches on another aspect of self-defense shootings: the aftermath. The reporter notes that the woman has to be consoled after the shooting, and is still dealing with the trauma of defending herself. No one buys a firearm for self-defense in the hope of having to use it. It’s a last resort, and it’s a terrifying prospect. As my late friend Joel Rosenberg once wrote about his own self-defense experience , it’s the worst feeling in the world to know that you have shot someone — short of being murdered. As did Joel, this woman exercised her right to self-defense and defense of her property against people clearly committed to attacking both. This is one example of why we must remain vigilant in protecting that right. Hopefully, the police will find the other two men and give the people of Gwinnett County a little extra measure of peace. hotair.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (966540)	9/23/2016 11:37:01 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574544

Handgun ownership rising most quickly among women posted at 6:41 pm on September 22, 2016 by Jazz Shaw We hear repeated stories of how gun ownership is on the rise, but who are the people buying the guns? (We’re talking about legal purchases here obviously. The motives and opportunities for criminals are another issue.) It’s a complicated question because there is no “generic” lawful gun owner in the United States. But Time Magazine is looking at one particular segment of American gun owners this week and it’s women who purchase a single firearm… specifically handguns. And the most common reason given is self-defense. According to a new survey by public health officials at Harvard and Northeastern universities, women are more likely than men to report owning a gun for protection. The research, conducted in 2015 but previously unpublished, was recently obtained by The Guardian and The Trace. The data shows that, compared to men, American women are more likely to own a single handgun (as opposed to multiple guns). And as fewer men purchase guns, the proportional presence of female gun-owners is on the rise. Forty-three percent of individuals who own just a handgun are women, with almost a quarter of those women living in urban areas. The Guardian noted that female gun-owners were more likely to live in urban areas than their male counterparts, and called the data “the most definitive survey of US gun ownership in two decades.” A couple of decades ago this might have been seen as a shocking trend, but in 2016 it seems rather obvious. Men have been buying guns in larger numbers for a long time, but shifts in the social paradigm have made it far more common for women to catch up in this area. As more and more ladies join the ranks of gun owners, clearly their cut of the consumer pie is going to go up, though surging to more than 40% was a bit of a surprise even for me. The almost amusing part of the report, however, was the seeming shock registered by the people at Harvard involved in the study. Matthew Miller (one of the authors) is quoted as saying that gun ownership isn’t a response to actuarial reality. He’s quoting statistics which show a drop in lethal incidents and violent crime across the nation as a whole. But if he was paying attention he’d know that this trend is actually reversing in the major cities, where murders and other violent crime are on the rise. (Look no further than Chicago and Baltimore for evidence.) And in his own study he found that the most rapid increase in female gun ownership was among women living in urban areas. Can we put two and two together here, Matthew? The “single gun” aspect of the study is interesting as well. I can easily believe that women are less likely on average than men to be collectors who amass significant numbers of firearms. And men still represent a significant majority in the hunting community. There’s not much left after that except for self-protection and target shooting. (The latter being a relatively small community on a national scale when measured as a percentage of the total population.) But women are, by default, generally smaller in build and body mass than men. To fend off an assault from a criminal the size of a linebacker they’re going to want an edge. Hence the old advice about not bringing a gun to a knife fight. It’s a sensible trend among sensible women who want to take more control of their own security, particularly in increasingly dangerous urban environments. Rather than coming as some sort of surprise, this Harvard study seems much more like a dog bites man story to me. hotair