Vermont has approved, 30-0, a measure allowing police to confiscate weapons.
The proposal, which passed with a 30-0 vote, states a police officer could seize firearms from an individual if they were determined to be a risk to themselves or others, WCAX-TV reported.
https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2018/02/1071424-vermont-approved-proposal-police-guns/
The immigration situation is already messy. Now an armed Texas militia is planning to make a move for the U.S.-Mexico border, according to news reports.
Members said the goal is not to interfere with law enforcement but to help secure the border and slow the surge of undocumented immigrants illegally entering the country.
The group, called Operation Secure Our Border-Laredo, was identified to the San Antonio Express-News as “Patriots,” “Oathkeepers” and “Three Percenters,” a reference to the 3 percent of colonists who took up arms against England during the Revolutionary War. Organizers are using social media and a 24-hour hotline to recruit and mobilize armed volunteers to send to Laredo, Tex., within the coming weeks.
It’s uncertain how many people belong to the group or how many might actually show up.
“We’re here to supplement and be where law enforcement is not and help them support the border,” Chris Davis, the 37-year-old listed leader, told the Los Angeles Times.
“There’s nothing malicious, there’s no malicious intent — every person is vetted. We’re just here to serve freedom, liberty and national sovereignty.” Davis said once the group has enough manpower, it will do its duty in a “legal and lawful manner.”
It’s quite a different tactic than the one Davis announced via a YouTube video in which he allegedly said: “You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, ‘Get back across the border or you will be shot,’” the McAllen Monitor reported last week. Davis told the Express-News he removed the video after it was taken out of context “by a newspaper that supports amnesty.”
Thousands of migrants, including large numbers of children, have been crossing into the U.S. on a regular basis since the fall, fleeing violence in Central America.
The situation President Obama called a humanitarian crisis has moved many lawmakers, law enforcement and local residents to come up with their own solutions.
Last week, hundreds of California protesters took matters into their own hands, forming a human blockade and shutting down access to a Border Patrol station near Murrieta as agents were trying to transport three busloads of immigrant children and families. The protests transpired after Murrieta Mayor Alan Long urged locals to fight immigration transfers. The buses were forced to reroute to San Diego.
On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Los Angeles Police will no longer hold immigrants for possible deportation without either a court order or an arrest warrant.
“The federal government is in charge of enforcing federal immigration laws — not us at the local level,” he said. “That responsibility can’t be forced onto local law enforcement officials who already have stretched budgets.”
The situation has some Southern lawmakers — from both parties — nervous.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) told Fox News he’s worried the president’s decision to not visit the border while he’s in Texas this week will become his “Katrina moment.”
Cuellar was referring to the wave of criticism that came over the presidential administration after George W. Bush was photographed peering at the Hurricane Katrina wreckage from Air Force One instead of landing the plane and meeting people on the ground. Years later, Bush told NBC’s Matt Lauer it was a “huge mistake.”
And Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tex.) told ABC News’s “This Week” the federal government is “just absolutely failing.”
“We either have an incredibly inept administration, or they’re in on this somehow or another,” he said. “I mean, I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean, how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?”
A day later, the White House took a tougher stand, saying it expects to deport most unaccompanied minors who enter the country illegally through the Southern border.
In any case, the Texas militia is ready to do its part.
Members said the FBI in Laredo and local law enforcement are aware of the group’s plan, though. Brenda Medina, spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Webb County, Tex., told the Times sheriff’s officials have no plans to meet with them. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection told the Express-News it does not “endorse or support any private group or organization from taking matters into their own hands as it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences.”
Among those who have joined the effort is Rick Light, who leads a militia in Rocksprings, Tex. He clarified that the militia’s plan isn’t a “‘go in guns blazing’ operation.”
“There’s a big interest throughout the United States to come and assist,” Light told the Times. “This is what happens when our politicians ignore the letter of the law.”
Jon Gibson (not pictured) claims that his pro-gun signs have been stolen numerous times and set up a hunter field cam to catch the culprit. He was shocked to find out that it was an officer from the Somers, N.Y. Police Department. (Courtesy of Jon Gibson)
In this frame, the officer is clearly seen kicking the sign causing it’s wooden post to snap in half. Officials for the town of Somers claim that he was merely trying to loosen the sign from the ground. (Courtesy of Jon Gibson)
Somer town officials tell FoxNews.com that the sign was removed because it was on public property and therefore a code violation. Gibson maintains that the sign was on his property and is currently obtaining a new land survey to be certain. (Courtesy of Joe Gibson)
A New York man, frustrated when his pro-Second Amendment sign kept disappearing, was surprised when the hidden camera he set up revealed the culprit to be a local cop.
Jon Gibson, of rural Lake Lincolndale, about 50 miles north of New York City, told FoxNews.com he set up a hunting field camera near the sign, which reads “Protect the Second Amendment,” and features the silhouette of an assault rifle, after two mysteriously vanished. A third sign disappeared before the camera finally captured the sign stealer — a police officer from the nearby Somers Police Department.
“It was pure shock to see,” Gibson said to FoxNews.com about first seeing the video recorded on Monday. “He had a huge smile on his face as he’s kicking down the sign.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/25/hidden-camera-catches-culprit-taking-man-second-amendment-sign/
The United States federal government is so big that it can shut down and somehow no one really notices. That’s the truth. What difference did you notice yesterday? I am sure there are subtle things that we could pick out but when vital services keep running there isn’t a lot to shut down. Because our government sees everything as vital.
Yesterday we ran an article on The D.C. Clothesline written by Tim Brown. It didn’t garner much attention and it’s primarily my fault. I put a bad title on it. It happens.
But the message of the article is something that a lot of people have been waiting to hear. I can’t tell you how many times I have had conversations in which someone interjected the inevitable…
That’s a hard question to answer because no one really wants to be “that guy.” This goes for the person making the comment as well. No offense but that person isn’t telling me something like, “follow me I have a plan.” Everyone is waiting for someone else to take the lead.
Well, someone has taken the lead and in fact it’s several people that have. We all know about the Trucker’s strike that will be here very soon. It is planned for October 11-13. For those who may have missed it, you can find more information at ridefortheconstitution.org
They also have a new Facebook page, since the old one was shut down at https://www.facebook.com/ridefortheconstitution
As the truckers prepare to do their best to force their own brand of government shut down, Mr. Larry Klayman (founder of Judicial Watch) has upped the ante and is planning his own date with destiny.
Tim Brown reports:
In the wake of bikers roaring through the streets of DC in protest and just ahead of a planned shut down of DC by truckers, founder of Judicial Watch Larry Klayman has set a date of November 19, 2013 on which he is calling for Americans to “descend onWashington, D.C., en masse, and demand that he leave town and resign from office if he does not want to face prison time” for pushing “his Muslim, socialist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-radical gay and lesbian agenda.”
Klayman is of course talking about Barack Obama.
Isn’t this what we asked for? Isn’t this what we have been crying for?
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We need these traitors gone and we need to start at the very top. After Obama rolls we can go after the rest like a bull in a China shop.
A blind man throwing darts could spear a traitor within this group. Even the good guys aren’t that good. I’m getting sick of patting people on the back simply because they do their jobs. That’s what we pay them to do. They aren’t going the extra mile simply because they are part of the 2% in D.C. who are semi-honest. They are simply doing their job.
What is wrong with this picture? Does your boss come up to you every day and say, “Bob, way to run that drill press. You should be president of this company.”
Probably not. But that’s exactly what we do every day in America. We make heroes out of guys like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and it’s not because they are extra special, although I am fond of both. It’s because they actually do their job. Since they do their job we want to make them president. Think about that and think about it hard. If only a handful of people did their jobs at your place of work it wouldn’t last long. (hint)
People, things have to change. It is not supposed to be like this.
So what’s it going to be Patriots?
Reports are coming in that several people have walked in and taken ballots and then walked out to perhaps cause a “challenge” to the recall of John Morris and Angela Girhon here in Colorado.
For the record this is to recall two of the states congress-critters for their rabid support of anti-gun measures here in the State of Colorado, a once-free state where guns were a normal way of life, but things like AR-15s and 30 round magazines have been suddenly banned for us.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — A 107-year-old man was killed after SWAT officers shot back at him during a standoff at a home, police in the southeastern Arkansas city of Pine Bluff said Sunday.
Police were called to the home Saturday afternoon about a disturbance and say officers arrived to find Monroe Isadore had threatened two people by pointing a weapon at them.
Officers had the pair leave the home for their own safety and approached a bedroom looking for Isadore. When the officers announced who they were, Isadore shot through the door at them but missed hitting them, said Pine Bluff Lt. David Price in a news release.
The officers retreated to a safer area, and supervisors and additional help were called, Price said. Supervisors started negotiating with Isadore and continued after SWAT officers arrived at the home about 45 miles southeast of Little Rock.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/arkansas-standoff-107-year-old-man/2782117/
The Republican Senator, Tom Coburn said President Obama is moving “perilously close” to impeachment, Sen. Tom Coburn told a town hall crowd this week, two reports said Thursday.
However, he stated he is a “friend” to the President and further went on to say:
“That’s not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means,” he said. “I think there’s some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions.
“I believe [an impeachment charge] needs to be evaluated and determined, but thank goodness it doesn’t have to happen in the Senate until they’ve brought charges in the House,” Coburn said. “Those are serious things, but we’re in a serious time. I don’t have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they’re getting perilously close.”
Really, Senator? Thank “Goodness” you don’t have to “deal” with it? Let someone ELSE “deal with it”?
Senator, you’re not a man, you’re a coward. If you had the intestinal fortitude to follow through you’d be working with House members to arrange exactly what you’re talking about, IMPEACHMENT – and the eventual removal of this criminal from the Office of the President.
America has gone over the edge and you are sitting in the People’s building being HAPPY you don’t have to DO anything over Benghazi, over Ft. Hood Massacre (It was a bloody TERRORIST ATTACK). We are going to let Obama NOT take the blame for NSA, the IRS, the DOJ (I’m not going to name all the scandals here, but suffice it to say they were ALL CRIMES!)
Get off your lazy ass and get going on removing this criminal from office before American burns.
Every, single tag and category attached to this blog post had a crime committed against America – from the President speaking out AGAINST Zimmerman and FOR gun control, to Benghazi, to the IRS (which is being ignored) to the NSA (also being ignored) to the “sequestration” and loss of food for wounded warriors at Walter Reed while Gays are being given free leave to go marry their partners in other states.
Give Americans a break, Senator and kick this bastard out of OUR HOUSE – before we do it.
Our gun grabber in chief spoke this weekend about the Zimmerman acquittal. Just as he used the Sandy Hook tragedy to immediately call for the destruction of our Constitution, he’s now calling for more gun control in the wake of the Zimmerman trial. As surreal as it may seem, I’m not making this up. Here’s what Obama said the day after Zimmerman was found not guilty.
We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this [Zimmerman case]. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.
The ink isn’t even dry on the verdict and Obama is already using a tragedy to once again attempt a power grab by the federal government. Last time he stood on the still warm bodies of the Sandy Hook victims to push his anti-gun agenda forward. He is completely shameless and it’s disgusting to witness.
Apparently the President thinks that Zimmerman is guilty of murder and walked free due to some failing of the justice system. He’s now grouping a legal self defense shooting into the same category as criminal uses of firearms and using it as justification to push his anti-gun agenda forward. That means those of us who carry firearms for personal protection are part of the problem, according to Obama, and we must be stopped for the greater good of the community. In the President’s eyes I’m just as bad as a gangbanger because I have a CCW.
Panthers: “This Time We’re Going Out To Whitey’s Suburbs and Burning Down HIS Community”
July 11, 2013
In preparation for the possibility of an acquittal of George Zimmerman, The New Black Panther Party has reportedly begun a mobilization campaign to target white communities.
According to a recent post on Sodahead, leader Samir Shabazz and the New Black Panthers are preparing to take the fight directly to those guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin – white people living in suburbs all over America.
“This time we’re doing it right… This time we’re not burning down our communities. This time we’re going out to Whitey’s suburbs and burning down HIS community. We’re going to make Whitey feel the pain.”
Shabazz, who previously made comments insinuating that he’d like to murder white babies and adults, recently made the shocking claim that he’d “love nothing more than to come home with a cracker’s head in my book bag.”
Thousands of tweets and Facebook posts echo Shabazz’s comments, with many users taking to the social networks to proclaim their support for the random killing of whites should George Zimmerman be found innocent.
With jury deliberations set to begin as early as Friday, residents in Florida where the trial is taking place, should take note.
However, because of the widespread coverage of the case, it’s likely that should civil unrest, riots, or violence break out, it would be a nationwide phenomenon with the potential to randomly target Caucasians and Hispanics all over the United States.
Reports have emerged that New Black Panther Party organizers are already taking steps to bus mobs of people into Florida in the event of an acquittal, so a wave of violence resulting from the Zimmerman verdict is all but guaranteed.
There are those within our government who would like nothing more than to see a race war break out to further and agenda that aims to control the American people under a banner of martial law.
Could the Zimmerman trial be the catalyst they’ve been looking for?
About the Gun Geo Marker
The Walkingtools Gun Geo Marker
The general guideline is that you should mark any location about which you have a gun related concern, while trying to provide enough extra information for others to make their own determination about safety.
An important secondary warning is that the Walkingtools Gun Geo Marker is not intended as a reporting mechanism for active threats. If you are concerned for anyone’s immediate safety, call 911 immediately.
Now…. far be it for me to make a suggestion as to how to deal with this particular application, or even to suggest that my suggestion might work. But… I’ll give it a go.
All gun owners should download this App. Immediately.
You can tag locations in it.
So, why not tag it with the following:
1) Anti-gun Libtards
2) Businesses that hate guns
3) Hollywood Actors and Actresses who speak out against guns.
4) Local politician’s homes who are anti-gun
5) Local Media personalities who are anti-gun.
The point to this is to make THOSE locations as “gun owners” and overwhelm the database with Garbage In, which in turn produces Garbage Out.
So, do your part today and help this Application “fill up some white space”.
Your blogs are monitored. Your phone records are being gone through. Data from your computer goes through an ISP and is vacuumed up by “No Such Agency”, collected, collated, stored and kept on ice for at least five years hence. Anything you write, every site you visit, every blog you read or post you make is subjected to reading – even if it isn’t really “read” by a person it is there “just in case”.
The Fourth Amendment states clearly what your rights are.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
To be clear, your “papers” in the form of “data” or “metadata” have been searched, seized, violated and kept. No warrants were issued. No “Oath of Affirmation” by those whom consider you “suspect” was given. No Judge consulted. Your home was invaded. You phone “tapped” – perhaps not in the conventional sense where a human listens in, but your phone calls were logged, collected and linked to those numbers you called, and those who called you.
Trust is sometimes a difficult thing to grasp, and nearly impossible to retrieve once lost. The NSA, an arm of the US Intelligence community is there for a reason; their job is collect data on our adversaries, not on our own people. This Agency is being abused by the US Government, plain and simple. The Justice Department is corrupt. The Internal Revenue System is corrupt. Congress is remiss. The President is culpable in breaking all the laws of our Constitution.
Do YOU trust your information to the US Government? Do you trust your health to the IRS? Do you trust your Freedom to this President? Do you trust your life in the hands of the Justice Department?
Pens, paper, hand-carried messages, whispered conversations, coded communications.
Survivalists out here in the real world KNOW that counting on technology is probably a cool thing to do, but not always is it practical. When the power goes out (and it will) you can’t count on your electric motors, vehicles, phones, radios and such. You can’t always depend on technological marvels no matter how small. Remember this; pen and paper can’t be data mined unless it it taken into custody. Whispered conversations to those near you are rarely listened in on. Turning off your cell phone is not a promise of security, but removing the battery is. Posting something on a computer is kept for years; perhaps forever for all we know.Survivalists do understand this world, they do things in a simpler way for a reason.
Perhaps we should all consider “simple is safer”….
Do you feel “safe” today?
Do you believe that the government is protecting you by vacuuming up every piece of data on you they can?
Do you honestly believe that stopping a terrorist attack requires we give up all our privacy?
Or
Are you an American, like most of us, who’ve never broken a law unless perhaps it was a traffic ticket, you have no intention of robbing a bank, blowing up a bomb in a crowded marathon, mall or airport, and you’ve never contemplated walking into your world place or movie theater with the “infamous” Bushmaster AR15 with body armor, gas mask and shoot up the place and random people?
When it comes right down to it, the laws of this country simply DO NOT trump the Constitution. Period. End of statement.
And yet our Congress, the last few Presidents (Obama, Bush, Clinton) have demonstrated they don’t really care about that old piece of paper. Of course the Leftists in this country will tell you that it’s a “Living Document”, subject to change.
The 4th Amendment is clear as crystal:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
We are the people. We have the right to be secure in our persons (and carrying a cellphone on our person), and houses (and our computers in our houses) and papers (and the data which isn’t written down but exists as fleeting bits and bytes in a data stream, hard drive, thumb drive, cloud or zipping along fibers) and unreasonable search and seizure (meaning we have committed no crime, thus it is UNREASONABLE to probe our data, search it, collect it aka seize it).
No warrants have been issues. And according to the fourth amendment they SHALL NOT issues but upon probable cause.
If you’re not a criminal or suspected to be a criminal you should not be subjected to any of the above without a warrant.
Let me say this again…. IF you are NOT a criminal or SUSPECTED to be a criminal you should not be subjected to any of the above without a warrant.
Americans, essentially ALL of us, have 1) been subjected to the above CRIMES by the Government, 2) without a swore Warrant, 3) Our data searched (examined), seized (collected) and stored without our permission so that JUST IN CASE, you know in the future perhaps-maybe that data can be gone through again later and in more detail, just in case, you know, you think you might want to do something.
The collection of metadata means “Data about data”, that’s the way we network security people, system administrators and security engineers view it. It means that pointers to other data are collected. Those pointers of course are phone numbers you are using, calling and times you’re online talking to that other number. It means a list of links you visit, your geolocation information, your likes and dislikes all associated with you.
A good detective doesn’t need to know WHAT you said on the telephone if he knows to whom you spoke for thirty minutes this morning on the way to work. A great detective can make inferences with great accuracy about your conversation. In a court of law this is called “Circumstantial evidence”.
A government agency like the National Security Agency (NSA) has tools and young computer gurus (not unlike myself many years ago) who can examine data, put a few pieces together and determine a lot about a person.
They didn’t stop Sandy Hook, they didn’t stop 9-11, they didn’t stop Boston, they didn’t stop numerous other small terrorists attacks in this country (which they won’t even CALL terrorism). They’ve stopped only what they wanted to stop. (Never let a crisis go to waste you know!)
If every person in the United States isn’t upset about this you might fit the first three questions originally asked and might be comfortable with the government literally spying on everything you do online, on the phone or even clicking on the buttons of your microwave. You might think you’re safe from terrorists. You might believe that you’re safe and the government is “protecting” you.
What if this is all benign and no one has any intention of using the data collected against you today or tomorrow. But what about after the next election? What about next Thursday? What IF some “government official” somewhere with access to this stuff decides to start using this data to root out enemies of the State?
Once, when I was still a child we all knew that our society existed to raise children to be considerate of others, to know that each thing we did to improve ourselves in turn, improved society. Today Society seems to exist only to further the goals of a collective hive mind, to think alike, to act alike, to dress alike, to live in a Socialist Utopia. That indeed seems to be the ultimate goal of not only “Society” as a whole (with a few individual exceptions, usually those reading these blogs) but to force all of us to act alike (including us “individuals”).
Targeting and auditing”Tea Party” and “Conservative” groups into oblivion, if that isn’t tyranny I don’t know what is. Trying to limit, take and ban our guns, that’s tyranny. Spying on us, that’s tyranny. Going after journalists (against the 1st amendment), that’s tyranny. Lying to us time and again about Benghazi, about everything they can lie about, that, my friends is tyranny. Forcing religion on us (Islam), that’s TYRANNY. Forcing Political Correctness on us, that’s tyranny. Attacking us for having our say, that’s tyranny. Passing state laws in the face of a majority of people who don’t want the law, that is absolute tyranny. Telling Americans “its for your own good” – that’s tyranny.
At what cost do we continue this charade?
I’ll tell you the cost. The cost is ultimately our Freedoms and the fall of the United States as a Great Republic.
If we continue on the path which wends through Society today and into the future, in less than One Hundred Years the one great America will be nothing more than a memory for our great-great Grand Children. In less than another decade we will have lost and we will be erased from the face of the world. Our
We must stop this drive to defeat America from within.
If you want a Safer, Freer America then it is time to wake up, get off your asses and accept personal responsibilty for yourselves, your families and your GOVERNMENT. We must insist, demand that the current elected Representatives stop the madness and get back to the bottom line of running this country. That doesn’t mean making NEW laws, it means throwing out the old, bad laws, enforcing the correct laws and stopping snooping on our own people. It means SHUTTING the border TONIGHT. We don’t need “immigration reform”, we need “Government Reform”.
There is nothing wrong with immigration laws as they are, they simply need to be enforced. We need to secure the border. We need to let people take the normal path to citizenship. We have no issue with immigration, we have a problem WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
We can’t let the government continue to grow in size, power and money sucking abilities.
We can’t allow the IRS to continue to abuse us.
We must NOT allow the IRS to become our overlords on medical care. Government death boards are an absolute (see the young lady with the lung transplant problem).
We can’t allow the Department of Justice to continue to abuse us. By letting them get away with “Fast and Furious” we’ve allowed the death of a young agent to go without justice. The murderer might have been caught, but why haven’t those who passed those guns out ILLEGALLY I might add been brought to justice? Arrest them, all the up to Eric Holder if necessary.
We can no longer allow our Department of State to let ambassadors just “die” in foreign service. Where were the Marines and why was the military stood down?
If you want a Safer, Freer America then you, yes YOU, need to stand up and do something about it. Run for office, pester the holy hell out of Congressmen and women. Call the President. Make your voice heard. Organize protests (yes, PROTESTS). Become visible. Don’t hide in the shadows any longer.
We are AMERICANS. We do not give up. We do not tolerate losing. We do not tolerate losers. Kick those losers out of office and put yourselves IN.
The time has come.
Don’t let up until we win.
And we will, we’re Americans!
Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.
(1) Such activities are necessary to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and public order; or
(2) Duly constituted Federal, State, or local authorities are unable or decline to provide adequate protection for Federal property or Federal governmental functions.”
Y’all think this is appropriate? I don’t. The whole IDEA of the National Guard under the control of the State Governor is where this comes into play. The US Federal military has NO business jumping into this, and NO military commander in the US Military, under Federal control has ANY authority to do what they just put in the law, regardless of the fact it was “put into the law”.
Read the whole news article here: http://www.longislandpress.com/2013/05/14/u-s-military-power-grab-goes-into-effect/
or here: http://www.policymic.com/articles/42193/u-s-military-grants-itself-the-power-to-police-the-streets
Well, the LEOs have spoken…
Here’s the original PDF on it. http://ddq74coujkv1i.cloudfront.net/p1_gunsurveysummary_2013.pdf
POLICE POLL: ARMED CITIZENS, NOT GUN CONTROL, WILL LOWER VIOLENT CRIME
” In the poll of 15,000 law enforcement professionals, 71% of respondents said an “assault weapons” ban would have zero impact on violent crime. Of those surveyed, 95.7% said the same of a “high capacity” magazine ban, and 79.7% said the same in response to a question on universal background checks.
Over 90% of these law enforcement professionals said “mandatory sentences with no plea bargains” for those who use a gun in perpetrating a crime would reduce violent crime.
When asked if they supported concealed carry laws for citizens without a felony in their past, 91.3% of respondents answered “yes” on “without question and without further restrictions.” “
PoliceOne’s Gun Policy & Law Enforcement survey was conducted between March 4
and March 13, 2013, receiving 15,595 responses from verified…
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More than half of Colorado’s elected sheriffs are planning to mount a legal challenge to the state’s sweeping new gun restrictions.
The Denver Post reports that 37 of the state’s 62 sheriffs will sue to overturn laws passed in March that set limits on ammunition magazines and expand background checks for firearms.
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke told the paper that the proposed lawsuit would argue the laws violate Second Amendment rights. He said the lawsuit would likely be filed within the next few weeks.
The group County Sheriffs of Colorado has opposed a ban on high-capacity magazines, and about a dozen Colorado sheriffs spoke against the new laws during President Obama’s visit this week. The laws take effect July 1.
The group’s board of directors decided against joining the lawsuit as a plaintiff, according to County Sheriffs’ executive director, Chris Olson, the Post reported.
Original article: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22988195/colorado-sheriffs-planning-lawsuit-block-new-gun-laws
Well stated. When the time comes, I sure hope all of us back the others up….
After watching this video, I agree with the officers. No police officer should die like that. And no American citizen should die like that either.
We are not terrorists and I personally don’t understand the “Sovereign” theory or idea. I do however believe we citizens have the right to be left alone, to travel to and from work and other places and no be harassed. While I would not shoot a cop doing his job, I will resist those who feel they have more authority over me than they really do. If I’m not breaking the law, leave me the hell alone.
If you THINK I am breaking the law then certainly do your job, but don’t expect me to get out of my car, or give you consent to search – since I have never broken the law and have no intent to do so, as a law officer you will be the one breaking the law by ordering me out of a vehicle, and I WILL sue your ass for doing it when it’s all over.
Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don’t always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of a domestic terrorism movement and not even know it.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times posted an article attempting to define a domestic terrorist movement consisting of as many as 300,000 Americans. Some are even labeled as non-violent “paper terrorists”.
Is there a more Orwellian term than “non-violent terrorist”? If you can think of one please share it in the comments below. They refer to this so-called terror group as “sovereigns, zealots who refuse to recognize government authority in virtually any form.”
When attempting to further define and identify individuals in this movement, some very…
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This is suspect… no this is bullshit. This is unfair if they did nothing wrong to begin with.
The Blaze
Apr. 5, 2013 3:30pm | Jason Howerton
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter’s mother has lost its federal firearms license.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the license of Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor in December. The agency didn’t say why.
Authorities raided the store for undisclosed reasons shortly after the December school shootings in which Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He also shot to death his mother, Nancy, at their home. Authorities say he fired 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle inside the school, then killed himself with a Glock handgun.
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I guess I put this in the category of those targets that came to light recently – you remember, the ones that depicted pregnant women, little kids and old ladies with guns giving LEOs a chance to shoot at them so they would be desensitized to such things.
At that link you will find that real actors are helping the US military make things “Real” for them.
Forgive me, perhaps a little for this statement, but “real” is when you have to shoot someone in real life because your life is at stake in a combat situation. Been there, done that. Give me a fucking break….
Wow, how did we miss catching this one?
My friend Ken posted this on his Facebook page last night:
It seems that Michael Moore has discovered the NDAA 2012, and has come out against it (This legislation is currently being challenged in the Supreme Court). More importantly, if you think that the Republicans are looking out for our rights, think again. This legislation was passed in the Republican controlled House, and it essentially suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which, according to the Constitution, can only be done in times of rebellion. Is there some unknown rebellion going on in this country, or are they preparing for one? You have to wonder, with all the weaponry, bullets and armored vehicles DHS is purchasing.
John Cusack, Hollywood actor, is concerned about Obama’s use of drones. In Cusack’s interview with George Washington Law School Professor Jonathon Turley, Turley says:
Truth be known President Obama has never been particularly…
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The Department of Homeland Security‘s long-awaited Office of Inspector General report on Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” has been obtained by The Los Angeles Times, Richard Serrano reported Thursday.
“ATF agents asked their Border Patrol counterparts not to pursue criminal leads or track gun smuggling in southern Arizona so they could follow the firearms themselves, and senior Homeland Security agents ‘complied and the leads were not investigated,’” Serrano writes.
Go read the rest: http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-fast-and-furious-oig-report-fed-to-los-angeles-times-not-to-public
Somehow this seems to be appropriate I guess.
The nationwide shortage of ammunition has left many police departments scrambling to get their hands on the necessary rounds – with some even bartering among each other.
Meanwhile, Rep. Timothy Huelskamp (R-Kansas) says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to respond to multiple members of Congress asking why DHS bought more than 1.6 billion rounds in the past year.
Police Chief Cameron Arthur of Jenks, Oklahoma says, “Ammunition and assault weapons in general have skyrocketed…In addition to the fact, not only is it a lot more expensive, but the time to get it could be six months to a year, or in some cases even longer.”
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