Tag: Self-defense
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The Unsung Hero
It was five years ago yestarday that Jacob Roberts – a loser and delusional narcissist – walked into the Clackamas Mall in Portland Oregon with an AR15, a pistol and a couple hundred rounds of ammunition, apparently intent on giving his pathetic excuse of a life a big finish. He murdered two Christmas shoppers – Cindy…
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Open Letter To The Law-Enforcement/Media Complex
To: The Mainstream Media, and the cops and prosecutors who are your sources From: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant Re: World’s Smallest Violin Dear Cops, Prosecutors and their Media mouthpieces, Last week, a shooter at a WalMart in the Denver area killed three people. Colorado being a shall-issue state, and WalMart being an almost-stereotypical hangout for…
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The Good Ol’ Guy With A Gun
One of the few bits of “good” news from the Sutherland Springs mcaassacre is that it was ended by a Good Guy with a Gun. Details are coming out now – Stephen Willeford responded to the shooting with his AR15, fired a shot that apparently found a gap in Kelley’s body army, and seized the initiative:…
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Another Gun-Free Zone, Another Mass Shooting, And A Couple Good Guys With Guns
First things first: Berg’s 18th Law is still in full effect; it’s been mere hours since a man murdered 27 people at Sutherland Springs Baptist Church, near San Antonio; anything you read in the media will be crap. One thing we do know? Churches in Texas are “gun free zones”. Nobody in that church was legally authorized…
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A Good Guy With An Ugly Black Gun And A 30 Round Magazine
Liberal hamsters love to amuse themselves by saying that there’s no civilian use for guns with 30 round magazines. Which might be true, if you could guarantee all attackers were solo and not very persistent. But in North Houston, three attackers fired over 40 shots at a homeowner… …who returned fire with an AR15, killing…
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A Good, Very Cool-Under-Pressure Guy With A Gun
In the past couple weeks, we discussed the shooting at the Verizon store in Inver Grove Heights, where a good guy with a gun took a scumbag off the streets (for a couple years, anyway. We’ve talked in this blog a zillion times about the four criteria one needs to satisfy to use lethal force…
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The Marquis Of Queensbury Has Left The Building
Grandfather of teens who killed after breaking into a man’s house, threatening his life and health, complains that the homeowner had an “unfair advantage” in the three-on-one fight because he had an AR15: They got into a confrontation with the man who owned the home. Moments later the homeowner’s son emerged with an AR-15 and killed…
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A Good Judge With A Gun
A judge in Steubenville, PA was ambushed outside a courthouse – and returned fire: [Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph ] Bruzzese was shot in an ambush-style attack outside the Jefferson County Courthouse on his way into his office Monday morning. County officials said the courthouse, which was closed today as the investigation progresses, will…
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Yet Another Of Those Incidents That Never, Ever Happens
Permit-holder in Inver Grove Bites shoots an armed robber: According to Inver Grove Heights police, the clerk was in the back of the store when they were approached by two men, one whom was armed. While being held at gunpoint, the clerk drew his own gun and shot the suspect. When the shots were fired,…
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A Good Guy With A Gun: “Heroic Actions Of Self-Defense”
Henco has affirmed that a Minnetonka man shot an attacker / stalker in self defense, and all but carried him down Excelsior Boulevard on their shouders: Following the strong recommendation of investigators, the Hennepin County attorney’s office said this week that 65-year-old James LaCount, of Minnetonka, will not be prosecuted for fatally shooting Thomas Luetzow…
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A Good Classmate With A Gun
I got this from a high school friend of mine.. He lives in a major city in the Southwestern US. I’m concealing his identity for obvious reasons. He had a close encounter with a couple bad guys over the weekend. Or, should I say, a couple bad guys had a close encounter with him: Two…
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Another Good Guy With A Gun
Another episode in Texas last week of an armed citizen intervening in what police term a potential spree shooting. One James Jones walked into the “Zona Caliente” sports bar in Arlington, got into an argument, and shot manager Cesar Perez, killing him. Then, a man – unnamed, except for the cops’ appelation “good samaritan” –…
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A Good Kid With A Gun, Y’All
A mass stabbing attack left one dead and three wounded at the University of Texas Austin. It could have been worse, but…: Eyewitnesses have reported seeing a student pull out a concealed handgun on the suspect, and made him back down. While one can expect the UT and Austin media to downplay such a story…
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Good Guys 3. Criminals 0. “ELCA Engage” Bummed.
Three armed men tried to rob a Nashville store the week before last, guns blazing, robbery in mind. An armed citizen changed their plans: An unnamed person inside a Nashville (TN) sneaker shop went John Wick on three armed robbers last after they made the mistake of charging into the store with guns blazing. A…
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Everything You Say Can And Will Be Held Against You
“Play stupid games, get stupid prizes”. It’s a mantra my first carry permit instructor, the late Joel Rosenberg, used to drill into his students’ heads. The point? The best case of self-defense is the one you don’t need to state in front of a court. Don’t put on your legal gun and go to roughneck…
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Un Bravo Ragazzo Con Una Pistola
A good guy with a gun shoots two robbers at a pizzeria in Levittown, Pennsylvania: The shooting happened late Tuesday night at Porfirio’s Pizza and Pasta, located in a shopping plaza in Levittown, about 25 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The customer took out a gun and shot both men after they allegedly pistol-whipped him, Middletown…
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“You Won’t Be Seeing Me Again”
The FBI released the details of their initial investigation into the Saint Cloud mall mass stabbing last month, including the first public look at the store video. MPR News covered it. Warning; the video is graphic, if you haven’ been completely desensitized to violence: The investigators also praised Jason Falconer. Falconer’s actions are instructive to…
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The Good Guy With The Gun
The man who shot the apparently ISIS-affiliated maniac at the Crossroads Mall in Saint Cloud over the weekend has been IDed as Jason Falconer – a carry permit instructor, civilian carry advocate, and part-time officer and former chief of the tiny, tiny police department of tiny, tiny Albany Minnesota. And if you’re a wanna-be terrorist,…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
Two men attacked a woman in a WalMart parking lot in Shawnee, Kansas, hitting her in the head. An unarmed man attempted to intervene. The assailants shot him. Another Good Samaritan – armed with a legally-owned firearm – responded, shooting and killing one of the attackers (some emphasis added by me). Police said the second…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
26 year old Antione Cooper walked into a Waffle House in DeSoto, Texas with an AK47, robbing several patrons: And then…: A handgun-licensed customer, whose wife was on her way to meet him at the restaurant, followed Cooper to the parking lot, fearing for his wife’s safety, according to DeSoto police. Police said the customer…
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Another Guy With A Gun
Carry permit holder in South Carolina interrupts a mass shooting. Probably not a “spree killing” or “rampage killing” – it looks more like a crime of passion or gangland outbreak – but why quibble? The good guys won one. That is an unalloyed good.
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The Terrible Hours
You’re in a room. Between you and the exit – any exit – is someone who is busily killing people. So you’re not going anywhere. Probably not, anyway. You’re in the midst of a spree killing – sometimes called a rampage killing. You’re surrounded by crowds of people, as someone – one person, most likely…
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A Good Gal With A Gun
Woman kills intruder. Officials said the 33-year-old woman had returned home with her kids — aged 5 and 10 — when she encountered the man and opened fire. Police officers and medical personnel arriving at the home in Portland, Oregon, early Sunday found the 59-year-old man who had been shot dead. The mom is cooperating…
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Edumication
The next time some liberal friend of yours cites the Zimmerman-Martin shooting as a gross injustice – a “white man shooting an unarmed black child” – refer them to this long, but utterly impeccably researched series by the great Massood Ayoob. Then sweep up the debris of their “argument”. Side benefit; you’ll likely learn a…
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A Good Grandma With A Gun
An 80 year old woman in Sultan, Washington shot and killed a man who was trying to go all teppanyaki on her husband: The woman called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. from the home in the 13700 block of Woods Lake Road and said “she had shot an intruder after he broke into her home…