Tag: Self-defense
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Lesson Learned
Rick Ector, on the journey from callow victim to firearms instructor. This makes me proud to be an American.
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A Good Gal With A Gun: Journalism 101
Earlier this week, we wrote about the story of a Hmong man on the East Side of Saint Paul who was beaten badly by a crowd of youths. The attack ended when the man’s wife came out of the house with her gun (and her carry permit). Kudos to WCCO for being the sole…
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A Good Gal With A Gun: If It Saves One Life…
East-side Saint Paul man jumped by group of teen thugs stabbed in the eye with a stick, missing being blinded by mere millimeters. The attack took place in an alley behind Geranium Avenue, near Payne Avenue. “When I got hit, I got dazed a little and fell to my knees, but I got up and continued…
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BREAKING: A Good Guy With A Gun: Part V
A law-abiding citizen with a carry permit killed a would-be robber in Brooklyn Park Monday evening. The Brooklyn Park PD just confirmed that the shooter was a citizen with a carry permit, and the decedent was attempting to rob the citizen. The person targeted for robbery has “a valid permit to carry a handgun” and…
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Absolute Moral Authority
Jesse Hughes – lead singer of the band “Eagles of Death Metal”, the band that was playing at the Bataclan in Paris the night of the Paris Massacre – says what every gun rights activist already knows; the only response to bad guys with guns is good guys with guns: “Did your French gun control…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
Yet another guy with a gun ends yet another violent felony. Here’s hoping the investigation ends with a finding of “Justifiable Homicide”.
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A Good Guy With A Gun?
A couple of wannabe thugs apparently tried to turn a craigslist transaction into a heist in Shakopee yesterday. And while the article doesn’t say so explicitly, reading between the lines, it would appear the Fugs picked the wrong guy: Police radio reports indicated that the apparent victim of the attempted robbery had a handgun and fired…
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Good Spirit. Lousy Idea.
Anyone with a living soul was nauseated by the display in Cologne on New Years Eve, where thousands of men of “North African” descent roamed the street in gangs, sexually assaulting women and impeding the police’s attempts to respond. Here in the US – where this sort of thing is thankfully very rare – the…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
Guy with a carry permit saves the day.
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A Gal With A Guy With A Gun
A civilian gun saves the day – again: Claxton said she was in the vehicle with her four young children while her husband was pumping the gas. Claxton said she reached over to try to lock the doors as the man approached, but she accidentally rolled down the window. Claxton said the man opened the…
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A Republican Is A Democrat Who’s Been Mugged
A week ago this past Monday, we wrote about the tear-squirting in Kansas, as Kansas’ state-run post-secondary schools get ready for the legal mandate to allow concealed carry on campus to take effect. And today comes the story of a student and victim from the mass-stabbing a few weeks ago at University of California at…
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“There Are Certain Sections Of New York, Major, I Wouldn’t Advise You To Invade”
ISIS – or someone claiming to speak for them, anyway – released a list of American cities they plan to attack. The ostensible “list” has, in some cases, the parents of something that was compiled by throwing darts at a map. And when I saw the list, I couldn’t help but remember this scene, from…
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Opposite World
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Another school, another shooting, more people dead, this time in Sweden where a young man wearing a Star Wars mask attacked a school. No, the killer didn’t do the shooting. The killer was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Who shot him. In a school. And stopped…
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Righteous
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Attack a pastor during Sunday worship service and get shot . . . by the pastor? Gives new meaning to the phrase “The way to stop a Bad Man with a gun is a Good Man with a gun.” The police are trying to decide whether to charge the pastor…
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With More “Victories” Like This…
SCENE: Avery LIBRELLE is switching a regular cucumber label to an organic cuke when he sees Mitch BERG picking out a piece of ginger root. LIBRELLE walks over to BERG. LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! BERG: Huh? Oh, sh…hi, Avery. What’s up? LIBRELLE: We won a huge victory over the NRA! MITCH: Oh yeah? LIBRELLE: Yeah!…
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Keep Guns Out Of The Hands Of Straw Men
Watch Mitch Berg ANNIHILATE More Liberal Hamsters! Mind Blown! UPDATE: A key “source” in the piece I fisk has turned out to be fraud. See the Update at the bottom of the story.. One of my long-time stalkers – who’s been tweenting about me at least ten times a day for the past six years, which may…
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Some Blog Housekeeping
I’m going to introduce you to one new feature on this blog, and throw in a mention of one that’s been around for years. The new one? “A Guy With A Gun” – a list of episodes where a citizen with a firearm has interrupted a mass shooting. This information has beens scattered about the…
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Watch Mitch Berg DESTROY This Liberal Hamster’s Argument With This One Weird Trick
Check Out Paragraph Nine. Mind Blown. The website “Raw Story” is, in general , almost as useless as Buzzfeed; at least Buzzfeed has some really cool recipes, which Raw Story utterly lacks. Raw Story (henceforth RS) is as useless as “The Awl”. There. Got it. Anyway, they ran a piece last week about the Oregon shooting…
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Chalk One Up For The Good Guys
Bank robber in Warren, Michigan – suburban Detroit – fought the law and pointed his gun at an innocent, law-abiding citizen. And the citizen won – to the tune of three hits on the would-be robber, and an arrest: “It’s not every day you see a bad guy get shot and get taken down,” said witness Gary…
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For Want Of A Badge
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New York City cops fire 84 shots on city streets to hit a suspect once, Chief says they’ll investigate but expects it to be justified. Man trapped in his own Minnesota apartment fires three shots to stop attacker, convicted of Reckless Discharge. Joe Doakes Milwaukee County Sheriff Clark…
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To Mr. Chunk, Wherever And Whoever You May Be
To: The Piece Of Garbage Throwing Chunks of Cement at Bikers in Minneapolis From: Just Plain Mitch Berg Re: Consequences Big Guy With The White Bronco And The Cement Chunks, Just a hint for you before you go throwing any more chunks of cement at bikers; it is – I’m speaking purely hypothetically, here –…
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A Tale Of Two City Papers
There was an episode last Friday on Mississippi River Parkway. Four youths – in masks, one of them waving a gun – jumped a couple of people out for a walk along the river. One of the citizens – a carry permit holder, and by all visible signs a good guy with a gun – returned…
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A Good Girl With A Gun
A West Virginia sex worker shoots and kills a man who police believe may be a serial killer. “When he strangled me he just wouldn’t let me get any air,” she said. ” I grabbed my rake and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him.…
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Forfeit
The NY Daily News informs us that last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, claiming four Marines and a Navy petty officer, all unarmed – where a person whose motive can’t possibly be determined, but whose actions absolutely do not define his entire race the way Dylan Roof’s defined all white people – has “renewed the debate on gun…
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Timing
Do guns in the hands of the law abiding citizen reduce crime? They certainly reduced three crimes, this past Monday, In different locations, within a few hours of each other. Don’t tell Representative Martens. Better yet – tell her.