The FBI Is Undercounting Firearm Self-Defense Incidents [More]
There goes John Lott being dangerous and outrageous again.
[Via Michael G]
Notes from the Resistance
The FBI Is Undercounting Firearm Self-Defense Incidents [More]
There goes John Lott being dangerous and outrageous again.
[Via Michael G]
CDC, FBI Working To Hide Data Showing Shootings Stopped By Good Guys With Guns [More]
That’s because they want gun ruled “dirty, deadly, and banned.”
[Via Jess]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
[Via Michael G]
Liquor store worker pulls gun on mob of bicyclists surrounding California store after they attack him [More]
That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
[Via Jess]
‘Should I shoot him?’: Video shows driver pull gun during tense Florida road rage incident [More]
Damn right you should have. The unpredictable raging moron had already proven his willingness to be a lethal threat and could have fired at any second.
If you leave all the choices to the attacker, he’s the one who gets to make them.
[Via Jess]
Stranger saves postal worker during shootout with armed robber [More]
It’s a good thing they weren’t at a post office!
[Via bondmen]
A homeowner tipped off authorities Saturday morning on the whereabouts of an infant and the man who had taken the child [More]
I’m sure there’s a reason WSMV left out the part where the homeowner told reporters, “I did hold him at gunpoint, just to kind of be threatening and take control of the situation.”
[Via Wirecutter/HT Liberty Doll]
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2023 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4%, the correct number is at least 35%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 51.5%. [More]
Check out the video at the end.
Wanna read that line again, self-righteous, propaganda-parroting stage prop pretending to be a heroic FBI “Only One” with a gun?
There’s a universal law of nature that no amount of prohibitionist gaslighting can deny, at least to people capable of recognizing truth: Predators prefer easy prey. [More]
Oh, thank Heaven?
Just give them what they want? What if, after you bare your throat and cede all decision-making to remorseless reptiles, you find out what they want is you? [More]
Assume any POS evil, desperate, and deranged enough to threaten your life over a wallet is ready to kill you for no reason at all.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the results Thursday of its investigation into the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri by Hamas on October 7, finding that the military had failed to defend citizens and that armed civilians had stepped in. [More]
There’s a lesson to be learned here. But what…?
[Via bondmen]
It’s good that Sotomayor’s security was able to defend themselves and repel a predator. It’s inexcusable that she won’t admit she has been wrong about our right to do the same. [More]
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
For the crime of running a huge survey on defensive gun use in the U.S. that was not forced into the narrative structure of today’s gun-control activism, William English, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, has been subpoenaed, attacked in The New York Times and by many other “mainstream” outlets and, basically, pilloried in order to, as he put it in The Wall Street Journal, “warn off other academics thinking of doing similar research, and to influence courts where states are losing on the merits.” [More]
Or as the Keeper always said:
[Via Jess]
Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly has charges dismissed in migrant shooting case [More]
It says “the judge described the jury as rational and diverse.”
Any bets the one vote against “diverse”?
Sonia Sotomayor saved from danger: Supreme Court Justice’s bodyguard shoots gun-wielding suspect who tried to steal his car outside her DC home [More]
Not that she wants you to be able to do that:
“In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense.” — Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald
[Via Tacticool Memes]
‘I don’t understand why he was shot because there were two men and just him. Why not hold him at gunpoint? Or why not beat him up?’ [More]
Those are all concerns someone with more than a split second to make an unplanned decision where adrenalin is surging might consider afterward.
There’s a better choice that could have been made in the first place.
[Via bondmen]
Seattle Uber driver charged with rape and kidnapping after attack on female passenger… Investigators said family members assaulted Ali and took the woman out of the car. At some point during the confrontation, the victim’s father fired a gun twice, but the bullets did not strike anyone, according to the report. [More]
Damn policy violater…
So… tell us more about Ali…
[Via Jess]
An attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and a 71-year-old woman critically injured in a knife attack Wednesday, authorities said. [More]
And the @$$hole who did this to them is a 22-year-old male?
Too bad they didn’t avail themselves of an equalizer.
[Via bondmen]