October 8

314 – The army of Roman Emperor Constantine defeats that of Co- Emperor Licinius,  near the town of Cibalae in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda-modern Vinkovci, Croatia.

451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon, convened by Emperor Marcian to reassert the teachings of the Council of Ephesus, begins.

1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.

1793 – John Hancock, preeminent signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies at his home, Hancock Manor, in Boston at age 56.

1862 – Around the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Mississippi wins a tactical victory against  a Corps of Maj. Gen. Don Buell’s Union Army of the Ohio but Bragg withdraws  to Tennessee, giving the Union a strategic victory as it remains in control of Kentucky for the remainder of the war.

1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Christian majority Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.

1918 –  As part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in World War I, the 328th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Infantry Division is tasked to capture German positions near Hill 223 along the Decauville railroad, north of Chatel-Chéhéry, France. Coming under heavy machinegun fire, a reinforced squad is detached to flank and take out the guns. During the attack, over half of the detail is killed or wounded and the only NCO left able to fight, Corporal Alvin C. York, single handedly kills 28 German soldiers and forces another 132 to surrender and is later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat.

1944 – As part of the Drive to the Siegfried Line in World War II, the 1st Battalion,  18th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division is tasked to capture Crucifix Hill outside Aachen, Germany. As the 1st Platoon of Charlie Company comes under heavy machinegun fire from multiple pillboxes, the Company Commander, Captain Robert E. Brown, uses Bangalore Torpedoes to destroy several emplacements and continues to draw fire to detect other emplacements even after being wounded and is later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat.

1956 – New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitches the only perfect – no hits/runs/walks/errors – game in a World Series, in Game 5 against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1967 – Guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and his revolutionary force is captured in Bolivia.

1970 – Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

1973 – During the Yom Kippur War, Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian occupied positions.

1974 – Franklin National Bank on Long Island, New York collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

1990 –  During the First Intifada, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount

2001 – President George Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies, in patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

High gun sales: 50 consecutive months of 1 million purchases

There were more than 1 million gun sales last month, making for the 50th straight month of those kinds of numbers.

The FBI recorded more than 2 million background checks last month. The National Shooting Sports Foundation says the number translates into more than 1.1 million firearms sold.

Some are pointing to concerns about government gun control, but foundation spokesman Mark Oliva points to growing violent crime as encouraging those purchases. Firearm experts say that personal safety concerns are now driving demand, as more women and minorities are purchasing guns for this purpose.

For example, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was carjacked at gunpoint in Washington, D.C., this week. Cuellar said, “the message is very simple, you gotta support law enforcement.”

Meanwhile, Oliva says the attack is “a reminder why Americans continue to choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”

SO MUCH FOR “PEACE”

The Palestinians who invaded Israel have focused on kidnapping civilians, mostly young women. This was facilitated by the fact that there was a “rave for peace” going on near Gaza that many young people attended. The Palestinians no doubt knew this, and planned to attack the event. They took a number of young women captive there.

This video has been seen millions of times. There is a naked young woman in the back of a truck, murdered (and God knows what else) by the Palestinians. The Arabs in the truck are yelling “Allahu Akbar!” “God is great!” Terrific religion they’ve got there.

What is notable, I think, is the jubilant reaction of the crowd. Note the boy who spits on the woman’s corpse. The idea that what is happening is a “terrorist attack” by “Hamas” is a fiction. Hamas is a political entity that rules Gaza with the support of the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians who live there.

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Woman shoots, kills man in self-defense

A man, 44, was shot and killed by a woman, 45, who said she acted in self-defense early Friday on the Southeast Side [of San Antonio, Texas]
Officers responded to a shooting shortly before 3 a.m. in the 100 block of Denver Boulevard, near Interstate 37. Once on the scene, officers were informed that the woman allegedly shot the man in the chest after being assaulted by him.
According to the preliminary report, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.  The woman is cooperating with detectives, police said.

Old gun controls that were constitutionally repealed are not precedents for modern gun control

This week amicus briefs were filed in United States v. Rahimi, the only Second Amendment merits case currently before the Supreme Court. The docket page for the case is here. I will be blogging later about various briefs in the case. This post describes the amicus brief that I filed, available here.

The case involves the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. sect. 922(g)(8), which imposes a federal prison sentence of up to 15 for persons who possess a firearm while subject to certain state-issued restraining orders. The amici are several law professors, including the VC’s Randy Barnett, the Second Amendment Law Center, and the Independence Institute, where I am Research Director. My co-counsel on the brief was Konstandinos T. Moros, of the Michel & Associates law firm, in Long Beach, California.

The bottom line of the brief is that subsection 922(g)(8(C)(i) does not infringe the Second Amendment; it restricts the arms rights of individuals who have been found by a judge to be a “credible threat” to others. In contrast, subsection 922(g)(8(C)(ii) does infringe the Second Amendment, because it does not require any such judicial finding.

The brief addresses the question of “who” may be restricted in the exercise of Second Amendment rights; the brief takes no position on questions of “how”–such as what due process is required, or whether the severity of 922(g)(8) ban is comparable to historic laws restricting the exercise of arms rights.

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MISSOURI ASKS US SUPREME COURT TO REVIVE SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION ACT

The State of Missouri is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive the “Second Amendment Preservation Act” that blocks local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun prohibitions.

Under the act signed into law by Governor Mike Parson in 2021, residents can sue law enforcement for $50,000 if they attempt to enforce federal gun laws…the act was challenged last year in federal court by the Biden Administration with an appeals court ruling blocking it.

An emergency appeal was filed on Thursday putting the Second Amendment back on the docket for re-consideration by the Supreme Court asking that the law can continue to be enforced

BLUF
The corporate media refused to correct the President’s lies. Now, Democrat politicians, anti-gun billionaires, and the mainstream media think that ordinary people like you should be disarmed because you’re too dangerous. I have to ask, too dangerous to whom?

Lies My President Told Me

I understand the graft and corruption that are President Biden’s normal mode of business. What I can’t accept are the President’s lies about us. We are far better than he claims, and I refuse to let my neighbor’s be blamed for our President’s failings.

-President Biden said that more children die from being shot than from all other causes. That isn’t true. What the President refused to say is that honest gun owners like you and your neighbors prevented over 30-thousand murders a year because they had a firearm to defend the people they love. Did the President ignore the lives you save because he is too forgetful, or because he is too bigoted against us?

-The President said we have to stop the epidemic of gun violence we hear and see on the news. The President refused to say that the nightly violence we see and hear is from our failing Democrat controlled cities. The president refused to mention that most counties won’t have a single murder this year. He ignored that the worst 2-percent of our counties account for over half of our murders. The worst 5-percent account for about two-thirds of our murders. Even within those failed Democrat controlled cities, most of the murders are within a few zip codes. What our President can’t say is that we are seeing an epidemic of political failure and corruption on the nightly news. Democrats destroyed our once beautiful cities like Detroit, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Now those politicians need to blame you.

-The President said that modern rifles were the cause of this violence. He didn’t tell you that the overwhelming majority of murders, even mass-murders, are committed with handguns. He ignored that more of us are beaten to death with hands and feet than are killed with modern rifles. The President didn’t mention that you and your neighbors use a “modern rifle” to protect yourself thousands of times every month. You didn’t know that because the corporate media refused to correct the old man’s lies.

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My comment:
So called mandatory ‘safe storage’ laws (unloaded and locked away, with the ammo also locked away in a different container) have been found unconstitutional and applicable to the states by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Heller and McDonald cases.
It’s not unusual for gun control advocates to ‘forget’ and neglect mentioning this fact.
I’ll be interested to see if this comment makes it past your ‘filters’.


In Missouri, 66% Of Suicides Come With a Gun. So Groups Want Firearms a Little Farther Out of Reach

​​Even in Missouri — where politicians risk their careers talking about rules around guns — people will listen to your thoughts about firearm safety.

In a place where two-thirds of the rising number of suicides come with a gun, people trying to reduce that statistic in Missouri expected resistance when it came to suggestions about gun safety.

But amid a mounting mental health crisis, what the organizations found surprised them: Communities across the state were open to talking about how to store their guns and ammunition differently if it meant keeping their family or friends safe. That meant wading into conversations about firearms in the context of suicide prevention through conversations about mental health and community well-being.

“Just launching the conversation with firearm suicides was probably not a good idea,” said Dr. Meenakshi Bhilwar, a project analyst at the Randolph County Caring Community Partnership. “We should sort of lay the ground, talk about mental health, talk about suicides in general and when the audience gets comfortable talking about those, then we bring in the topic of firearms.”

Bhilwar works with a handful of other clinicians across the state through the Missouri Foundation for Health on preventing suicides by storing guns in ways that create as many barriers as possible for someone who is in crisis.

“Over this period of three years, we have seen an increase in how the community is responding to our project and how the community members are responding to firearm suicides,” Bhilwar said.

Public health groups in Missouri partnered to pitch the power of gun locks, safes and having tough conversations about gun safety through schools and community health initiatives.

They also know that a potentially life-threatening crisis can come and go within minutes. And a few minutes of delay in acting on a suicidal thought — spurred from struggling to bypass a gun safety lock or having bullets and firearms stored in separate locations — could mean the difference between pulling the trigger or letting a self-destructive thought pass.

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Judge Issues Injunction Blocking MD’s Unconstitutional Carry Restrictions

After the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right of law abiding citizens to carry a firearm in public, a Maryland court found it was “self-evident” that Maryland’s carry permitting regime was also unconstitutional. Maryland then followed New York and New Jersey in overhauling their carry laws by effectively declaring the entire state to be a so-called “sensitive place” through the passage of S.B. 1.

And, just like in New York and New Jersey, NRA filed suit as the ink from Governor Moore’s signature was drying on bill.

On September 29th, in a 40-page opinion, a federal judge enjoined three portions of S.B. 1, from taking effect.

The biggest win was stopping the “private building consent rule,” which declares all private property that is open to the public to be a prohibited place—unless the property owner expressly allows individuals to enter the premises with a firearm.

These private building consent restrictions were cooked up by anti-Second Amendment advocates to effectively nullify the Bruen decision. They are the heart of the states’ response to Bruen. And courts are having nothing to do with them. Today’s ruling was the fourth on enjoining these private consent rules from taking effect.

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Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault.

Here is the post before it was deleted:

 

A few weeks after SloJoe and him minions let loose of $6 Billion to Iran. and the moslem minions attack Israel….. Hmmmmmm.
I’ve said many times before; I don’t believe in coincidence.


So, It Will Be War Between Us: Hamas Attacks Israel.

At six o’clock am on Saturday, Oct 7, many Israelis were woken by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, and Hamas terrorists entered Israeli communities, taking residence hostages, including children. Notice I use the term terrorist, migrants, which is being used in the woke world in Israel with rockets being sent at a much higher frequency than in previous conflicts.

This is the most significant attack on Israel since the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago.

Hamas has taken over complete towns, and the IDF is pushing them out.

Per the IDF:

The IDF declares a state of alert for war.
over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its  terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south.
Civilians in southern and central Israel must remain near shelters, and in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, inside shelters. The Chief of the General staff is currently conducting a situational assessment and approving plans for the IDF’s continued activity. The Hamas terrorist organization is responsible for these attacks and will face consequences for them.

The IDF says Hamas has taken over Israeli towns for kidnapping civilians. The IDF is getting them out one by one.

This isn’t an operation of 100 rockets a day. According to the IDF, by 9:30 am EDT, there were over 2,000 rockets fired at Israel during the first 8 Hours.

As far as Israel’s biggest ally:

The United States unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. There is never any justification for terrorism. We stand firmly with the Government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks.  National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken to Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and we remain in close contact with our Israeli partner

A question raised is similar to the Yom Kippur War: why was Israel surprised? Know that Israel was caught with their pants down. Israel will take Hamas out but don’t expect it to happen in one day. It will take a few days, perhaps a week or so.

What Can Americans Do?

1)Pray–in English or Hebrew (Per Jewish Virtual Library ) or in your own words. It’s what is in your heart that matters.

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your lovingkindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory. Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness.

Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.” Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute. Amen forevermore.

 

2) Shut UP. Not kidding. If, perchance, you see a troop movement on YouTube, Or your cousin Mika, who lives in Tel Aviv, says she saw a squadron marching south, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF: Hamas has computers also you will be telling Hamas the IDF’s next.

3) Unless you have heard it from the IDF or the Israeli govt, consider it a lie. Even if you read it in a trusted newspaper, reports from the war zone are made very fast and include many mistakes.

 

 

The latest IDF statement regarding Israeli casualties is 100 confirmed dead and 1,000+ wounded.

The news is fast and furious. It will be posted on this site as it is confirmed, no rumors. Israel will be on top, but it won’t be easy. As Bette Davis said in All About Eve, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

 

October 7

3761 BC – The world is created according to the Hebrew calendar.

1571 – The coalition fleet of the Holy League defeats the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras off Lepanto, Greece.

1691 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued by King William and Queen Mary of England.

1763 – King George III issues a royal proclamation, closing indian lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

1777 – American troops under General Gates defeat the British under General Burgoyne at Bemis Heights along the Hudson river in Saratoga county, New York

1780 – Revolutionary militia defeat royalist militia led by British Major Patrick Ferguson, who is killed in the battle, at King’s Mountain, South Carolina.

1826 – The Quincy Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S., for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument, carrying granite from Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in Milton for further ferry downriver.

1864 – The Union sloop of war USS Wachusett, under Commander Napoleon Collins, illegally engages and captures the Confederate sloop of war CSS Florida, under Lieutenant Charles Morris, in the neutral Port of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, causing an diplomatic incident between the U.S. and Brazil.

1868 – Cornell University opens for business

1913 – Ford Motor Company begins operations using the first moving Model T assembly line, developed from an ideas of William Klann upon his return from visiting a slaughterhouse in Chicago where cattle were processed – ‘disassembled’ – on a moving conveyor.

1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

1940 –A memorandum sent to the Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Far East Asia section, Captain Dudley Knox, by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic -East Germany -is formed from the division of control of Germany between the victorious allies.

1958 – Per a directive from President Eisenhower, Project Astronaut, the U.S. crewed spaceflight project is renamed Project Mercury. 

1963 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

1985 – 4 men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. 69 year old American, Leon Klinghoffer, is murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.

1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

2001 – Less than a month after the al-Qaeda attacks on the U.S., the U.S. invades Afghanistan beginning with air strikes on Kabul,  Kandahar and Jalalabad.

2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

2016 – Hurricane Matthew strikes the southeastern states at category 5 power, killing over 600 people and causing over $16 billion in damage.

Assault victim sues Loudoun County Public Schools for $30 million.

The daughter of Scott Smith who was 15 at the time she was sexually assaulted by a boy in the girl’s bathroom has filed a lawsuit against the school system for $30 million.

A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted in a Virginia high school bathroom has sued Loudoun County Public Schools, alleging that school officials failed to heed warning signs about her attacker and responded to her May 2021 assault by trying to cover it up.

The teenager, who filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym “Jane Doe” along with her parents, was 15 years old when a younger, male student in a skirt assaulted her in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn on May 28, 2021.

The incident garnered national attention. Conservatives protested a policy in Loudoun County schools — put in place after the assault — that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. Meanwhile, outraged parents in Loudoun County questioned why the perpetrator was moved to a different school, where he assaulted a second female student months later.

The story is a lot more complicated than this simple summary can convey. The girl had previously had some kind of sexual encounter with the boy in question in a school bathroom. This rendezvous was also planned but the incident became aggressive and the girl wanted it to stop.

Also, while it’s true the trans bathroom policy wasn’t in place at the time, it’s also true that the day of the incident the first report back to the school board was that the assault might be connected to the forthcoming bathroom policy. In other words, the very things “conservatives” protested was also the first thing school officials were worried about.

The boy’s mother has since claimed he was not trans or non-binary but no one denies he was wearing a skirt to school that day. Former school superintendent Scott Ziegler told the NY Times in August that at a meeting on the day of the assault the school’s principal told him, “He runs with the drama crowd, and you know how the drama crowd can be. They’re attention-seeking. And he’s been experimenting with different looks.” So, yes, he wore skirts but “he has never come out to the school as either nonbinary or transgender.” More on the lawsuit.

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2A says ‘right to keep and bear arms’
That’s anything to do with weaponry

Analysis: Pistol Brace Ruling Implies Second Amendment Protects AR-15s, Ammo Mags, and Silencers

“[T]he Court finds that braced pistols regulated under the Final Rule are commonly used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.”

That may be the most influential finding in Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision enjoining the ATF’s pistol brace rule. It strikes at a key part of the fight over gun and accessory bans across the country. And how Judge O’Connor reached his conclusion provides new insight into the threshold other courts may employ to determine whether the Second Amendment protects a banned item.

Working off of Supreme Court precedent in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller, 2010’s McDonald v. Chicago, and 2022’s New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, Judge O’Connor established the test for whether the Constitution protects an arm is whether it’s in lawful common use or not. And he said the Court had already determined modern handguns fit the bill.

“A weapon is in ‘common use’ rather than ‘dangerous and unusual’ if it is ‘commonly possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes today,’” he wrote. “The relevant inquiry under this standard is the current total number of a particular weapon that is in lawful possession, ownership, and circulation throughout the United States. As a per se matter, semiautomatic pistols are commonly used weapons for lawful self-defense purposes across the United States today.”

From there, he found adding a brace to a pistol “does not somehow alter that status and effectively strip these pistols of their Second Amendment protection.” Then he argued the ATF’s own estimate for how many braced pistols have been legally purchased over the years directly undercut its argument they could be banned or significantly restricted.

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CARJACKED CONGRESSMAN HIGHLIGHTS REASONS FOR INCREASING LAWFUL GUN OWNERSHIP

In a popular up-and-coming area of Washinton, D.C. – just a few blocks from the nation’s Capitol building – a U.S. Congressman was carjacked at gunpoint. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was parking his car just outside an apartment building where he and several other Members of Congress reside. The congressman was unharmed during the attack.

“As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle. Luckily, he was not harmed and is working with local law enforcement,” Rep. Cuellar’s Chief of Staff stated in a press release.

Washington, D.C., police are still searching for the suspects. It can be assumed the firearms used in the crime were illegally obtained or stolen. If the criminals are ever caught and prosecuted, more questions will be answered.

However, there are plenty of reasons why other would-be criminals in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area might rethink their plans for committing crimes. More Americans are arming themselves to protect against criminals such as these.

‘Support Law Enforcement’

 The Texas congressman may caucus with the political party in Washington, D.C., that pushes an extreme gun control agenda, but his own record shows areas of support for gun rights. Last year, in the 117th Congress that had a Democratic-controlled House, Rep. Cuellar bucked his own party and voted with House Republicans against U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) strict gun control bill. That legislation would have raised the legal age for U.S. adults to lawfully purchase America’s most popular-selling centerfire rifles, Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs). It also would have banned the purchase and possession of standard capacity magazines and required unconstitutional mandatory gun storage in the home.

Also that year, Rep. Cuellar voted against the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022, that barely passed the House. The legislation failed to even receive a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Following the incident, Rep. Cuellar struck a different tone than several of his Democratic congressional colleagues have in the past.

“You got to support law enforcement. And I’ve been doing that for a long time. I have three brothers who are peace officers,” Rep. Cuellar told Fox News. “I do want to thank the Capitol Police and I certainly want to thank the Metro Police. I’m a big law enforcement person. I got three boys in law enforcement. So I certainly appreciate the good work that the police did.”

This isn’t the first attack on a Member of Congress this year in Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was assaulted in her apartment building and suffered bruises while escaping more serious injuries.

‘They Target Us’

Surging crime in the District of Columbia is a growing concern and has been for several years. Washington, D.C., recently recorded its 200th homicide and it marked the first time in two decades that the federal city has had at least 200 murders for three years in a row. It was the earliest the grim marker has been surpassed. The Metro Police Department recently announced the average murder suspect in the city has eleven prior arrests.

How are would-be victims in Washington, D.C., responding? They aren’t sitting around and waiting to be victimized, especially women in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area – and most specifically African Americans.

“A lot of times men look at women and they think we are defenseless. They target us, first because they think we don’t carry. We can defend ourselves as women, we are not as weak as you think we are.” That’s what Kennette Brown told ABC 7 News in Washington, D.C., about why she obtained her concealed carry permit, purchased her first gun and takes the time to go to training courses.

Calvin Wellington is a firearms instructor for Nova Armory in Arlington, Va., and told media his firearm training courses are now mostly filled with women who are buying and training with firearms.

“The average woman that I get in my class is brand new to this,” Wellington said. “I have had women call me and thank me because when they walk out of their building to their car at night they are no longer scared.”

“With all the things going on in the world, you just want to be able to protect yourself,” added Nicole Washington. She takes classes to be a more confident and accurate gun owner. “I’m a pretty good shot.”

Nothing New

The trend of more women purchasing firearms for the first time isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s a trend that’s been happening for several years – and is welcomed.

Gun owners are increasingly female and also seeing greater minority gun ownership too, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans. Last year, NBC News reported on the growing diversity within the gun-owning community with a report titled, “Why more Black people are looking for safety in gun ownership.” The report highlighted NSSF industry data showing 90 percent of gun retailers reported a “general increase” of Black customers, including an 87 percent increase among Black women.

headline from The Cut read, “The New Face of American Gun Ownership – Black women are pushing against the (white, rural, and male) stereotype.” “In recent years, story after story has furthered the narrative that Black women are the fastest-growing group of gun owners in the country,” The Cut’s report said, adding Black women now make up a majority of the 40,000 members of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA).

Fortunately, Congressman Cuellar’s vehicle and possessions were recovered within only a couple of hours.

“A society without law and order is not a society,” Rep. Cuellar told Fox’s Jesse Waters. When criminals are allowed to run rampant with no risk of prosecution for their crimes, innocent people suffer. Thankfully, Congress overturned the Washington, D.C., City Council’s attempts to enact laughably soft-on-crime policies earlier this year.

Even such, criminals thinking about committing crimes against residents have more reason to think again. They’re law-abiding residents like Kennette Brown and Nicole Washington and they have numerous friends taking a stand and exercising their Second Amendment rights for self-defense too.

Anti-gun activist claims gun control isn’t an issue in his campaign for governor

At a time when everything is stupid and things are only getting worse, I guess I should thank Ryan Busse for providing me with a genuine belly laugh. The longtime gun salesman-turned-anti-gun activist, who recently announced his bid to become the Democratic candidate for governor in Montana next year, claims in a new interview that he’s not running on a gun control platform or proposing any new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.

The entire reason anyone outside of his immediate circle of friends and family would be aware of Busse is because he’s incessantly retold his narrative about becoming disgusted with the state of the firearms industry and leaving Kimber in high dudgeon over the “radicalization” of gun makers (though it took him nearly 20 years to do so), becoming an advisor to the Biden campaign in 2020 not long after walking out the door.

After the 2020 election cycle was over Busse signed on with Giffords, and over the past few years has served as a high-paid expert witnesses for anti-gun states like California and Illinois, become the author of a memoir that once again rehashes his beefs with the gun industry, and has served as one of the go-to spokespeople for the gun control movement when they need to trot out a gun owner to claim that their policy proposals are eminently reasonable and chock-full of common sense.

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