Sheila Jackson Lee virtue signalling…again.
Teen shot during home invasion arrested
HREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — A Shreveport teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled burglary during which a resident shot an intruder, police confirm.
It was about midnight Thursday when a family heard someone breaking into their home in the 3800 block of Fairfield Avenue. That’s at Dudley Drive and a few blocks from Mall St. Vincent in Shreveport’s Fairfield neighborhood.
The homeowner told police that someone was trying to force his way in through a rear window.
The resident, who was inside at the time, armed himself with a gun and fired at the intruder, grazing him in his right hip.
The homeowner then held the intruder at gunpoint until police arrived.
Officers found the wounded man, later identified as 18-year-old Morgan Matthews, outside in the back of the residence.
Seems to me to be Congress actually cared less about Biden’s political plans than they did about kicking Trump out of the Whitehouse.
Joe Biden’s Legislative Agenda Stalls in Congress
More than a week into his administration, President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda seems to have hit a wall in Congress.
Biden, who served in the United States Senate for 36 years before his ascension to the vice presidency, was pitched as a “master legislator” by allies and supporters during the 2020 campaign. The president, himself, bolstered that image with constant references to his history of working across the aisle to craft bipartisan compromise.
“Compromise is not a dirty word, it’s how our government is designed to work,” Biden told the National Education Association last July. “I’ve done it my whole life.”
“I’ve been able to bring Democrats and Republicans together in the United States Congress to pass big things, to deal with big issues,” he added at the time.
Such efforts, made in an attempt to convince voters that Biden alone could break the decades-old gridlock of Washington, DC, did not stop after the election was over. In the months leading up to the inaugural, Biden and his team promised that they would be ready “on day one” to hit the ground running on a long list of legislative priorities.
The Flawed Thinking Behind Biden’s Gun Control Bill
“The coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment,” President Trump warned before the election.
Trump was right.
During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden promised a long list of gun control regulations. There is a reason that Michael Bloomberg spent $125 million helping Biden in Florida and something over $600 million nationally in the general election.
The agenda includes: classifying many semi-automatic rifles and magazines holding more than 10 bullets as Class 3 weapons (which can require nine months or more for approval and a $200 fee), national gun licensing, “red flag” laws that let judges take away people’s guns without a hearing, background checks on the private transfer of guns, and bans on some semi-automatic firearms that happen to look like military weapons.
The first gun control bill that Biden will push in his first 100 days would make gun makers and sellers civilly liable for misuse of guns they sell. That means people could sue manufacturers whenever a crime, accident, or suicide occurs with a gun. We aren’t talking about cases where there was a product liability issue or where laws are violated, such as selling a gun without a valid background check. While it isn’t stated, the goal is to put the gun makers out of business.
Can you imagine what would happen to the car or other products if similar rules were to apply? Some 4.5 million Americans are injured each year in car accidents, and 40,000 die. When accidents occurred because a driver wasn’t paying attention or was driving recklessly, it makes no sense to sue Ford for lost wages, medical costs, and pain and suffering. Criminals also frequently use cars when they commit crimes. Why should car companies be liable for that?
Computers are used to plan crimes, hack into private servers, and steal intellectual property. If Apple were held liable, it would very quickly be drowning in lawsuits. If the company even survived, its products would become much more expensive in order to cover the new legal fees.
Guns aren’t any different. Far less than 1% of guns are ever used in crimes, suicides or accidents, and when they are, it’s virtually always the result of the user’s actions. Many other products, such as motorcycles, have much higher probabilities of causing harm. The death rate per motorcycle is 0.05%; the date rate for guns is 0.008%. The latter includes murder, accidental deaths and suicides. Guns are also used defensively about 2 million times in the average year, according to the FBI. Will government reward gun makers when their products are used to save lives?
My own research has found that increased gun ownership is associated with less crime, not more. Poor people in the highest crime areas benefit the most from owning guns, and gun maker liability would be sure to make guns unaffordable for these individuals.
Unite and Heal With Show Trials and Fascist Purges.
Joe Biden has called for “unity” and “healing”. And nobody knows as much about healing as Joe whose wife has a doctorate in education from the university that hosts his Biden Institute and the Beau Biden Foundation which was charging $3K for lessons on preventing online child sex grooming even as Hunter’s laptop with the Foundation’s sticker allegedly showed him doing it.
Except maybe Joe’s brother who took out $650,000 in personal loans from a company that bankrupted local hospitals while trading on his brother’s name and connections to his campaign.
“I think it has to happen,” Biden said, mandating the show impeachment trial of his predecessor.
Once upon a time, impeachments were rare things. These days, Democrats aren’t considered truly progressive if they don’t impeach a Republican president twice in one term. President Trump is back in Florida, but that won’t stop the Democrats from impeaching him anyway before they move on to impeaching the presidents like Washington and Lincoln whose statues their insurrectionist mobs were toppling all summer and fall back when insurrection was still cool.
When asked how he defines unity, Joe Biden, with the help of three teleprompters and a small staff communicating with him through his earpiece and a series of frantic signals and hoots, explained that, “If you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines but it get passed, it doesn’t means there wasn’t unity — it just means it wasn’t bipartisan.”
Like most ideas that travel the circuitous route between his handlers, his brain, and his mouth, it may be impossible to understand what Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. said, but it’s pretty clear what the senile hack ruling a city under the shadow of military occupation and political terror meant.
Unity is when Democrats get their way. Unity is when no one opposes them. Unity is when they terrorize their political opposition into submitting and keeping their mouths shut.
Or as Speaker Pelosi put it, “I don’t think it’s very unifying to say, ‘Oh, let’s just forget it and move on.’ That’s not how you unify.”
How do you unify? The same way every great democratic people’s regime did from France to Russia to China to San Francisco — with show trials and purges of the enemies of the people.
Reno police believe fatal shooting Wednesday night was self-defense
Reno police believe a fatal shooting Wednesday evening was done in self-defense, according to a press release.
Police responded to a report of a shooting Wednesday at approximately 8: 45 p.m.
When officers arrived to the area of South Virginia Street and Hillcrest Drive, they discovered a dead body.
The person was shot, according to the press statement. No other people were near the crime scene.
Several minutes later, someone contacted police saying that he was involved in a shooting and fled the scene. The Robbery/Homicide Unit responded to the call and are investigating.
The identity of the person who called the police was not released, and the name of the person who died was not released by RPD pending family notification.
Iowa is one of the few states left that have constitutions that don’t address RKBA. I don’t know why, other than probably the idea the right would ever be challenged didn’t even enter their thoughts.
Iowa Legislature approves putting pro-gun constitutional amendment in front of voters
The Iowa Legislature has approved a proposed pro-gun amendment to the Iowa Constitution for the second time, paving the way for it to appear on Iowans’ ballots in 2022.
The Senate approved the resolution Thursday afternoon in a 29-18 vote along party lines after about two hours of debate. Hours later, the House voted 58-41, also along party lines, to pass the same measure. Both chambers are controlled by Republicans. Every Republican present voted in favor of the amendment, while every Democrat was opposed.
Thursday’s vote means that after years of work by Republican lawmakers — and a mistake by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office in 2018 that required them to start over — Iowans will have a chance to vote for or against the proposal themselves next year.
Filibuster Preservation Bought Two Years For The Second Amendment
Washington DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to keep the legislative filibuster has given Second Amendment supporters something they desperately needed: Time. The next two years will be critical, both to shift the Senate landscape and to also regain the House.
Sinema and Manchin are not the most reliable of champions. In 2018, we noted that Martha McSally was a better choice as compared to the former. The latter could have been replaced by West Virginia Attorney General Pat Morrissey. Those two races, and the failure to beat Jon Tester loom large now. Had we won, it would mean control the Senate stayed in GOP hands, and it would have been a massive check on the Biden-Harris regime.
That is not the case, though. But by keeping the filibuster, it means the Supreme Court keeps its sure 5-4 majority on Second Amendment cases (6-3 if Roberts wants to influence who writes the rulings). That means there is a chance for key Second Amendment cases, like the Duncan case, to reach the Supreme Court, and shift that landscape in our favor.
Homeowner kills a man who broke into his house near Willard, Mo.
NEAR WILLARD, Mo. (KY3) -The Greene County Sheriff’s Office says a homeowner killed a man who broke into his home in the Meadows Subdivision Thursday morning.
Deputies were called to a home in the 6000 block of W. Hawthorn Ct. for a burglary in progress around 4 a.m.
Deputies found the suspect inside the house. They say that man attacked the homeowner before he was killed. Deputies aren’t saying how the homeowner killed the man.
Investigators did not identify the two other people who were in the house when the break-in happened. Those two people weren’t hurt. The homeowner is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Two shot during attempted home invasion
Two people were shot when they allegedly attempted to break into a home in 900 block of S. Gladstone, according to South Bend Police.
Around 1:45 a.m., a citizen called police about shots fired on Silver Lane.
While responding to the area, police were notified about two shooting victims, one in the 900 block of Edison and a second at a local hospital.
During the investigation, officers learned the two shooting victims were attempting to break into a home on Gladstone when the residents fired shots, police said.
The person who was located in the 900 block of Edison was taken to the hospital and is stable.
The second person who was shot was treated at the hospital, then taken to the jail on an unrelated warrant, police said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Islam’s greatest university clutches pearls when archbishop says Muslims are ‘people of war‘
Al Azhar, the Muslim world’s most prestigious if not authoritative Islamic university, recently blasted Jerome, the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, for saying during a January 14 interview that:
“Islam, its people, is not a religion but a political party” — that Muslims are “the people of war … who seek expansion,” which is a “characteristic of Islam.”
Instead of replying with outrage and accusations of “Islamophobia” — as Turkey and other nations did, on January 19, the Observatory, a branch of Al Azhar, denounced “these irresponsible statements by the archbishop of Athens,” adding that they are “merely farcical and empty claims — trivialities unworthy of responding to or discussing.”
Why? Because, continued Al Azhar, “Islam is the final, heavenly message that Allah Almighty sent to our master Muhammad, the seal of the prophets and apostles, to bring humanity from out of the darkness and clutches of ignorance and into the light of truth and the sun of guidance.”
To anyone unconvinced by this hagiographic explanation, Al Azhar continued:
Accusing Muslims of being people of war and expansion is a pure lie — a fraud and falsification of Muslim history, which is replete with forgiveness and pardon[.] … The Prophet’s invasions were either in defense of Muslims or to discipline those who reneged on their pacts[.] … [Islamic history] is inconsistent with the claim that Muslims want to expand!
Indeed, the only thing consistent here is Al Azhar’s denial of the militant, expansionist history of Islam. For example, on April 30, 2020, during his televised program, which is watched by millions in Egypt and the Arab world, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb — Al Azhar’s grand imam and Pope Francis’s close ally — declared that “Islam doesn’t seek war or bloodshed, and Muslims only fight back to defend themselves.”
This somewhat surreal claim was even the grand conclusion reached at — and therefore making a mockery of — a recent mega-conference dedicated to finding solutions to “extremism.” Hosted in Egypt by Al Azhar, and attended by leading representatives from 46 Muslim nations, al-Tayeb capped off the two-day conference by again declaring:
Jihad in Islam is not synonymous with fighting; rather, the fighting practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions is one of its types; and it is to ward off the aggression of the aggressors against Muslims, as opposed to killing those who offend in [matters of] religion, as the extremists claim. The established sharia rule in Islam bans antagonism for those who oppose the religion. Fighting them is forbidden — as long as they do not fight Muslims.
Needless to say, such claims fly in the face of more than a millennium of well documented Islamic history.
The latest computer controlled, programmable, automatic, milling machine to make gun receivers and other stuff.
But mostly gun receivers to totally mind warp the anti-gun pinheads because you can’t stop the signal.
Kansas Eyes Allowing Concealed Carry for People Under 21
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas gun rights supporters are pushing to lower the age for concealed carry of firearms from 21 to 18.
Wichita Republican Rep. Blake Carpenter and a Kansas State Rifle Association lobbyist on Wednesday told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that it’s already legal in Kansas for those 18 to 21 to carry firearms openly in Kansas.
“The second they put on a coat or they put on a jacket — now they are breaking the law,” said rifle association lobbyist Jason Watkins.
The bill would create a provisional permit for those 18 to 21, issued by the state attorney general. Permit holders would have to complete a background check and undergo gun safety training.
UTAH HOUSE PASSES PERMITLESS CARRY
With Republicans comfortably in the driver’s seat and Gov. Spencer Cox in support, the Utah state House on Tuesday gave a big thumbs up to a permitless carry bill.
The measure, HB60, found an easy 54-19 approval largely along party lines in a move that sends it to the Utah Senate for further consideration. The proposal, sponsored by Rep. Walt Brooks (R), is expected to receive similar treatment in that chamber.
“This bill helps protect the rights of self-defense for every Utahan,” said Brooks. “The perception of this law implies a significant change, but the reality is it’s very a small change. You can carry a gun in your home, on your property, in your car, and open carry, but if you cover that open carry gun with your jacket, you’re now breaking the law.”
While keeping the current Concealed Firearm Permit system in place, HB60 simply recognizes the right of a law-abiding adult in the state to carry a concealed firearm without first having to get such a permit. Often described as constitutional carry, over a dozen states have moved to similar laws since 2010.
Battlefield America: The War on the American People, you don’t even have to be a dissident to get flagged by the government for surveillance, censorship and detention.
All you really need to be is a citizen of the American police state.
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead’s terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids. The insidious shift was so subtle that most of us had no idea it was happening. This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A Government of Wolves, is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!―the police state has arrived.
“This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? [The proposed legislation could create] a very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution, and a targeting of almost half of the country.”—Tulsi Gabbard, former Congresswoman
This is how it begins.
Letter to the Editor: We must resist any attempt to weaken 2nd Amendment
Jan 27, 2021
To the editor,
In recent times, gun regulations have been spoken of quite frequently.
I see the point of gun regulation proponents quite frequently, and I empathize with their stories. However much I understand, I disagree with their idea. In my opinion, the most important thing in America is our right to bear arms.
Some people say that the Second Amendment was created exclusively to uphold militias. They argue that the police force is this militia. When you break it down, that is a foolish understanding of the amendment.
The Bill of Rights was established to give rights to the people and to limit the government. The question is would it really make sense for the government to give itself the right to have guns. Ultimately that makes no sense.
So, we have now established that the Second Amendment is established for the people to bear arms. Once we get to this point, many people say that it is only for hunting and self-defense. Once again, upon further examination, this can be concluded as false.
The Second Amendment was established swiftly after the American Revolution. The thought of a revolution was fresh on everyone’s mind. It is entirely reasonable then that they would plant the tools for independence should the event arise again.
So, it can be clearly stated that our right to bear arms in the U.S. has been infringed far past its extended existence. My end point is that we should not stand for gun control any longer.
There is a saying that says “give them an inch and they will take a mile.” This applies especially to the government. We must not give them an inch, or they will take a mile.
Therefore, we must resist so that we may have a more-free future.
Duncan Lamb
Franklin
[Well Regulated] The truth about confiscation
During my freshman year at Cornell in 2018, I presented the pro-gun position on a panel discussion put together by the Roosevelt Institute. All of my fellow panelists held some degree of anti-gun sentiment, ranging from the position that there should be more stringent background check mandates, to a professor who, after I explained that the overwhelming majority of firearms sold today are semi-automatic, asked “Why not ban those?”
The reason I am sharing this anecdote is that during the discussion I made the claim that if given the order to confiscate firearms, the police and military would not comply. At the time I presented some statistics on the number of such state agents vs the number of armed civilians and other factors that would make confiscation as we often envision it impossible.
The same professor as above asked if there was no possibility of confiscation, then why was I opposed to stricter gun laws. Of course, I made an effort to explain the reasons for firearm ownership to him, but that moment has gnawed at me for a while. It is not just because people who hold such strong opinions on the subject have very little knowledge on it (I talked further with one of the people on the panel, and while I won’t mention their name, they did not have any understanding of even the most basic aspects of how any firearms or firearms accessories functioned), but rather that it forced me to readdress a preconception I had held for some time.
Before going further, when we discuss confiscation in the firearms community, it often generates images of police going door to door and searching for weapons. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t happen in the United States of America. Bear in mind that this is not for a lack of motivation. Cuomo, Newsom, and their ilk would surely like nothing more than to crush the boot of the state even further down on the people’s neck. As this column has discussed before, those in power are far more clever than we often give them credit for, and they know that such action would spur a domestic conflict. Instead, they will take our guns slowly and carefully, so that not too many people are imprisoned or raided at once, and the public at large won’t worry. Alternatively, they will find an opportunity to exploit crises.
Well, it seems to work for Pop at 96, so…….
Afternoon nap could boost mental agility, study says.
“You snooze, you lose” may not be true when it comes to your brain: A new study finds that napping in the afternoon may actually boost mental agility.
The study couldn’t prove cause and effect, but a midday nap was associated with a rise in “locational awareness,” verbal fluency and working memory, the Chinese researchers reported this week in the journal General Psychiatry.
THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS AN OBJECTION TO ‘GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY’!
Biden DHS Issues Domestic Terror Alert Warning of ‘Objections’ to ‘Governmental Authority.’
As President Joe Biden set a new record for executive orders in his first few days in office, and as former CIA Director John Brennan compared libertarians to ISIS-style “insurgencies,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a domestic terrorism bulletin warning about “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority.”
It stands to reason that federal law-enforcement agencies may be on edge after the breach of the Capitol on January 6, but Biden’s inauguration went off without a hitch. Threats may indeed exist, but the DHS domestic terrorism bulletin is chilling, considering recent moves that suggest Democrats are planning a new domestic “War on Terror” targeting conservatives.