Heritage Foundation’s online DGU database. Add it to your bookmarks.

Defensive Gun Uses in the U.S.

All of the law-abiding citizens featured in this database successfully defended their liberties, lives, or livelihoods with the lawful use of a firearm. These cases are not based on hearsay, but on verifiable reports found through public sources.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. There’s good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets.

This database, therefore, is not intended to be comprehensive. Instead, it highlights just a fraction of the incredible number of times Americans relied on the Second Amendment—not the government getting there in time—to protect their inalienable rights. Despite the limitations on data, these confirmed cases of defensive gun use help prove that the “good guy with a gun” is not a myth, but an integral part of American society.

Weird way the reporter refers to what is a home invasion burglary.

Man shot during home intrusion argument in east Toledo

TOLEDO (WTVG) – An alleged home intruder was shot in a east Toledo residence early Tuesday morning.

Police responded to a person shot early around 1 a.m. in the 400 block of 4th St. When they arrived, they learned Darnell Jones, 28, entered the residence of James Hardwick, 29, without his knowledge or invitation. Jones has a listed address next door to Hardwick.

After a verbal exchange, Jonathon Hardwick, 26, of Springfield, fired one round from his Glock 40 caliber pistol, striking Jones in the chest.

Jones was transported to Mercy St. Vincent’s Medical Center. His wounds are not believe to be life threatening, according to police.

The investigation is ongoing.

Police identify man involved in fatal home invasion

RAND SALINE, Texas (KETK) – A home invasion turned fatal Tuesday morning after the homeowner shot the man.

The Grand Saline Department is investigating the fatal shooting that took place in the 1100 block of W. Frank Street. It happened just before 3:00 a.m. Tuesday when a man reportedly entered someone’s home and the homeowner shot him.

EMS crews arrived and were unable to resuscitate him. The victim has been identified as Nathan Shields, 35.

The investigation is ongoing

NIH Pans Hydroxychloroquine, Sets Up Multiple New Media Narratives

Yet another highly-predictable outcome. – Late Tuesday, a panel of “experts” – the same kind of “experts” who assured us just a month ago that the Wuhan Virus would kill 2 million Americans – announced their disapproval for hydroxychloroquine in combination with axithromycin as a treatment for the Wuhan Virus.

Here’s an excerpt from an NPR report on the matter:

A panel of experts convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommends against doctors using a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 patients because of potential toxicities.

“The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with QTc prolongation in patients with COVID-19,” the panel said.

QTc prolongation increases the risk of sudden cardiac death.

The recommendation against their combined use would seem to fly in the face of comments made by President Trump suggesting the combination might be helpful. On March 21, for example, the president described them in a tweet as having a “real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.”

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In English, the QTc prolongation means that HCQ can be dangerous for people who suffer from irregular heartbeats, an affliction most common among seniors, who are already vulnerable to the virus. This is in fact a long-known side effect of HCQ.

Trump says US will ‘destroy’ Iranian gunboats that harass American ships

President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that the United States would destroy Iranian gunboats that harass American ships at sea.

The threat, which contributed to a recovery in oil prices, came days after the Pentagon claimed that ships from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy took “dangerous and provocative” actions near U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships in the Persian Gulf.

“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” the president wrote in a post on Twitter.

West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, rose more than than 30% on Wednesday after slumping to historic lows this year as the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand. Iran produced 3% of the world’s oil last year.

Six U.S. military vessels were conducting training operations in international waters last week when 11 Iranian ships “crossed the bows and sterns of the U.S. vessels at extremely close range and high speeds,” according to the April 15 U.S. Navy statement.

At one point, the Iranian ships came within 10 yards of the Coast Guard cutter Maui’s bow.

Wasn’t all this Shelter-In-Place lockdown supposed to be for nothing more than ‘flattening the curve­™’ just so the healthcare system/hospitals wouldn’t be overrun with sick people?

US records lowest coronavirus-related deaths in 2 weeks

Monday marked the lowest number of coronavirus-related fatalities in the U.S. in two weeks, just days after the number of deaths had spiked to 4,591 in a single day. According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. lost 1,433 people to coronavirus on April 20, adding to the overall death toll of 42,364.

According to the data, nearly 93 percent of all U.S. deaths from the pandemic have occurred in the past three weeks, 44 percent of which have occurred over the last seven days. But after several sharp spikes last week, the number seems to be slowing, with the data reflecting an average of 600 less deaths than previous days.

The news comes as several states begin cautiously plotting out plans to slowly reopen businesses as early as the end of this week. Georgia, which as of Tuesday had 19,398 cases and at least 774 deaths, will reopen gyms, hair salons and other businesses beginning on Friday.

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices.

This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide.

Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple match-powered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult and the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic potato cannon has a new evil twin-the piezo-electric spud gun-and the electromagnetic pipe gun has joined the company of such favorites as the tennis ball mortar.

With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July.

 

bumped…..just because I didn’t want anyone to miss it.

What do you do when the political opposition writes your campaign ads for you?
And it looks like 80 year old SanFranNan has gone to her dermatologist for a new Botox treatment …………or embalming.

5 CCW Tips For Older Armed Citizens

By Sheriff Jim Wilson

As we get older, we must keep in mind that we can still be a target for criminal attack. In fact, we may become even more of a target as the years catch up with us. The crooks see the gray hair, the wrinkles and figure that we will be less likely to resist and less likely to be armed. Age may cause us to have physical problems to deal with, but many of them can be overcome. We owe it to ourselves and our families to be as tough a target as is humanly possible. Here are a few ideas to help older defensive shooters deal with their issues.

5. Increase Mobility With Exercise.

The older we get, the more important exercise is to our maintaining our body strength and mobility. If you have health issues, it is critical that you do not start an exercise program without consulting with a physician. Just as with the optometrist, you may find it a bit more comfortable to find a physician who enjoys the shooting sports.

When you start hunting for a doctor who is a member of our shooting fraternity, you will be amazed at just how many of them there are. I don’t want to sound “New Age” here, but the fact is that a yoga class, especially one for older folks, is a great way to increase your agility and mobility. However, if you have any doubts about your ability, take the time to consult with a physician.

That’s got to be disheartening for the thug. You’d bet he’s believing he’s got away from the police, hopping fences, running from yard to yard and then he hits one yard and the folks there haul out a gun and pop him a good one.

Sacramento County homeowner shoots suspect who led officers on chase

A suspect who led law enforcement on a vehicle chase from Rocklin to Sacramento County on Monday was shot by a bystander after getting out of the vehicle and running from the scene, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said.

The suspect was taken to the hospital for treatment with non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office said.

The suspect was wanted in connection with attempting to rob Rocklin businesses over the weekend, Rocklin police said. The suspect smashed his car into a nail salon and a cell phone store on Commons Drive. Investigators said they did not find any items missing, so far.

On Monday, an officer in an unmarked Rocklin police car saw the suspect vehicle around 6:15 p.m. near Eureka Road and Interstate 80. A patrol unit responded to the scene and tried to pull over the suspect.

However, the suspect drove away, leading officers on a chase, police said.

The California Highway Patrol took over the chase, which entered Sacramento County.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said deputies then got involved, saying the suspect was seen, at one point, going westbound in the eastbound lanes of I-80 near Watt Avenue.

The chase eventually ended in the Foothill Farms area of Sacramento County when the suspect got out of the car and ran.

A homeowner who lives in the 4400 block of Belmont Place Lane shot the suspect, the sheriff’s office said. The homeowner and his wife were on their back patio. At some point, the homeowner said he feared for his life and shot the suspect.

“It’s unclear at this time if the suspect had gained entry into the residence or if he attempted to gain entry or what the nature of that confrontation was with the homeowner,” Sacramento County sheriff’s Sgt. Tess Deterding said. “But we do know that the homeowner fired at the suspect, striking him and that he was transported to an area hospital.”

The sheriff’s office said it is too soon to determine whether the homeowner could face any charges. At this point, investigators believe the shooting was in self-defense.

No law enforcement officer fired their weapon, the sheriff’s office said. The homeowner was not injured.

Deputies detained a passenger who was in the car with the suspect, the sheriff’s office said.

No other details were released.

Well, the bug isn’t slowing the jihadis down.

Anchorage Man Who Claimed Loyalty to ISIS Enters Guilty Plea

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (KINY) — Gavin Lee Casdorph, 21, pled guilty to charges he made threats to detonate several bombs across the campus at Lafayette College.

Casdorph posed as a radicalized Lafayette College student and used the handle “BdanJafarSaleem” on Twitter and posted that he planned to bomb multiple locations on campus.

The posts also pledged allegiance to ISIS and included an image of the ISIS flag as well as a photograph of several firearms.

The post included the captain, “Allah has graced us with these weapons of destruction to carry out his needs.”

First-Time Buyers Explain Why Coronavirus Drove Them to Gun Stores in Record Numbers

Aaron Eaton learned how to shoot in the Army back in 2006 but holstered a pistol for the last time when he left in 2009 and took a job as a technician for a sewer company. That all changed on March 26 when the father of four walked out of an Alabama gun store with a Beretta 92FS, the same gun he handled as a military policeman at the height of the Iraq war.

“Simply put: I wanted peace of mind when it comes to the safety of my family,” Eaton said.

Eaton’s pistol was one of 2.3 million firearms to fly off the shelves in March, the single busiest month for gun sales ever. The Washington Free Beacon spoke to half a dozen new gun owners who purchased a total of six handguns and two shotguns. All of the new gun owners provided proof of purchase, though some asked not to have their last names published because of potential career backlash.

“To me, it’s all about protecting my family, and if a gun makes that easier, so be it,” Scott, a California tech worker with a wife and daughter, said.

Many of the new gun owners cited concerns about personal protection as states began emptying jail cells and police departments announced they would no longer enforce certain laws. Jake Wilhelm, a Virginia-based environmental consultant and lacrosse coach, purchased a Sig Sauer P226 after seeing Italy enact a nationwide lockdown on March 9.

“[My fiancée and I] came to the conclusion in early March that if a nation like Italy was going into full lockdown, we in the U.S. were likely on the same path,” Wilhelm said. “Given that, and knowing that police resources would be stretched to the max, I decided to purchase a handgun.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade group, said new customers represented a large swath of new gun sales even as gun stores faced depleted stocks and shutdown orders from state and local governments across the country. “A large portion of the 2.3 million sales during the month of March were to first-time buyers is what we’re hearing back from our retailers,” Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the group, said.

Retailers told the Free Beacon they’d never experienced anything like the recent surge of new buyers.

Lexington and Concord — Where the Rubber Meets the Road

The New York Time’s controversial “1619 Project” and the historians’ war it sparked illustrate how this country’s founding — the American Revolution — is the cornerstone of our collective understanding of this country’s present. The “1619 Project” gives readers a race-themed narrative of the Revolution in an effort to help them see racism as pervasive in American life today. Such efforts to enlist the Revolution for a cause are not new — attempts to shape public opinion and public policy in the present often begin with a retelling of the country’s birth.

When, in 1861, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln delivered their inaugural speeches — Davis as president of the Confederate States of America, Lincoln as president of the United States of America — both included a narration of the Revolution. Davis’ history lesson supported his claim that secession was peaceful and constitutional, that Northerners should accept it as such, and that the upper South should feel free to follow the lower South into secession. Lincoln’s history lesson supported his own claim that secession was unlawful and insurrectionary, that Americans in the North and upper South should reject it as such, and that the deep South should return to the Union. During that deadly war, both sides continued to retell Southern and Northern audiences about the Revolution, connecting the cause of the Civil War to the cause of the Revolution. These were efforts to inspire Americans to recommit themselves to the spirit of 1776, endure the hardships of war, and sacrifice more for victory. Most famously, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address began with a particular framing of the Revolution and ended with a challenge to his generation of Americans to vindicate — with military victory — what his history lesson asserted as the core cause of the Revolutionary generation.

Proponents and opponents of future major national projects — from foreign wars to various domestic initiatives and Constitutional reforms — have likewise used the Revolution as a springboard for their public-relations campaigns. Public-policy advocates have thus introduced Americans to various reinterpretations of the Revolution, as correctives to the traditional explanation of what had animated Americans to rebel in 1775. In place of the original explanation offered by the colonists themselves (about a lawless British government that violated its colonists’ ancient English liberties), Americans have been introduced to alternative interpretations that claim to identify the rebels’ true agenda — class conflict, national self-determination, lower taxes, white supremacy, slavery, commercial expansion, anti-Catholicism, or hunger for land on the western frontiers.

The Revolution’s military history is notably missing in these new narratives.   This is because the Revolution’s battlefields (and Lexington and Concord in particular) are where these reinterpretations of the Revolution are tested against common sense.   When an average reasonable person contemplates the 70 American farmers and shopkeepers who ventured to stop 700 redcoats on the Lexington Green 245 years ago today, s/he has a hard time reconciling that scene with the narratives listed above.   This reasonable reader cannot see how those 70 militiamen, with guns suicidally drawn against a vastly larger force of professional soldiers, were advancing their economic self-interest, suppressing class tensions, claiming land out West, promoting commerce, or defending slavery.

The Revolution was, first and foremost, a war.   The Revolution’s battles and campaigns thus offer sound insights as to the rebels’ motivation and aims;  the Battle of Lexington and Concord more so than any other.   The Revolution’s military history offers a prosaic, simple, and traditional narrative about what spurred Anglo-Americans to take up arms against Britain in 1775-76.   It paints the Revolution as a mass movement of common people, both on the home-front (where innumerable Americans offered military service through local militias) and on the front lines.  There is no need to seek hidden motives for this rebellion when the rebels’ stated rationale is utterly believable.  Colonists believed that their benign imperial government had suddenly turned against them, becoming lawless in curtailing longstanding English practices of self-government in American courts, towns, and legislatures.   Lawless governments are genuinely scary — in the 18th century as in the 21st — and Americans’ alarm was plainly on display in countless public addresses and private letters, pamphlets and editorials, petitions and remonstrances, street demonstrations, and election returns.

When they were punished for this resistance, they left their homes and their daily lives to fight against their government —  many of them never to return.   And while we know that the Patriots were eventually victorious (and that the United States went from strength to strength thereafter), they did not know they would succeed.   In fact, they had good reason to fear that they would fail.   It’s an extraordinary story.   For many, it is too extraordinary to be true, which is why they gravitate to those alternative Revolutionary narratives that claim to identify Patriots’ unspoken motives and designs.   To judge whether these are more credible than the rebels’ own narrative, put them to the Lexington and Concord test.

Joe Biden exposes #MeToo movement as hypocritical BS.

Ruth Marcus, WaPo Columnist Who Wrote A Book About Brett Kavanaugh Now Says #BelieveAllWomen Is ‘Dumb’ Given Accusations Against Joe Biden.

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who wrote a book about sexual assault accusations made against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and defended Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the pages of her newspaper, now says the “#BelieveAllWomen” and “#MeToo” movement are “dumb” — because a similar, but credible sexual assault allegation has been leveled against the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.

In a shocking editorial for The Washington Post, Marcus lashes out not just at Biden’s alleged accuser, Tara Reade — who has now filed a criminal complaint against Biden and who has a record of contemporaneous claims made against the then-federal legislator — but at the anti-sexual assault movement altogether.

“Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism,” Marcus writes. “[I]t is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach.”

Reade, she says, is not telling the truth.

“This column represents a good-faith effort to grapple with the seriousness of, and flaws in, the Reade allegations,” Meade writes. “My conclusion is that while Ford’s allegations are on balance stronger, those who took Ford’s complaints seriously cannot simply dismiss Reade’s claims out of hand. I don’t think what Reade claimed happened, yet the evidence is murky.”

Although both Reade’s and Dr. Ford’s claims are thinly sourced, Reade’s story has a couple of important elements that Dr. Ford’s doesn’t: friends who remember Reade speaking about the assault around the time it allegedly happened and a willingness on Reade’s part to approach law enforcement with the claims…………….

American Overseas

“This crisis has clearly distinguished the two parties and their attitudes towards America. With the people hurting, many sick and dying, many others with the stress of having lost their jobs, businesses, or livelihood, President Trump has stepped up and done his best to help. Whether he has always said and done the exact best thing is problematic–there is no perfect human. But he has put forth an unrelenting effort to help the American people through these hard times. That’s what good people do.

On the other hand, the Democrats and MSM have done nothing but play politics. They have incessantly criticized everything the President has done, Pelosi has twice delayed needed financial assistance to Americans, the Democrats have unfailingly served as lackeys to defend our enemies, denounced the President for not being prepared with enough tests, masks, ventilators, etc., while never once lifting a finger to help….I think one can be excused if one does, indeed, think that Pelosi and the Democrats do not care about the American people, but only care about using this tragedy to take down the President. THEY LOVE THEMSELVES FAR MORE THAN THEY LOVE AMERICA!!

In a crisis, good people with character rise above the petty and mundane things like politics to help their fellow man. Uncaring, selfish human scum with no character use a crisis to benefit themselves–looters in a storm. If the American people, collectively, have any character at all, they will re-elect Donald Trump in November and massacre the Democrats. If Biden and the Democrats win, it says only that, at this point in history, the American people are a sorry, debauched group of people who will probably end up as a Third World sh*thole nation. Some parts of the country, like the part Pelosi represents, already are, which is the only reason she is in Congress in the first place. Sh*thole nations elect sh*thole people.”

Suspect shot after stealing vehicle, trying to break into home

PHOENIX — A man is behind bars after Phoenix police say he stole a vehicle and tried to break into a home.

It started around 10:00 p.m. Thursday when officers got a call about a stolen car near 51st Street and Van Buren.

Authorities say 32-year-old Ryan Johnson Davis forced his way into the vehicle and drove off.

The owner received minor injuries during a struggle while attempting to stop Davis.

Police say Davis then drove to the area of 53rd Street and Indian School.

Officers say that’s where he tried to break into a home and was shot by the homeowner.

He was arrested and taken to a hospital to get treated for a gunshot wound.

He was released from the hospital and booked into the Maricopa County Jail for robbery, theft of means of transportation, residential burglary and trespassing.

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Nancy Pelosi Wants You to Sit Down, Shut Up, and Obey Government Coronoavirus Decrees

Apparently, protesting is a right reserved only for certain people of the liberal persuasion. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks it’s “really unfortunate” that some Americans are pushing back against draconian decrees by governors and mayors by protesting the loss of some freedoms.

The Hill:

Pelosi  told “Fox News Sunday” that she couldn’t understand why Americans are protesting strict measures to keep people at home, saying that one of the answers to the pandemic is to “shelter in place.”

“That is really the answer,” Pelosi said. “Testing. Tracing. Treatment. Shelter in place… But, you know, people will do what they do.”

“The fact is, we’re all impatient. We all want out. But what they’re doing is really unfortunate,” she said.

Some protesters have been irresponsible. But most of the protests across the country have been “drive-in” protests with people sitting in their cars honking their horns and creating traffic jams. It’s not the lack of social distancing that has Pelosi and governors upset. It’s the challenge to their authority that’s eating at them.

Pelosi in a separate interview broadcast Sunday morning, however, said she wouldn’t “exaggerate the protests.”

“There are some in some places, largely where there’s a Democratic governor. But I think of it largely as a distraction and the president’s embrace of it as a distraction from the fact that he has not appropriately done testing, treatment, contact tracing, and quarantine,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Health officials warn that the gatherings could inadvertently help further the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and ultimately lead to an extension of stay-at-home measures. Many experts also say that the U.S. must have widespread testing availability and a contact-tracing program in place in order to safely reopen portions of the economy.

Texas Governor Gregg Abbot is a Republican and 1000 people just showed up in Austin to protest his policies. South Carolina Governor McMaster is a Republican and there were protests there too.

People are not protesting against Democrats as much as they’re demonstrating against the growing power of government. Politicians are certainly not letting this crisis go to waste as they flex their muscles to bend citizens to their will.

Are we supposed to believe that politicians from small-town mayors to Congress in Washington are just going to give up this power once the crisis is past?

[There is more than one way that they’ll give up that power, or today isn’t the 245th anniversary of ‘The Shot Heard Round The World’]

Several states are using drones to catch people failing to adhere to social distancing guidelines. I’m sure local and state politicians will think of many uses for those drones once the crisis is past.

Right now, it’s the right protesting, largely to get government out of the way and let people get back to work. But once this crisis has passed, it’s likely that both left and right will find reasons to protest this aggrandizing power grab by government.

If not, then we owe Ben Franklin an apology, who told us that we had a republic, “if you can keep it.”

Sorry, Ben. We couldn’t keep it.

Top Ten Surprising Consequences of Covid-19 Hysteria:

1: Democrat governors rediscover Federalism.
2: Wanna-be totalitarians can’t help but unmask themselves.
3: Trump gets a daily platform to smack the media around (watched by millions).
4: The CDC is exposed as just another dysfunctional .gov agency.
5: FDA, same as above.
6: WHO, same as FDA, CDC.
7: The US media is in China’s pocket.
8: “Models” are completely useless except to frighten citizens.
9: We now know Nancy Pelosi has two $24,000.00 fridges.

And the 10th most surprising consequence of the Covid-19 hysteria?
Donald Trump was right about China the whole time, and everybody who didn’t know it before knows it now.

The Bill of Rights Matter – Even in a Pandemic

The Founding Fathers realized one of the most important aspects of life – our rights are not granted by man, but by God. They understood that if any government is responsible for giving rights to an individual, those freedoms and liberties can be quickly taken away. Instead, when the Bill of Rights was composed, they agreed and recognized that God is the authority of our prerogatives. Whether an elected official likes the Bill of Rights or not, they must adhere to them at all times, not just when it is convenient for them.

New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy was on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight this past week for an interview on the condition on the state. During the conversation, Carlson mentioned the widely publicized incident of 15 men arrested at a synagogue after attending an orthodox Jewish funeral, accused of violating the governor’s edict against large gatherings. Carlson asked Murphy,” By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order? How do you have the power to do that?”

Murphy’s response is indicative of an authoritarian. He chuckled at Carlson’s question and said, “that’s above my pay grade Tucker,” but did not say who’s pay grade it was. Murphy is the governor of the state of New Jersey. He sits in the highest political office. His decisions affect every citizen and anyone who passes through while traveling or on business. There is no one else above him politically. Murphy rejected responsibility.

Also, did you notice Murphy’s reaction to the question about the Bill of Rights? He chuckled. That is what he thinks about your rights as a United States citizen. His response should not surprise anyone. The Democrats laugh at the Constitution daily – they hate it. They abhor the fact that it restricts them from doing what they want to accomplish full-blown socialism.

Murphy could not answer Carlson’s question directly. He made excuses and blamed an imaginary person who is making other executive decisions in the state of New Jersey. Why? He knows that he cannot answer the question truthfully – the Democrats are in a power grab.

Carlson’s question was necessary for this reason: we have seen too many Democratic politicians act like the Bill of Rights does not apply to them. Since we are amid a pandemic, certain governors are governing by executive edict.

There were congregants cited for attending a drive-in church service in Mississippi after the Democratic mayor issued an executive order against them. The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, Democrat Greg Fischer, attempted to ban the same type of church service but failed after a judge overruled him. The Kentucky governor ordered the State Police to record all vehicle license registration plates of any vehicle in a church parking lot on Easter Sunday with the threat of forced quarantine.

It is ironic. Democrats are proponents for a more powerful federal government with less power handed to states, except now there is a Republican president in office. All of a sudden, they are enjoying States Rights, perhaps to the point of illegal decrees.

The Bill of Rights guarantees us individual freedoms in America. It gives power to the people and restricts the government from reaching too far into our lives. It is one of the most precious documents in the founding of our country – without it, there is tyranny.

The COVID-19 virus is dangerous. It is responsible for the death of thousands of people. Pandemics do not annul our Constitution, and Civil liberties are under assault by the left.

The Democratic Party does not care about liberties and freedoms as initially intended. They are more concerned with creating a victim mentality nationwide, making their victims feel entitled to certain rights, government checks, and social entitlement.

Pandemics are not new and have been around for thousands of years, causing countless deaths. The Founders did not place anything in the Bill of Rights about widespread illness, and there are no clauses in the Constitution about them. Freedom is inherently dangerous. Much less perilous than security granted by the government, however. 

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

Burglary suspect killed in northwest Arizona shootout

A shootout between a burglary suspect and a good Samaritan on Wednesday afternoon in Mohave County, Arizona, left the suspect dead and the good Samaritan fighting for his life.

According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, authorities were called to an address on the 1600 block of Amana Road in the Dolan Springs community about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a person shot.

An investigation indicated that two people were checking on a neighbor’s residence when they stumbled across someone leaving the home, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The burglary suspect, identified by authorities as Alan Marc Baker, 51, of Dolan Springs, then discharged a rifle in the direction of the neighbors, striking one of them. One of the neighbors was armed and returned fire, authorities said.

Deputies found Baker dead in a nearby desert area. The wounded neighbor, a 54-year-old man, was flown to Las Vegas for treatment of what were described as life-threatening injuries.

According to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office, Baker “could be linked to multiple other burglaries in the Dolan Springs area,” and the investigation is ongoing.

Stockton man stabs self then is shot and killed by apartment complex security guard

STOCKTON, Calif. — A man is dead after threatening a security guard at an apartment complex in Stockton.

According to a Facebook post by the Stockton Police Department, around 8 p.m. Friday, April 17, police received a call of a shooting at an apartment complex along the 2400 block of Country Club Boulevard. Upon arrival, officers found a 52-year-old man dead from stab and gun shot wounds.

During the course if their investigation, officers learned the deceased, whose name has not yet been released by police, first stabbed himself, then ran towards a security guard at the complex with the knife. The guard instructed the man to drop the knife. When he didn’t, the guard shot him.

The security guard attempted to save the man’s life, but was unsuccessful.

Army Corps of Engineers Considering Expanded Firearm Policy

The Army Corps of Engineers, which manages more than 400 waterways in the U.S. and many of the recreational opportunities found there—camping, fishing, boating, hiking and more—is accepting written comments on a proposal to modernize its firearm policy and better recognize the right to self-defense.

“This proposed revision would align the Corps regulation with the regulations of the other Federal land management agencies by removing the need for an individual to obtain written permission before possessing a weapon on Corps projects,” the announcement explains.

Hunting and fishing during authorized seasons, in designated areas with proper licenses—and law enforcement—are the only exceptions under the current regulation. Comments will be accepted through June 12, 2020.

The proposal explains, “…the revised regulation would permit an individual to possess a weapon and associated ammunition when the possession both complies with the Federal, state, and local law where the project is located, and the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the weapon.” Gun owners with a valid concealed carry permit at this time are required to secure written permission, although that would change if the new regulation is formally adopted.

The Army Corps of Engineers manages projects across 43 different states, with many home to extremely popular recreation areas. Camping facilities are well developed in many of them and often include the full hookups and amenities that attract expensive recreational vehicles. Ninety percent are within 50 miles of major metropolitan areas—convenient location for outdoor enthusiasts as well as opportunistic criminals..

Comments on the proposed change can be e-mailed to firearms@usace.army.mil or sent in writing to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: CECW-CO-N, Steve Austin, 3F68, 441 G Street NW, Washington DC 20314-1000. Include docket number COE-2018-0008 in the subject line or letter.