Glendale police say one person was shot and taken to a hospital where
he later died. The suspected shooter stayed at the scene and is
cooperating with investigators.
As part of the investigation,
detectives learned the drivers were traveling eastbound on Camelback
Road. Officials say when the cars came to a stop at 67th Avenue the
driver of a silver pickup truck, that was hauling a trailer, got out of
his truck and confronted the driver of a smaller tan pickup truck. A
confrontation occurred at the tan's truck driver's side window.
During the confrontation, detectives believe the driver of the tan
truck pulled out a weapon and fired a single shot, striking the other
driver. The injured driver died at the hospital and has been identified
as 29-year-old Ramses Saldano Lopez.
The driver who fired the
weapon, identified as a 23-year-old man, remained at the scene and is
not under arrest, police announced. Officials say the shooter believed
his life was in danger when he fired the shot.
A man who allegedly stole items from a south suburban Walgreens and
pointed a gun at workers was shot and killed by an employee who
possessed a concealed carry license, authorities said.
The shooting was reported at around 2:10 a.m. outside Walgreens, 522
Torrence Ave., in Calumet City. According to authorities, a 42-year-old
man and a 48-year-old woman were approached by employees after exiting
the store without paying for merchandise they had taken.
Employees took the merchandise from the woman, who fled the scene on
foot. The man, however, displayed a handgun when he was approached,
police said. In return, a Walgreen's employee, who possessed a valid
concealed carry license, opened fire, striking the suspect, according to
authorities.
The argument took place at a home in the 1800
block of Noe Bixby Road around 2 a.m. According to a Columbus Police
report, Alexander Oglesby, 32, of the Northeast Side, drove his car onto
the home's lawn in an attempt to hit three people.
One
of the three shot at Oglesby in self-defense and struck him, according
to police. Oglesby was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
On Saturday, September 21, 2024, Chase Melton shot a wolf in defense of self and others. There were several witnesses. It happened near the town of St. Germain, Wisconsin, a township in the North Woods about 20 miles from the border of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A township is usually six by six miles square.
Chase is 19 years old. He and several of his younger friends had risen early to hunt ducks and geese. They arrived at their chosen location about 3:45 a.m. on opening day. They set up their blind and threw out their decoys just before it became legal to shoot. Sunrise was at 6:42, but it started getting light at 6:15. One fourteen-year-old in the group saw what he thought was a deer. Chase stood up and looked. It was a wolf. Melton made noise to scare the wolf off. The wolf looked at him and started moving faster toward the group. From wjfw.com:
“So, I grabbed my gun just in case something would happen,” said Melton. “Then, the 13-year-old who was two people down from me said ‘Chase right behind you!’ I looked, and we had a wolf at about five yards - I probably could have touched it with my hand, that was extremely scary. So now, we’re really panicking were like alright were surrounded we have a wolf charging us right now.” Said Melton.
A witness that was hunting 300 feet away reported seeing at least five wolves surrounding the young hunters’ blind and another four in the general area. The witness also reported hearing barks, growls and howls coming from the wolves surrounding the young hunters’ blind.
“This wolf got within 15 yards and I’m like he’s still coming, he’s still coming, he got withing 8-10 yards and it’s not what I wanted to do but to protect us and to protect them we felt harmed, so I pulled the trigger,” said Melton.
Melton fired one shot, close range at the wolf’s face using a 12-gauge loaded with non-toxic waterfowl load.
“This wolf that was five yards behind us went off into the woods, came down, and then grabbed this wolf that I shot by the neck and started dragging it off. I’ve never witnessed something like that.”
Cannibalism of members of their own pack has commonly been recorded when wolves are severely wounded or killed, if the pack is hungry. With nine members, this pack may be hungry. September is usually a good month for wolves to gain weight for the winter, no snow yet, and all the young animals which survived the summer are still available.
This defense against wolves incident was about 97 miles from the furthest north incident, in Bayfield County, which happened on Christmas or 2023. It was about 92 miles from the February 2024 wolf incident near Hayward, and about 122 miles north of the two more wolf incidents south of Wisconsin Rapids, which happened in 2015.
The wolf population in Wisconsin has been growing rapidly. The original target of 350 wolves has been surpassed long ago. The population is considerably more than 1,000. Under the far left Evers administration, the Department of Natural Resources has created a new wolf plan, without any population limit. The legislature demanded a limit. Governor Evers vetoed the bill on March 29, 2024.
”A person
attempted to gain entry into the residence (and) when he gained
entrance, the homeowner produced a firearm in self-defense and shot the
individual. We believe the burglar lived in the neighborhood,” Mauney
said.
Atlanta
police identified the deceased man as Aubree Clay Horton. Last month,
the Atlanta Police Foundation hosted its annual “Crime is Toast” awards
breakfast, where Horton was recognized as “investigator of the year.”
In a statement shared with Channel 2 Action News, the Atlanta Police Department confirmed Horton joined APD in November 2015 and was most recently part of APD’s fugitive unit.
“We’re
working closely with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office to learn more
about what occurred as they investigate the incident,” their statement
read.
On August 31, 2024, in the neighborhood of Waianae, about 30 miles west of Honolulu, Hiram Silva attacked a home with a large frontloader, ramming cars into the home. The Silva had a rifle and a pistol. Silva then shot women in the carport, killing three and wounding another man and a woman. Silva had four 55 gallon drums of fuel on the front end loader, and is reported as shooting at the fuel drums.
A resident of the home retrieved a pistol, rushed to the carport, shot and killed Silva, stopping the deadly attack before it became an inferno of burning fuel.
This is clearly a case of a legally armed person stopping a mass murder. It remains to be seen if it will be counted by the FBI as such. It is interesting to see how the heroic act was treated in the media. As reported in by the Associated Press, in kpua.net:
Police responded to a 911 call reporting their neighbor was operating a front-end loader and using it to ram multiple cars into the home where a family gathering was taking place, then opened fire at people gathered in the carport. The gunfire hit and killed the three women. A 42-year-old man living in the house shot and killed the man with a handgun, police said.
A man and another woman were injured in addition to the women killed.
Note the emphasis. The defender "shot and killed a man". Of the murderer, "The gunfire hit and killed three women." The defender is personalized as a killer. The attacker just happened to be involved in an incident where "gunfire hit and killed three women".
John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) have been tracking where mass murder has been stopped by armed defenders who are not police.The CPRC found the number from 2014 to 2022 to be under reported by the FBI. The FBI only found 14 cases where an armed defender stopped an active shooting situation. The CPRC found 157.
The resident in Waianae, Hawaii, 42-years-old, was one of the those who had a license to own a handgun in his own home. Handguns are more difficult to obtain in Hawaii than in most of the rest of the United States. Handguns in Hawaii make up more than half of all gun registrations. If we assume the registration numbers for guns over the last 24 years is roughly equivalent to the number of legal guns in Hawaii, then there are about 858 thousand legal guns in Hawaii, and over half of them are handguns. Hawaii, as with some other small states, has a low reported homicide rate. The latest comprehensive data is from 2020. If we look at the six states with populations just above and below the population of Hawaii, Nebraska 3.6 homicides per 100K population. Idaho had 2.2. West Virginia had 3.9. Hawaii had 2.9. New Hampshire had .90. Maine had 1.6. and Montana had 5.0. There doesn't appear to be any correlation. All six other states mentioned have Constitutional or permitless carry.
Consider another island under the jurisdiction of the United States. Both Hawaii and Puerto Rico are tropical islands. Puerto Rico is about a third the size of Hawaii and has twice the population. Puerto Rico had much stricter gun laws until 2020. In 2020, Puerto Rico switched from "may issue" carry permits to "shall issue" carry permits. The homicide rate for Puerto Rico in 2020 was 16.99, a considerable drop form 2019, when the homicide rate was 19.22. Legal gun ownership increased significantly from 2019 to 2023, but is still far lower than that of Hawaii, about .169 legal firearms per capita in Puerto Rico. Those numbers come from National Instant Background Check System figures for Puerto Rico. There are about .6 firearms per capita in Hawaii. The .6 figure comes from adding all the firearm registration in Hawaii from 2000 to 2023. Some of those registrations are known to be duplicates.
Legal gun ownership rates have no correlation to criminal homicides, although they may deter some criminality.
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — An off-duty San Diego Community College police
officer shot and killed a man who stabbed him on Fiesta Island Wednesday
morning, according to the San Diego Police Department.
According
to police, the call about the shooting came in at 10 a.m., and it was
reported in the area of 1053 Fiesta Island Rd. SDPD Lt. Jud Campbell
says the off-duty officer was taken to a nearby hospital via ambulance,
and he is expected to survive the serious injuries sustained from being
stabbed multiple times.
On Wednesday, 25 September, 2024, Houston ex-police officer Gerald Goines was found guilty of two counts of felony murder. Reporters in the courtroom, when the verdict of guilty against former officer Goines was read, said they were shocked he was convicted. Goines has been unconfined for nearly five years after he retired in March of 2019.
The sentencing phase of the current trial will start on September 26, 2024. From click2houston.com:
HOUSTON, Texas – The jury in the high-profile murder trial of former Houston Police Department narcotics officer Gerald Goines reached a verdict of guilty Wednesday afternoon.
Goines was found guilty of two counts of murder in the 2019 Harding Street raid that resulted in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog.
The ex-officer’s sentencing phase will begin Thursday at 10 a.m. He faces up to life in prison. The same jury will also decide his sentence after hearing from witnesses during the punishment phase.
Goines' former partner, Steven Bryant, pleaded guilty to federal charges of alteration or falsification of government records in 2021. His testimony was significant at the Goines trial this past week. From click to Houston on September 12, 2024:
After the shooting, Bryant testified that he heard former HPD Chief Art Acevedo tell several officers to turn off their bodycam video, to which they complied. When asked by attorney Manning if this was policy, Bryant testified “We are supposed to keep out bodycams on during a raid.”
Bryant was then asked by attorney Manning if any of the narcotics team had on bodycam video during the raid, Bryant said no but the narcotics team sergeant did have an independent body camera video.
AmmoLand has been in the forefront of reporting on the bloody Harding Street raid since it became known in January of 2019. At the time, it was reported no officers were wearing body cameras. Now we know there were body cameras, but Chief Acevedo ordered they be turned off. Chief Acevedo resigned from the Houston PD in 2021, to take a position as police chief in Miami, Florida. He was fired after six months on the job. Then he took a position as the police chief in Aurora, Colorado, in December of 2022. He resigned the position in January of 2023. Acevedo was appointed assistant city manager in Austin in January of 2024, but turned down the position later in the month. Acevedo's decision to order officers to turn off body cameras has sparked a controversy.
Four other officers were charged after an investigation by the Harris County Attorney General. From a previous AmmoLand article:
The additional charges are primarily for overcharges of overtime, false claims about money for informants, and tampering with government records. Several of the charges are based on phone records which show what was claimed on government forms could not have happened, given the location records from the phones. One officer characterized them as “paperwork violations”. Small violations led to a sloppy attitude about following the rules. Many would say overcharging on overtime is not a small violation. Then Dennis and Rhogena paid the price.
In January, 2019, two innocent people were killed because dirty police officers lied on a warrant. There is significant evidence the corruption had been ongoing for years. In the aftermath of the raid many are questioning the utility and overuse of no-knock warrants.
CAMDENTON, Mo. — The Camden County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) is
investigating a burglary that ended in a shooting that has left one
dead.
According to a press release for CCSO, deputies were called to a
Camdenton residence on North Highway 7 at around 3 a.m. on Oct. 2 for a
burglary in progress.
The 911 caller told dispatchers that they had shot one of the
burglars, while another drove off in an unknown make and model,
dark-colored vehicle, according to the release. First responders
provided medical care to the suspect, who died at the scene.
On the evening of September 6, 2024, Owen Beierman, 12, and his father, Ryan, 43, were hunting bears near Siren, Wisconsin. Siren is about 50 miles north and 50 miles east of Minneapolis, in northwest Wisconsin. Owen fired a shot at a 200 lb black bear with his .350 Legend rifle. The bear ran off, leaving a strong blood trail. Even mortally wounded bears often run for some distance. The Beiermans borrowed a Labrador retriever from their neighbors and started tracking the bear, about 20 minutes after it was shot. It was already getting dark. Game is often shot just after sunrise or shortly before sunset. The Beiermans could not know if they would find a dead bear or a wounded bear. They were in thick brush when the first indicator happened. The dog came running past them in full retreat. They managed to take a few steps forward, into a slight clearing.
Ryan saw the bear, very close, under an oak tree, only 6-10 feet away. His eyes met the bears, and the bear leaped at him. He fired eight shots, a mag dump, very fast. He says he managed to miss all eight shots. The bear bit his leg, then Ryan pistol whipped the bear with his empty handgun. The bear let go of his leg and attacked his arm and face. Owen, seeing the bear on top of his father, shot the bear again, stopping the attack. It all happened very fast. From the nypost.com:
It was dark when they again came across the wounded bear staring at them from under an oak tree, the dad said.
“He was in a stance like a cat about to pounce,’’ Beierman told the Star Tribune. “The next thing I know, he was on me. He charged and knocked me down,” he said.
“The bear was fighting for its life, and I was fighting for mine.”
The neighbors proved to be very helpful. They loaned their dog to help find the bear. They helped call aid and transported Ryan to where he was transferred to a ambulance They field dressed the bear, and hung it up so the meat would not be spoiled prior to butchering. It is not difficult to find neighbors like this in northern Wisconsin. They are to be treasured. From the nypost.com:
Their neighbors then stepped in to help, with one cleaning the bear and hanging it up for the family while another drove the father and son to the hospital, Ryan said.
The pistol used by Ryan appears to be a Rock Island Tac Ultra FS 10mm.
Here is an image of Ryan's pistol, from the video done by kare11.com.
If you look at the magazine, you can see it has staggered witness holes and a crease before the front of the magazine, both of which are on 10mm magazines from Rock Island, but not on .45 ACP magazines from Rock Island.
Here is a 10mm Rock Island Tac Ultra FS magazine advertised on the Rock Island website.
A 10mm may not be decisive if no shots hit the target. A common adage among shooters is "you cannot miss fast enough". The Tac Ultra FS has light collecting sights. From Foxnews.com:
"I reached for my sidearm initially hoping to scare the bear away with a warning shot," said Ryan. "He was only 5 or 6 feet away, point blank. As he charged, I shot to kill. I shot eight times but missed. I had no time and I never got the gun high enough to use the sights."
Bear attacks have been increasing in Wisconsin with increasing bear and human populations. This bear was shot with a rifle, tracked, shot at with a pistol and finished with a rifle. Because a pistol was fired in defense against a bear, it will be included for completeness of the data. It is a combination defense, not a pure pistol defense. According to kare11.com:
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says the attack on Ryan is the 14th in the state since 2013.
The bear, at 200 lbs, appears to be a young adult boar. When bears are wounded while being hunted, it is far more likely they will attack people who are hunting them. Because this bear did not run further, it is likely the would it received was mortal. It is likely the bear would have expired if allowed a little more time. It is easy to see why the desire to avoid wasting game, combined with dwindling light and an available dog, resulted in a quick response.
A few minutes after 7:45 PM, on Tuesday, October 1, shots were fired
near 4501 Indian School Rd NE, which is east of Washington Street. The
shooting happened outside of the CYFD building. The caller told 911 that
someone allegedly shot his friend and fled on foot. Reportedly, five
shots were fired.
New Mexico State Police were the first to arrive on the scene,
finding a person who had been shot. The Albuquerque Police Department
arrived shortly after. Based on preliminary information, it is believed
that a person was trespassing on CYFD property, the trespasser
supposedly pepper-sprayed the security guard, and the guard then fired
their gun at the trespasser.
Albuquerque Fire Rescue is purportedly transporting the person shot
to a local hospital. Rescue 13 is doing the transport. The individual is
believed to have sustained 4-5 gunshot wounds. The person’s condition
is presently not known.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A robbery attempt in South Nashville sent
two people to the hospital Tuesday night, Metro Nashville police said.
Officers were called to Charles E. Davis Boulevard and Green Street around 7:45 p.m. after shots were fired.
Officials said a male suspect approached another man and pulled out a
gun, requesting the victim remove his clothes, to which he complied.
When the suspect became distracted, the victim reportedly pulled a gun
out of his pants and shot the suspect twice.
Vivian and Gabriel's modest home in Billings, Montana
A notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has been filed in the Gun Free School Zone case in Billings Montana. The notice was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Billings Division. It was filed on August 6, 2024. The case was settled with a plea agreement on August 2, 2024. No fine or prison time was imposed by Judge Susan P. Waters, but Gabriel was sentenced to three years probation. The probation includes paying $75 per month for the costs of administering the probation.
During the court hearings, Gabriel Metcalf preserved the right to appeal through his federal attorney, Russel Hart. From the Notice of Appeal:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Defendant GABRIEL COWAN METCALF, appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the Judgment filed and entered against him in the District Court on August 2, 2024.This appeal is from the District Court’s denial of Mr. Metcalf’s Motion to Dismiss Indictment.
The issue was preserved pursuant to a plea agreement that was accepted by the District Court at the time of sentencing.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED August 6, 2024.
Gabriel has a clean record, with no history of violence or criminal activity. He was repeatedly told by Billings police officers, in person, and in media interviews by police officials, that he was exercising his rights when he was outside his home with a single shot Rossi Shotgun. Gabriel and his mother had been stalked by a neighbor who assaulted Gabriel. The neighbor had been convicted of assault and violating a court order of protection.
Part of the plea deal was for Gabriel to forfeit the Rossi single shot shotgun and the six rounds of ammunition which was found when the federal task force served the warrant to search his and his mother's home.
This case is very clean, without other issues of criminality. It makes for a good challenge to the Gun Free School Zone Act (GFSZA). Montana and therefore, Billings, are in the Ninth District Court of Appeals, which has a history of defying the Supreme Court on Second Amendment cases. Gabriel has a chance of winning with a three judge panel in the Ninth Circuit. The record of the Ninth Circuit is such, if a three judge panel rules in favor of the Second Amendment, the case will be re-heard en banc,and the en banc panel will reverse the case. This only leaves an appeal to the Supreme Court.
There is another case challenging the Gun Free School Zone Act playing out in the Fifth Circuit, in Texas. The case in the Fifth Circuit has attracted the attention of the California Rifle and Pistol Association and the Second Amendment Foundation. They have filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief. Now that the Billings case is being formally appealed, amicus briefs may be filed for it.
The GFSZA was already found to be unconstitutional in 1995, because it was not a valid use of federal power. President Clinton and his Attorney General Janet Reno pushed to have 12 words in the act changed, which some courts have found to render the act acceptable under the Constitution. The current challenge is based on the Second Amendment, not the Commerce Clause.
Gabriel and his mother, Vivian, are barely scraping by in Billings. Gabriel’s mother, Vivian, has set up a GiveSendGo accountto aid in defense of their home and the expenses arising from the case.
Fort Worth, Texas - A man was shot by a homeowner early Monday morning after allegedly throwing a rock at the homeowner, Fort Worth police said.
The incident occurred around 3:30 a.m. on Museum Way in the West 7th
area, where the man was reportedly attempting to trespass on the
homeowner’s property. After the man allegedly threw a rock, the
homeowner shot him in the leg, police said.
A teenage robber reportedly armed with a fake gun was shot by his would-be victim Sunday night in Kensington, police said.
Officers responded at around 11 p.m. to the 2300 block of N.
Front Street, where they found a 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to
his leg, authorities said. He was transported to St. Christopher’s
Hospital for Children with nonlife-threatening injuries, according to
the PPD.
JONESBORO, Ark. — A suspected aggravated residential burglary was stopped early Saturday in Jonesboro after the suspect was shot.
Between 5:15 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. on Sept.
28 at the 1100 block of Walker PL, police responded after a report said a
suspect attempted to climb into a victim’s window and was shot by
another male, the police report said. The report alleged the suspect was
the ex-boyfriend of the victim and tried to break into her apartment.
SKS rifle left at fence line in golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida
In a document offered to the court in the case of US v. Routh, the prosecution puts forward facts which detail evidence of a near successful assassination attempt against former President and leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Routh traveled to North Carolina prior to stalking former President Trump. He monitored Trump's movements on social media. He traveled to Florida, then stalked the former president for nearly a month before the assassination attempt. The rifle left at the scene was an SKS with an aftermarket stock and an aftermarket extended magazine. Only 11 rounds of 7.62x39 ammunition, with brown lacquered steel cases, were found in the rifle at the scene. The mounting of the scope on the rifle was unusual for the United States. It was clamped onto the dust cover with clamps which extend completely around the rifle. This is said to be a common method of attaching a telescopic sight to an SKS in the middle east.
When Routh was taken into custody a few minutes after he fled from the fence line by the golf course, he had two extra license plates and six cell phones. From the court document:
14. Law enforcement discovered that the license plate on the Nissan Xterra was not registered to the Nissan Xterra. During a search of the Nissan Xterra, FBI agents found two additional license plates. The agents also found six cellphones. One of the cell phones contained a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico. The agents also found 12 pairs of gloves; a Hawaii Driver’s License in the Defendant’s name; a passport in the Defendant’s name; and documents, including the following:
a. A handwritten list of dates in August, September, and October 2024 and venues where the former President had appeared or was expected to be present.
b. A notebook with dozens of pages filled with names and phone numbers pertaining to Ukraine, discussions about how to join combat on behalf of Ukraine, and notes criticizing the governments of China and Russia.
15. The FBI obtained cell site records for two of the cell phones found in the Nissan Xterra. The two cell phones are serviced by different carriers that utilize different cell towers. The FBI’s analysis shows the following:
a. ROUTH traveled from the Greensboro, North Carolina, area, to West Palm Beach, Florida, on August 14, 2024.
b. On multiple days and times from August 18, 2024, to September 15, 2024, ROUTH’s cell phone accessed cell towers located near Trump International and the former President’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Routh's field craft as a sniper was less than stellar. He hung ballistic plates in a backpack and reusable shopping bag on the chain link fence. This could easily have drawn attention to his position. A Secret Service agent was looking at the fence line, while driving a golf cart on the West Palm Beach course in advanced of Trump. The agent saw Routh's face in the fence line. then they saw the rifle, pointed in their direction. The exited the golf cart on the opposite side. When they saw the muzzle of the rifle move, the agent fired shots at the position of the rifle. This is when Routh fled the scene.
The golf cart track by the 6th hole green runs less than 50 feet from the fence line. If Routh had hidden his face, not hung suspicious objects on the fence line, and used rudimentary camouflage, he might easily have escaped detection.
A witness disclosed a letter to the FBI, which he claimed Routh left with him, several months ago. In the letter, Routh is alleged to have apologized for having failed in his attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.
Analysis: The second attempted assassination of former President and current leading candidate Donald Trump was serious and reasonably well thought out. With a little better execution, if could have been successful. It would not have succeeded with a little more preparation by the Secret Service. The security vulnerabilities at this location were well known. Agents could have deliberately checked them out instead of getting lucky. Dogs could have been used to detect well camouflaged threats. Perhaps Donald Trump got lucky, again. Perhaps divine providence intervened.
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” -- Thomas Jefferson
Syndicated columnist Charley Reese (1937-2013): "Gun control by definition affects only honest people. When a politician tells you he wants to forbid you from owning a firearm or force you to get a license, he is telling you he doesn’t trust you. That’s an insult. ... Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people."
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles -- Jeff Cooper (1920-2006)
Note for non-American readers: Crime reports from America which describe an offender just as a "teen" or "teenager" almost invariably mean a BLACK teenager.
We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Two lines below of a famous hymn that would be incomprehensible to Leftists today ("honor"? "right"? "freedom?" Freedom to agree with them is the only freedom they believe in)
First to fight for right and freedom,
And to keep our honor clean
It is of course the hymn of the USMC -- still today the relentless warriors that they always were.
The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) said: "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
How much do you know about Trayvon Martin? It's all here (Backups here and here)
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” -- Robert A. Heinlein
After all the serious stuff here, maybe we need a funny picture of a cantankerous cat
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