Delta Force Personal & Family Defense

How to Survive a School or Workplace Shooting

Having given this topic considerable thought, I believe that my lifetime has provided an expertise, which can help prepare people to not become victims in a school or workplace  shooting or massacre such as we have witness of late. Although I plan to flesh out greater detail in a plan of this kind, I felt a list of things for anyone who may be threatened by such concerns should be placed immediately in their hands in the form of a list.

1. Take time to prepare for the untinkable, by consiously thinking about and devising a plan of action to be enacted if you are ever confront such evil. Foremost in this plan is to not depend totally on others. When the chips are down, you have only yourself to depend on. Adopting such a view will assist your development of an effective plan.
2. In a crisis, keep your head.  Don't panic. Think as cloearly as possible and work your plan. Maybe you should have a written plan to refer to to help combat the inclination to just freak out, which most certainly will lead you to disaster.
3. If practicable, discuss your plan with allies within your school or workplace. the only downside to this is that if one of your confidants is the shooter, he will know what you might do.
4. Learn to use cover to secure yourself and move in relative safety with a harmful nut on the loose. Remember too, that the nut can use any number of other weapons besides guns, such as knives, sticks, baseball bat, fire and firebombs, automobiles, powertools, etc., so don't confine your preparations to one scenario or place. Because of my lifelong orientation, I personally, almost automatically, seek a dynamic plan as i move about, whether it be at church, or driving, at the hospital, or while in restruantns and stores. I try to be seated, for example, in view of everything happening in a retruant, all entrances (which may also become accessible exits), possible cover and weapons of opportunity, and I rightly or wrongly survey the faces and bodies of everyone in the place. I beleive that everyone is embued with an inate ability to read suspicious body-language. Training can also enhance this ability as well as help us determine who may be carrying weapons and where.
5. Many people don't realize the limits of various weapons, including and maybe even especially firearms, and more specifically, handguns. Most common self-defense or target practice handgun calibres and/or loads are not unstopable. I have conducted private experiments finding that virtually any thick textbook is inpenetrable by these bullets. Other effective barriers are solid doors, wooden desks, desk drawers, filing cabinets when filled with contents. These facts should be borne in mind as a plan is contemplated. One person, and certainly two or several persons acting in concert, using books, makeshift clubs, chairs, desk-legs, pens and pensils, blinds, or shade shafts and mounting rods, or other weapons of opptunity, can easily approach in relative safety, disarm, and subdue or disable an armed man of any size or even a group of the same.
6. Consider materials and methods that could be used to effectively barracade an entrance. Desks, file cabinets are immediate considerations for blocking an entrance. Other items such as clothing, books, backpacks, erasers, levered measuring sticks, electrical cords and other items could be used to wedge the door shut from the bottomk or sides. Of course the presence of mind needs to be mainainted to use the obvious locks and sissors, pens, or other items to jam the locks--rendering them  inoperable from the outside.
7. Note ahead of time all methods of hiding oneself if it can be done safely, securing oneself or others in closets or behind barriers of office equipment or other available means. Windows, can be opened or broken for immediktae escape. Consider what items might be available that are mobile and heavy enough to break windows. Metal objuects such as staples, chair or desk legs (which can be torn off fairly easily) file drawers, metal rods used to secure blinds or those used to support flipcharts. Staplers and tape dispensers and many other objects based on your observation can be incorporated into your plans to break windows and use as weapons.
8. Booby-traps of the door can be as simple as electrical chords placed at tripping height in front of doors. Many a prank has ben made of suspending objects designed to fall upon anyone entering a doorway. With a little creative thought, this prankster technique could be used to disable or impair the progress of an advancing menace.
9. I have often demonstrated techniques used to effectively disarm a gun or knife-weilding person. These require not special training in martial arts. although your hands can be used, more effective items include stick-like devices to club the assailants, purses, backpacks, books, and possible the most effective of all is a length of elctrical cord wither with or without a weight tied to it. When slung, which cna be done even while shielding oneself with a large book,. desk, chair, or desktop, this cord will easily wrap around a arm and be pulled, thereb\y disarming the bad guy. It can also b e done to decisively strike an attacker, preferably in the head or neck. It can be slung to wrap around a persons neck and choke them unconsious or pull them off balance.
10. Another weapon, which is readily available in schools and offices, is worthy of singular consideration in conjunction wiht a specific tactical move. A wooden or metal stool is ideal. a chair would work, and a school desk could work for those ableto lift them effectively. As in the case of a stool, it can provide both a bullet-stopping shield and an attack weapon when used with legs forward to charge the attacher. The point is to propell forward with force. When contact is made, twisting and turning the stool has a good chance of dislodging the weapon from the attackers hands. Then it can be used to further subdue and beat the attacker down and put him out of commision.  The ideal event would be to dislodge and retrieve the attackers weapon and with use it to further disable him or hold him at bay.
11. It is also important to note that some of the survivors in the recent carnage have been either wounded or falled unwounded among the dead. They survived by pretending to be dead, until such a time that they could make sure their escape. Another observation to reiterate is to try to scope your building beforehand, wven asking maintenance about possible places to secret oneself--boiler rooms, attics, maintenance closets, air ducts, etc.

Think ahead, devise a plan, and survive.

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Survive a Car-Jacking

When you are driving in a known high-risk area for this crime (you can learn this by asking locals and by regularly reading the metro page of the newspaper or watching daily news), be particularly on guard for events around you, which could lead up to a car-jacking. Some signs are that you are being boxed in closely in traffic--especially at a stop sign. If you sense that such an event is happening, avoid it by defensive maneuvers with your automobile. The most drastic of such maneuvers might be to drive onto the sidewalk or other normally prohibited area, or even to crash into either car, front or back or side, in an effort to remove oneself from the situation. In such drastic events, just be pretty sure that you are correct.

Another tell-tale sign might be one or more people approaching your car whether in conjunction with or separate from being boxed in. People have an innate ability to detect such conditions, if they will open themselves up to it, and consider, ahead of time, that such events really can happen. Also use the color coded system discussed earlier in a post that used the national color codes for terror alerts for a personal system to assist you in not being caught off guard.

By far the best means of stopping a car-jacking, from which you ca not remove yourself quickly, is a handgun. A handgun on your hip, is not very accessible. There is a maneuver intended to trick the car-jacker by making it look as if you are merely unbuckling your seat-belt, while you are also accessing your holstered handgun--with with you will promptly shoot the assailant. This is not the time to be squeamish. Decide what you will do ahead of time.

I believe a better, more forward thinking use of your handgun, is to carry between the seats, accessible to you while driving. Or carry it in you lap, secured from flying forward with car movement, by placing it slightly under one leg. This is the least obvious and fastest place from which to access your handgun.

I often carry a hammerless lightweight 38 special. Most of my upper sports coats and other jackets have been altered to carry a this weapon. In such cases I could very quickly fire from within this pocket through my clothing without th risk of malfunction due to the hammer catching on my clothing. This is an advantage to such a hammerless revolver. But it does require you to remember to change it back and forth, as does the method of placing the handgun between the seats. It can easily be forgotten and left there. Not good.

I alternate the loads in my pistols to begin with a metal jacketed bullet or two followed by hollow-points or fragmented bullets. This technique is to have the ability to fire through a windshield initially if  necessary. A hollow-point or fragmented self-defense round is apt to crush completely when it hits a closed window, without any stopping power at all. this must be considered.

the use of a handgun presupposes that you can and do legally carry one. In the event that you don't, several other items can be helpful as weapons to repel a car-jacker. One is to carry one of the following items readily available in the next seat or propped vertically between seats: a large mag-light, a heavy metal steering wheel locking device, or a short umbrella.

Savagely striking your attacker as you get out of the car when ordered to do so can have dramatic results. Even scratching in the eyes with keys, spraying pepper-spray when approached, or using a key-chain weapon called a cu-baton are also possible options. If trained to do so, a car-jacker, places himself in a vulnerable position for you to adopt a choke-hold on him. Even slightly built people can be trained to effectively render a person unconscious within seconds.

There are also car-door maneuvers that can help you evade a car-jacker. You can open the door on him hard and fast and/or close the door on his arm or body and inflict considerable deterrent injury. Again it comes down to your early plan and decision to viciously counter-attack in an effort to refuse becoming a victim. If you do so, your chances of survival sky-rocket. If you are taken hostage, and don't resist, your odds for survival plummet.

One last consideration is a special case of car-jacking or robbery. Your color code should be on orange or red anytime you are outside your car preparing to reenter. The most used moment for attack in this condition is while you are refueling your car. The criminal can simply come up to you with areal or pretended weapon and demand your wallet and your keys. If you are vigilant, no one should ever be able to get this close without your protest.

If you scream or speak gruffly to anyone entering your protective space, or zone of comfort, you will be wise. If you are armed or have a can or other object in your hand, use it menacingly. If it is a mistake, it is the advancers mistake, not yours. No one should ever invade your comfort zone unchallenged.

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At least one state governor understands.

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At least one state governor understands.

http://www.ksat.com/politics/13230553/detail.html

AUSTIN, Texas -- Republican Gov. Rick Perry, pondering how to stop the kind of mass killing that left 33 dead at Virginia Tech, said Monday he believes Texans should be allowed to carry their concealed handguns anywhere.

Under current law, secured airport areas, hospitals, courthouses, bars, churches and schools are among the places where weapons can be banned, even if someone has a state license to carry a concealed handgun, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Perry said he opposes any restrictions.

"The last time I checked, putting a sign up that says 'Don't bring your weapons in here,' someone who has ill intent on their mind -- they could care less," Perry said. "I think it makes sense for Texans to be able to protect themselves from deranged individuals, whether they're in church or whether on a college campus or wherever."

Perry made the remarks at a news conference after meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt to discuss ways to prevent mass shootings and enhance school safety. The discussion stems from President Bush's drive to find solutions to such tragedies in the wake of the carnage at Virginia Tech.

About 260,000 Texans who have undergone mandatory background checks and training are licensed to carry a concealed weapon, records show.

In the last fiscal year, 180 licenses were revoked and 493 were suspended for unknown reasons.

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How to Use a Kubaton for Defense

You may be asking, "What is a kuboton?" Indeed, I spelled it wrong in a few other references within this blog. A very enterprising Japanese martial arts trainer by the name of Kuboto, sold this simple four or five inch by half inch device (kuboton) to the LA Police Force, along with a few techniques for use, as a means of restraining defiant arrestees. Mr. Kuboto and his kuboton is not new, although he has to be credited most of all, for his enterprise.

In virtually every culture old enough to have a culture of its own, there is a version of similar devices and techniques. In street fighting within the old-style gangs of the 50's and 60's in the United States, it was a large nail or rail-road spike and called a fist-load. My Dad, an American Indian, knew of methods involving a small stick or rock, which was used in virtually the same way as the Kuboton.

So what is a kuboton? It's a small stick made of aluminum, wood, plastic, rock, or what have you. As cited above, it is about five inches long and half inch in diameter, just long enough to be grasped fully, while still protruding from ones fist. One or both ends can be sharpened, but it is not necessary. It is often grooved in such a way  as to prevent slippage from ones hand or off of another's limb or finger, which may be plied this way or that in order to induce compliance via pain inflicted by the device. Kuboto recommended its use as a key-chain, in order to marginally increase functionality, and, as far as I am concerned, to increase the likelihood that it will be on ones person when needed.A comb, although not ideal, might even be used as a Kuboton.

Many security screeners are now aware of what a Kuboton is and will exclude it if recognized while going into a secure area including boarding a plane. My best suggestion is to make your own, out of a five inch piece of wooden dowel with faces carved onto it like an Eskimos totem pole, or left smooth and have your initials painted colorfully to make it look more like a charm or keepsake. Another option is an over-sized pencil, cut to fit.

Another very useful combination device that can be used as both a key-chain and a kuboton--is a small, intensely bright pocket flahlight, of the kind used for denfensive shooting. Some are even designed with a wicked bezel striking end. The bright light itself can provide addition functionality and deterence to an attacker--if used to night-blind them, strike, and get away.

There are a lot of fancy Akido holds and joint manipulation which can be done by one experienced in Akido. However, if you knew Akido, the kuboton would probably be more of a hindrance than a help. The usefulness of the Kuboton in my own estimation is severalfold in practicality.

1. It adds substance to instinctive strikes, scrapes, and pinches, requiring little training.
2. It can be easily carried and concealed.
3. It is inexpensive. A pen or pencil could be used as a kubaton.
4. As a key-chain, which is how I recommend carrying it, it is usually available to you--assuming you drive or carry other types of keys. It also makes it hard to lose your keys.
5. It gives you a cue or a reminder of what to do, in the event you are attacked, as you are, after-all, armed (albeit with a small stick).
6. The use of the kubaton can be carried to virtually any level of expertise, thereby providing you with a self-defense mission by learning more and more.

Using my own Delta Force three points system is aided by the use of a kubaton. The process, represented by the three corners of the Greek letter known as Delta, is comprised of:

1. Do nothing! And greatly increase the probability of dying!
2. Distract, depart, doge and dart.
3. Distract, disable, depart.

Distract is a key element in my simple system. Flinging the keys into the face of the attacker may be sufficient to distract him long enough to depart, dodge, and dart. And if used without hesitation, and very aggressively, the kuboton could provide the edge needed to survive an assault--Disable.

How do you use it? You strike your attacker viciously with the kuboton at his face gouging and pinching them until they let you go. That's the simplest answer. And it is good enough. Using the stick will be instinctive. But to elevate the use of the kuboton for the sake of discussing, you aim for the soft points and the pressure points. The eyes, adams apple, neck, both front and back, top of head (soft spot), solar plexus,under and above the collar bone. And you gouge and pinch and twist in order to inflict the most pain upon the arms and fingers of his attacker, until he lets you go. Then you depart, post haste, and dodge and dart.

The kuboton is worth considering. I have just learned of a Sure-Light brand shooters flashlight, which is quite expensive, but which has been designed to be used as a kuboton. Considering that the high-intensity beam by itself could distract and repel an attacker long enough to make sure your escape, it might also be worthy of looking at.

Personally, I believe in bigger is better, such as a cane, steering wheel lock, or umbrella, all of which are visible to your potential attacker and considered in his decision whether or not to attack you, or a knife, pepper-spray, or a knife, or a gun for those serious about defending themselves. But if you are not inclined to use one of these available methods a kuboton-type device would be better than nothing. It also doesn't hurt to carry one of these in addition to one of the others listed above.

For those more serious about specific targets using a kuboton, do a search for "death blow" to find a host of references, which show exact, lethal pressure points.

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The Need for Emergency Preparedness

Perhaps no other event in recent American history underlines the need for individual and family emergency preparedness more than did the Hurricane Katrina experience. Although I do not live in one of the states directly affected by the high winds and the flood waters, I have a very close friend who was pretty much at the heart of the action. I have also talked to numerous people who were directly involved in the storm and the anarchy that followed. Acting in an advisory capacity to a large distributor  answering customer questions concerning rifle scopes and night vision scopes and other optics, I heard numerous firsthand accounts about what happened. The whole nation was caught off guard by this terrible natural disaster.

If you think about it, no area is free from the possibility for cataclysmic natural catastrophes. In my area, it could be tornadoes, a very real and frequent occurrence. Ice-storms that tear down trees and power lines happen with fairly regular intervals. I am close to the great seismic plates of the New Madrid fault line, which is predicted to be way overdue for an adjustment, which may cause a huge earthquake. The last time this happened, was in the early eighteen hundreds when our area was not very populated. It actually reversed the flow of the Mississippi River, and cause it to change its course, leaving many oxbow-shaped lakes where the river once flowed.

Lately, the news has been filled with the dangers of wildfires on two coasts. These of course may require the victims to flee their homw, so portability of bare-essentials, as well as important papers is especially worthy of consideration.

You know the perils that may loom over your own place of residence. And yet, few people have any sort of plan and fewer still have any sort of emergency preparedness supplies in place to help them through the critical times in the wake of such events. Experts tells us that the first thirty-six hours will be crucial in such catastrophic events. Maybe longer. It will take time for relief and emergency crews to begin to reach those in places isolated by a normal communications and travel infra-structure. 

Therefore, the first concern that I want to address is the predictable needs for those first thirty-six hours. This leads us to the preparation of an easily-accessible 36-Hour Emergency Preparedness Kit. What would you and your family need if the civil infrastructure breaks down for any number of predictable, even likely, future events?

Food and water are logically the first concerns. Followed closely in importance by self-defense needs, as was the case in t aftermath of Katrina. Medical and first-aid contingencies would be equally important. Communications alternatives would be very useful--both two-way and receivers of news regarding the progress of civil authorities would also be crucial. In some cases, shelter and the basics for survival in the outdoors could become a factor. Reference manuals with valuable survival information would be available as well.

And what about your extended family. Wouldn't it be important to have a broader plan to incorporate the needs of your greater family such as a possible meeting place where practical? Or a communications contingent in the event other communications are rendered unreliable or useless? And for those who may belong to a larger community organization such as a church, survival could be greatly facilitated by a plan for sharing resources and communicating among the group to aid the individuals with the most needs.

These are just what comes immediately to mind. If you haven't thought along these lines before, maybe you should. In several of my upcoming posts, I intend to make available a lot of resource information and the bare bones of a family Emergency Preparedness Plan, in hopes that more people will prepare themselves for what seems to be the inevitable at some level regardless of where we live. I haven't even mentioned the scary ramifications of a terrorist dirty-bomb or worse. But those who are prepared can sleep better knowing that they've done everything within their power to provide for their family's welfare in the event of disaster. I invite your to monitor these plans by subscribing to this feed. Doug Wright

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36 Hour Emergency Kit First Considerations

Having been a sailor, I immediately think of the massive amount of personal gear that we learned to pack into a large duffle bag. Space aboard a ship is limited, so that's what they taught us. It may be worthy of emulation. Large Navy duffle-bags are often available from surplus stores. Another, although more expensive option, is a large back-pack, with a waist-strap that carries most of the weight. A few years ago, as I was traveling far-away destinations, I researched the backpacks on the market. There are many, but I chose the largest JanSport backpack that I could find. Not only was it well laid out, but smaller piggy-back bags are designed to successively unzipp to take off, making organization easy. I must say that many of the com panies who supplied me, did so for the mere publicity that my trips promised. JanSport just wouldn't play. I guess I have forgiven them by now, because I swore that I would never give them any free publicity. There are many other good brands out there.

You might want to start with a fireproof safebox, that you can get at Wal-Mart and such places, very inexpensively. Keep your vital papers in a ziplock bag within. If you have to quickly leave your residence, you don't take the whole ehavy safe, but just the waterproof ziplock bag.

Most other items can be reducedd to lists:

1. Food. I recommend that you pack enough MRE-type mealo pouches for each person to have 10 meals. These and many other items can be purchase from Cheaperthandirt.com
2. A Swiss Army knife or similar product. Eatin g utensils are good to have too.
3. Bic lighters, or waterproof matches. Open flame meal heaters, and a device to hold a dish over the flame. MRE's sometimes come with these as well as chemical heaters.
4. A small watr purifier. Get the one which you can best afford, but consider that some are more effective filtering more items than others.
5. Water-purification tablets.
6. Thee easily accessible bottled waters per person.
7. A Space Blanket. Those light and shiney metal lppking things that gold up to nearly nothing, but which will repell water and retain body heat.
8. A flimsy fold-up raincoat made of light plastic.
9. Emergency bedding. Although the climate must be an individual consideration, it gets cold enough outside anytime you are wet and out of place. I recommend at the very minimum, an old-time scratchy wool blanket. It will keep you warm even it it and you are wet. Down-filled sleeping bags not only are still the most portable for cold temperatures, they can be bought from surplus sources. Thes are relatively inexpensive from surplus sources.
10. Toilet paper or kleenexes and/or napkins. A multi-use, extra-absorbent paper towel may be your best bet.
11. Among the bunch, a garden trowel or foldable army shovel.
12. Also for the group, a tent, a tarp, or at least a piece of heavy clear plastic sheeting which is big enough to mae a makeshift tent shelter from. This doesn't have to be fancy. It does need to be small and portable.
13. Soap, preferably in a soap dish. A small shaving kit with razors, metal mirror, feminine napkins, and other items for hi-gene are all good considerations.
14. Optionally, a fold-up saw can be very useful, but not absolutely necessary.
15. Individual Pepperspray, cheap, large folding knife, with a good edge.
16. Dry socks. At least a change.
17. Roll of duct tape.
18. Individual caps to be worn to sheild the sun and water.
19. Strong Nylon twine.
20. A basic firstaid kit, or merely some band-aids, gause, disinfectant ointment, and a constriction band like a small length of surgical hose.
21. Shoelaces.
22. Insect repelant.
23. One dish large enough to boil a quart or more of water in.
24. Toilets are a nice option for keeping a sense of clenliness when seemingly under seige otherwise.
25. A change of clothing. Keep it light. Army BDU's are good. A sport workout suit is good.
26. Each bag shouldhave a flashlight within, biuth extra batteries.
27. A small and portable all-channel radio. Exstra batteries to fit.
28. A watch--either carried or worn.
29. A small notebook with pen and envelopes.
30. Postage stamps.
31. Identification for each person.
32. A walkikng stick. a cane is okay or a length of wooden limb. But an expandable tubular alluminum cane or hiking stick if best.
33. A survival book, or a Boy Scout Field Manual.
34. A small plastic bag with fishing line, fish-hooks, sinkers, etc.
35. A whistle.
36. Candles.
37. Required Medicines.
38. Cash including change.
39. Pet-food if you have pets.
40. At least one gun under the controlof an adult. First best bet is an automatic target-typw .22 semi-auto pistol like a Ruger Mark II. Or a cmall semi-automatic .22 rifle. three boxes of hollow-point ammunition.
41. Hard candy.
42. Games, stuffed animals, camp pillows, security-blankets or anything else you have room for, which can help you and or your children pass the time or keep spirits high.
43. portable phone and extra batteries.

I may have missed any number of items which you will want to include. This is largely a private or family matter. A dry-run drill, while not under the stress of a real emergency can be both fun preparation and a very telling backyard or park outing.

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The Right to Defend Oneself is Basic to Life

Cars can be fun to drive, often necessary, well-built, a pleasure to own, and nice looking. Most cars can go faster than the speed limit in most places. Some people abuse cars either intentionally or unintentionally. They drive while intoxicated, they drive recklessly, they speed, sometimes they are just lousy drivers and are a danger to others. Each year, thousands of people are killed while driving cars. We occasionally hear about a hutcase who gets mad and intentionally ploughs through and kills many in a group of innocent people. We also occasionally hear about cars being defective and going haywire on their own, killing or injuring people. But what would we do without cars. We certainly can't ban them.

I am sorry to say, that in my youth, I had more than my share of wrecks. Some of them were spectacular. I also got a lot of speeding tickets. Part of this may have been my over-exposure to driving. In other words, my traveling jog required me to drive 40,000 to 60,000 miles each year--so I had a lot more opportunity or exposure for bad things to happen. But that is no excuse. I twice had my license suspended until I went through driver's safety classes. I almost went to jail once for going too fast in a school zone. I was in a new area and it slipped up on me. It cost me a lot of money to defend against this instance and get out of going to jail. At this point I decided  I better get a job that didn't require driving so much. This solved my problem for the most part. Wrecks that I've had since then were the fault of other drivers. Some of them were drunk while driving. One of them almost killed me. Another went to jail because he didn't have a valid license.

My point is that the laws of the land rightly take away the driving privileges of those who abuse them. I carry a gun. sometimes I carry two or three or more and usually three or four knives. I am not paranoid, I just have had experiences that most people have not had that tell me that I am better off having means of defense. In my second job as an adventure journalist, I have made some enemies. Some of my fellow journalists with whom I have collaborated have gone missing in other countries and are presumed dead. There is also an exceptionally high rate of muggings, home-invasions, car-backing's, and drive-by shootings in some of the areas where I have to go. I have had people attempt to rob or harm . Once AS A KID, I was beat up and thrown in the ocean and left for dead by a gang of half-breed Indians. I am also a Viet Nam era Veteran. So my frame of reference makes it natural for me to know that it is best to have a good means of defense. The weapons I carry are done so legally. I don't abuse them. I lock them up when not in use.  I even teach others gun safety classes so that they too can qualify in my state for a carry permit.

I admit, that I take pride in my well-made, even nice-looking guns. I enjoy competitive skill-shooting. I have a lot of guns. I obey the law in every way regarding guns. If my life is ever under real threat, I won't hesitate using a gun to defend myself, or my family, or maybe even defending a total stranger, although this becomes a bit more risky. But if ever I have to do this, it will be done according to the law.

People who abuse guns either consciously or unconsciously should be punished. Fined or locked up. Sometimes their guns are taken away.If they harm people are drink and shoot, they should go to jail and often do--according to the laws of the land. But just because some people do this, shouldn't rationally mean that other law-abiding citizens should have their guns taken away anymore than everyone should be prevented from driving because a minority of people abuse their driving privileges.

Thank goodness, our for father feared the rule of tyrants and the abuse of people by criminals and allowed US the basic right to own guns. For a while, opponents to gun ownership tried to reinterpret the Second
Amendment to our constitution to mean something other than what it clearly was intended today. With most historians now in agreement with the sane and easy interpretation, meaning that individuals do have the right to own and bare arms, the anti-gun lobby has decided that they must work to repeal the Second Amendment. This is the only lawful way that they can take our guns away. Be vigilant and see that they don't.

Statistics show very clearly that banning guns does not reduce crime. On the other hand, over have a billion people were murdered by their governments after disarming them in the last century alone. Makes you wonder what the anti-gun people here are up to. It is quite clear to me. Liberals believe in the rights of the government over the people. This is a basic tenant. but how can they force an armed population to comply to unfair rules. They can't. And they know it. So what to do, but incrementally work toward disarming them.

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