The scenario part of the training began for each student individually when she entered a dimly lit room — “parking lot” — with the goal of getting to her car safely armed with only a flashlight and a key fob.
What makes this case extraordinary was the fact she carried her five-month-old baby on her hip as she successfully navigated a gunfight against three armed intruders as they were shooting at her.
It’s not every day that you get wisdom from a United States Senator, so when it happens, it’s worth taking note.
The killer was admitted to a “specialist education centre” where he stated the reason he brought the knife to his previous school was “to use it.” He was later referred to an anti-extremism program after he researched school shootings in class.
Given how thinly the police are spread in the midst of this massive regional disaster, armed Americans may be the only thing standing between civilization and anarchy.
Unsaid is that the not-a-gun-person expects someone else with a gun to come and protect them at just the right moment. They count on police, security, military to come and help in a real crisis.
In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller U.S. Supreme Court decision, Justice Antonin Scalia contemplated potential location restrictions governments could impose
Twenty-five million – that’s the number of law-abiding Americans who over the past four years have decided to jump off the fence and fully exercise their Second Amendment rights by purchasing their first firearm.
If the government to which you pay your taxes is to inept, incompetent, or corrupt to protect you, your family, and your property, that’s just too damned bad. You need to learn to deal with it.
The unfortunate truth is that even if your local prosecutor celebrates the righteous use of force in self-defense situations, good guys can and do still screw things up in the aftermath of defending their lives. Don’t be that guy.
