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Training as a team; Two Person Armed Defense
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Have you ever considered combining your live fire training with another person that you may spend a great deal of time with in your daily life, perhaps a good friend, a coworker or your spouse? With today’s continued threat by an active shooter, training as a team is certainly a valid approach. Are you and your close friends or family armed on a daily basis? I certainly hope so. If so, the advantages of training as a team in the event of an active shooter event or armed attack should be obvious. As hard as police try, the reality is they will most likely not get to you in time. Bottom line, you and the person with you may be the only hope in the case of an immediate threat. |
Two Executive Second Amendment Actions Available to President Trump
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(3) the lawful carrying of firearms or other dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to hunting or other lawful purposes.
The new U.S. Attorney General can issue an opinion that self defense is a lawful purpose for the carry of firearms under (3). It is hardly a controversial opinion. All 50 states and the District of Columbia issue permits specifically for people to carry firearms for the purposes of self defense.
In spite of the obvious nature that carrying a firearm for self defense is a lawful purpose, expect much wailing in the media about such a move “making us less safe”. |
BUG: Why two handguns are better than one
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We’ve all heard the old adage that “two is one and one is none,” but does that apply to handguns? I mean, why would you seriously need a back-up gun? Do you think you’ll find yourself in a situation like Doc Holliday? Well, there are definitely some solid arguments for carrying a BUG.
Two is always better than one. Theoretically, carrying two guns would increase your odds in a self-defense situation because you’re providing yourself more options. You could do a New York reload, if need be, or you could hand one off to a partner who doesn’t have a gun (and make friends). |
Report from the 2018 APHA Meeting, Part 2: Approaches to Reducing Gun Violence
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Discussions in several sessions focused on the myth of a sharp division between gun-owner and non-gun owner. Claire Boine of Boston University (session 3161) sought to identify different gun subcultures through a principal-component analysis of 10 variables related to gun culture, and then examined the association between the identified components and firearm homicide rates at the state level. This analysis identified 3 kinds of gun culture: “general” (collecting, hunting, target shooting), “self-defense”, and “guns as freedom”) and found these to vary among states and in their association with gun homicide rates. |
NH: Before you debate gun rights, read ‘Heller’
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There have been any number of letters and op-eds about guns, their place in our society, who has the right to own them and if any of these firearms can or should be regulated.
This article is not so much about my opinion but perhaps an outline for the parameters on a discussion on understanding that the Second Amendment is not an absolute right without allowable limitations. |
House Democrats Outline Gun Control Agenda for 116th Congress
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In other words, if you can imagine a new, draconian restriction on guns, gun owners, firearm parts and accessories, or ammunition, expect it to not only be introduced, but to be given a hearing. Also expect the anti-gun legacy media to openly fawn over these efforts. The same goes for any old proposals that have already been introduced and rejected, or even implemented and later repealed or abandoned after proving to be ineffective. |
Yes, George Soros is a Gun Grabber
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In 2015, billionaire gun control financier and potential 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg financed the creation of the anti-gun propaganda outlet The Trace. Ever grateful for their wealthy benefactor’s unfettered largesse, the Bloomberg advocacy group now views less-profligate anti-gun tycoons as irrelevant to gun control lobby’s efforts.
In a piece titled, “George Soros Is Not the Gun Grabber the NRA Says He Is,” The Trace sets out to rehabilitate the anti-gun image of the Hungarian-born billionaire and his political apparatus, Open Society Foundations. |
Rep. Eric Swalwell 'nukes' himself in gun control debate on Twitter
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In what might legitimately be the greatest self-own in the history of gun control arguments, the dumbest tweet of the day was sent by Democratic presidential hopeful that no one actually knows, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
After conservatives criticized Swalwell for calling for the forcible confiscation of assault weapons, Swalwell responded by upping the ante.
Conservative commentator Joe Biggs charged Swalwell with wanting a war. Swalwell enthusiastically agreed in the most insane way possible. |
TX: Hardin County man faced with the decision to open fire on suspected home burglars
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Travis Yust has lived in Batson all his life, but on November 8th he was forced to realize it's no longer the safe town where he grew up.
In a matter of minutes, Yust went from sleeping peacefully in his home, to protecting it. At around 3:30 in the morning, Yust was faced with a tough decision, to pull the trigger or let the men he believed to be responsible for breaking into his home get away.
"My wife woke me up and said the dogs are barking and our door beeped," explained Yust.
Yust said they have a home alarm, but it wasn't activated that night. The door, however, beeps every time it's opened. He said he assumed the wind blew open the door. |
WA: Gun hatred: Owners now deemed criminals
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It is illegal for a minor to be in possession of a firearm. It is illegal to use a firearm, or any other weapon to threaten or cause harm to another person for any reason other than self defense.
We could go on all day about the illegal acts that people do, with or without weapons. The point is that several laws are broken each time someone commits these despicable acts.
Another “Band-aid” gun control law makes no difference to the criminal.
The only thing that the passage of Initiative 1639 will do is create an illegal and unconstitutional law that will only affect law-abiding firearms owners and essentially criminalize owning a firearm and having it where you can access it. |
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