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Dealing with Fear, Part One: Living in the Moment
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Whether you enjoy literary science fiction or not, Dune‘s Litany contains some profound wisdom for self-defense. Fear, while a valid emotion in many contexts, can be paralyzing when action is required and disorienting when you need a clear head. However, coping with fear is not a matter of simply denying it; we have to cope. This is the first of a two-part series. Here we’ll talk about how to deal with fear before and during a self-defense situation. In the second part, we’ll look at how to avoid paranoia, in which fear takes over your life. |
NY: Senate Committee Adds Gun Control to The Agenda Next Week
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New York is doing its best to unseat Chicago as the quintessential national example of why gun control is a failure. The Empire State has some of the harshest gun laws in the country. While these laws successfully harass and burden law-abiding gun owners, they do nothing to go after criminals. One-party control in Albany has resulted in pure carnage in New York, and Albany Democrats keep doubling down on more of the same failed policies. |
KelTec P50 Blowback Semiauto 5.7x28mm Pistol
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The engineers at KelTec have an uncanny knack of offering outside-the-box gun designs. From the PMR30 pistol to the KSG dual-tube bullpup shotgun, this is a brand that continuously provides shooters with something unique and fun to shoot. Take the company’s latest creation: the P50 pistol. It’s a blowback-operated semiauto chambered in 5.7x28 that holds an impressive 50 rounds in the magazine. The magazine design itself is not entirely new—it’s the same used in FN’s P90 submachine gun that first appeared over 30 years ago—but virtually everything else about this gun is original to KelTec. |
Is Carrying a Gun Provocation to be Attacked
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It is not legal to start a fight so the person who started the fight can kill someone who they provoked.
Mere possession of an openly carried weapon is not a legal provocation to attack.
The Left has been floating the idea that mere possession of a weapon is a provocation. They contend the sight of someone in possession of a weapon is sufficient provocation for a person to attack the person who possesses the weapon.
This creates a bizarre world where mere open possession of a weapon is sufficient to justify a deadly attack on the possessor. Apply this to the police. They almost always carry a deadly weapon, openly. |
CCI Blazer Brass Loaded in the All-New 30 Super Carry Cartridge
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CCI Ammunition announced its loading of the new 30 Super Carry cartridge in Blazer Brass while at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2022. This new Blazer Brass introduction is a 115-grain, 30 Super Carry load intended for training with the all-new Federal Ammunition engineered cartridge intended for the conceal-carry market. Check with your local ammo store for availability. |
Behold, I Make All Things New! ~ US Army’s New Rifle
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Two days ago, the Pentagon officially announced what many have suspected for some time:
After over two years (actually, more like fifty years!) of testing and evaluation, the US Army’s new rifle will be SIG’s candidate, an upscaled version of their existing gas-piston MCX Rifle, now designated the “XM5,” chambered for SIG’s version of the new military 6.8mm cartridge, called the 6.8×51.
SIG is the only genuine “gun-maker” to actively seek this business. Other candidates were submitted by companies like General Dynamics and Textron. |
WA: WA Firearms Preemption Win! ~ Lead Plaintiff Talks as Losers Double Down
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There is no small irony in this case since two months ago Harrell held a press event during which he erroneously declared;
“You will hear this year me lead efforts on trying to get relief from the exemption RCW 9.41.290. You’ll hear me talking about that. I don’t know how many lives have to be lost before we realize we’re one of the few states that has that kind of restriction allowing the state to govern the laws we need for our city of Seattle.”
Gottlieb quickly blasted Harrell’s remark, noting there are currently 42 states with preemption laws, many modeled after Washington’s statute. |
Firearms now top cause of death among children, adolescents
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The researchers analyzed recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2020 and wrote about their findings in The New England Journal of Medicine.
More than 4,300 individuals ages 1 to 19 died as the result of firearms in 2020 — suicides, homicides and accidents. That number was 29.5% higher than in 2019 — an increase more than twice as high as in the general population.
Meanwhile, motor vehicle deaths have remained relatively steady over the past decade and are about half what they were 20 years ago. Automobiles caused about 3,900 deaths among children and adolescents in 2020. |
NY: Pending Supreme Court concealed carry decision could have wide-reaching impact on New York gun laws
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The recent mass subway shooting in Brooklyn has renewed the debate over concealed carry laws in New York state.
"Basically the government disarms people and then people like that one man we saw recently, they know that they're not going to be stopped until they run out of bullets," Attorney Jim Ostrowski said.
Both Second Amendment and gun control advocates believe the tragedy strengthens their opposing arguments.
"Amidst the smoke and confusion of that shooting, adding more armed people to the situation could have easily compounded the tragedy," Sheffali Welch, NYC Co-Lead for Mom's Demand Action, said. |
FL: Florida's top Democrat sues Biden Admin over marijuana, guns rule
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Florida's Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only Democrat elected to statewide office and a candidate for Governor, filed a lawsuit Wednesday opposing a federal rule that prevents medical marijuana users from buying guns.
The lawsuit argues the rule, which is enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, violates the Second Amendment and deprives medicinal marijuana users of their constitutional rights. |
Congress: It’s the Crime, Mr. President
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Frustration with President Joe Biden’s “stuck-on-repeat” gun control focus that lets criminals run rampant is boiling over in Congress. Republican leaders in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives are telling The White House that they are ignoring a crime crisis to push a radical gun control agenda.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to President Biden to end partisan attacks to advance a gun control agenda. Sen. Grassley pointed to The White House’s repetitive nominations of gun control advocates to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), a position of public trust that must remain above the political fray. |
Gun Owners Should Object More to Upton’s ‘Element’ than Greene’s
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The object here is for “The Swamp” to reclaim lost ground, to marginalize (and ultimately “cancel”) those challenging the political status quo, and to ensure the GOP is essentially Democrat-Lite. Or as a young Bill Clinton influencer, Georgetown University professor Carroll Quigley advocated:
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.” |
TN: House passes bill lowering age requirement for handguns to 18 in Tennessee
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If you’re 18, it is unlawful to smoke or drink before turning 21, but Tennessee House lawmakers want to give 18-year-olds the right to carry a gun.
Opponents say the bill would increase gun crimes and self-harm, but supporters say it’s a constitutional right all adults should have. HB 1735 lowers the age from 21 to 18 to lawfully carry a handgun openly or concealed.
“All this is doing is removing infringements on your second amendment rights provided by God first and our constitution,” said Rep. Chris Todd (R-Madison County). |
OH: Mike Gibbons signs Ohio Gun Owners survey committing to abolish ATF, oppose red flag laws
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Standing before a banner reading “compromise is just another word for SURRENDER,” and in front of cellphone broadcasting his signature on Facebook, Gibbons cut in.
“We have a fundamental right in this country to due process,” Gibbons said.
By signing Gibbons also committed to opposing a ban on assault weapons or high-capacity magazines, as well as supporting national stand your ground legislation and abolishing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Dorr’s organization takes a maximalist position on gun rights, and they regularly lobby for legislation in the Ohio Statehouse. The organization even wrote the legislative testimony two lawmakers used to introduce their permitless carry bill last year. |
Jack Dorsey is exactly right about CNN creating conflict in Ferguson
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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that CNN tried to create conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, during the protests and riots that followed the death of Michael Brown. He is obviously and undeniably correct.
The Black Lives Matter activism and protests that were born in Ferguson were built on a lie. In 2014, Michael Brown was shot while in the act of attacking police officer Darren Wilson, who acted in self-defense. Brown had started a physical confrontation with Wilson and tried to seize Wilson’s gun. A grand jury would later decline to charge Wilson with any crime, and former President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, led by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, determined that Wilson acted in self-defense. |
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