On My Faith, My Honor, My Duty

My faith is something I speak of quite infrequently for I despise hypocrisy, and I know myself to be lacking in far too many areas to attempt to give even a modicum of guidance or advice to anyone in my day-to-day speech or even in my writings. But I do at times tend to share my faith with those closest to me. And of course any who find themselves reading my ramblings on this page from time to time. But such words are meant as reminders to me, as reminders of those blessings I tend to find myself overlooking at times. Times of hardship and turmoil and sorrow can cause us to lose sight of those blessings still before us. I am no different than many others in that I have at times fallen into dark places, of my own making and of others’, and I have had to fight to make my way out.

Lately I have been fighting such an uphill battle. I have made clear my belief in Evil and the fact it preys on the unsuspecting person’s belief that man is inherently good. Evil would have us believe it does not exist and all men have within them a heart of good. But I know that to be so very false. I, and others like me, have seen Evil in the hearts of men of all walks of life. Evil dwells among us and hopes we would make excuses for it. It hopes to break those good among us and cause us to despair. I refuse.

There is so much going on in my life that I could lament; but my faith, my family, my friends, and all they represent, all that makes me who I am compels me to keep fighting the good fight. I do not have to be good in any innate sense. My hope lies outside myself and at times shows itself through me and my brothers. The enemy comes upon us in many ways and through many channels, but it is up to us to remain focused and deliberate. For there is far too much hanging in the balance.

Watch out for each other, brothers and sisters. Be a source of strength for one another when the other’s strength does wane. We have a duty and a calling to fight the good fight, but we also have a duty to help each other when the fight becomes a bit too much. The weight of the world is taken up by my kind far too eagerly. We pride ourselves on being there for those who cannot fend for themselves. But we many times buy into the fallacy that we are something other than that which we protect. We are not. We have just answered to a higher calling.

But even knights can lose their way. Even knights can at times despair. Even knights can fall.

Be a comfort to one another, even if it is only to check in from time to time. I am thankful to so many for words of encouragement over the years, but especially the words I have received from many friends and those I consider brothers in recent days. Keep the prayers going. And if any of my friends and extended family should ever need me, I hope you know I will always be there to lend hand or ear or simply a presence perhaps to share a few beers.

Be Professional…

It is no easy thing to walk in our shoes. It is far easier to second guess our actions and malign us as we serve. I have no more will or inclination to admonish any who see fit to speak ill of the righteous and ignore the wrongdoings of the evil in the world. Sheep can be misled. But it is a choice to remain sheep.

It is to my brothers and sisters that I offer these words: Be professional. Always be professional.

In your dealings with the Soccer Mom on the traffic stop for a minor traffic violation, be professional.

In your responses to the unruly child who has lost all respect for his parents due to their inability to parent, be professional.

In your handling of the mundane and everyday calls for service and in every instance, be professional.

Always be professional. And make sure you have already thought about how you would kill every single person you meet.

This is not a thought for the meek of the world. It is a thought for the warrior. For those who serve as we do cannot afford to think on killing when it is time to kill. The thought should be long foregone. When it is time to kill, we have only to act on those things we have already prepared.

This is no easy task. It is unnerving. It is unnatural. But it is necessary. For our survival and for the survival of the sheep. They are unaware and innocent. It is our calling to keep them safe, even should they despise us for it.

Think on killing even when there is nothing but calm. The storm that is evil comes to us without warning. Think on killing so that you might be ready for the storm when it finds you. Be prepared for the day for it surely will find us whether we are prepared or not.

E6:13“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

Do not be disheartened, my brothers and sisters. Hold the line. Eternity is always in the balance. Malice has no place in your heart. The righteous kill to save and to serve. It ought be no easy thing to take a life, but the taking of life to save the innocent is as important as the sacrifice of a life to save the innocent. Maintain your position among the righteous. Do not ever lose that.

Fight The Good Fight

On the verge of something great and terrible, at the precipice and upon the ledge we stand.  We are so very near to the end game, that payoff for all the discord sown in our homeland. I pray for those lost souls who have bought into the lies spoon fed the masses.  The violence we see now is but the beginning and it is only a taste of what those playing this game wish to see.  For the great power grab to take effect we must become embroiled in a war against ourselves.  And it is happening.

My heart is breaking at the deaths of warriors at the hands of those using sheep’s clothing to blend among those we protect.  Dallas, Texas has seen one of the worst attacks on police I have seen in my time in law enforcement.  And I fear this is only the start of something some very intelligent and calculating people in power wish to see.  The end game is not yet clear, but it is always about power and control.

Pray if you can, if you will, if you believe.  And if you are one of the wolves who believe the attacks are warranted, woe unto you.  Though my heart breaks now, I am still resolved to fight unto my last breath.  I know that I will awake in the morning and continue about my day and still hold my head high for I and my brethren are honorable and live by a code only few comprehend.  But tonight I go to sleep with the heaviest heart I have had in a very long time.

I have shed tears sporadically throughout the evening as more news has come out of Texas.  I have had to hold them in while in the presence of my children for I do not wish to frighten them.  I have looked upon them and wondered at the cost to them should I meet a similar fate as those who have already made the ultimate sacrifice.  Too many people make too much noise about too many things they know so very little about.  This electronic age has given a voice to some with exceptional insight and really great ideas about everything .  But it has also given voice to idiots and those who would bring out the worst in those who feel anything similar to their despicable beliefs.

I am experiencing so many emotions right now: pain, heartache, sadness, anger, rage.  I have read some of the most hateful comments in the wake of several black men killed by law enforcement over the past few days.  And I have read vile comments made by some people in respected positions in society over the past few hours following the ambush attack on officer in Dallas that so far has resulted in four deaths with others still in critical condition.  I cannot even put into words the vitriol that comes to mind when reading such hate.  But I do not hate.  No, not hate.

I pity such useful idiots.

They are but idiots and are useful to those powers pulling their strings.  This is far from over, friends.  Far from over.  The thin blue line is strong and will continue, thank God!  But beware, those who applaud or even just condone and make excuses for such attacks on my brothers.  Those hands that attack the sheepdog will have no qualms about slaughtering the sheep.  And then what?

There is an end game.  There always is.

Hug and kiss those you hold dear: parents, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, lovers, all family and friends.  And pray.  No day is promised, and each day could be the last.  Use that time wisely and courageously.

Stay extra frosty brothers.  Watch your six.  Watch each other’s six.  Be extra vigilant.  And don’t ever stop fighting.

 

Why Do You Need A Rifle Anyway?

I recently got pulled into a social media discussion on friend’s feed regarding the great gun debate. I do have some rather strong views regarding guns, as do most, but I also tend to use a lot of factual data when commenting on those arenas that I work. Being a long time police officer and a firearms instructor gives me somewhat of a platform, but even that platform begs for data when taking either a pro or con approach to the question of guns and gun violence in this country.

So, I joined in the commentary and relayed some information regarding FBI statistical reports, Harvard studies, buried news stories, lies and misconceptions from politicians and media outlets, etc. But after a while I began to think a bit more on the lack of concept of death by some and how the focus seems to always come back to legal gun owners, law abiding citizens, having to explain their need for rifles, shotguns, handguns over and over and over. There is no need to explain such things. The right is there. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America describes our right to arms.

But don’t guns, specifically those nasty “assault rifles” or “assault weapons,” don’t they pose more of a threat to the safety of people in general? Why do regular people need to have access to such “military style” weaponry? What is the point? They are only used to kill people anyway. That’s what they are made for. Right?

Well, there are some problems with this type of thinking. Once again we are being asked to describe a need for a particular type of weapon because a segment of the population has been led to believe a particular type of weapon is worse than others. Their belief is based on myth, not fact. It is based on misinformation fed by a great many politicians and regurgitated by media outlets nationwide. The irresponsibility of those in power in using tragedy to push for control of the populace via gun control measures in appalling to many of us who see firsthand the deception. The statistical information is there for many of the unknowing to read and digest, but most are unwilling to do so. Even in the face of such information they remain bent on disarming people due more so to their dislike of guns in general rather than on any information verifying their stance that access to guns increases violence and murder.

Here are some statistics and their sources for any who would take time to read and enlighten themselves:

Per the FBI’s yearly crime report in 2014 there were

• 14,249 murders reported in the U.S.
• more than 8,000 murders were committed with firearms
• handguns accounted for more than 5500 murders
• rifles were responsible for 248 murders
• shotguns, 262 murders
• unknown type of firearm, 2052
• knives or other bladed weapons were used to murder 1567
• other blunt weapons (hammers, pipe, baseball bats, etc) murdered 1610
• hands, fists, feet were used to murder 660

The number of murders was a decrease from the previous year, and the number of murders per capita continues to decrease each year as it has since the FBI started compiling these statistics.

“In 2014, the estimated number of murders in the nation was 14,249. This was a 0.5 percent decrease from the 2013 estimate, a 3.2 percent decrease from the 2010 figure, and a 14.9 percent drop from the number in 2005.

There were 4.5 murders per 100,000 people. The murder rate fell 1.2 percent in 2014 compared with the 2013 rate. The murder rate was down from the rates in 2010 (6.1 percent) and 2005 (20.8 percent).”

In 2007 the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy published an article regarding an extensive study of firearms and their relation to murder and suicide rates. This study used available data from the U.S. as well as other nations the world over. The findings as reported were again contrary to the information being put out by many politicos and many in mainstream media. Civilian gun ownership does not increase violent crime and murder rates. On the contrary, such legal gun ownership tends to correlate to a decrease in violent crime and murder rates. And to go even further, restricting gun ownership tends to correlate to an increase in violent crime and murder rates, and complete bans increase those numbers even higher.

“If more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death, it should follow, all things being equal, (1) that geographic areas with higher gun ownership should have more murder than those with less gun ownership; (2) that demographic groups with higher gun ownership should be more prone to murder than those with less ownership; and (3) that historical eras in which gun ownership is widespread should have more murder than those in which guns were fewer or less widespread. As discussed earlier, these effects are not present. Historical eras, demographic groups, and geographic areas with more guns do not have more murders than those with fewer guns. Indeed, those with more guns often, or even generally, have fewer murders.”

To contrast the more than 14,000 deaths in this country due to murder, I also looked at other data regarding deaths in this country that can be prevented. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) collects data regarding motor vehicle involved deaths. This includes passenger in vehicles, on motorcycles, in commercial vehicles, in transport vehicles, and pedestrians. In 2014, IIHS reported 32,675 people had died due to traffic crashes of some sort. That number seems high (and it is) but it is important to note that even that is lower (per capita) than the previous year. As a matter of fact, based on the data collected by IIHS, there has been a fairly steady decline in the per capita death rate due to motor vehicle crashes.

Even with that knowledge we still need to look at the number of deaths. More than 32,000 people dead due to traffic collisions in 2014. Well, of course the auto industry is doing its part with the advent of ABS in the 90’s, airbags, crumple zones, and now automatic braking in some newer models, and a host of other safety features coming to a dealership near you. And still with these safety features people die in motor vehicle crashes. A lot of people. Every year. More than twice as many than those murdered each year. And about four times as many than those murdered by firearms.

Quite possibly the scariest death monster out there is the one we go to for help the most often: the medical profession. That’s right, medical malpractice causes more death than either of the means so far listed.

In 1984 The Institute of Medicine conducted a study of New York hospitals and based on that limited information concluded that up 98,000 Americans die due to medical errors each year. That number seems outrageously high. And the number of deaths from auto related crashes and from firearms pale in comparison. But a more recent and in-depth study was conducted in 2013 and published in the Journal of Patient Safety. The study found an alarming number of deaths are attributable to preventable harm to patients, i.e. medical mistakes. The data points to an astounding 400,000+ deaths each year in the U.S.

“There was much debate after the IOM report about the accuracy of its estimates. In a sense, it does not matter whether the deaths of 100,000, 200,000 or 400,000 Americans each year are associated with PAEs in hospitals. Any of the estimates demands assertive action on the part of providers, legislators, and people who will one day become patients. Yet, the action and progress on patient safety is frustratingly slow; however, one must hope that the present, evidence-based estimate of 400,000+ deaths per year will foster an outcry for overdue changes and increased vigilance in medical care to address the problem of harm to patients who come to a hospital seeking only to be healed.”

These are but numbers, facts, some data for you. I didn’t pull any of it out of the air or from some other less savory location. I just used my fingertips to find it. Got it from reputable sources on the interwebz. It is available to the masses, but apparently it is far easier and more enlightened to use social media and the words of those wonderful agenda benders in the positions of power and in the mainstream media to turn us against one another while those hands of theirs work on something else. I mean, why in the hell is there not some outcry for reform of medical care? More than 400,000 killed each year due to medical mistakes or negligence!

At the end of the day, people are going to have their opinions regarding any and everything. They are entitled to their individual opinions. But so too are the rest of us. I choose to base my own opinion on the things with which I am very familiar and on those things I have taken some time to actually study so as to have a somewhat educated view.

Enjoy your day, everyone. I think I need to do a little shooting. Pew!

Applies To Dogs, Old and Young

I wrote the majority of what follows while seated on an airplane, flying back home from a week-long trip to Nevada for training. The training was exceptional and kept the majority of my mind occupied during the week; it was the downtime during my trip home that allowed me some mental space in which to operate and put into words some of the extraneous thoughts that had been swirling about my head during the week. 

I began this trip to the Las Vegas area with some excitement and even posted a few photos during my first day seeing a few of the sites. I had no commitments on Super Bowl Sunday and was able to visit the Hoover Dam and even see a show following the Super Bowl.  The show was nice, though a bit raunchy for the likes of the family I was seated with. The week continued into the first day of the week-long class I was attending.  And my excitement was curbed not only by the amount of work we had to put in to prepare for our end-of-the-week test, but it was also greatly diminished by the ongoing news of police officers being gunned down nationwide.

Perhaps the most difficult news came regarding the news of the Riverdale (GA) Police Major who was shot and killed on Thursday.  I was in class when I began getting text messages regarding his death. I was a bit shaken to say the least. The class I was taking is put on by Force Science Institute, and it is not an easy course. It requires a lot of concentration during class (several of the presenters are college professors) and some amount of self-study outside of class. I found myself a bit stretched mentally as the week progressed.

Although I did get out a few more times during the week, I was a bit hesitant to do so. I made a few new connections with officers from other agencies, and ended up hanging out two nights with a few of them.  It was good to do so. Otherwise I likely would have found myself stuck within my own thoughts regarding the attacks on police officers that seem to continue to occur with only us making any real note of them.

The course is a full week long and focuses on the dynamics of human response to stimuli, human movement, and human memory.  All of these things are related to police uses of force and the effect stress has on the body and the mind. The cognitive processes, effects on memory, and reflex versus cognitive perceptions are also covered to a great degree.  But even so, it is difficult to process and remember so much information.  The program is but an introduction to a mountain of ever-increasing research into the processes by which the human brain functions in stressful situations and how that coincides with cognitive functions during and following Officer Involved Shootings (as well as other stressful force encounters).

I have been intrigued by Dr. Lewinsky’s work and the information I receive from the Force Science newsletter I regularly receive. This course has made me even more interested in learning as much as possible about the dynamics of motion, sight, sound, perception, and memory as they all relate to officer-involved uses of force.  The peer-reviewed research and published data do so much to disperse the myths floating around in the minds of those who rely on media and politicians (i.e., those with perceived and well-known agendas) for their information on police and our use of force training and procedures.

The amount of blatant disregard for human life is so apparent to me and my kind yet so blindly ignored by so many sheep.  So many people would rather believe something with no evidence or data to back it up. If only publicly asserted facts are given weight while more important yet contradictory others are ignored, what difference does it truly make then? The blame game is a very potent one indeed.  It directs the attention of those who perceive themselves as powerless against some grand scheme set in motion to suppress them.  But because of sheer ignorance of facts those same helpless become hapless and fall prey to the true power that seeks to subjugate them.

We are not the enemy of the people.  We are its guardians at times and its warriors at others.  We are the sheepdogs who roam amongst you, seeking out the wolves who would have you believe otherwise about us. Though our teeth might at times frighten you, know this: Should you allow the greater powers to file them down or even take them from us, you will be left defenseless when the wolves show up, or when those powers that be take full hold of all you so blindly have given them domain.

To my fellow sheepdogs, be ever mindful of your surroundings and ever guarded in your steps.  Watch each other’s sixes, and stay sharpened in your skills. Be mentally, physically, and spiritually prepared for the fight.  And do not speak ill of those warriors who go before us.  Don’t be that guy who purports to know all. We learn from each other’s triumphs and so too do we learn from each other’s mistakes. Honor our brothers by learning from their deaths.  What we learn, we teach. What we teach, we ought live.

A Duplicitous Few

Per Merriam-Webster, “duplicity” is defined as:

1. contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action; especially :  the belying of one’s true intentions by deceptive words or action

2. the quality or state of being double or twofold

The duplicity of politicians and those in the public eye has become commonplace and acceptable to far too many of us.  It is interesting to see so many pay such particular attention to the evils of those they disagree with and make continued reference to those items, even if those ideas are blatantly taken out of context.  Yet it is interesting to note the ability of those same persons to excuse, gloss over, or outright ignore the same in those with whom they hold some distinctly long-held belief (even if such beliefs are contrary to otherwise empirical evidence).

Hypocrisy abounds on both sides of many political issues.  There are too many people giving opinions disguised as facts, many times based upon others’ opinions disguised as facts or misleading headlines to news stories never read fully, and without a thought to any sort of fact checking.  The really interesting thing is that when factual information becomes widely available those same individuals never acknowledge their erroneous words or observations.

It is so very telling of a hypocritical duplicity inherent in those who care not for any sort of tolerance, but only long to push their agenda upon the rest of us.  Those agendas fly rampant on either side of the political fence.  And it is the weakest (of body, mind, and spirit) who suffer the greatest injustice at the hands of those who spew an opinion-riddled agenda under the guise of factual information.

It would be so very refreshing to return to days in which information needed to be vetted before it could be reported.  And it would be more conceivable to learn to take every word of every career politician and compare it to past action and not hold its value in accord with empty rhetoric.

Be wary, sheepdogs, for it is becoming more and more evident that our lives are not viewed as even remotely as important as even the most heinous of evildoers in the minds of those willing sheep who believe even the most obvious lies being sold (nay, given away for free) in most public forums.  I do not endorse any sort of fence building or circling of the wagons, but I do wholeheartedly profess the need to be ever vigilant in these times.  And I know there is a very large and growing segment of the population who sides with us in our righteous quest to hold the perpetrators of lawlessness accountable for their actions while maintaining peace for the great majority of those living in our midst.

God bless the sheepdogs and the entire flock we protect.

Active Shooter Training: It’s Not Just For Police Anymore

Today I sat in two very different meetings regarding active shooter training at two distinctly different institutions: a hospital and a church.  The meeting at the hospital was in preparation for a tabletop exercise to plan for an upcoming live drill.  The hospital already has armed security (some of them former law enforcement) and part time active police officers working off duty as well.  The meeting today was more of a preparation to meet with various managers and department supervisors to make sure certain details were readily and easily explained should they have questions.  My role in this tabletop will be more of an explanatory role as far as what the police response to an active shooter will be and why it might seem counter-intuitive to those in the healthcare field.

But the meeting later in the evening at the church was far different.  Though the church has a small contingent of uniformed police officers on Sundays, their main job is traffic direction at the end of the service.  Those officers do spend time in the church proper during the early part of the actual Sunday service and through a great portion of it, but they are not in the church the whole time.

And there are members in the church who regularly carry firearms (concealed) and have expressed an interest in carrying in church with the permission of the church administration.  And thank goodness the church is addressing this issue and asked for my input.  I gave the standard answer to many of the questions posed to me, falling back on the laws regarding carrying firearms and the rights of individuals to refuse to allow church officials from searching bags/containers and up to the possibility of persons being asked to leave and even possibly being arrested for Criminal Trespass should they refuse to leave the property.

This was only the first of several meetings this newly-formed safety committee has planned.  I am glad I was allowed to sit in on the first meeting and that I have been asked to participate in future meetings.  I was asked a very important question when I arrived: What do I feel is the most important consideration for the individuals who are going to carry firearms in the church?

Training.  I looked across the table at several faces and expressed my belief that proper training is the most important thing they can do to make sure they are best prepared for an active shooter or other deadly force encounter in the church. The meeting went on and I also briefly discussed a police response and the need for specific protocols for those armed individuals should they have need to draw their weapon in the church and should they be challenged by responding officers.

I was impressed with the forward thinking of the staff members in attendance.  They were in agreement with me when I stated later in the meeting that it is not a matter of if an attack will happen but when will it happen.

We prepare for the worst while we hope and pray for the best.  More sheepdogs (in sheep’s clothing) waking up and refusing to be victims.  God bless them and us.

Veracity or Voracity

I taught a small block of instruction today during the first day of an intensive Instructor Certification course at our academy.  There are a good many individuals in the class with whom I am very familiar (some of whom are even very good friends) and I was very comfortable during the hour-long session I taught.  Even so, I was a bit unsure of myself as I was teaching a lesson plan I had never taught before.  The subject matter was nothing new (Research and Resources), it was just the idea of lecturing on something I had not ever lectured before.

But I soon got into my normal teaching rhythm and had a fun time. Hopefully, the students in the class got what they needed out of the period of instruction as well.  After teaching (and even during the class) I thought about the amount of scrutiny police are placed under and the unrealistic expectations placed on us in so many various situations.  Although the information I was passing on to the students was in regards to them making sure they properly researched their information to be used in lesson plans to be used for teaching police officers, it was interesting to me that the emphasis on getting the information correctly documented from credible sources was so thoroughly covered.  It took me back to the days I took a few journalism courses in college (before I settled on only one major!) and learned about the importance of verifying information for news stories.

Veracity of purported facts is very important in our line of work.  And it should be so in many others, but apparently that just isn’t the case.  I won’t take the time to “put the smackdown” on those inane narratives that have become the norm for so many keyboard warriors to use such ambiguous numbers to bolster their wildly inaccurate claims related to my profession.  Not to mention the highly editorialized “news” stories that tend to gloss over fact for negatively charged innuendo and outright falsehoods.  There are enough mildly intelligent people competent enough to know to look for the actual data to refute the wild claims being made.  But there seem to be an even larger mob of sheep being led to believe false narratives being fed them by sly wolves seeking to control them.

Perhaps those sheepish individuals will awaken when the proverbial fecal matter hits the rapidly oscillating device.  Perhaps.  Or maybe they will continue in the vein of blind obedience to those who would “protect” them from themselves.  Perhaps for some the brainwashing has become complete and there is no other course but the one prescribed them by a hand that feeds, clothes, and houses them (and promises to continue doing so).

Vigilance is what I maintain, for vigilance is necessary.  Looking outward and inward all the while for the enemy is nigh upon us.

Harden yourselves, brothers and sisters.  Possibly bumpy trails ahead.

Let The Clamor Commence

Talking heads and keyboard warriors speak loudly with proclamations of the need for more federal gun control legislation.  The false narrative of gun violence being out of control once again is being proclaimed.  Facts to refute such claims are willfully ignored and easily dismissed by those who find the gun itself as an evil to be rid of at all costs.

Well, folks, that’s just a bunch of malarky.

First and foremost, the USofA does not hold claim to more violence or murders per capita than other nations.  There is ample evidence to support that, and I have even referenced a very reputable Harvard publication to this end.  But the facts simply don’t fit, and therefore they are ignored.  A narrative in support of legislation to curb violence must be a good and sensible narrative, right?

No.  It simply is one of control.  It is one of slight of hand.  It is one meant to divide and conquer.  Beware the pundit who would blame an inanimate object for the actions of those who would kill, maim, or otherwise ravage the innocent.

Violence (to include gun violence) is rampant the world over.  Guns are simply more efficient a device, a tool if you will, at achieving said violence.  But the tool must not ever be restricted or denied, to a great extent, to the free people of our land.  I won’t get too deeply into the reasons behind the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution.  But there is great reason for us (individuals) to have access to weapons that our government has access to.  Humans do not change from age to age.

An all-powerful government with all-reaching control cannot be trusted to protect its populace from itself.  Power corrupts and so on.

And as for the need for more stringent gun control legislation, well let’s just say perhaps some people need to try to muddle through the legislation (federal) already on the books, much of which is not even enforced by our beloved Executive Branch (I wonder why):

Gun Control Act: 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, 27 CFR Part 478

National Firearms Act: 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53, 27 CFR Part 479

Arms Export Control Act: 22 U.S.C. Chapter 2778, 27 CFR Part 447

National Instant Criminal Background Check System Regulations: 28 CFR Part 25

Nonmalleable Firearms: 18 U.S.C. Section 1715

And the rampant gun violence in cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, are more evidence to refute for tougher gun laws.  The gun violence there is the result of illegally owned guns.  (There happens to be a city in my own county which requires its homeowners to own at least one handgun, and the gun violence in that city per capita is extraordinarily low.)

China is one really great example though.  They don’t have a big gun violence problem.  It is almost non-existent.  The military and police have a pretty good lock on guns (though there are guns out there illegally).  Their police officers don’t have to deal with much gun violence (per capita).  But what they do have to deal with is edged weapons.  A lot of edged weapons.  Apparently, they like to use meat cleavers to do mass killings over there.  Meat cleavers.  They need more stringent federal legislation to curb that meat cleaver violence over there.

Oh, and let’s just keep out heads in the sand regarding the impending terrorism coming to our soil (or rather, already here).  There have been terror training facilities under surveillance here for some time.  The feds have been handcuffed in even surveilling them due to diminished resources and other weaknesses displayed from far above them.  My fears are not based on any abstract rhetoric.  My fears are based on the concrete data so many find so easy to ignore or simply dismiss.

Stay sharp, sheepdogs.  Many of us know what is perhaps even closer to being reality than others.  The rest of you (those who despise that evil gun), keep on watching and waiting for someone else to protect you.

The Beast Invited In

“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on…they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.” Revelation 14:13

But what of those still living and seeing the horror unfold before us?  It appears that so many are so very unwilling to call terrorist attacks what they are, especially if the attack is from an islamist.  It is amazing and at the same time necessary.  It is a culmination of a well-coordinated effort to weaken and destroy the West.  Us.

From the unity and resolve shown following the islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to the politically correct thought police of today who are ready and effortless in their ability to strike down any who might slander anyone of a protected designation.  Lest we forget ourselves and bow down to some self-proclaimed spokesperson for the people we claim to be.  We are far too great and far too capable of righteous violence ourselves to ever fall upon our knees and pray to falsity and live in abeyance to such drivel as is now becoming the norm in so many parts of the world.

But we must be prepared for such as is now approaching.  We must be ready to fight for what we love.  And the we I speak of is not just my brothers and I, for it is a given that we will fight, it is rather the quiet and resting giant in the heart of America that I speak of.  We are a great and mighty foe to Evil.  We need to be prepared to fight.  For death is the only defeat the Enemy understands.  And for any who believe as I, we know that death is not a defeat when the fight is righteous and the cause is our life, our liberty, our culture, our family, our faith.

I pray for peace for Paris, but my prayer for peace is through an awakening and through the use of force to fight and fend off the Evil now lurking in their midst.  I fear that Evil lurks in our own midst, and the beast will likely make moves here as well.

God bless all the warriors and those they deem worthy enough to protect.