The assault by the left on gun rights, is an assault on women

As a demographic, American women are purchasing firearms at the greatest rate in our nation’s history.

But at the peak, the President and the left, are making a concerted effort to demonize gun ownership and put strict gun controls on law abiding American citizens, which includes women.

One left wing news publication in New York even went so far as to publish the names and addresses of legal gun owners in areas of New York, as if to shame them. See NY Journal News exposes gun owners to danger

Perhaps they didn’t realize when they published these names; they exposed women who were gun owners trying to keep their identities and residences secret in order to evade stalkers. This publication also outed the names and addresses of women judges and police officers, who were legal gun owners.

The two biggest gun control cities in the US; Chicago and New York City, are already shooting galleries, in spite of their tough gun laws.  Law abiding citizens find it difficult to possess a legal firearm, yet the criminals and gangsters are heavily armed….They don’t register their guns and they have high capacity ammunition magazines, in spite of them being illegal.

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Just last week, a Georgia woman alone at home with her two young children was terrified to see a man breaking into her house using a crowbar.  She gathered up her children and ran upstairs hiding in a crawl space as the man searched the house looking for them. See CBS News story

The intruder finally opened the door to the hiding space. But instead of finding helpless victims, he was greeted with 6 shots from a pistol.  She shot the criminal 5 times in the face and neck, when the hammer came down on an empty cylinder.

The gun was empty, but the criminal didn’t know it. She told him she would keep shooting if he didn’t stop. Although severely wounded he was able to get out of the house and climb into his car and drive away, thinking the woman would shoot again.

If he knew she had no more bullets in her gun would he have harmed her and her children?  Suppose there were 2 or more intruders? She would not have had enough ammunition to defend herself and her children.

Of course the police arrived later to take reports…But they weren’t there when they were needed.

Many women live alone and want the security of owning a firearm and know how to safely use it. If they want to own a semi automatic rifle with a high capacity magazine, as long as they are law abiding citizens, let them. President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor’s Cuomo, or Emmanuel, can’t guarantee law abiding citizens a crime free environment, in spite of all of their laws. These politicians should deal with the criminal and mental health problem that that they refuse to address, before they infringe on the 2^nd amendment rights of law abiding citizens.  

In spite of the pathetic attempt to wave a magic wand and declare a location a “gun free zone” and make it all better, this has proven to have the opposite effect, as the recent mass shootings have all occurred in “gun free zones.”

Just like many utopian run cities and locations used to proudly boast they were nuclear free zones, they of course would get incinerated just as crisply as their neighboring cities if a nuke went off near them.

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The 2^nd Amendment guarantees American citizens, including women, the right to bear arms and it shall not be infringed upon.

New gun restrictions will not prevent tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting

Parents and community of Newtown come to terms with the massacre

Yesterday’s tragic mass shooting of 20 children & 6 adults, has brought out the inevitable calls from around the country to make laws restricting gun ownership.

Many Europeans and Australians decry Americas violence and say we must restrict guns. But America is not a tiny country, just one state, California, has a population bigger and more diverse than most of of these small countries. Australia has less population than the state of Texas.

America is a huge melting pot of cultures, races and religions.  We are very diverse geographically as well; with intensely populated urban areas, to sparsely populated rural areas and everything in between.

When you read the statistics, America is a violent country….But 99.9% of the legal gun owners in our country are law abiding peaceful people and never use their firearms for violence. Sometimes Americans have used the firearms to protect their families, see Brave Mom. Yet we have a small segment of our population that skew our statistics.

If you took the city of Chicago out of Americas gun crime statistics, it would change the perception. Chicago has the strictest gun laws, yet they are besieged with violence. 

As far as laws go, last time I checked, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in many urban areas, it is illegal for a felon to be in possession of a firearm and it is illegal to murder someone.

But idealistic lawmakers might use this latest tragedy to try to pass a law to restrict gun ownership….i.e.: Never waste a crisis 

Even if they outlawed them, guns would still be readily available. Our borders are like sieves; guns drugs, terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants easily pass through, even though there are strict laws against them.

So sadly and tragically, mass shootings will occur in spite of laws passed by well meaning lawmakers.

The Aurora Colorado theater, site of a mass shooting where 12 people died and 58 were wounded, advertised itself as a gun free zone…The only theater in the area to advertise that fact.  Did that play a role in the shooters decision to pick that location for his killing spree?  You bet, he knew no one would shoot back.

Colonel Hassan, the American jihadist, who methodically gunned down his fellow soldiers at Fort Bliss Texas, killed 13 and wounded 32, before he was stopped.  He opened fire confidently, because he was a coward and knew they were unarmed and could not fire back.

The killer at yesterdays tragic shooting at the Connecticut school, most assuredly knew no one would be armed among the school personnel, it is not allowed, he was safe.....It was declared a "gun free zone."  If there was a possibility of a legally armed employee on those school grounds yesterday, would that killer have picked this school for a target?

Israel was beset with mass shootings for a time in its past.  That little country tried beefing up its security forces to prevent them from happening.  They stationed more soldiers and police….but were not able to station enough everywhere. It wasn’t until Israel loosened its gun laws and encouraged its law abiding citizens to carry concealed and unconcealed firearms; did the mass shooting end.

If the demented loners, who go on killing sprees, knew there was a possibility that someone amongst their targets would fire back, it would prevent these mass shootings.

Because at heart, these killers are cowards and want total control of the script for their final 15 minutes of fame…Just the knowledge that one legally armed citizen may be among the planned victims…would disrupt the plan.

Attorney Mark O’Mara will make NBC and the Florida prosecutor pay for their parts in the hi-tech lynching of George Zimmerman

The accused George Zimmerman

 If it had been up to NBC and the prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin shooting, George Zimmerman would have already been seated in Florida’s notorious “Old Sparky.”

Edited and doctored tapes of a 911 call between George Zimmerman and police dispatchers by NBC news, were used to make it look as if George Zimmerman was a racist and his shooting of Trayvon Martin racially motivated.

On top of that, just released colored photos of George Zimmerman, right after his confrontation with Trayvon Martin, graphically show a bloodied and battered George Zimmermanm.  A stark contrast from the previously released black and white photos by the Florida prosecutor that did not show the extent of Zimmermans facial injuries.

This type of evidence should have been willingly given to Zimmermans legal team by the Florida prosecutor.  But it took months of legal maneuvering to get these pictures, which hugely bolsters Zimmermans account that he acted in self defense.Even famed legal expert Alan Dershowitz thinks the prosecution against Zimmerman has been acting unethically. See Dershowitz

If the public and Zimmermans defense team had access to these photos originally, many legal experts doubt charges could have been rightfully filed against Zimmerman in the first place. There is absolutely no doubt that if these color photos of  Zimmermans beaten and bloodied face taken shortly after his confrontation with Martin would have been revealed, it would have defused the racial tensions that were boiling over.

But fortunately for Mr. Zimmerman, a brilliant attorney has come to his defense and is unraveling the web of innuendo, slander and withheld evidence being used against him.  Mark O’Mara has taken command of this case and will make sure George Zimmerman isn’t the state of Floridas, or main stream medias, sacrificial goat. See previous Trayvon Martin story

In a lawsuit filed a few days ago against NBC, the Zimmerman legal team stated:

"NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain."  "Because of NBC's deceptive and exploitative manipulations, the public wrongly believes that Zimmerman used a racial epithet while describing Martin during the call to the dispatcher on that fateful night," the suit says.

The lawsuit accuses NBC of sensationalizing/manipulating a "racial powder keg that would result in months, if not years, of topics for their failing news program, particularly the plummeting ratings for their ailing Today Show."

The edited recordings included “multiple deletions, removed intervening dialogue between Zimmerman and the dispatcher, and juxtaposed unrelated content "to make it appear that Zimmerman was a racist, and that he was racially profiling Trayvon Martin," the lawsuit says.

If Mark O’Mara can prove his charges against NBC, we hope he can get a huge payday for his client as well as himself.  NBC got caught trying to pervert the news we receive and manipulate public opinion.

If it is found that the Florida prosecutor willingly withheld crucial evidence in order to weaken George Zimmermans defense and cast him in a false light, then Mr. Zimmerman should demand justice for himself.

We saw another prosecutors office try to railroad innocent people into prison with withheld and manipulated evidence, in order to make a name for himself and gain political favor. North Carolina District Attorney Ken Nifong  was disbarred and put in jail for withholding evidence that would have proved Duke Lacrosse team members to be innocent of charges.

Attorney Mark O’Mara is no slouch and is probably already sounding the alarm bells in this case against his client. What other evidence has this prosecutor failed to provide him in his defense of George Zimmerman?

As California's cities go bankrupt, will they emerge safe?

The world is paying attention to California's cities as they start to topple like dominoes into bankruptcy.  Many of them are reeling from a deflation in real estate values which saw their sources of revenue shrink.  But due to long term deals they made while they were flush, they have not been able to reel back on spending outlays in order to adjust to the new economic realities.

Sports stadiums, boat harbors, new municipal buildings, fleets of brand new vehicles and  generous labor contracts with their unionized municipal employees have brought them to their knees economically. Many others are on one knee, begging the state or the federal government to step in and help.  But of course this is akin to asking the economically blind to lead the economically blind.  The cities are a microcosm of spending by the state and federal government.  But they can't, like the federal government, print more money, or in the case of the state, issue as many debt obligation bonds or push off debt into the future.

Stockton, San Bernadino, Mammoth Lakes and Compton California, all have recently filed for bankruptcy protection, or are on the verge.  But experts believe they are just the tip of the iceberg as the recession still has a grip on the golden state. In the meantime, other cities have been proactive in dealing with their fiscal problems as their citizens vote to rein in municipal workers union power.

What will these cities look like after they emerge from bankruptcy? The City of Vallejo was one of the 1st major California cities to file bankruptcy in 2008 and just recently emerged.

I talked to the director of finance for the City of Vallejo, Deborah Lauchner and she was able to illuminate post bankrupt Vallejo for me.

According to her, when the city first started to hit the financial skids in 2008, they tried to pare back on expenses and asked their employees for concessions.  They had 11 mediated sessions in trying to work something out but none of the 4 unions representing city employees would budge and Vallejo was forced to file bankruptcy.

Before filing bankruptcy, employee compensation cost 75% of the general fund budget.  After emerging from bankruptcy employee compensation cost the city 82% of its general fund budget.

The 1st union to come to the bargaining table was the police union.  According to Lauchner, since the police union was first, they actually got a great deal and ended up with raises.  Each successive union that came to the table after that got a little less. The fire dept came to the bargaining table last and actually took a small hit.

Average police officers salaries and benefits are 234,000, with current staff of 97.  Average fire fighters wages and benefits are 216,000, with a current staff of 80. 

Current staffing levels for public safety are 43% of what they were prior to bankruptcy. Many in the safety services chose retirement and the city has not replaced the losses.

 Lauchner said: "We had a sales tax increase with an approved budget for FY 12/13 that uses almost $5 million in reserves to cover the shortfall in revenues.  Our expenditures are not quite where we want them to be at this point.  That is directly related to an oversight by the City related to negotiations that have pushed off resolution for at least one more year."  The City of  116,000 is currently paying for $165 million in unfunded liabilities associated with past employees and retiree benefits.

I said "that's a huge burden to put on the shoulders of the citizens of Vallejo.   I know you've streamlined the city and are cutting expenses wherever you can...Have you considered privatizing any services?"  She said: "We are always looking for opportunities.  We are hampered by some of the language in the labor agreements, but we are continuing to look for more flexibility as we re-negotiate these agreements."

I asked Lauchner how she thought the city of Stockton California would do in their negotiations with public employee unions in order to get out of the terrible financial situation they are in.  She said we had a difficult time dealing with 4 separate unions, Stockton has to deal with 12 separate unions, so it will be much more complicated.

If Vallejo is the road map for what other cities will have to follow in order to emerge from bankruptcy, it looks as though citizens are going to be burdened with more long term debt, higher taxes and less protection from unionized safety services. As a result, instead of  having a fully staffed pre bankrupt police and fire forces, they have less, but more expensive personnel providing protection for the citizens. 

Time will tell if Vallejo's pared down safety services will provide it's citizens the protection necessary to have a safe community.  Perhaps, like other communities, police will just not be responding to certain types of crimes, because they are spread too thin. But perhaps this new reality will lead to more personal responsibility of citizens to be proactive in the policing of their communities. Could there be more neighborhood watches on the horizon? Will more Californians take advantage of their 2nd Amendment rights?

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Trayvon Martin shooting was not an act of racism, but a community trying to defend itself

The sensationalism against George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin, clouds the real reason this tragedy occurred in the first place.

The pundits, the community organizers, the pot stirrers,  are all trying to find a scapegoat and the convenient one to blame is George Zimmerman.  George Zimmerman  is but the symptom of a government failing in its prime function:  To provide protection and security for its citizens. If government does not provide protection for its citizens, then the citizens will provide it for themselves...and what the citizens provide will not be as professional and polished as a trained police force.

The gated community that George Zimmerman is a resident, has been the repeated target of crime.  Zimmerman himself had made repeated phone calls to the local police to report suspicious behavior/crime as had been requested by that department.  Other members of the community had made calls as well.    As far as the cops were concerned, that wasn’t excessive in a neighborhood fighting petty crime.

The neighborhood was on edge, particularly since they had suffered 8 burglaries in the past 14 months. Including the terrifying experience of resident Olivia Bertalan:

21 year old Bertalan was home alone with her infant son one morning last August when a man came to her door, knocked, and rang the bell. She peered out the window and didn't recognize the man. But then called police when another man came to her back door.

She ran upstairs clutching her son and locked herself in a bedroom as the second man entered her home. Terrified, both she and her son cried as the man tried to enter through the locked door of the bedroom. Both men ran when police arrived, but not before stealing a laptop and digital camera.

After the crime she was afraid to come home. She and her husband got a dog, as advised by police. "It was terrible," said Bertalan, who moved from the neighborhood last month because of this and other burglaries. 

"There was definitely a sense of fear in the neighborhood after all of this started happening, and it just kept on happening. It wasn't just a one time thing. It was every week," she said. "Our next-door neighbor actually said if someone came into his yard or house  he would shoot him. Everyone felt afraid and scared."

For years, Twin Lakes has been beset by crime which finally lead them to start a neighborhood-watch organization last September.  The burglary of Olivia Bertalan’s home in August seems to have been a catalyst

There was a large sign post at the entrance of this gated community saying it had neighborhood watch and suspicious people would be reported to 911. This should give someone new in the neighborhood fair warning as to why they may be followed or watched and should invoke a sense of cooperation and understanding from those visiting.
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As state and local governments drown in debt, they are cutting back.  The California town of Vallejo went bankrupt due to spiraling costs.  As a result city managers asked for concessions from public employee unions to help get the city back on sound fiscal footing. The unions wouldn't give up benefits or wages, as a result the town had to lay off police and fire forces and is now skeleton staffed with less, but more expensive personnel.

Oakland California, a financial basket case, did not have enough police officers last fall to respond to a violent beating which resulted in a death of one of its citizens in their own front yard.  Police forces were busy patrolling the Occupy Oakland gathering.

These stories will be repeated around the country as budgets get tightened.  Critical numbers of law enforcement will be reduced and response times to crimes will be lengthened.  Some jurisdictions will no longer respond to certain types of crime because they just can't afford to hire enough police to respond. Revenue enhancement policing will be increased as municipalities struggle to bring in more money to their coffers.  Speed traps are on the increase and traffic violations are watched for with an eagle eye as they bring in fines. 

Communities are having to come to grips with the costs involved of protecting their citizens.  Some communities are trying to cut costs by having non police dept technicians collect evidence at crime scenes. There is also talk of privatizing some segments of police work, such as traffic enforcement and other non violent crime areas.

Some communities are getting rid of their local departments of police and fire altogether, finding them too expensive to maintain, they are sub contracting with regional sheriff and fire depts to serve their needs. Many communities are now using private fire fighting services and considering using private security companies to provide basic protections.

All of this doesn't bode well to the citizen that think instant help will be there with a 911 call.  In many cases when danger is seconds away, the police are just minutes away and the difference between you living to be able to defend yourself in court, or dying and being carried away in a casket....is your right to bear fire arms.

There will be calls for tighter gun controls because of the Trayvon Martin shooting, but more restrictions only give the criminals a bigger advantage. Look at the cities with the tightest gun controls, it doesn't put a dent in the criminals owning guns.  As a result citizens feel the need to enhance their security with more neighborhood watches and by purchasing fire arms for their personal protection. 

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Brave Mom protects her infant and shoots intruder - VIDEO

Sarah McKinley

There is nothing as strong or as ferocious as a Mother protecting her home and her children. Sarah McKinley proved this point New Years Eve in Blanchard Oklahoma, as she turned the tables on a knife wielding home invasion robber, shooting him dead in her living room.

The incident began at 2:00 PM, when two men started forcing their way through the newly widowed Mothers front door. McKinley grabbed her 3 month old and the phone to dial 911, she also barricaded the front door with furniture, desperately trying to keep the intruders out.

But unbeknownst to the intruders, Sarah also had a 12 gauge shotgun in the house which she kept for self protection and she knew how to use it. While on the phone to emergency services Sarah asked the dispatcher: I have 2 guns in my hand, is it OK to shoot the intruders if they enter my house? The dispatcher replied you must do whatever you need to do to defend your baby if they enter your home.

At that time while Sarah was on the phone, one of the intruders, Justin Martin, 24, finally broke through her front door, armed with knife in hand he came towards the Mother and infant. Sarah had no choice but to squeeze the trigger of the shotgun killing the man on the spot.
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At the sound of the shotgun blast, the other assailant, 29 year old Dustin Stewart ran off , only to surrender to police hours later. He faces 1st degree murder charges in the death of his accomplice, since they were engaged in a violent felony when his friend was killed.

Evidently these two thieving drug addicts were aware that Sarahs husband, a lung cancer victim, had just passed away on Christmas day and they thought there would be drugs in Sarahs house. So they thought they could boldly force their way into the defenseless widowed Mothers home and steal any drugs in the premises. Only they know what else they planned on doing.

Sarah faces no criminal charges for defending herself, as it should be. In America the 2nd Amendment of the constitution gives you the right and ability to defend your home and property, with deadly force if necessary. This story also proves what a great equalizer possessing a firearm can be.

If this woman was unarmed, there is no telling what the outcome would have been to this story. Sarah and her baby could have been statistics in the drug and crime war that haunts America.

Sarah also illuminates why Americans are looking more and more towards their own home self defense in these days of calling 911 for help. When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

The main stream media is very reluctant to promote these kinds of stories of how law abiding Americans protect themselves, but they are quick to point out that gun crime and gun violence are rampant. The fact is that gun crime and gun violence are perpetrated by criminals, not the law abiding, gun owning American citizen.

Here's ABC News' report on the story:

Aruba: sand, sun, murder and Casey Anthony's Lawyer

Casey Anthony and attorney Jose Baez in court

With the unjust verdict in the Casey Anthony trial months behind us, some of the outrage about the failure in our justice system had started to simmer. But the epitome of that legal failure by manipulation grabbed the spotlight, and outrage has flamed anew.

Attorney Jose Baez, still strutting with pride from his masterful hoodwinking of the Florida Jury, was able to grab the spotlight again this week when he paraded his new client, accused murderer Gary Giordono in front of the television cameras in Aruba.

Giordono in an eery similarity to missing American teen, Natalie Holloway, has been accused of murdering his girlfriend, Robyn Gardner, while vacationing with her on Aruba. He was the last person to be seen with her while they went snorkeling together off a secluded Aruban beach. Giordono claims Gardner was pulled out to sea by a strong current as they snorkeled near the shore.

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Aruban authorities jailed him for almost 4 months while they conducted a massive search for the missing woman and checked his changing alibis for clues. It didn't help Giordonos case for authorities to learn that he had purchased a multi million dollar life insurance policy on the missing woman the day they left for their vacation. It cast further doubt on his alibi when it was learned he had been anxiously calling the insurance company to inform them of the disappearance of the woman and to check that the policy was still in force.

"The case does not end here,” Aruba’s Solicitor General Taco Stein vowed. “Mr. Giordano will remain our prime suspect. We know he is lying; His story is not true.”

The outrageous irony in all of this certainly didn't fail to disturb many Americans as we remembered another infamous murderer set free by Aruba, Joren Vandersloop. He is the confessed killer of another teenager and last person seen with Natalie Holloway who has been "missing" ever since her visit to Aruba on a high school class outing.

Vandersloop, like Casey Anthony was jailed by authorities because of bizarre alibis which changed as frequently as the tides which which rip past the infamous island. Vandersloot was finally released by Aruban authorities, due to"lack of evidence." Many believed Vandersloot's escape from justice was orchestrated, aided and abetted by his Father, who just happened to be a prominent judge on the island.

Vandersloot went on to further infamy when he was arrested for the murder of another young woman in Peru. But this time, unluckily for Vandersloot, the crime wasn't committed in Aruba. Peruvian authorities don't take kindly to foreigners murdering their citizens and have not treated him with the kid gloves Aruba handled him with. Peruvian authorities didn't believe the pathological lies/alibi Vandersloot fed them and have imprisoned him on overwhelming evidence of murder. It seems that Vandersloot's final home will be in a Peruvian prison.

Is Jose Baez planning on visiting Peru in the near future?

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