It’s easy to watch the hot story of any particular moment of whichever tragedy has captured the media’s spotlight and be misguided into out of proportion emotional responses.

42 People are murdered, each day
6 People are murdered by illegal immigrants, each day
0.29 People are murdered each day in ‘mass shootings’ involving 4 or more victims
0.08 People are murdered each day with ‘assault rifles’
102 People die in traffic accidents, each day
32 People are killed in alcohol related traffic accidents, each day
2.8 People are killed each day in total plane crashes
0.007 People are killed each day in terrorism related plane crashes (including 9/11/01 in a 10 year average, the rate is zero if you exclude 9/11)
95 People commit suicide, each day
3 People are killed in firearm-related accidents, each day
0.38 People under the age of 15 are killed in firearm related accidents, each day
338 People die total from unintentional injuries, each day
62 People die from unintentional falls, each day
82 People die from unintentional poisoning, each day
107 People die each day from hospital mistakes (not counting infections)
219 People die each day from infections in hospitals
290 People die each day from non-error adverse reactions to medications
4,000 People under the age of 1 are killed before they are born, each day

You can never legislate your way to complete safety in a society without completely losing freedom and liberty. I value liberty more highly than safety. However, there is a proper place for wise and prudent legislation to reduce un-necessary deaths as long as it fits within our Constitutional model of limited government. Knowing the current numbers simply helps you put your efforts towards improving public safety where they are logically most needed.

Most of the numbers came from the CDC government website.

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But before anyone can legally purchase a firearm you must fill out and sign a sworn document called the ATF Form 4473. Then you have to show a picture ID, and the gun dealer calls the National Instant Criminal System (NICS) to see if you’re a bad guy.

Now let’s look at Question 11e on ATF Form 4473: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, or narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? [Yes/No]“. Loughner was described as a “pothead” and was rejected by the US Army because of his admitted marijuana addiction. If he answered “Yes” the store wouldn’t have sold the firearm. So Loughner had to answer “No” … which means he committed a felony, and a felon cannot purchase a firearm.

What I’m getting at is that (1) there are laws already in place to stop Tuscon-like shootings, (2) criminals do not obey laws no matter what the law says or threatens, (3) any new law would not have stopped Loughner in any meaningful way.

Exactly what would have been the outcome if Congress had passed a bushel basket of gun restrictions last year? Probably very little difference. Therefore what real benefit would any number of new gun laws have?

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Within hours of the shooting several media outlets and liberal elites are bemoaning the Glock 19, the firearm used in the shooting, forgetting to acknowledge that the G19 is used in more law enforcement offices than practically any other firearm.

Many media outlets are practically refusing to mention Jared Loughner, preferring instead to blame the Tea Party, guns, the NRA, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, any any other “right of center” Progressive target. I will not link to them as I do not want to send them any traffic.

The knee-jerkers are also coming out from under their rocks. Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official. .. sigh .. If this proposed law were really that good, then why not make it “… within 1,000 feet of any human”? Or is the implication that government officials are “more equal” than the great unwashed? This is why I don’t support the Republicans, because their ranks are just as filthy as the Democrats.

Folks let me go on record here:
- I do not advocate an otherthrow of the government, just a re-structuring to be more in line of what this country was founded on.
- I do not advocate violence against any non-violent person, just immediate and effective violence against those that would violence to me or my family.
- The fuse is there, and it’s been there for awhile, but it will be the Progressives-Liberals-Socialists that light the fuse. And it’s because of that that I keep my powder dry.

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• Based on their opposition to Heller, they don’t think you have an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Based on their opposition to McDonald, they want states and cities to have free rein infringing those rights they don’t think you have.
• They want to ban private sales.
• They want to enforce “No Gun Zones,” places where only criminals can carry guns.
• They’re against concealed carry.
• They’re against open carry.
• They’re against car carry.
• They’re against have guns ready to deploy in home defense.
• They’re against Castle Doctrine.
• They’re against “stand your ground” laws.
• They want to ban semi autos.
• They want to ban inexpensive guns.
• They want to ban .50 cals.
• They want to ban lead ammunition.
• They want to register guns and create a national database.
• They want to require microstamping.
• They want to sue gun manufacturers.

Sorry, but to me these “common sense” laws appear to border on draconian gun prohibition.

Bottom line: if the Brady Bunch, and groups like them, really want to prevent me from easily obtaining guns, or try to prevent me from legally carrying a gun in public, then I have but two words for them: ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ.

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Yet Gandhi also understood that passive resistance is of no value when lives are being lost. It’s difficult to win for a cause when your oppressor is killing you.

Gandhi realized that the level of nonviolence he promoted required incredible faith and courage, which he believed everyone did not possess. He therefore advised that everyone need not keep to nonviolence, especially if it were used as a cover for cowardice.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent. If the capacity for non-violent self-defense is lacking, there need be no hesitation in using violent means.

Standing by impotently when faced with violence is the worst possible response, far worse that responding with violence. Free people must arm themselves, both ideologically and with weapons of violence, to put an end to the attacks directed against them. Having a viable, efficient, and cost-effective means of resisting imminent violence is a cornerstone of freedom. The choice is completely yours: resist or comply.

This is one reason why I remain armed while both in and out of my house.

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They fought to save a life, and now they say they’ll fight the fine.

It all revolves around the rescue of a deer trapped in icy water Thursday night.

Strangers banded together to pull a deer out of the freezing water of the Patapsco River on Thursday night.

“We seen the deer going under,” said Khalil Abusakran. “It couldn’t maintain. It was starting to freeze, and it was really getting bad.”

Abusakran brought a raft, and Jim Hart joined him.

“We had oars and shovels to break the ice, for the deer to get out,” Abusakran said.

But in the excited aftermath of the rescue, a natural resources police officer on the scene wrote both men a ticket.

“And he didn’t say anything,” Jim Hart said. “We went in and out of the water numerous times. He didn’t stop us at all.”

They say they were ticketed for not wearing life vests, although both are over the age for mandatory use of flotation devices.

WTF? The heroes each got $90 fines because they weren’t wearing life jackets while trying to save a deer from freezong/drowning, and doing so while a government agent sat and watched everything and did nothing but stuff his finger up his own butt?

Didn’t we wage a bloody war years ago with a government that acted like jerks and slapped us around whenever they liked? Didn’t we win that war? Do they want another war?

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The mayor doesn’t like it, but the city is no longer stopping people with legal weapon permits from carrying their weapons into Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

“The fact of the matter is, we’re complying with state law, so it’s not something where we had a choice,” said Mayor Kasim Reed.

Absolutely amazing. HB89 a couple of years ago, along with last year’s SB308, said that legal firearm carry on all public transportation is OK in Georgia. But Hartsfield Airport, along with tons of Atlanta’s political elites, have said that Hartsfield is “different” and “above the law” and said they would arrest anyone with a firearm in the non-secure areas of Hartsfield regardless of state law.

ATL Mayor Kasim Reed’s legal team must have told him that if he continued the abuse of state law that an expensive lawsuit would soon arrive.

I will NOT test ATL’s mood just yet. I will NOT openly carry a firearm at Hartsfield for awhile. I don’t trust that a cop won’t taser me and claim he “forget” firearm carry is now allowed. Maybe in a couple of months when the media storm has died down. But I WILL be concealed carrying.

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Huh?

This is not a day-care with 20 kids, it’s a college with 30,000 students scattered over 2600 acres, and the government is blaming the school for not informing all of them that a crazed shooter was hidden somewhere on those 2600 acres. Even if the school did inform the students, how was the school planning to protect all 30,000 students, or stop the armed gunman? When are We The People going to wake up and realize that the government cannot, and will not, protect us from evil, that ultimately it is each one of us that is responsible for the safety of ourselves and our families?

You have three choices: (1) after an attack try not to bleed out before the cops and medics arrive, (2) institute a police state where there are armed cops every 20 feet everywhere you go, (3) arm yourself, train yourself, and soberly take the responsibility to protect the lives of your family.

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An innocent guy, who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Four evil predators, two-legged animals that see fulfillment in taking the life of someone else, even someone completely innocent and unknown to the predators. Today those predators go by the names of Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18, Horace Damon Coleman, 19, Emmanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18, and Tracen Lamar Franklin, 19.

Folks, there is evil in the world, evil that can not be reasoned with, evil that holds no importance to life. These people should not spend one night in taxpayer-funded jail … they should be shot by a firing squad with their parents paying the costs of the bullets.

This is why I am armed both inside and outside my house.

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The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings.

It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.

China, Cuba, Libya, and Saudi Arabia are scolding the US on human rights failings?

Maybe one of those blue-helmeted jack-booted thugs from the UN will come to my house where I can show them one of my Human Rights … guaranteed by the Second Amendment. You know, give them an explanation that’s 7.62mm wide and 39mm long, repeated 1000 times.

Is there any reason to continue giving taxpayer money to the UN?

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