Shooting Back Works

So true...but the gun hating liberals will just ignore logical arguments like this until they're blue in the face

Shooting Back Works

By Jeff Knox

(March 11, 2008) The media and gun control advocates insist that the easy availability of firearms is a problem; that increased firepower equals increased death toll; that the key to stopping armed violence is restricting gun sales and prohibiting lawful firearm possession in certain public places. They’re wrong. They have always been wrong and their misguided tampering comes with a very high price – people’s lives.

In the past year there have been a number of very high profile cases of a lone lunatic walking into a public place and indiscriminately shooting people. Such incidents are aberrations, unpredictable, unstoppable, and relatively unusual. The best indicator that someone might attempt such an atrocity is not how available guns are or how efficiently background checks are conducted, but the level of news coverage generated by the last such tragedy because so many of these cowards are motivated by a desire for their own 15 minutes of fame. Since the media refuses to stop rewarding these murderers, the best that can be hoped for is to mitigate the damage when they strike. In the final analysis, the difference between a crazed bad guy killing several people and a crazed bad guy killing dozens of people is almost always the length of time it takes for good guys with guns to arrive on the scene. Three attacks in the past year offer graphic proof of this fact.

A lunatic armed with two pistols, a .22 and a 9mm, walks into a college class building and begins randomly shooting people as he goes from classroom to classroom. Months later and thousands of miles away, a lunatic armed with a semi-auto AK and a 9mm pistol begins randomly shooting people as he walks into a crowded church building. A few months later and halfway around the world, a lunatic armed with a full-auto AK-47 machinegun and plenty of extra ammunition walks into a college library and begins randomly shooting people.
Three similar scenarios with three strikingly, and unexpectedly different outcomes. None of the attacks could have been reasonably predicted or prevented. All three attacks were planned out well in advance. All three attackers were on suicide missions with the objective of killing as many people as possible before being killed themselves. All three murderers sought a twisted form of fame and glory and were willing to die to achieve it. All three also knew that the more people they killed, the more famous they would be. All three demonstrated basic proficiency with their weapons, but none of the three was known to have had any formal firearms training.

Most would expect that the biggest differences in the shootings would be related to the weapons used and the time it took for police to respond. In fact, police response in all of the attacks was relatively quick, but when the difference between life and death is mere seconds, even just one minute for police to arrive is too long to be of use. Weapon choice also appears to have made little difference since the attacker with the most firepower did not kill the most people. The murderer carrying the full-auto AK killed 8 and wounded another 10 or 11, while the attacker using the semi-auto AK and 9mm pistol managed to kill two and wound several more. The murderer using the 9mm and .22 pistols however killed 30 and wounded 29. (Both of the last two attackers killed two people at other locations prior to the major assaults being discussed here.)

In the most recent incident, a man armed with a full-auto AK attacked students in the crowded library of a religious school in Jerusalem. An adult student at the school, Yitzhak Dadon, who was carrying a pistol, returned fire, striking the attacker, stopping the attack, and ultimately killing the murderer with the assistance of an off-duty military officer who lived nearby.

Late last year, when a disturbed young man launched an assault on a Colorado church, he began shooting people in the parking lot as he approached the main entrance. A member of the church’s security committee, Jeanne Assam, heard the shooting and rushed toward the sound, drawing her own concealed handgun. Upon encountering the murderer, Ms. Assam ordered him to stop then shot him several times, ending the attack.

Unfortunately, at Virginia Tech last April, there was no Jeanne Assam or Yitzhak Dadon – Virginia Tech forbids students and faculty from possessing firearms on campus – leaving the murderer to casually wander from room to room executing people at will until he got tired of it and took his own life.

The weapon chosen can have a major impact on how many people a mass murderer is likely to kill; as proven by the fact that the worst mass murderers in U.S. history chose jet airplanes, fertilizer, gasoline, and dynamite, in that order. Against such attacks a personal firearm is probably not much help, but if the murderer’s weapon of choice is a firearm, one capable person with a gun can make a substantial difference in the final outcome.



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Britain: Nanny State Police Crashing 25th Wedding Anniversary Party

Helicopters, masked police, snipers on the roof, the works. The reason? Somebody got scared of guns. Nope, not real guns; those are banned in England. Toy guns carried by the partygoers as props for the Wild West themed party.

FoxNews: Guests of a wild west-themed costume party got a scare when a posse of armed police officers stormed into the hootenanny thinking toy guns carried by partygoers were real, several British media outlets reported.

The festivities were held Saturday by Roy and Val Worthington of Leicestershire, England, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. But the celebration quickly turned into a disaster when three police cars and a helicopter showed up to investigate, the BBC reported.

"It was a bit over the top with the helicopter," Roy Worthington told the BBC.

The Leicestershire Police Department, however, defended the party crashing.

“We have a duty to treat all reports of firearms as genuine,” a police spokeswoman told the Daily Mail newspaper.

In an interview with the BBC, Val Worthington claimed that she had called police last November to notify them that some of her guests may be carrying toy guns.

Click here for a video report from the BBC.

That's how bad both, the socialist state police force of the UK and the majority of the British people got brainwashed in just a little over 10 years of liberal rule. Considering the leaders of the Democrat Party are looking at European nations as the model for America to follow and taking into consideration they have now the political means to do it, be afraid my friends. Be very afraid.

Obama's White House: The Perfect Habitat For Cockroaches

They've been hiding for years, but Washington's gun ban extremists are baaaack

By Gerard Valentino

Like cockroaches waiting for the lights to go out before scurrying out into the open, the anti-gunners have sulked in their little holes, feeding off political scraps while we were increasing the pro-gun footprint. While the anti-gunners hid, pro-gunners were so successful that only two states don't allow legal concealed carry. The anti-gun leadership absorbed their losses and waited a long time for the pendulum to swing back in their favor.



Now that the Democrats control Congress, they see it as the cue to scurry from their hiding places. Their plan is to take away private ownership of guns in America.

Despite their failures over the years, their current plan is devoid of new strategies which leave little hope for success. Americans have grown tired of the lies, poor prognostications and outright falsification they use as "proof" that guns are a threat to public safety.

As it stands, their movement's mission statement seems to be, "we are the enlightened in society who know what is best for you and your family, so since guns scare us so they should scare you too."

Adding to their headache is the success of concealed carry laws across the United States. The laws put more guns on the street without the anti-gun gang's predicted increase in violent gun deaths. That won't stop the anti-gun groups from making up statistics to prove otherwise, since dishonesty is part of their M.O., and has been for years.



Cockroaches seem to survive just about anything, and untold years of evolution made them a freak of nature. Anti-gunners, on the other hand, only have their failed social experiment combined with a willingness to throw integrity and honesty in the garbage. They also seem to have a never-ending supply of logically challenged, emotion-based hypothetical arguments.

Yet, like cockroaches they survive political disasters to dredge up their silly arguments after every high profile crime committed with a gun.

The media plays a big role in keeping the anti-gun message in front of the American people, and in states like Ohio there is and undeniable anti-gun bias in all forms of mass communication. Without the media and their willingness to place blame after every spree killing, the anti-gun organizations would dry up and blow away in the wind. Just like what my dog leaves in the backyard.

Just about every spree killing over the last 40 years happened in a "gun free" zone. We don't want to get into an explanation of why "gun-free" zones are an invitation to criminals. Without a doubt, "gun free" zones are the epitome of legislators feeling like they have to do something to protect the children.


Clearly, the "gun-free" school zone legislation was passed without required foresight, since hundreds of lives were lost over the years because criminals know schools are possibly the softest target in America. Leaving America's most vital resource at the whim of typical street scum, or people with a serious mental illness, is nothing short of insane.

Our children deserve protection at all costs, and clearly we have failed them by allowing a very small minority of anti-gun crusaders to run roughshod over the opinion of the majority of Americans. It is a sad state of affairs that will change only when the right to bear arms is returned properly to the American people. When that happens, teachers, parents and administrators will again have the ability to protect children.

The cockroaches come out of the woodwork to blame the pro-gun lobby whenever a spree killing happens, whether at a school, at the mall or at a workplace. But, it is the cockroaches' own policies which disarm law-abiding people making such attacks so easy. They can't make the logical leap required to understand that each time an honest person resists with a gun the net gain to society as a whole is immeasurable.

Criminals are cowards, and if they have to stare down the barrel of a gun, any gun, the next time a criminal plans a crime they will worry about an armed victim.


Americans spoke at the ballot box over the years and are solidly in favor of letting honest people use firearms for self-protection. With an avowed gun-snatcher in the White House, it won't be easy to counter the presidential bully pulpit, but we did it during the Clinton years. President Obama did a good job of hiding his anti-gun ways during the election and fooled millions of gun owners. Now that he is locked into a stance if he changes it gun owners will turn on him – quickly.

Anti-gun crusaders don' believe that guns are ever used in self-defense, and that guns are, by their very existence, pure evil. How an object devoid of thought, feeling or emotions can be evil is beyond the grasp of most Americans. Anti-gun groups are losing support due to their backwards stance on guns, not only has the grassroots deserted them, but large donors as well.


Like a cockroach searching for food, very little can dissuade the anti-gun gangs from their self-appointed duty of disarming honest people. It is our job to exterminate their backwards elitist agenda from the market place of ideas since their favorite line, "if it only saves one life," only applies to victims who refuse to resist with a gun.

If you use a gun and kill your attacker, the anti-gun crusaders equate such an action with a drive-by shooting that kills indiscriminately. Nothing is considered evil in the anti-gun platform, except the gun itself. Blaming an inanimate object, instead of the person wielding the device, takes a certain lack of logical reasoning that many Americans can't wrap their mind around.


That doesn't stop the anti-gunners from pouring out of the woodwork to blame a gun whenever a high-profile murder takes place.

When people see cockroaches pouring from their woodwork it is certainly disconcerting and can ruin an otherwise nice place to live. To combat the infestation a well-known commercial product is often used – the Roach Motel, where roaches check in, but never check out.

Anti-gun crusaders have their version of the Roach Motel – logic.

Once you get an anti-gunner in a debate over gun rights, wait a little while and then throw logic into the equation. They will be trapped because like the Roach Motel, they thought one thing when the debate began, and now you're pulling a bait and switch, leaving them without recourse. You also took away their one recourse when beaten in the marketplace of ideas – the ability to check out.