Showing posts with label Guns. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

These guns also save lives


In January 2013, I published a page on this blog about a married woman who was at home with two small children when a man broke into her home.  She took the children into their attic, and she also took with her a handgun that her husband had taught her how to shoot.  She also had with her a telephone, which she used to call the police.  She and her children are alive today because of what she did with her handgun while she was waiting for the police to arrive.

In August 2014, I wrote another page on this blog about two doctors who were attacked on two separate days by patients who had a handgun.  One doctor carried his own gun and successfully defended himself.  He had a minor wound, but a caseworker died before the attacker was shot three times.  The other doctor was unarmed.

These tweets are arranged in chronological order, oldest first.  Two of them were originally on the essay that I published in August 2014.

March 12, 2017


April 22, 2017.

The original tweet includes a short video of a robber in line at a supermarket.  He is armed with a knife, and he tries to get money from the checkout clerk, but the next person in line has a concealed firearm.  He draws the gun, points it at the robber with the knife, and prevents the robbery without any injuries to anyone.

The May 8, 2018 bank robbery

These are the first four paragraphs of a May 8, 2018 news story published by WOFL in Florida.
There was an armed robbery at a bank in Orange County.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office says that the armed robbery occurred at the Wells Fargo on the 4500th block of Hoffner Avenue at 2:38 a.m. The bank and the property next door was roped off on Tuesday morning as deputies investigated.

Deputies say that a white male in his 60’s was at an ATM when he was approached by a Hispanic male in his 20’s. The Hispanic male attempted to rob the white male at gunpoint. There was an exchange of gunfire, as the white male had his weapon on him. The white male drove away and called 911. He then returned to the scene.

Deputies say that Hispanic male was taken to the hospital, but is now deceased.
Note: This story mentions two races, but I do not mention any race in my essays.  The reporter/writer of this story did mention two races, so the racial characterizations are his, not mine.

This is a May 25, 2018 CNN story that shows why race is a meaningless concept.  Even if you assume that race, as a concept exists, no definition of any one race can remain intact after a member of another race provides DNA to the bloodline.


Some videos

This video shows a clerk in a convenience store defending herself against an armed robber.

This was the very first time that she had used a gun, according to the narrator of the video, but the robber was standing close to her, so there was a small chance that she would miss him when she fired.
This video, a news report from a Fox News television station in Michigan, was uploaded in November 2012.  It shows two consecutive armed robberies by the same two people.

At the second robbery, an armed customer killed one of the two robbers and recovered the money from the first robbery.
This video, a news report from an NBC television station in Washington State, was uploaded in September 2013.  A pair of teenagers tried to steal an unoccupied vehicle.

Unfortunately for them, it belonged to an ex-Marine who was armed.  He killed the male thief.  The female was taken into custody.

May 12, 2018.



The May 25, 2018 restaurant incident

These are the first four paragraphs of a May 8, 2018 news story published by WOFL in Florida.
(CNN) An armed bystander gunned down a shooter Thursday at an Oklahoma City restaurant, killing him, police said.

A man walked into Louie's Grill & Bar and opened fire, striking three people, who are expected to survive.  As the gunman ran from the scene, the bystander armed with a pistol confronted and fatally shot him outside the restaurant, Oklahoma City police Capt. Bo Mathews told reporters.

"Right now, all I know is that it was just a good Samaritan that was there and looks like he took the right measures to be able to put an end to a terrible, terrible incident," Mathews said.

The Oklahoma City police identified the suspect as Alexander C. Tilghman, 28, of Oklahoma City.  His motive was unknown.
Andrew's motives are unimportant now because he's dead and because every one of the people he tried to kill are still alive.

More news stories in the form of tweets, online news stories, and YouTube videos may be added to this page later.


August 26, 2018.

At the time that Richard Corcoran posted this tweet, he was the Speaker of Florida's House of Representatives.  His Twitter account followed mine (@BennyTheKite, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin).  Thank you, Richard.

He is now the Commissioner of Education in Florida, and his Twitter account still follows mine.  Thank you again, Richard.


Richard retweeted this tweet.


November 25, 2018



December 4, 2018

These are the first fve paragraphs of a December 4, 2018 Fox News story.
Hours after he and another inmate escaped jail after beating up a security guard, a South Carolina inmate was fatally shot after he broke into a woman’s house, officials said.

Bruce McLaughlin Jr., 30, was shot in the head by the woman after he kicked in her back door on Tuesday, according to Pickens County authorities.

After he entered the home, McLaughlin grabbed a knife sharpening tool from the kitchen and headed toward the woman’s bedroom around 3 a.m.  Sheriff Rick Clark said the woman was home alone and had undergone concealed weapons training at some point prior to the incident.

"This was a big guy. If she hadn't had a weapon there's no telling what would have happened," the sheriff said.  "I gave her a big hug. I told her how proud I was of her."

Clark said the incident was “a shining example” of why owning and knowing how to properly use a gun is important.


May 25, 2019

These are the first three paragraphs of a May 25, 2019 Fox News story.  The links in the first two paragraphs were in their story.  The photo after the story was found with an image search.
Oregon authorities are seeking a would-be thief who was armed with a hatchet when he tried to rob a convenience store, only to flee when the clerk drew a gun and called 911.

However, the clerk's quick thinking cost him his job, with the president of Plaid Pantry in Oak Grove explaining to local station KOIN-TV that the chain has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons.

He said employees are trained to de-escalate robbery situations to avoid injury, according to the station.



The September 3, 2019 carjack

This is the complete text of a September 3, 2019 news story on the website of the ABC-TV affiliate in Houston, Texas.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A woman shot and wounded a suspected robber who reached for her purse, police say.

It happened around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on Creekbend at Fondren in southwest Houston.

Police say Lachelle Hudgins had just parked her vehicle outside her home when two men reached through her driver's side window and grabbed her purse.  Before they could take it, Hudgins frantically reached into her bag and grabbed her gun.

"I couldn't do anything except scream.  At one point, they told me to stop screaming, and he reached his hand inside my car," Hudgins explained.

Officials say she fired two rounds and the men ran away.

"It was all I had in my gun.  I shot until I couldn't shoot anymore," Hudgins said.

A short time later, authorities received a call about a man found shot on the other side of the complex.

The suspect underwent surgery.  He's expected to face aggravated robbery charges.

Hudgins told ABC13 that she still can't believe she survived an attempted robbery unscathed.

"I saved my life," Hudgins said.
"I saved my life," Hudgins said.

All she had to do was to own a handgun, learn how to use it, have it with her, and when five men tried to steal her car, fire the only two bullets that were in the gun.

This video was included in the story above.


The August 9, 2019 home invasion

This video was included in this Daily Caller story.  A man examined someone else's house from the outside and then tried to enter it,but as soon as he was across the threshold, the homeowner confronted him with a handgun.




The public school teachers in Florida

These are the first four paragraphs of an October 2, 2019 Washington Examiner story.  The link in the first paragraph was in their story.
A controversial law in Florida went into effect this week allowing some trained teachers to carry firearms in the classroom to protect the lives of the students and faculty in the event of a mass shooting.

The bill, which was signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, followed recommendations made by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission detailed in a 446-page report.

"Safety and security accountability is lacking in schools, and that accountability is paramount for effective change if we expect a different result in the future than what occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas," the report said.

The "guardians" faculty hired specifically to carry arms and protect the students and staff of the school will not be identified, and their weapon carrying status will remain anonymous. Each guardian is required to undergo 144 hours of tactical and weapons training, as well as undergo drug testing and psychological evaluations.

Though advocates for stricter gun control have pushed back against the measure, others see the added protection as major step forward in protecting students as mass shootings in schools have become more commonplace.
This is the second paragraph of this story.

"The bill, which was signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, followed recommendations made by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission detailed in a 446-page report."

This is the PDF-format report.

This is the complete text of a December 12, 2018 Sun-Sentinel story.  The link in the first paragraph was in their story.
A long-awaited draft report from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission faults by the Broward school district and the Sheriff Office in the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland on Feb. 14.

The report, released Wednesday, concludes that the Broward Sheriff’s Office displayed deficiencies in training, command and individual performance in the response to the shooting 0at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The commission recommends that the Sheriff’s Office conduct an internal review of the performance of seven deputies who showed up, heard shots and failed to take steps to engage the shooter.

The report also recommends an extensive overhaul of school security measures, including mandating lockdown training for staff and creating safe areas in classrooms called “hard corners.”
There were more recommendations in that report, as mentioned in their followup story.

These are the first four paragraphs of a January 02, 2019 Sun-Sentinel story.  All of these links were in their story.
The state commission investigating the Parkland school shooting unanimously approved a tough final report Wednesday that puts the responsibility for reform on school districts, law enforcement agencies, Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis and state legislative leaders.

The 458-page report by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission addresses the cascade of errors revealed in the wake of the shooting, including fumbled tips, lax school security policies and unaggressive Broward sheriff’s deputies who hung back as shots were fired. The report now goes to Gov. Rick Scott, DeSantis, Senate President Bill Galvano and House Speaker José Oliva.

The report contains dozens of recommendations. Some would require action by the governor and Legislature, such as the proposals to allow some teachers to carry guns and increase spending on school security. It also calls for laws to be changed to allow school districts to raise taxes for security improvements and to require rather than simply permit mental health providers to notify law enforcement if a patient threatens anyone with harm. Many of the proposals were inspired by errors and weak spots that came to light after the Feb. 14 massacre of 17 people.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, chairman of the commission, said many recommendations could have been implemented a long time ago had school safety been treated with the importance it deserved, particularly by school districts.
This similar story was also published January 2, 2019, but by the Miami affiliate of ABC-TV.

The October 30, 2019 home invasion

These are the first paragraphs of an October 31, 2019 Bay News 9 story.  The story was updated by their October 31, 2019 story.  That story was linked by this November 4, 2019 Daily Mail (U.K.) story.
LITHIA, Fla. — Hillsborough County deputies are searching for a suspect after a home invasion in Lithia.
  • Suspect shot, killed during home invasion in Lithia
  • Other suspect ran off, being sought
  • Deputies said they do not believe this was random
The suspect being sought is one of two that broke into a home Wednesday night in the 100 block of Old Welcome Road.  The other suspect was shot and killed by one of the homeowners, authorities said.

According to authorities, deputies responded to a 911 call just after 9 p.m.

When they arrived, they found one suspect dead in a ditch on the side of the road and the other suspect was gone.

The homeowners, a man and a woman, said two men broke into their home, making demands.

Deputies said the man and woman said the suspects attacked the man, pistol whipping him and beating him.  That's when the woman retrieved a gun and fired a shot, hitting one of the suspects, deputies said.

The suspects ran out the home, with the wounded man falling into a ditch nearby.  That's where deputy found him.

This is the first paragraph of the November 4th Daily Mail (U.K.) story that is linked above.  The link to the October 31st Bay News 9 story was included.

A heavily pregnant woman used an AR-15 to kill a home intruder after two masked men entered her home in Florida, pistol whipped her husband and violently grabbed their daughter.

The men who entered a home with masks and a violent intent, while a heavily pregnant woman, her husband, and a child were inside, deserved to die for their crime.
This photo was included in a different story, published in an October 29, 2018 story in a journal called Lincolnshire Live (U,K.), titled "Three masked men armed with shotgun and machetes ‘force’ their way into house and threaten family".


The December 29, 2019 church invasion

These are the first four paragraphs of a December 29, 2019 CBS news story.  The link in the fourth paragraph was in their story.
Two parishioners were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire during a church service near Fort Worth, Texas.  Another parishioner shot and killed the gunman seconds after the incident began, according to officials and a livestream video of the service.

Jeoff Williams of the Texas Department of Public Safety praised the "heroic parishioners" who stopped the gunman.  Several parishioners quickly pulled their guns soon after the first shot was fired.

Two people were treated at the scene and released, officials said.

A witness told CBS Dallas / Fort Worth the gunman shot someone with a shotgun during communion and that he was then taken down by another church member.  According to the witness, another church member shot the suspect.








A grand jury has examined the case and has given its' "verdict".


The violent end of a burglar in Kansas City

This is the complete text of a February 1, 2020 Kansas City Star story.  All of these links were in their story.
A suspected burglar was shot dead early Saturday in Kansas City, Kansas, police said.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting at 1:05 a.m. in the 1900 block of Minnesota Avenue, said Officer Jonathon Westbrook, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.

A preliminary investigation suggests that an occupant of the home confronted and shot the suspected burglar.

Saturday’s shooting marks the fourth homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, this year.  At this time last year, one homicide had been recorded, according to data maintained by The Star.

Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
I have some information.  Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you.

The mugger in Chicago who was almost killed

This is the complete text of a February 28, 2020 story published by the Fox News affiliate in Chicago.  The link in the first paragraph was in their story.
CHICAGO - A woman with a concealed-carry permit stopped a robbery Thursday after exchanging gunfire with the would-be robber in Little Village on the Southwest Side.

The woman was standing in front of her home about 6:50 p.m. in the 4100 block of West 24th Place when a male approached her with a gun and demanded her property, Chicago police said.

The 33-year-old refused to hand over her things, and instead pulled out a gun of her own, police said.  The two exchanged gunfire as the male ran off, and no one was struck.

Suburban Tampa, Florida has one less armed robber.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

This gun also saved lives


In January 2013, I wrote an essay on this blog called This gun saved lives.  It was about a woman who was at home with two small children when a stranger broke into the house.  The woman was armed with a handgun, and on the advice of the police, she and the children tried to hide in the attic of the house.  The intruder apparently heard them, because he went upstairs, looking for them.

Unfortunately for the intruder, the woman was armed with a handgun, and she had been taught how to use it by her loving husband.  The intruder was shot five times and later arrested.  The woman and her two children were not harmed because she defended herself.


This is what happened at a Philadelphia hospital in late July

As reported by the website Philly.com on July 26th.  I copied the first seven paragraphs of their article and added a comment after the sixth paragraph.
A troubled patient opened fire on a caseworker and psychiatrist in a small office at a unit of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Delaware County on Thursday afternoon, police said, leading the doctor to draw his own weapon and shoot the assailant.

The confrontation left the caseworker, 53-year-old Theresa Hunt, dead and the 52-year-old psychiatrist, a veteran doctor at the hospital whom sources identified as Lee Silverman, with a graze wound to the head.  The patient, Richard Plotts, was in critical condition Thursday night from three gunshot wounds.

The violence sent a shock wave through the normally quiet campus of the medical center on the border of Darby Borough and Yeadon.  Police vehicles swarmed the scene and armed officers charged through the building - the Sister Marie Lenahan Wellness Center, across Lansdowne Avenue from the main hospital - to evacuate doctors, nurses, and patients waiting for routine appointments.

Authorities said they believed Silverman shot Plotts three times in the torso and arm.  Silverman was expected to be released from the hospital Thursday night and recover fully.

Plotts, of Upper Darby, who appeared to have a long criminal record, was undergoing surgery Thursday night at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  If he survives, he will be charged Friday with murder, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said.

It was not clear why Silverman, a doctor for nearly 25 years, was armed at the office.  Bernice Ho, a spokeswoman for Mercy Fitzgerald, said Thursday it was against hospital policy for anyone other than security guards to carry weapons.

[I bet the hospital administrator is already rethinking this policy.]

Donald Molineux, chief of the Yeadon Police Department, said that if Silverman returned fire and wounded Plotts, he "without a doubt saved lives."
Without any doubt whatsoever.  This doctor, armed with nothing but a handgun, his firearms training, and some simple common sense, saved lives.

Other news sources have reported that Mr. Plotts had over a dozen extra bullets in his possession when he was shot.  It's not too hard to draw the conclusion that he intended to kill more than just one person.


And this is what happened in a Baltimore hospital in September 2010

As reported by ABC News on September 16, 2010.

Please note that when this doctor was attacked by a man who had a handgun, the doctor was unarmed, and so, he was badly wounded.

Please also note that this article has its' own links to other articles.
A gunman upset over news about his mother's medical condition opened fire inside Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital Thursday morning, wounding a doctor before fatally shooting his mom and then turning the gun on himself.

Warren Davis, 50, the alleged gunman, grew "overwhelmed" when the doctor told him about the care of his mother, Jean Davis, and pulled a small semi-automatic handgun from his waistband at about 11:11 a.m., according to Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld.

"[Davis] was receiving some news about the care and condition of his mother just outside the doorway of [her] room and he became emotionally distraught and reacted," said Bealefeld.
Davis then "fired a single gunshot that struck the doctor in the lower chest, upper abdomen," said Bealefeld.

ABC News has confirmed that the injured doctor is Dr. David Cohen, an orthopedic physician who specializes in spine surgery, osteoporosis and scoliosis, according to his biography on the hospital's website. He was rushed to the operating room and is expected to make a full recovery.

"The doctor collapsed just outside the doorway of the room and Mr. Davis was last seen running into the room brandishing the handgun in the direction of his mother, who was confied to her bed," said Bealefeld.

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Hillary, the timely presence of the U.S. Sixth Fleet could have made a very big difference on September 11th, 2012.

Just look how much difference one Philadelphia doctor made a few weeks ago when he was armed with one handgun.

Only one person died from angry gunfire, and the angry gunman was injured, arrested, and he will be prosecuted on the charge of murder.


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Friday, April 12, 2013

Gabrielle Gifford's husband likes to shoot his gun


These are the first seven paragraphs of a story published April 9, 2013 in The Hill, a news journal that focuses on Capitol Hill politics.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) sometimes watches her husband shoot guns recreationally.

CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.

The Glock 9 millimeter is the same gun that was used in the shooting massacre in Tucson, Arizona in early 2011 where Giffords suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Kelly notes that the Glock he fires recreationally holds 17 rounds while the one used in Tucson held 33 rounds.

Kelly and Giffords have become some of the most prominent proponents of strengthening gun laws. They run the group Americans for Responsible Solutions which advocates policies meant to reduce gun violence.

Americans for Responsible Solutions recently released a video of Kelly buying a Sig Sauer .45 in Tucson, Arizona. The video argued that it's currently too easy to buy a gun.

President Obama has urged Congress to pass new gun laws. On Monday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that he would block a package of gun-control measures Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to bring to the Senate.

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Note: This article has been rewritten since it was first published and since I copied and pasted the text onto this blog page.  The text of this story has been changed without any notification to the readers, but the original article is available on this web page, which includes a link to this CNN story, which was published April 9, 2013.


February 16, 2019 update

There's a lot of material in this update.  Please take the time to read it thoroughly.

Mark Kelly is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

These are the first four paragraphs of a February 12, 2019 New York Times story.  Both of the links in these paragraphs were in their story.
Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and gun-control activist who is married to Gabrielle Giffords, announced on Tuesday that he would run for Senate in Arizona, challenging appointed Senator Martha McSally and intensifying the Democratic threat to Republicans’ narrow control of the chamber.

Mr. Kelly’s entry sets up a possible general election between two combat veterans in a swiftly changing state, and may elevate Arizona further as a 2020 battleground.  Both parties already view Arizona as a swing state in the presidential race and in 2018 Democrats won a Senate race there for the first time in decades.

Ms. McSally, an Air Force veteran, was narrowly defeated in a statewide race last year by Senator Kyrsten Sinema.  Ms. McSally joined the Senate anyway a few months later, appointed to fill the vacancy left by John McCain’s death after a placeholder appointee, Jon Kyl, resigned.

Mr. Kelly, 54, unveiled his campaign in an online video highlighting his experience as an astronaut and Navy pilot.  Ms. Giffords, a former member of Congress who was shot and nearly killed by a deranged gunman in 2011, appeared beside him in the message.

These are 20 links to other stories about his new campaign.  All of these stories were published on the same day as the New York Times story.  Some of these stories refer to the Senate seat as "John McCain's seat" even though he died on August 25, 2018 and was replaced in early September by Jon Kyl, who was once a Senator himself.
USA Today Washington Post CNN Tuscon Weekly
AZ Central The Associated Press People Wall St. Journal
CBS News KTLA Los Angeles WLS Politico
NBC News Arizona Public Media The Hill Tuscon Weekly
Town Hall Arizona Capitol Times Roll Call Sacramento Bee

These journals published the February 12, 2019 Associated Press story that is linked above.
Tuscon.com Las Vegas Review-Journal ABC News
Boston Globe New York Daily News KPRC Houston
WGN Chicago The Times of Israel The Japan Times


Mark's main political issue is gun control

Even though this April 9, 2013 story includes a video of a CNN reporter, visiting Mark Kelly's home with his permission, and firing a 9mm Glock handgun at some clay flowerpots, U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Kelly says that people should not own firearms.

 This video was uploaded to YouTube by the PBS Newshour on October 2, 2017.  This is their description of the content of the video.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, co-founders of gun control advocacy organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, respond to Las Vegas shootings.

Starting at 1 minute, 14 seconds of the PBS video, Mark says these words;

"Every year, roughly 33,000 people die from guns.  Over 100,000 more are shot.  This is the worst-case scenario.  It's haunted our dreams, that we would wake up to the news of a massacre like this.  Weapons of war in the hands of a determined killer with a tactical advantage  This was an ambush if there ever was one."


These are the first five paragraphs of a January 8, 2019 Associated Press story that was published on the website of the ABC-TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after reclaiming the House majority, Democrats are introducing gun control legislation timed for the anniversary of the shooting of former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats introduced a bill to expand background checks for sales and transfers of firearms on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of the day Giffords was shot in the head at a constituent meeting in Arizona.

Giffords, who co-founded a gun safety group with her husband, Mark Kelly, said in a statement Friday she was thrilled that her former House colleagues were responding to a gun-violence epidemic that killed nearly 40,000 people in 2017.

The bill expanding background checks "marks a critical first step toward strengthening America's gun laws and making our country a safer place to live, work, study, worship and play," Giffords said. "I stand ready to do everything in my power to get this legislation across the finish line."

Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule.
This is the last quoted sentence.

"Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule."


Democrats promise 'swift action on gun control' but ...

... but many of the Democrats are hypocrites.

This is the second paragraph of the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill, titled "Giffords and husband still enjoy recreational gun use", that is quoted and linked at the top of this page.
CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.

The CNN story that was linked in the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill included this video, which runs just under three minutes.

Starting at 35 seconds, you will see him shooting at clay flowerpots and plastic water bottles with a 9mm Glock handgun that has a 17-round clip.

He originally bought it as a gift for her.  He says so in the video.
This five-second video, uploaded in August 2013, shows him shooting a shotgun at objects made of clay at a shooting range in Napa, California.

If I find other videos, I will add them onto this page.

If Gabrielle Gifford's husband can buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, and if he tells the rest of the country that we have no right to buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, then he's either a dictator or a hypocrite.

Either way, the National Rifle Association is right and he's wrong.


The person who posted this February 6, 2014 tweet was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.


This February 7, 2014 article in the Oregon Catalyst summarizes the obvious discrepancy in Mark Kelly's political philosophy.  These are the first four paragraphs.  All of the links in these paragraphs were in their article.
Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, went shooting yesterday after testifying in favor of additional gun control at the Oregon Legislature.  Kelly, a former Navy captain and former astronaut, was in Oregon to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in support of Sen. Floyd Prozanski’s “universal background check” bill, SB 1551.

As we reported on Wednesday, the man who shot Gabby Giffords in 2011 purchased the gun legally after passing a background check, and so Mark Kelly’s reason for testifying yesterday was more about his support of gun control in general than any relevance to the Oregon bill.  In fact, Kelly acknowledged yesterday that the man who had shot his wife had passed a background check.

Kelly testified as part of a panel along with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Donna Henderson, an Assistant Chief of Investigations at the Portland Police Bureau.

Later in the day, Kelly went shooting at the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct Range.

An article, published in the March/April 2016 issue of Sonoma Magazine, and titled Congressman Mike Thompson: Taming Gun Violence, misses the mark.  These are the first six paragraphs.
Mike Thompson was talking gun safety legislation as he slipped two yellow shells into a 20-gauge Browning shotgun, snapped the breech closed and yelled, “Pull.”

Two orange sporting clays sailed in a low arc above a muddy field, dark clouds hanging over San Pablo Bay in the distance. Thompson aimed and fired twice.

The first flying target shattered, raining debris on the ground below. A second disc suffered the same fate.

The white-haired congressman stared for a moment with a satisfied look before turning to reload.

“I’m just trying to stop the bad guys from getting guns,” Thompson said after a day of shooting, which included an early morning duck hunt at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.

But the St. Helena Democrat, lifelong hunter, Vietnam War veteran and chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, has yet to hit his most important mark.

The reason why so many advocates of gun control find it hard to pass their favorite legislation is precisely because many of them aren't willing to let the public share their own love for guns.  The photo below was at the top of the article in Sonoma Magazine.



If gun-control advocates want more votes ...

... especially the votes of young women, a group that both parties are actively recruiting, they must accept two facts.
  1. Many of these women are the victims of violent crime, and

  2. Many of them are preparing themselves so that they can prevent it before it happens.

The purses shown below allow a woman who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm,  These are not the only styles that are available.

The women who buy and use these purses have made the simple decision that they do not want to become victims.

Some of them, who have already been the victims of violent crime, were so horrified by it that they don't ever want to repeat that experience or anything like it ever again.




The Democrat Party should listen to some very old advice

If you want other people to throw away their guns, set a good example by throwing yours away.

That is especially true for Mark Kelly, who used his own Glock handgun to shoot some clay flowerpots while a CNN reporter watched.


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Saturday, February 16, 2013

This woman published the names of gun owners


So I'm returning the favor.

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Friday, January 11, 2013

This gun saved lives


January 3, 2013
Loganville, Georgia

A woman and her two children are alive today because she shot the man who broke into her home, while she and the children were there.

Police believe that the man intended to steal from the house belonging to Donnie and Melinda Herman, but they theorize that he heard the sounds of the two children while he was there and started looking for them.

When the man broke in, she called the 9-1-1 emergency number, using a cell phone.  They told her to hide in her house and to stay on the phone with them.

She was married, and after she had hid, with her two small children in the small attic of the house, the police told her to stay on the phone with them so that they would know what was happening.  After she and the children had hid, she asked the police to call her husband, which they did.

After her husband was told that a man had broken into his house, with his wife and their two children inside, he spoke on the phone with her, reassuring her while she and the children had hid inside a crawl space in the attic.

The police had already told a uniformed officer to go to the house, but he had not arrived when the burglar found the woman and two small children, hiding in the attic.  She had placed herself between the attic door and her children.  She had also armed herself with a handgun, which her husband had taught her how to use.

When the burglar opened the door to the small attic, he thought that he would find the people who had made the noises that he had heard downstairs.  He did not expect to see a woman ready to defend herself and two small children with a gun, but that's what he found.

Minutes earlier, while her husband had been talking with her on her cell phone, he had told her to defend herself from this intruder.  He reminded her that he had already taught her how to shoot, and he talked to her again after she fired the first shot.

"Shoot him again!" he said.

She shot six times.  Five of those shots hit the intruder.  She and her two children were not harmed by the man who might have killed her and two children if she had not been armed with that handgun.

The man, wounded by five bullets, was able to leave the house, but he was captured shortly afterwards by police and is now hospitalized and under arrest.

Melinda Herman is now glad that her husband taught her how to shoot.  So are the children.  She doesn't like to think about shooting anyone, but that makes her a better human being than the burglar, who might not have had any regrets if he had been able to rape a defenseless woman after killing two children.

Link to a similar story about the same crime, published January 4, 2013 on the website of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

This January 6, 2013 story on the website of a Fox News affiliate includes the photo on the right.

This link and the link to the story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution were added 12/14/17.


Updates

These are the first three paragraphs of an April 2, 2013 news story on the website of WSB-TV, Atlanta.  The link in the first paragraph was in their story.
WALTON COUNTY, Ga. —
A burglar shot multiple times during a home invasion will spend 10 years in prison for the crime.

Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh was the only reporter there when Paul Ali Slater pleaded guilty to burglary charges Tuesday morning. The judge sentenced him to 20 years, with 10 years to serve, and also banished Slater from Walton County.

Investigators said Slater broke into a Loganville home on Henderson Drive in January and pursued a woman and two children inside. Investigators said Slater broke through a bedroom door, a bathroom door and a closet door before he reached an attic crawl space where the woman was clutching a .38-calibur handgun.

A similar story, dated February 2017

This is a complete February 16, 2017 Bay News 9 story.
The St. Petersburg Police Department is investigating an early morning shooting at a home on 24th Avenue South.
  • Woman shoots intruder at St. Pete home
  • Middle-aged man expected to be okay
According to police, preliminary information indicates an intruder was shot at the residence around 6:15 a.m.

Police said a woman saw a man she didn't know coming into her home through a side window before she shot him.

The woman told police she warned the man that she was armed and shot the intruder when he did not retreat.

The man was transported to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg with a gunshot wound and is expected to be okay.

No other information has been released at this time.
The intruder was identified in an update to this story.  The update appears on the same web page.
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