It’s surprising how few specifics have been released about the shooting of those failed jihadis in Texas. We’re stuck with media accounts of attackers wearing body armor and bearing the standard “assault rifles.” And you know how genius reporters usually are about such things.
But Bob Owens looks at photos of the scene and gives a fascinating analysis.
Romney Republican, Comedy Great, and Shakespearean Actress, Melissa Joan Hart has been making the rounds speaking about her recent 40 pound weight loss .
Speaking as a fatty, I say “kudos”, for the accomplishment!
She has also been making some PSA’s.
Who knew that the human brain could weigh that much?
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Even in this instant-news age, it’s always a few days before full accurate details emerge. Some initial reports claimed that the Islamist thugs who set out to censor free speech in Texas disabled an unarmed guard then were themseves shot by rapidly arriving police. But not so.
Here’s CNN’s take on how one armed, aware, and prepared person prevented a massacre.
On one side, you had two men in body armor, toting assault rifles and showing every willingness to open fire now and count their victims later. On the other, you had a security officer — a traffic officer by day — with a pistol.
Somehow, the officer won.
Authorities have not released the name of the overmatched Garland, Texas, police officer who stopped a pair of gunmen Sunday night outside that city’s Curtis Culwell Center, where people had gathered at an event featuring controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. But they have described what he did, actions that could be characterized as equal parts skillful, heroic and miraculous.
I think CNN should delete the word “miraculous.” Was there some luck involved? Boy howdy, surely there was. But it’s hardly a miracle that a Texan-American hired to protect attendees at a deliberately provocative art exhibit was prepared to dispatch murderous (but also no-doubt clueless) jihadis.
I suspect that, had the would-be murderers gotten inside the exhibit hall, another five or 10 armed people would have been prepared to remove their worthless carcasses from among the living. In this country, you don’t get away with shooting people because you don’t like their opinions. And that’s not merely because we’re philosophical enough to understand that civilization entails embracing the right to disagree, even to challenge and provoke. It’s because, unlike helpless Europeans, we have the physical means to halt the barbarians at the gates.
As one wag said, “There’s a Paris in Texas, but Texas ain’t Paris.” Amen to that.
As we’ve always said, the Second Amendment protects the First. And, for that matter, all the rest.
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In a telephone interview from jail, 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller, of Aurora, Mo., said he wants a chance to explain in court why he gunned down his victims on April 13, 2014. He has chronic emphysema and does not believe he has long to live.”
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Read more here.
All I need to know about such ilk is how much I need to ‘lead’ them with my gun’s sights when they come to kill me, my family, or other innocents. Otherwise, I prefer to ignore them as the inbred nothings that they are.
I have watched with horror the carnage taking place in Baltimore. It brings back memories of the riots in the 60s in the area I lived at the time. My Dad drove into the city to get his Mom out and bring her out to our house in the suburbs where she would be safer. Scary stuff for a little kid. I was worried about my Dad and my Grandma.
I watched the breakdown of society in Baltimore. Do black businesses matter? Does black owned homes and property matter? Do human lives matter? Firefighters were fired on like they were in Ferguson, fire hose was cut. At night, when families are presumably asleep in their beds, row homes were set on fire. The police seemed powerless to stop the carnage.
Let’s compare and contrast shall we with the Rodney King riots in 1992? Now I picked this particular video to illustrate two things. First, there was part of town that was untouched by the riots, and I think why will be very apparent. Two because the news readers are so darn stupid. I mean talk about missing the big picture. If you listen to what they are fixated on it’s mind numbing. A town is burning, one section of town is being left alone, it’s obvious why, and rather than discuss that and perhaps learn something they choose to chase the ideology. Well, they don’t call it the lamestream media for nothing I suppose.
But the government is usually there to protect life and property, right?
One of these things is not like the other. Is it?