http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khWktlywls
“My son, trying to defend his home and himself, he discharged my firearm, striking one of the suspects.” Suspects? Why the cop-speak? Well, because Ken Patmon is a Houston cop himself. His 18-year-old son was home alone Wednesday afternoon. After a knock at the front door went unanswered, two doods decided to let themselves in through the back door. The kid got on the phone with his father, then he got a gun . . .
“‘This is our home, and he’s my son,’ Patmon said. ‘If I’m not there to protect him, we try to teach our children to do what’s right, and I just thank God that he’s OK.'” That’s more than can be said for one of the two home invaders who’s now certifiably dead. The other lit out for parts unknown.
The sheriff’s treating it as a justifiable shoot. “It’s unfortunate that a life was taken, but at the same time, it’s very fortunate that this guy had a way to defend himself,” a neighbor said. Not to mention that the kid had access to a gun and was prepared to use it.
Houston based status: Based.
This is one of the sole purposes for the 2nd amendment is that your family is able to defend themselves.
Originally posted at http://gunsafetyblog.com/2013/10/02/hilariously-bad-gun-prohibitionist-music-video/
I don’t understand. Are you saying “first post” on a YouTube video, or just plugging your blog? I’ve seen this video in at least four places now and TTAG was the last of them to publish it.
As a member of academia who has a healthy dose of situational awareness, nearly every day going into school sets off red flags about potential threats that I can (by law) not do anything to protect myself against. Campus carry would be a good start, but even then most of the designs of the buildings at my school are very poor from a security standpoint. Large buildings with generally only 2-4 entrance/exits. A small group of armed people would have hundreds trapped quite easily.
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When I went to a small New England school in the eighties, a kindly old gent worked the night shift at the guard shack over night 6 of 7. That was the only road entrance to campus though you could walk in anywhere. This old gent had been a PMC working on the Shah’s personal detail and he carried a Browning HP and at least four mags. Sunday nights were an off duty sherries deputy who was studying for something… The old gent was the head of the security team and lead by example. Good man. When he retired and after I graduated, Wayne Lo shot the guard in the shack and then proceeded to kill a professor who was a friend and mentor of mine. Then he killed the best friend of my young brother in law.
Personally, several years before that crime when I was a returning student, I kept an M1 carbine and seven mags in what you would now call an “active shooter” bag. I lived in the isolated “upper class” student housing and didn’t like the set up in armed. Yes, I broke the rules and no, nobody knew about it. I would have carried a Glock 19 if I had one. Heinlein had an effect on me and I didn’t follow bad laws. I was right and prepared, a few years later, others weren’t.
Campus violence effected me and my family directly and I am absolutely pro armed students.
Muddyboots
I’m going to be deeply disappointed if my next birthday party doesn’t look like that….with better music.
I’m in second year at college using the money I earned from my Uncle Sam and schools security is a joke.
It’s a bunch of unarmed, over weight, 19 yr old slobs that look like they could get laid in a monkey whorehouse with a fist full of bananas or unarmed, retired, grandpas that probably couldn’t fight their way out of paper bag.
It’s not security, it’s a paid witness.
Freaking out about statistically improbable security concerns is what brought us the TSA and the surveillance state. Agitating for “Campus security” will do the same thing – move funds from education to useless, intrusive security measures that make no one safer. It will also get you even further from campus carry, as that will present a threat to the newly empowered security apparatus. The campus I teach on has started, and the net result is that we have the call stations you are correctly mocking, and it is becoming steadily harder for students to get to useful resources at odd hours, which is frankly pretty central to the college experience. We aren’t any safer, just dumber.
If you want adult students to have a gun if it makes them feel safer, I don’t have a strong opinion either way, but this kind of fear-mongering will accomplish exactly the opposite.
Another home invasion that supposedly “never happens” that gets resolved with the correct outcome. My fellow liberals are strange… face it, we’re not supposed to be the ones who are stereotyped racists… why should we not trust our fellow citizens with arms? For every evil person with a firearm, there’s an order of magnitude more good people with firearms. It’s time the ACLU supported all of the Bill of Rights… never does the word “people” belong to the “collective” group but the individual citizens. /rant
What seriously bothers me is the distinct feeling that between stuff like this and that obscenely stupid “My Month With a Gun” piece, liberal Americans see this as being not too far from satire (I’m using that term very, very loosely in to this video).
The liberal crowd doesn’t seem to understand the difference in scale between giving a kid a .22 (to be used at a range or on a farm, after proper training and with supervision) and having a kid unwrap an AK. Yes, they’re both firearms. No, they’re not the same thing. It’s sort of like motorcycles – most intelligent parents don’t turn the keys to a Honda CBR1000R race bike over to a 16-year-old. The teenager gets to practice on a 250cc Rebel or something. I think there are plenty of people in the US who figure “Well, if you’re going to give them a gun, who cares what kind it is – you’re a monster for teaching your child how to shoot.” It demonstrates a fundamentally flawed level of perception that I can’t describe better than that, at the moment. Liberals/leftists tend to have analogous problems understanding economics – and how free markets function.
Freedom breeds free markets, free markets breeds prosperity, prosperity breeds complacency. Then, as we all know, shit happens. What’s surprising is the alarming repetitiveness in which this all too predictable shit happens. Build a civilized society,
get complacent, fall into ruin, start over. Wash, let sit, rinse, repeat.
Would you like some architectural irony with your complacency? From whose architectural minds did the concept of housing people in stacks of boxes first spring? That’s right, it’s communism’s answer to central housing for the masses. It’s no mystery why these dorms are undefendable death traps and why they look like little compartmentalized ant farms. If you want people to behave as insects in a collective, then you condition them to live as insects in a collective. The dependency of, and loyalty to, the hive.
In the collective,…everyone is expendable.
Of course gun ownership is decreasing. Isn’t that so wonderful! I don’t have several guns. Intend to not have another very soon. That should keep the anti’s happy! Now stranger on mu phone STFU and GTFO.
pretty funny how out of touch these libtards are in their “art”. Getting torn to shreds mocked at Youtube tho which confirms that the current generation of social media savvy kids are not buying this lame- o wanna-be retro sixties hipsters. Must suck to be so bad even the former occutards mock you…
There was a time when cops were never off duty. A cop was cop 24/7. It terms of powers that is still true. There was one undercover guy and I can see why he couldn’t get involved but the others? I’d fire them. They didn’t even call 911.
“It’s unfortunate that a life was taken”
No, it’s not. Wiping out another piece of filth made the world a better place. But not to worry — there are plenty more where he came from.
Just came home with 400 rounds of 55gr .223 (nonmagnetic) for just under 48 cents/round.
Since she’s working on her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, I wonder if she’ll get extra credit for her two encounters with lowlives. After all, she’s made more of a contribution to the system than most judges.
Maybe it’ll at least give her some material for her distritation.