“‘When I saw three of them, I knew I was in a lot of trouble. I said, ‘The TV is the most expensive thing I own. You could take that through the front door and go with it,’ and they said, ‘No, the money, the money,’ said Erin.” That’s the story told by a Magnolia Texas woman upon being confronted by three home invaders Friday night. She didn’t have any money, but to get them back to her bedroom — where her gun was — she told them she kept her bankroll under her mattress. That’s when her dog came in and started to bark, distracting the three . . .
From click2houston.com:
“They all turned around and looked. I grabbed my gun, cocked it, I turned and shot him right in the stomach,” said Erin.
Two of the men escaped. Erin said she pointed a gun at a third suspect, but he went after her before she could shoot.
“We wrestled around in my bedroom and he came after me. I had my gun like this. He kneed me in the face. He just jerked the gun right out of my hand and took off,” she said.
Thankfully, all she came away with was a pretty good shiner.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Adrian Granados-Yepez, 27, of Tomball, was arrested at Memorial Hermann Hospital Monday night, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound.
The other two are still unaccounted for. As Erin puts it so eloquently in the news report,
Protecting ourselves goes to our Second Amendment right to bear arms. And thousands of people died to give me the very right that saved my life.
Just another reason why you don’t mess with Texas.
We need more of this in the media, and less “undesireables” pushing an agenda.
I think it’s outstanding that A) There are still good neighbors out there in the world willing to help a stranger in need, and B) The media is ACTUALLY willing to cover it!
Also, ironically enough, I got the blood donation ad before the video, too. lol.
Um, yes??
If you use electricity, you’re on A govt list.
Seriously, whoTF believes that NICS records are destroyed afterwards? No, really, seriously.
It’s done digitally with computers with memory, buffers, and harddrives.
The only way to truly, permanently delete data on any hard drive is to physically destroy the magnetic wafers.
“They’re forbidden by law!” one may protest?
Um, so what?
So are all and any habeas corpus and 4th Amendment violations, along with every other Constitutional violations. But they do warrantless wiretapping, secret and indefinite detentions, torture, even assassination vs. American citizens, anyway!
Asking whether or not govt violates our rights, is like asking a rapist, ‘does he rape?’
Time for people to wake up to the fact that we have long had ‘our’ govt hijacked by a bunch of sociopathic nerds and vicious authoritarian psychopaths.
Statism and faith in govt? It’s literally a disease. The State is the religion of the statists on both the Left and the Right.
As with all things govt, they act as if they have no ‘legal’ powers to do things that they’ve ALREADY been doing. Then, they ‘struggle’ to pass legislation for things they’re already violating, to give the idiot populace an illusion of a functioning system.
No different than the show they put on ever 2, 4, 6 years, in what morons call “free elections.”
It’s like how many more elections funded by the very same corporatistslike GoldmanSUX do people need to see, to accept the fact that we literally have a govt run by a Mafia and a few of their capos as puppets?? There’s a reason why many call Obama as oBUSHma.
This is how delusional the public is: the liberals went apeshit over the fact that GWB had an NSA hub at an AT&T substation in San Francisco that was collecting ALL electronic communications data.
What 99% of those same liberals don’t know is the fact that, that was ‘allowed’ by CONgress since 1994, under Mr. Blue Dress stainer Clinton’s regime under Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, aka CALEA of 1994, later followed by TeleCommunications Act of 1996.
I read their publicly released white papers and the text of 1994 CALEA when that came out IN 1994. In it, it clearly, plainly states that all telecom manufacturers are required to have systems that will let Fed agencies easily tap into it. In fact, it’s their “duty.”
https://www.cdt.org/issue/calea-tech-mandates
https://www.eff.org/pages/calea-faq#19
https://www.cdt.org/report/calea-background
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/01/9502
Ain’t it nice? Just to put a further spy state cherry on top, the TeleComm co’s made themselves immune from liability, when govt use their data to illegally spy on us.
Not to mention, the ever mysterious (okay, so not so much these days) ECHELON, which since the dawn of Cold War, US govt has been warrantlessly spying on American citizens.
The idea was, since the Feds were Constitutionally forbidden to spy on Americans illegally, but if UK and her commonwealths like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and a few NATO allies & Japan had spying stations who cross spied on each other, it’d be ‘okay.’
For instance, US will spy on UK, UK on US, Canada on UK, Australia on Canada, etc. Then they all exchange their ‘not illegally spying own their own citizens’ data, with each other.
The tyrants have always plainly openly stated their intent in their own whitepapers. Literally, these fucks are like sociopathic serial killers, who leave their calling cards at the murder scene.
This is the most frustrating part for anyone who is geopolitically and historically aware and understand how govt and legalese work in reality, vs. what the moron sheeple populace delude it unicorn to be. We are literally living a two parallel tracks of history, while much of the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ tuned in morons go about their lives obliviously.
The true question one should be really asking is: Does technology exist to do ____?
If yes, then govt IS doing it.
If a tech merely exists to do something, it’s frankly safe to assume that they’re using it to violate our rights, until proven otherwise.
Just think, we had DARPA/AirForce/Lockheed Skunkworks create a stealth bomber constructed of composites with the most craziest combination of curves, planar surface transitions and linear volumes that does Mach 5, designed pre-CAD/CAM…in 1959, with a flying prototype constructed 1962.
We literally have a parallel tech history in the world. What we see on the commercial market are literally about 30yrs, if not more, behind.
Any true student of history knows, if politicians had their druthers, ALL govts would be authoritarian dictatorships.
Otherwise, you’d actually see ‘our’ reps do their best to uphold and defend our Constitutional rights, as per their oaths, NOT figure out ways to go around it, in EVERY SINGLE legislation.
So why all the fuss if we all know that we’re all being spied on?
That NSA center in Utah is storing Yottabytes of data. Yes, YOTTA-bytes!
That is literally every single electronic keystroke made in the entire world.
It’s the analysis and linking of separate govt databases that yield a psychological profile of your target, no different than the “Pre-Crime“/”Predictive Analytic” computer algorithms that your local LE PD’s utilize to model the most frequent high crime zones and who the most likely common repeat offender may be, in the future, in large metros like NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.
But, why should we make it easier for our aberrant/degenerate sociopathic public servants to spy on us??
Like the utter failure that are the 4.4 MILLION CCTV spy cameras in London, just because they store and track info don’t mean they can assess what it all means, nor actually stop or prevent crimes. A camera just records, it by itself doesn’t stop anything.
So, they create analytical algorithms for their proceeding generations of Cray Super Computers to crunch through, that figure it all out for them. But really, if you track everything by keywords, all you’re left with is patterns of overwhelming nothing. Any computer coder will tell you that.
In some sick sense, it’s poetic justice, the problem with all lovers of centralized power is that they collect everything, like fucking hoarders: in the end, they collect too much info to be of any use, for anything.
But once they use any of that info to track or hunt its own citizens down, it’s already over… FOR THEM.
EVERY tyranny throughout history has been popularly voted in, as no overt tyranny with standing army on every street corner can survive for long. There’s a reason why about 90% of all tyrannical govt expend all their resources on propaganda. It’s a lot cheaper to have its citizenry police themselves and each other, than to send in brigades of uniformed Praetorian guards. You cannot have a policestate without a dumbed down population. And apropos of 2A, you cannot have an armed populace in a police state. There’s a reason why the statists are going for broke, right now. The currency collapse WILL occur. It’s a mathematical impossibility to stave it off. There’s a reason why the ‘legal’ mechanism like NDAA exist and why they’re buying 1.6 billion hollowpts. They’re preparing for an inevitable civil unrest, following an econ implosion.
One silver lining? No tyranny exists without the popular support of the masses, as evident throughout history, 100% of the time.
Even as dumb-ed down the sheeple populace may seem, now, when they start Predator/UAV drone-assassinating American citizens on CONUS, the tide will turn: when a threat becomes unavoidably ubiquitous and visible, human’s primal instinct for self-preservation kicks in.
By then, one can safely suspect that there maybe a bull market for the manufacturers of 21st century hydraulic versions of guillotines.
LOLOL
40 years ago he’d have been suspended because of the commie (Yugoslavian) flag.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
i gave up on online games when i was in a lobby on modern warfare two and was one of two people of the twelve who did not have a gamertag related to pot.
I’d be all on board with legalizing pot if I heard an overwelming message in the pro pot debate as ‘how dare government tell me what substances I choose to put in my own body’, but with the same states/people pushing for marijuana legalization, and then turning around and pushing for 2nd amendment infringement, it’s clear that their message isn’t ‘get your laws out of my life’ but, ‘I just wanna get high’.
There is a difference. And until they realize it, I’m not going to push for an agenda that’s clearly intended to allow us to keep ourselves high so that we don’t realize how much government is overreaching the duties given to it in the Constitution.
Marijuana is our country’s new Soma.
The efforts are appreciated(ok, maybe not by the bradys)./// This shouldn’t be so damned hard, sarah is selling death for pete’s sake, Randy
I’ve bought 5 guns total since then. I must be the devil himself. Jim, FOAD!
Eh, video games. Awesome if you are a teenager, or have super dexterity in your thumbs.
Good to see you here Wendi, great teeth, Randy
Warning to all non-firearm owning, adult-age males:
“Extreme Caution is Strongly Advised.”
Highly consequential outcomes may be caused to occur as a result of reading anything beyond this point.
“ It has been the Moral Obligation and Duty as an American Citizen of all adult-age males to provide themselves with, and to keep and bear arms for defense of self, family, other persons, property, possessions, State and Nation as required…for hundreds of years.”
For those to whom the aforementioned has now been recognized as applicable;
who are not physically or mentally impaired; and / or
have not been proven guilty of a crime sufficient enough to have had your otherwise inalienable ‘Right’ to keep and bear arms legally rescinded:-
Choices as follows:
Either assume your rightful position as a responsible adult Citizen by leaning how to safely handle, properly shoot, clean, care-for and store a Firearm, Or
become endlessly mired in the futility of attempting to assuage the sense of inadequacy you’ve just accumulated by attempting to make, uh…excuses.
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The most shocking part of that Article, to Me?
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Robert’s age.
Yet another broken link. Here’s a good one: http://www.click2houston.com/news/Home-invasion-suspect-arrested-after-woman-opens-fire/-/1735978/18331728/-/format/rss_2.0/-/s329rz/-/index.html
Why do the broken links always refer back to TTAG? Here’s the actual link address:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/02/daniel-zimmerman/defensive-gun-use-of-the-day-magnolia-mom-edition/%22They%20all%20turned%20around%20and%20looked.%20I%20grabbed%20my%20gun,%20cocked%20it,%20I%20turned%20and%20shot%20him%20right%20in%20the%20stomach,%22%20said%20Erin.%20%20Two%20of%20the%20men%20escaped.%20Erin%20said%20she%20pointed%20a%20gun%20at%20a%20third%20suspect,%20but%20he%20went%20after%20her%20before%20she%20could%20shoot.%20%20%22We%20wrestled%20around%20in%20my%20bedroom%20and%20he%20came%20after%20me.%20I%20had%20my%20gun%20like%20this.%20He%20kneed%20me%20in%20the%20face.%20He%20just%20jerked%20the%20gun%20right%20out%20of%20my%20hand%20and%20took%20off,%22%20she%20said.
I mean, whaaa?
You rock, Scott.
I’ll take this as Mr./ Bellafonte’s endorsement of the legalization of drugs.
http://youtu.be/xm9bC59MFSE
That is effing awesome. Congratulations, Nick!
Funny thing is I almost posted the exact same words on the Kyle post but I didn’t have time. Kyle famously said he felt no remorse for the 160+ people he had to kill in the line of duty, I don’t think we should be required to feel remorse for him. The people he killed were defending their country/way of life just like Kyle, most were not evil terrorist demons. I think he was a badass and a great American but in all likelihood he enjoyed killing those Taliban, so the die by the sword thing is 100% true.
Daniel Silverman please move away the your neighbors in Kaliforina are so dumb they elected a pure fascist state government not telling what they’ll do flee my friend fast!!