Rick Ector to Keynote Detroit GOP Educational Event: The Racist Origins of Gun Control
Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 08/22/2015 3:30:10 PM PDT by PROCON
Detroit resident Darrell Standberry doesn't navigate streets of the Motor City without his licensed handgun, and it already has saved his life once.
“I never leave home without my weapon,” he said. “You never know when or what you’ll encounter.”
It was 2011, when Standberry stopped at a gas station on Six Mile Road after attending his son’s football practice. After filling up the tank of his SUV, he left the car running and went inside to pay, only to spot a man jumping in behind the wheel.
“I went back over and told him to get out of my car," said Standberry, 46, aformer bar owner who is now a college student. "He told me to get the hell out of there and drove off.”
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The shot went through the windshield and hit its target, a criminal with a long record who made a short-lived getaway before crashing into a tree and dying. Standberry’s claim of self-defense was never questioned by local cops.
Liberalism's worst nightmare working well in Detroit.
Said many times before; the best response to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Watch Detroit prosper over the next 5-10 years.
The citizens will help get crime under control, businesses and families will start moving back in...and liberals will lie about the reasons forever.
Yup. I don’t know where Detroit stands as far as murders go, but I’m sure murder capitols, Baltimore and Chicago have no similar RKBA laws.
Yes! When I started reading, I was afraid the perp would just be scared away.
The crime rates had fallen considerably and the chief was putting out weekly reports that compared rates with the past year, month, and week but for some reason the city made him stop. The trends were definitely heading the right way with things like carjacking down something like 30% from the 2014 and murder down like 20%.
Its a large urban center so there will always be crime and there are some rough areas but the downtown and midtown areas are really looking up.
Side arm. Tactical shotgun. AR15. Ready for a car jacking to a home invasion to a zombie Apocalypse.
Good article. Thanks for posting it.
I like Chief Craig more and more each day.
James Craig NRA radio interview from last year.
http://www.nranews.com/cam/video/one-on-one-with-detroit-police-chief-james-craig
He was once a gun grabber and was forced to face reality.
“Guns are a good issue for reaching out to blacks in Detroit.”
Yep! They can reach out many yards!
not to mention, sidewalk ape repellent.
Better even than “free water”, which is itself better than “free college”.
You would be right about Baltimore, but wrong about Chicago.
HOORAY Darrell Standberry! HOORAY Chief Craig. HOORAY Rick Ector.
We actually have a decent CCL law here in Illinois and tens of thousands are getting them.
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“According to a recent survey from Pew Research Center, 54 percent of African-American residents nationwide now see legal gun ownership as more likely to protect people than to put their safety at risk. That figure was up from 29 percent two years ago.”
DO NOT ignore this...this is a big deal. They are getting it...and very possibly some will drift our way, just due to this issue. The more blacks that are (legally) armed, the more blacks will be paying attention to the gun-grabbers, and that could seriously hurt the Dems. Gun rights, white or black, is often a make-or-break deal maker for gun owners.
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