Posted on 06/17/2017 5:46:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Despite the horrible news of the week, including the killing of two prison guards in Georgia and the attempted assassination of Republican congressmen in Arlington, VA, on Wednesday it was a good week for good guys with guns.
Donnie Rowe and James Dubose are accused of killing two prison guards early Tuesday morning as they were being transferred between detention facilities southeast of Atlanta. After their escape, they spent two days on the run until they were spotted by Tennessee state troopers.
In the ensuing chase, Rowe and Dubose crashed their car and fled into the woods adjacent to Interstate 24. Eventually, they came upon a residence in the small community of Christiana, TN and attempted to steal the homeowner’s vehicle.
Unfortunately for these accused murderers, the homeowner noticed that two people were trying to snatch his automobile. In fact, this homeowner was the worst nightmare for Rowe and Dubose. He was armed and unafraid to brandish his weapon. The homeowner, along with some timely help from a neighbor, held the pair under citizens’ arrest until the local sheriff’s department arrived to apprehend them.
This was just one of the many daily incidents of “good guys” with guns stopping criminals from committing additional crimes. On Wednesday, as Republican congressmen were practicing for their annual baseball game against the Democrats, lunatic leftist James Hodgkinson entered the baseball field in Arlington, VA and fired up to 60 shots from a high-powered rifle and a handgun, attempting to assassinate as many of the GOP elected officials as possible.
Hodgkinson was a volunteer in the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He had a long history of posting hateful messages about Republicans and President Donald Trump on social media. He belonged to online groups such as “Terminate the Republican Party” and vowed to “destroy Trump.” He was a fan of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other leftist media personalities. Sadly, his hatred toward Republicans reached a boiling point on Wednesday morning as he attempted to assassinate as many as three dozen GOP congressmen.
Fortunately, one of his targets, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) is a member of the GOP leadership and was protected by two gun toting Capitol Police officers. These brave law enforcement officials engaged the gunman for ten minutes, eventually subduing him and eliminating the threat. While five innocent people were wounded and several of them, such as Congressman Scalise, are still suffering from serious wounds, the carnage would have been much worse if the armed officers were not there.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was at the baseball practice and praised the “incredibly brave” response of the Capitol Police who “probably saved the lives of everybody there.” According to Paul, “had they not been there, it would have been a massacre.”
Sadly, despite the seriousness of the injuries to Scalise and others, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) wasted no time in trying to turn this tragedy to his political advantage. Regrettably, McAuliffe barged onto the scene in the aftermath of the shooting talking about gun control, advocating “background checks, shutting down gun show loopholes.” He did not even know or care about the specifics of this case, only that it was a good opportunity for him to promote the gun control agenda.
It would have been better for McAuliffe to spend some more time reflecting on the issue and preparing his remarks for he laughably blurted out that “we lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence.” He even repeated this nonsense at the impromptu press conference before eventually realizing that he meant to say “93 people” a day are lost to gun violence, not “93 million Americans.”
The real lesson of both tragedies is not that we should implement more gun control and please liberals like McAuliffe, but that our leaders should encourage the expansion of gun ownership in America. Thankfully, in our country, unlike the United Kingdom and France, our police carry firearms. We are also fortunate to have enshrined in the U.S. Constitution the Second Amendment, guaranteeing our right to bear arms, providing the most comprehensive guns rights of any nation in the world.
While liberals lament our “gun culture,” the real story of the week is that guns, in the hands of the right people, save lives. The more people who become trained in the use of firearms and purchase them for personal or home defense, the more likely it will be for unhinged gunmen like Hodgkinson or prisoners on the loose, like Rowe and Dubose, to encounter law abiding Americans who will stop the bloodshed. This will result in the lives of more innocent Americans being saved and more dangerous criminals meeting the fate they deserve.
I love it! Worthy of a tagline, for a while.
***Rowe and Dubose ***
I bet the ABC news talking heads choked when they admitted on TV that it was a private citizen who owned a gun that stopped these two!
I support concealed carry for congress critters and their staff, as well as installing a shooting range in the Capitol building.
I do not. Nor do I support it for veterans, former peace officers, or any other select group. But especially not for politicians. Those bastards need to live under exactly the same rules they impose on the rest of us.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
We the People have the RKBA because we are We the People ... not because of some job we hold or once held.
installing a shooting range in the Capitol building.
No, again. There are plenty of private shooting ranges in Virginia and Maryland ... and if the Constitution were actually respected, there would be plenty in the District as well. Let them come out of their ivory tower and spend some quality time with We the People, whom they serve.
A couple days ago...I saw CCI Mini-Mag 22LR, 40gr copper round nose, 1235fps, for $6.99 a 100-round box. (Previously $18-$25 a box.)
Darn good week.
Meanwhile, in Arlington the news media was lauding the “Black Lesbian woman cop” who was shot in the foot.
I thought it was two cops who just happened to be black. They did right well.
I hope I read that right. 60 shots and security detail took 10 minutes to engage the shooter. And a total of 7 (?) people shot? Boy that doesn’t sound right.
ok, fair enough about the shooting range in the Capitol Bldg. However, I do believe that Congress critters are people too. They should be able to carry as opposed to the current rumbling of taxpayers footing the bill for a security detail for each and every congress critter.
I'm not sure about some of 'em ... ;'}
They should be able to carry
If and ONLY if the rest of us can as well. I'm opposed to special privileges for select privileged classes. Politicians in particular are a poor choice of privileged class. They should live under the same rules they impose on the rest of us. I also apply this principle to communist programs like Social Security and 0bamacare. They shove these down our throats on the point of a bayonet, but exempt themselves. Rotten bastards ...
We are in agreement.
I doubt they ever did.
And the gun grabbers ratchet it up.
An Armed Society...
Is a Polite Society.
Get it Together Folks!
I agree with NM on this one. It is like the law in many states that you slow down or move over for emergency vehicles on the road shoulder. I would hate to injure anyone, and thus slow or move for every one on the side of the road. Just because they are not highly trained to be on the roadside, doesn’t mean civilians may not be watching for traffic.
Case in point: last month I was traveling a local four lane highway at the speed limit, in the middle of a nice sunny day. As I rounded a blind corner in the right lane, with a car to my left, there in my lane was a wreck complete with fire trucks and ambulances in place. There was plenty of time to avoid the wreck, but half way between the wreck and the blind corner was a state policeman, bent over, not watching traffic, totally concentrating on the array of flairs he was lighting (every 10 feet, starting at the wreckage, working closer to the blind corner.) with my 10,000 lb pickup, I was able to slow just enough to get behind the car next to me and go around. Had I been driving the 80,000 lb truck that I usually drive on that road it may have turned out differently. Two or three flairs at the top of the hill (where the visibility is over 1/2 mile) would have been prudent, just my observation.
These are the folks that will be there in minutes when seconds count. Don’t kid yourself, YOU are the first responder.
Great respect for the capitol police who dealt justly with the Bernie supporter.
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