We Need to Militarize Our Society Part 1

Public and Private Schools 

The murdering savages of Islamic jihad are not "coming," they are here, in the US, planning attacks of mass carnage. With FBI Director James Comey stating terror groups are active in all US states, American communities need to quickly step up the level of force with which we protect our most valuable and most vulnerable. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/26/fbi-director-isis-tentacles-reach-into-all-50-u-s-states/

“Troubled soul, come to the caliphate, you will live a life of glory, these are the apocalyptic end times, you will find a life of meaning here, fighting for our so-called caliphate. And if you can’t come, kill somebody where you are.” -ISIS recruitment message intercepted by FBI

Priority Number One: Secure American public and private schools.

"Gun free" schools have been key targets for deranged active shooters and will so be for deranged Islamic terrorists. Protect your community's public and private schools, now! Do not wait until the next "PTA meeting" to address security shortcomings of the places your children study and learn. Call your school system superintendent immediately about enhancing school security with an armed resource officer (law enforcement officer) at every school in your district.

With the availability of local, city, country, and state law enforcement resources there are no excuses for not having every school in your district protected by at least one, well-armed, full-time police officer trained in active shooter response.

To be continued.....  Part Two: Make Your Firearms and Ammunition Uniform

Update Your EDC To Meet Today's Threats: My Story

 Are you carrying enough gun and ammunition? Probably not. 

My "EDC" BEFORE an increase in active shootings and growth of global terror groups: 11 rounds of 230 Grain .45 cal FMJ and a small knife.

Why do you carry a gun? Knife-wielding meth zombies? Rapists? Armed robbers? In those cases brandishing a Sig P250 might be enough to send such attackers running. Currently, however, America is facing violent threats uncommon to our society a generation ago. This means you need more gun  unless that P250 is a backup weapon.

When I moved back to the United States in 2003, after living abroad for seven years, I resided in a state different from where I was born. All of the firearms from my younger years were at a family  home thousands of miles from my new adopted state. I was essentially unarmed. That quickly changed once I got a roof over my head and a new driver's license.

Soon after acquiring my first "carry" pistol I received my CCW license, but rarely carried. I lived in a trendy downtown neighborhood and never thought much about crime. My then new Glock 30 sat gathering dust on a shelf in the closet of my master bedroom. There was an indoor gun range near my home but I rarely practiced. I didn't see any practical use in standing in a lane repeatedly loading, shooting, and reloading. It bored the bag off me, and even if I did go to the range I never burned through more than a 100 rounds. 

That all changed when I was introduced to a weapons instructor who was also retired US Army SF. No, I don't mean a super Ninja, stolen valor, phony Navy Seal weapons instructor. I mean a real former member of US Special Forces who taught gun fighting over just "shooting."

The handgun fighting techniques I learned from that former First Sergeant were like nothing I had ever seen or heard. Shooting with my eyes closed, shooting from the hip, shooting off handed and, of course, shooting and reloading cover to cover. I was the most confident I had ever been with a firearm.

Unfortunately my firearms instructor became my "former" firearms instructor when he took a better paying contractor job with, what was then, Blackwater in Iraq. It was at that time I asked, "what, as a civilian, will I ever do with knowledge of gun fighting techniques?"

Fast forward twelve years to a post financial collapse economy, weak and uncertain job sector, open southern border, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, ubiquitous illicit drug cartels, record number of active shooting events (in gun free zones), and the explosive growth of Islamic terror, and I now know why I spent time and money learning to fight with a gun.

My EDC NOW: 40 Rounds of 230 Gr .45 Cal. FMJ, light, and a larger knife.

Carrying a gun is not about "feeling" safe. Carrying a gun is about ensuring that those who would injure or kill you are injured or killed by you.  If you are not carrying enough gun and ammo to deal with the worst of the aforementioned bad guys, you need to update. Times have changed.

Be armed. Be trained. Be prepared.

America's Next Total War: Allied Muslim Nations Will Not Defeat Islamic Jihad

-Muslim nations, currently living under some form of oppressive Islam, will not defeat ISIS or like terror groups.

 

What will the global conflict with militant Islam look like on 20 January 2017? Will the professorial Marxist Obama have "dismantled and defeated" the planet's most infamous Islamic death cult, or will ISIS be stronger than ever with more territory, arms, and personnel? Will ISIS be a distant memory, on Obama's last day in the White House, or will Italy's capital city be a smoldering mound of ash bearing a giant black and white flag?

Since he created ISIS in Syria, Libya, and Iraq Obama has delegated the responsibility for the "defeat" of ISIS to our Muslim allies in the region. But if you believe the war with terror can be won by nations like Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey ask yourself, “What exactly are our Muslim allies fighting for?” Is it freedom, individual liberty, economic opportunity, social-political diversity, and adherence to a constitution founded on the aforementioned? None of these social or legal concepts, exclusive to America, exist in the Muslim world.

In addition to our Muslim ally nations being unimpressed, if not repulsed, by American concepts of freedom and liberty, our Muslim ally armies are generally weak, corrupt, nepotistic, inadequately-trained, and overall ineffective fighting forces against highly-motivated suicidal terrorist groups like ISIS.

Daesh (ISIS), after all, is not killing Muslims simply because they are “Muslim.” Daesh is killing Muslims who either oppose them on field of battle or do not accept ISIS brand of Sharia. In other words, do not oppose Daesh and accept their form of Sharia and you, as a Muslim, have a good chance of being incorporated by their "Islamic state.” To our Muslim allies in the cross hairs of ISIS such an incorporation might be more attractive than a dilatory beheading on YouTube.

9 people killed in Czech pub shooting

Whether your attacker is a terrorist, an active shooter, or chef's knife-wielding meth zombie you need to be armed when in public. 

http://rt.cohttp://rt.com/news/235131-czech-restaurant-shooting-killed/

Are you motivated to kill Islamic militants as they are to brutally murder you?

-Armed American civilians will face Muslim radicals

What is the exact US strategy for destroying ISIS and other radical Muslim groups? The Obama administration, whose policies have overseen an unprecedented expansion of Islamic Jihad, is certainly without one. In fact, a recent White House summit on “violent extremism” concluded, with zero specifics, that American “sovereign citizens” are a greater danger than the savages beheading and burning a Sharia path across Libya, Syria, Iraq, and soon likely Europe. *(1)

As I see it the tactical objective of free society's war against militant Islam is to retake their territorial gains by killing the jihadists in mass. However, the strategic objective, moderating the Islamic faith, is a far more demanding task that will take years if not generations to accomplish.

Islamic militants cannot be dissuaded or “rehabilitated.” Islamic jihad, which exists everywhere, is a global cancer that has to be cut off the face of the earth. As Americans we need to accept the reality that, whether military or civilian, we will be a part this war well beyond the end of Obama's reign and the destruction of one or two jihadist armies. All Americans must, therefore, be willing to combat militant Islam for the preservation of freedom and Western civilization. *(2)

As an armed American, are you prepared to stop an Islamic terror attack in your community? Have you talked to family and friends about the possibility of attacks by local Islamic radicals? Have you talked with your firearms instructors about "modifying the curriculum" to deal with more dynamic threats? If not, start talking and planning now. With Jihad's global facilitator as the incumbent executive until January 2017 it is likely, whether home grown or imported, American citizens will come face to face with violent Muslim radicals.

Consider Al Shabaab's recent threat to attack civilians at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. This is the same Somali terror group that killed 60 men, women, children, and infants at the West Gate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on 21 September 2013. Do you think a "West Gate" could not happen at any shopping mall in the US? If so you have forgotten 9/11 and overlook that for over 140 years, from the American Revolution to the last Indian war, violent conflict was a constant on American soil. War, regardless of its causes, does not recognize concepts like “modern times” and quickly invalidates the “it can't happen here” idea commonly held by most Americans.

Reference Italy; a modern European nation. Currently, ISIS is threatening to invade Italy from the Libyan coast and burn Rome to the ground. After promising a resounding military response Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, realizing Italy has neither the means or resolve to fight ISIS, reconsidered and comically stated, “Our proposal is to wait for the U.N. Security Council. The strength of the U.N. is decidedly superior to that of the radical militias.”

Reading this I immediately recalled Micheal Savage saying, 'Italy has more men staring at their own butts in the mirror than it does manning the Italian military.' As an armed American, could you imagine depending on the “military” of the UN Security Council to save you from a rampaging Islamic death cult like ISIS? This, of course, would be funny if not so many lives were at risk. 

Obama's next two years will be dangerous times for America. Until January 2017 the US presidency, and all government agencies, will be administered by Marxist radicals sympathetic, if not outright helpful, to the growth of genocidal Islam and the continued destruction of American freedoms. 

Be armed. Be trained. Be prepared.

 
*(1) To Obama and his band of professorial Marxist a “sovereign citizen” is anyone whom owns a gun, reads the Bible, has a copy of the US Constitution, opposes illegal immigration, or did not vote Democrat in the November 2014 elections.

*(2) Due to the spread of academic socialism among Western political and learning institutions the modern-day meaning of “Western Civilization” could argumentatively be compressed to “Israel and members of the American Republican Party”.

Proposed BATFE Ban of M855 5.56x45mm Ammunition: My letter to law makers. (Copy, paste, and send to your federal congressional delegation!)

RE: Proposed BATFE Ban of M855 5.56x45mm (AR-15) Ammunition

Dear Senator                ,

The BATFE is planning to ban public consumption of M855 “Green Tip” 5.56x45mm (AR-15) ammunition under the false narrative it is “armor piercing” and, thus, a threat to law enforcement. The ATF's unconstitutional and extra-legal restriction on M855 has nothing to do with public safety or protection of law enforcement, but is another example of a paranoid government depriving Americans of property and freedom. 

There has never been an incident involving an attack on a member of law enforcement using M855 ammunition solely for the purpose of penetrating LEO body armor. Statistically criminals who use firearms against law enforcement are not knowledgeable enough about ammunition, or firearms, to distinguish M855 from, say, standard “Remington” .223 caliber hunting ammunition.

Furthermore, as the ATF is well aware, any standard 55 grain .223 caliber bullet can penetrate level II body armor worn by most law enforcement officers. Therefore, under the argumentation of the ATF's proposed M855 ban, no American citizen should have access to any ammunition caliber above .22 long rifle since since most rifle ammunition can penetrate police body armor and is “armor piercing” according to the ATF's incredibly low standard for AP ammunition. 

The true classification for “armor piercing” is ammunition developed to penetrate mechanized vehicles and barricades on the battlefield. The anti-gun lobby has perverted the meaning of “armor piercing” to include 'any ammunition that can penetrate law enforcement body armor,' which is virtually every form of rifle ammunition available to the public. 

M855 projectiles do not have characteristics of military spec small arms armor piercing ammunition, which include hardened steel, tungsten or tungsten carbide, depleted uranium, pyrophoric (or “self-sharpening on impact) cores, explosive or incendiary tips to aid in penetration, copper, or cupronickel jackets surrounding a “penetrator.” As with the ATF's recent import ban on Russian 7N6 ammunition, the goal of a M855 ban is obvious: 'ban the ammunition and the guns will follow.'

Why, in this era of increasing active shootings, violent crime, and Islamic terror attacks, is the ATF constantly working to make Americans less capable of protecting ourselves from criminal deadly force? Why is the ATF not an advocate for American freedom and Second Amendment rights? Why, in a society where criminals and terrorists commit crimes with firearms, does the ATF seek to punish legal and lawful American gun owners with never-ending bans and restrictions on guns and ammunition? 

Law enforcement officers, despite their importance in maintaining order in our communities, can only respond to, not prevent, attacks on innocent citizens. Federal law enforcement agencies should, therefore, encourage and enable Americans to become more capable of protecting ourselves, not constantly depriving us of the means to do so.

Please stop the ATF from banning civilian access to M855 5.56x45mm (AR-15) ammunition.

Sincerely,

Proposed ATF Ban on M855 5.56x45mm Ammunition: My lettter to the ATF (APAComments@atf.gov)

ATTN: AP Ammo Comments on Proposed Ban of M855 5.56x45mm Ammunition

BATFE Office of Regulatory Affairs, Enforcement Programs and Services,

We are writing to voice opposition to the BATFE's proposed “banning” of M855 Green Tip 5.56x45mm ammunition. This unconstitutional and extra-legal restriction on M855 has nothing to do with public safety or protection of law enforcement, but is another example of paranoid government depriving Americans of property and freedom.

As with 7N6 5.45x39mm imported from Russia, there has never been an incident involving an attack on a member of law enforcement using M855 ammunition solely for the purpose of penetrating LEO body armor. Statistically criminals who use firearms against law enforcement are not knowledgeable enough about ammunition, or firearms, to distinguish M855 from, say, standard “Remington” .223 cal hunting ammunition.

Furthermore, as the ATF is well aware, any standard 55 grain .223 caliber bullet can penetrate level II body armor worn by most law enforcement officers. Therefore, under the argumentation of the ATF's 7N6 and proposed M855 ban, no American citizen should have access to any ammunition caliber above .22 long rifle since since most rifle ammunition, above .22 cal, can penetrate police body armor and is “armor piercing” according to the ATF's incredibly low standard for AP ammunition.

The true classification for “armor piercing” is ammunition developed to penetrate the armor of mechanized vehicles and barricades on the battlefield. The anti-gun lobby has perverted the meaning of “AP” to mean 'any ammunition that can penetrate law enforcement body armor,' which is virtually every form of rifle ammunition available to the public.

Neither 7N6 or M855 projectiles have the characteristics of military spec small arms AP ammunition, which include hardened steel, tungsten or tungsten carbide, depleted uranium, pyrophoric (or “self-sharpening on impact) cores, explosive or incendiary tips to aid in penetration, copper, or cupronickel jackets surrounding a “penetrator.” As with the 7N6 ban, the goal of a M855 ban is obvious: 'ban the ammunition and the guns will follow.'

Why, in this era of increasing active shootings, violent crime, and Islamic terror attacks, is the ATF constantly working to make Americans less capable of protecting ourselves from criminal deadly force? Why is the ATF not an advocate for American freedom and Second Amendment rights? Why, in an environment where criminals commit crimes with firearms, does the ATF seek to punish legal and lawful American gun owners with never-ending bans and restrictions on guns and ammunition?

Law enforcement officers, despite their importance in maintaining order in society, can only respond to, not prevent, attacks on innocent citizens. Federal law enforcement agencies should, therefore,  encourage and enable Americans to become more capable of protecting ourselves, not constantly depriving us of the means to do so.

Sincerely,

The American Gun Community

  

Submit comments in any of three ways (but do not submit the same comments multiple times or by more than one method):  ATF website: APAComments@atf.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.  Fax: (202) 648-9741.  Mail: Denise Brown, Mailstop 6N-602, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Enforcement Programs and Services, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, 99 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20226: ATTN: AP Ammo Comments.

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"ATF Says Shouldering SigTac Brace Illegal" -My letter to Congress (use if you like)

RE: ATF Now Claims Shouldering SigTac Brace is a Felony

Dear Senator          ,

The BATFE has, again, violated the freedoms and civil rights of American gun owners. In January 2015 the ATF reversed its previous opinion on the legality of shoulder-firing pistols fitted with a “SigTac” or “Sig SB15” stabilizing arm brace.

The ATF now claims, as it previously did not, that shoulder-firing a rife or handgun caliber pistol fitted with one of the aforementioned braces is “illegal.” The ATF's full reversal of its prior opinion now asserts the “SigTac” pistol stabilizing brace is a NFA item and must be taxed and regulated by, of course, the ATF.

As an agency of the executive branch the ATF is not a law-making body and cannot, after so many of these braces and firearms fitted with these braces have been sold, randomly reverse itself making something once permissible a felony.

This move by the ATF is another example of how the majority of gun laws and regulations have nothing to do with public safety but are intentionally designed to get innocent Americans into serious criminal legal trouble with the US government.

Now thousands of Americans, unaware of the ATF's reversal on shouldering these pistol braces, will continue to shoulder their rifle caliber pistols making them subject to arrest, criminal prosecution, and at least ten years in prison.

How on earth can shouldering a pistol brace, previously determined to be “legal” by the ATF, turn a lawful gun owner into a felonious danger to society? For that matter, how is having a rifle with an “untaxed” 15 inch barrel, or shotgun with a 17 inch barrel, make one a danger to his community? How does firing a rifle at the full cyclic rate, vs semi-automatically, make one less legally liable for every bullet fired?

Again most gun laws, especially those dealing with the types of firearms we can own, are about government fear of a free people and have nothing to do with protecting the public or members of law enforcement.

Please force the ATF to repeal its outrageous, yet legally-binding, opinion on pistol arm braces, reduce the amount of red tape between American citizens and our Second Amendment (repeal gun laws), and legally place the ATF in a position of servitude to the American people.

For more details please watch:  https://www.full30.com/video/f3c30927f35f5b650b81e33e3c8978c8

Sincerely,

The American Gun Community

FURY offers insight into the world's next total war

-Whether you are active duty military, veteran, or well-armed citizen FURY is an excellent movie to prepare American minds for the coming war with genocidal Islam

I am not keen on Hollywood and am especially disgusted by Left Coast progressive liberals. What I am, though, is a Brad Pitt fan, and not just because he and I look alike with our shirts off. In addition to being a phenomenal actor Pitt is from the Midwestern United States and a gun owner who "doesn’t really feel that his family is safe unless there is a gun in his home." Certainty a sentiment with which I can relate.

Released October 2014, FURY is hardly a new movie but now on DVD the film can be seen for a buck via any Red Box or 7-11. For those who have not seen or remember, FURY follows a veteran tank crew of the 66th Armored Regiment during the last month of WWII's European campaign. (That was April 1945 for you Obama voters)

Viewers join the movie as Hitler's military is in total collapse but still fighting Allied forces, including Pitt (Don "Wardaddy" Collier) and his M4A3 Sherman tank crew who help lead US infantry into Germany. Students of military history well know the shortcomings of the WWII Sherman tank against heavier and harder-hitting German mechanized armor. The mortality ratio of the faster but thin-skinned US tanks was a fatal embarrassment compared to their German counterparts.

But FURY is far less a movie about tank warfare than it is a lesson about what happens when groups wage war for control of human civilization. As with the progressive mental illnesses of the 20^th century humanity now finds itself in an escalating global conflict with history's violent monotheistic teenager, radical Islam. And with two more years of Obama's appeasement of global Jihad one wonders how great the human costs will be once the civilized world is forced to militarily confront savages like ISIS and Boko haram.

FURY is a mental preparation for what the coming war with proponents of Jihad will look like in order for freedom and individual liberty to remain part of human existence. The movie starts with Pitt (Collier) and his crew mourning the death of their co-driver who is replaced by an enlisted Army typist, Norman, who has never seen the inside of a tank, much less horrors of war. The character Norman, played by actor Logan Lerman, is us, the viewers, being abruptly indoctrinated into to the brutality of killing and human suffering.

Once Norman joins the veteran tank crew Collier and his men berate the novice for being reluctant to exterminate German soldiers, combative or wounded, without thought. The tank crew's psychological torment continues until Norman realizes his place and purpose on the battlefield and can kill as thoughtlessly and mercilessly as members of Collier's crew. The movie did an effective job of progressing viewer mindset from 'passive Army clerk to mass killer of hated Nazis.'

Fast forward seventy years to the ISIS burning of caged Jordanian fighter pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh and again we are “Norman” being introduced to an unimaginable evil that must be ruthlessly destroyed for the continuance of Western civilization. Unlike Nazi socialism, however, Islamic Jihad is not associated with a government or state that can be beaten into submission and forced into a legally-binding, unconditional surrender. Jihad is a perversion of a relatively young religion that will require years, if not generations, to “calm” before it can become a productive member of planet earth. 

The global war with Jihad will not only be a brutal war for the future of western civilization but a war that will end, not with the surrender of a government or territory, but the reformation and moderation of the Muslim faith itself. Take a ride with Don "Wardaddy" Collier and his crew in FURY to wrap your head around what could be in the coming total war with militant Islam. One can only speculate how much more powerful groups like ISIS will have become once Obama and his staff of professorial Marxists have vacated the White House.

Obama and ISIS: BFFs until the very end... of western civilization

As King Abdullah of Jordan takes fatal retribution on ISIS for the murder of fighter pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh, King Hussein of America continues to avoid a concrete strategy to “downgrade and defeat” the Islamic terror group.

Americans keep asking why Obama is so accommodating to the likes of ISIS and mistakenly look to cable "news" for insight into his Marxist revolutionary mind. Sadly, the American media does not have the historical perspective or courage to label Obama as they should; a willing accomplice to radical Islam.

Exemplified by his cheerful day of golf immediately following the beheading of James Foley it is doubtful Obama even disagrees with the gruesome tactics employed by ISIS. As a Marxist radical the means of revolution matter little to Obama, only that all "unfair" aspects of society are obliterated in the name of total equality.

  ISIS and Obama combine the most visceral illogic of Marxism: evil and insanity. ISIS, for example, commits acts of unspeakable brutality yet considers itself a righteous necessity that humanity must endure for the sake of Islamic purity. Similarly Obama is completely incapable of labeling radical Islam evil because he sees the “good intent” of jihad despite its mandate to destroy innocent life.

A central tenant of progressive liberalism is a refusal to call good "good" or evil "evil." Essentially there is no value system, only a political agenda that always involves a lot of bad things happening to the masses by a handful of guiltless, self-proclaimed prodigies obsessed with social engineering. Sound familiar? This is why Obama will never associate Islam with violence against non-Muslims. He truly believes, in the greater scheme of things, Muslims got the historical short end of the stick, Jews and Western society are to blame, and 'payback's a bitch.'

All oppressors share commonalities and mutual interests. For Obama and ISIS it is their disdain for Israel and western civilization. The tactics vary but their goals do not and the mutual collaboration between radical Islam and Obama will continue until the former is destroyed and the latter is impeached or replaced via his term expiring.

In other words, the growth and brutality of ISIS, and like terror groups, will continue unless Obama is separated from his executive power and ISIS is separated from its existence. With two years as president remaining, however, it is unlikely Obama will loose his ability to accommodate global Jihad, which is another reason Americans must take more responsibility for our own protection. After all Obama has as much interest in stopping ISIS in America as he does where he created it in Libya, Syria, and Iraq.

Pakistani teachers arm themselves to deter attacks. American teachers still “gun free.”

From Fox News: "Government authorities in Pakistan's northwest frontier have given permission for teachers to carry concealed firearms in response to the Dec. 16 attack in Peshawar that became one of the deadliest terrorist strikes in Pakistani history."

With terror attacks in the US on the horizon, in Obama's Jihad-friendly monarchy, it is sickening Americans have our own government preventing us from safing our schools from terrorists and active shooters.

BTW, those AKs sitting on the table pictured above are full-auto assault rifles; the Pakistanis have another freedom Americans do not. 

Ladies: guns on your person NOT in your purse

-Revolvers are too dangerous for EDC 

-Handbags should never be used to carry a gun

Female gun owners are the fastest-growing demographic in the retail firearm industry. Year over year more women are licensed to carry guns and take personal responsibility for their own protection. After all, in a free society we are accountable for our own safety. But to keep those freedoms we must behave responsibly and with firearms safety is our primary obligation.


Recently there have been high-profile incidents involving toddlers or young children obtaining loaded firearms from a mom or relative's purse and accidentally discharging it, resulting in injury or loss of life.


The accidental shooting of Justin Reynolds and Monique Villescas by their 3-year-old toddler on February 1, 2015 illustrates the importance of women gun owners carrying firearms on their persons not in their handbags. Luckily the bullet that struck Reynolds and Villescas was not fatal for either. Not so, however, for Veronica Rutledge; a young mother accidentally shot and killed by her two-year-old son who removed and fired his mother's loaded gun from her purse.


As an advocate of freedom and personal liberty it is difficult to tell gun owners what they should and should not do with their personal firearms. Unless, of course, that gun owner, or segment of gun owners, is endangering themselves or others.


The gun community needs to self police more than any other politically active group. All gun owners, including those who buy a gun only to let it collect dust, have a duty to defend the Second Amendment from protectionist radicals by demonstrating that criminals, not legal gun owners, are responsible for unlawful gun deaths.


It is time, as a community, we put our collective feet down and encourage our armed daughters, sisters, and mothers to, one, avoid revolvers that cannot be simultaneously “safed” and loaded, and, two, carry your gun in a quality holster on your body not in your handbag.

Whether at home or staying away from home I follow a set protocol when "disarming" or separating myself from my carry pistol:

1. Remove pistol from holster pointing in a safe direction (by “safe direction” I mean property, not people, would be damaged if I were to negligently press the trigger).
   
2. Eject the magazine.
   
3. Eject the top off round, ensure the chamber is empty.
   
4. Reinsert the magazine and place the pistol and top off round well out of reach from young hands but not inaccessible in an emergency.
   

This protocol may be too “safety Sally” for some yet inadequate for others but it works, whether you're a man or woman, and is far more effective than leaving a handbag with a loaded “reliable” revolver assessable to a curious child.


I am not a "revolver hater." The first gun I fired, under the supervision of my father, was my dad's Model 10 Smith and Wesson .38. To this day I enjoy shooting and am fascinated by the mechanics and precision engineering of quality "wheel guns." As a legally armed citizen, however, a revolver is the last carry option I would consider.

Allow US service members be armed at their discretion

- My letter to the House of Representatives -

Dear Representative       , 

In addition to supporting an end to “gun free” zones please author legislation allowing US service members to carry, for self-defense and the defense of others, personal concealed handguns while in uniform. 

It is preposterous, in this era of active shootings and terrorism, our uniformed service personnel have no means of defending themselves or others at the outset of a “Ft. Hood” or Paris-style terrorist attack.

America must abandon the “not here” mentality. Combined with the already present threats from violent criminals and active shooters, western society is in a multi-generational, asymmetrical war with militant Islam. 

All able Americans, civilian and military, should be legally permitted to respond when our people and homeland are attacked. At least the US government should not mandate defenselessness and allow service members who wish to be armed to so be. Those intent on committing acts of evil will always be armed and violent despite the rules. 

Sincerely, 

David Gallion

What is the Active Shooter Response Program (ASRP) and how does it serve society?

For schools, agencies, and places of work that adopt an Active Shooter Response Program the primary benefit will be the elimination of their organization's gun free policy. Decades of academic crime research demonstrates that criminals dominantly choose victims they believe to be unarmed. The ASRP is designed to make potential active shooters aware they will face armed resistance from the outset of an attack. It is a “deterrence with teeth” that empowers individuals, targeted by active shooters, to protect themselves and others during a criminal shooting incident where criminals or terrorists are intent on multiple fatalities. The ASRP charges the actual targets of active shootings to be responsible for their safety, and that of those who cannot defend themselves, instead of solely depending on the “wait and hope” plan of dialing police.

There are five Active Shooter Response Programs:

1. ASRP for Private and Public Schools (K-12)

2. ASRP for Colleges and Universities

3. ASRP for Hospitals and Medical Facilities

4. ASRP for Military Posts and Bases

5. ASRP for Businesses and Places of Work

Gun free regions of the world are complete humanitarian disasters. In the existing era of frequent active shootings and Islamic terrorism society must take greater responsibility for its own protection. The more Americans rely on government to provide for our “safety” the more of our freedoms government will take to provide it.