"The Nightmare is over." Nightmare? Really???

 

Shot and caught two miles from the Canadian border, escape murderer David Sweat discovered the limits of his survival skills when NY Trooper Jay Cook incapacitated the prisoner with two shots from his service pistol, ending a 23-day hunt for the last of two Clinton Correctional Facility escapees.  But was the drama surrounding the Matt and Sweat escape really, as the media desperately tried to convince us, a "nightmare" for communities of northern NY?

As a well-armed American, living in the gun-friendly Midwest, I was completely unimpressed by the "danger" Matt and Sweat presented to the communities in which they hid. Yes, two violent felons evading police capture in your neighborhood is a disquieting thought, but there are dangerous paroled, previously released, and yet to be arrested violent criminals roaming the streets of our communities every second of every day. Regarding the Matt and Sweat escape all I can say is, "so what?" In a free society we are responsible for our own protection.

No armed American should ever fear murderers, rapists, or violent sociopaths. Leave that to the anti-gun left and the laws they create to obviate their own freedoms and personal discretion.

Threat Level "Charlie" this Fourth of July Weekend

 

Americans have been warned. Both DHS and the FBI have advised ISIS-inspired attacks on American soil are likely this Fourth of July weekend. The question is, who is best equipped to mitigate the violence? Armed and trained Americans, or unarmed citizens and anti-gun liberals? You decide. My rifle and rig are at the ready to rain on any jihadi stooge violently overstepping his freedom of expression during my patriotic, Merica! Fourth of July cookout. 

Sorry Barry. We know it is a hindrance for your plans to completely destroy our Republic, but many of us are capable of our own protection. 

Church: The last place you do not want to carry, police security or not.

Whether deranged active shooters or Islamic terror attacks, Christian churches are watering holes for violent predators.

In the house of the Lord there is only one thing that will save you from an active shooter or terrorist intent on killing you, your family, and members of your congregation. I am sorry to inform you that it is not the All Mighty. 

God is in the business of souls, not living beings. You are responsible for your own protection, that of your family, and those incapable of defending themselves from criminal deadly force. Doubts to the contrary can reference any number of mass shootings in places of worship, including the most recent at the Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina.

Although I am not a regular church goer I do attend with family on occasions throughout the year, and I never enter church unarmed. Many pro-gun Americans have a strange notion, when is comes to carrying on Sunday, that they are "safe" at church or should not enter the house of God with a gun. 

To those with this belief, the anti-gun establishment thanks you. Look how well your "no guns in church" notion is aiding progressives in promoting gun control after the murder of nine innocent worshipers in SC last Wednesday.

"My church has armed police security so I don't need to carry a gun."

For many, notably those with little or no training, this is exactly the case. Sadly most Americans obtaining licenses to carry handguns in public do not seek professional training to use their firearms in a public or during an active shooting event. I see this weekly at the facility where I train. Groups of people spend eight hours in a licensed carry class, dump a mag to show "ability" in operating their carry gun (many with an informal knowledge of their own platforms), and followup with a few shots on a static range whenever they feel the need.(1)

Those with experience and training in protecting innocent life with guns, however, have an obligation to carry, particularly at church. The church I attend has at least one local LEO stationed at its main entry/exit. I do not personally know the officer, who is a different person each Sunday, but as a legally armed American trained in active shooter mitigation I approach the officer, look him or her in the eye, offer a friendly greeting, and thank that person for being there. The officer says "thank you" in return then looks me up and down, possibly noticing the guns and extra magazines bulging from my suit jacket.(2) 

Note I do not engage the officer in conversation or rattle off my resume as an armed citizen. That LEO has a job to do, protecting people at church, not suffocating on hot air emanating from my mouth hole. 

I make brief visual and verbal contact with the officer to let them know, "Hey, if all hell breaks lose and you see me shooting violent criminals or terrorists, think FRIENDLY!"

The Emanuel AME Church shooting will, without question, bring more police off the streets and into churches for the purpose of armed security. This does not, however, excuse trained, armed Americans to delegate our responsibility to carry at church and other public places in Obama's America where racial hostility, active shootings, and Islamic terror have become the norm.

(1) I am one hundred percent in favor of arming every decent American citizen, but current threats to our communities, from deranged active shooters to Islamic terrorists, mean more training is needed for growing multitudes of Americans armed in public places.

(2)  I do not shake hands with the officer or make any physical contact what so ever. Touching an on-duty, uniformed police officer is a bad idea even in a church atrium on Sunday morning, notably if you happen to be carrying. Know your boundaries, especially when armed.

Three quotes and takeaways from Emanuel Church mass killing

"I do believe this was a hate crime." Irrelevant. Labeling the crime does not bring back the nine murdered.

"The shooting was the most unbelievable act possible." Hardly, but this idiotic statement is  regurgitated after every active shooting attack.

"A man in his 20s was seen in a security camera image." Security cameras do not prevent you from being killed. Guns prevent you from being killed.

One of the most odious curses of progressive liberalism has been to dissuade black Americans from owning and possessing defensive firearms. In fact black communities throughout the nation, many riddled with crime and violence, have been localities of "success" for the gun control movement; law abiding citizens politically pressured or legally prohibited from owning firearms while illegally armed criminals run amok in their neighborhoods.

In addition to recognizing that liberalism has ruined far more black lives that it has ever helped, black Americans need, instead of bowing to the wishes of the liberal anti-gun agenda, a Second Amendment renaissance among their race.