38 Shot, 8 Fatally, in Gun-Controlled Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend 110 Scott Olson/Getty 29 May 2018250 Thirty-eight people were shot, at least eight fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend. The murders are in line with what the city has witnessed over the past few years. ABC7 reportsthere were seven murders over the Memorial Day Weekend in 2017 and eight during the same weekend in 2016. Chicago’s overall murder rate is slightly lower than it was last year at this point. USA Today reports there have been 191 murders year-to-date, whereas there were 237 murders at this same time last year. However, the murder rate is still high enough that it puts Chicago “on pace once again to record more homicides than any other American city. ” In fact, “Chicago still has tallied nearly as many homicides thus far in 2018 as New York City (106) and Los Angeles (92) combined.” This violence is occurring in a city where gun control has been the go-to solution for crime for decades. The city banned handgun ownership in 1982, only to see the murder rate skyrocket. The Chicago Police Department reported there were 850 homicides in 1993, 930 homicides in 1994, 921 homicides in 1991, and a startling 940 homicides in 1992. Yet the city’s leaders refused to lift the handgun ban, doing so only when the ban was struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010. Even now, city and state leaders push for more gun control as the solution to the violence in Chicago. On March 8, 2018, Breitbart News reported that the Illinois House passed a bill designed to require 18-20-year olds to hand over theretofore legally purchased and possessed “assault weapons.” More recently, on April 3, 2018, Breitbart News reportedthat the Chicago suburb of Deerfield actually empowered their chief of police to confiscate residents’ “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines and destroy them. AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
'Surrender Your Firearms Within 24 Hours or Be Shot' By Helen Smith May 21, 2018 I am reading a fascinating book by Stephen P. Halbrook from the Independent Institute called Gun Control in Nazi Occupied-France: Tyranny and Resistance. The book describes the history of how the registration of firearms by the French government before World War II made it easier for the Nazis to disarm the French people: Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. In every occupied town, Nazi soldiers put up posters that demanded that civilians surrender their firearms within twenty-four hours or else be shot. Despite the consequences, many French citizens refused to comply with the order. In Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, Stephen P. Halbrook tells this story of Nazi repression and the brave French men and women who refused to surrender to it. Drawing on records of the German occupation and testimonies from members of the French resistance, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France is the first book to focus on the Nazis’ efforts to disarm the French. One of the most startling facts in the book is in the last chapter entitled "Liberation": "There were three million hunting guns in France in 1939, according to the Saint-Hubert-Club de France, a hunting association." ...only 835,000 of three million hunting guns --less than one-third--were turned in by French citizens threatened with the death penalty for not doing so. That is an incredible testament to the inefficacy of gun control in the most extreme circumstances. It is also a testament to the bravery of the French people who did not turn their guns in; some of those guns contributed to the Resistance and helped the Allies to win the war. "..[T]he only armed resistance in France until D-Day was conducted by civilians..." Remember this the next time you hear someone mention that private citizens should not own guns. https://pjmedia.com/drhelen/surrender-your-firearms-within-24-hours-or-be-shot/#DrHelen
Probably waiting (perhaps even hoping) for the next school shooting to come here completely ignoring this and telling us "how right" he is...
Carjacking suspect dead outside Walmart store after armed citizens take action, police say By Dom Calicchio, Nicole Darrah | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email Armed bystanders stop carjacking spree in Washington state Suspect shot and killed in Walmart parking lot after leading police on chase. Two armed citizens were credited for taking action Sunday when a carjacking suspect when on a rampage in Washington state, about 30 miles southwest of Tacoma. At least one of the citizens fired the shot that killed the unidentified suspect, who was in a Walmart parking lot in Tumwater, attempting to commandeer vehicles, Seattle's Q13 Fox reported, citing a police news release. Injured in the suspect's violent spree were the driver of one of the cars he attempted to highjack, and a 16-year-old girl at another location who suffered unspecified injuries, the Seattle Times reported. View image on Twitter #Q13FOX ✔@Q13FOX Civilian shoots, kills gunman at Tumwater Walmart; 2 others hurt. @TatevikAprikyan reports: https://buff.ly/2JUByMd 1:46 AM - Jun 18, 2018 20 29 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy The injured driver was airlifted to a hospital in Seattle and was in critical condition, the Times reported. Police said the incident began when officers responded to a report of an erractic driver in Tumwater, about 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, the Times reported. Police in Washington state are responding to reports of a shooting at a Walmart Supercenter in Tumwater. (Google Street View) While police were en route, a carjacking was reportedly taking place at a nearby intersection, the newspaper reported, adding that the teenager was injured at that location. Police followed the stolen vehicle to the parking lot of a Walmart Supercenter store, where the carjacking suspect exited the vehicle and tried to carjack a second vehicle, according to the Times. That's when two armed civilians confronted the suspect and at least one of them fired, the Times reported. The Seattle Times ✔@seattletimes A pair of carjackings and a wild chase ended with the shooting death of an armed man by a civilian in the parking lot of a Walmart superstore in Tumwater, according to police and witnesses. (Story by @OlympiaJoe and @stimesmcarter)https://st.news/2t6g2xA 12:20 AM - Jun 18, 2018 Gunfire reported at Tumwater Walmart; police say gunman killed by armed civilian during carjacking Police say the suspect shot and wounded a 16-year-old girl near Tumwater High School, where a carjacking led to a chase and gunfire in the Walmart parking lot. seattletimes.com 15 15 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy The civilian was the owner of the car being carjacked, the Olympian reported, adding that he was being interviewed by police afterward. Walmart customers reported hearing gunshots, but their accounts varied on whether the sounds came from inside or outside the store. Q13 Fox later reported that the suspect entered the store, fired at a display case, and then exited, before being approached by the armed citizens in the parking lot. No store employees or customers were injured inside the store, the report said.
Mom shoots knife-wielding man who flew across world to visit her teen daughter, police say By Ryan Gaydos | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email This photo provided by the Goochland County Sheriff's Office shows a New Zealand passport photo, of Troy George Skinner. (New Zealand Passport Office/ Goochland County Sheriff's Office via AP) A New Zealand man who had traveled to Virginia to meet a teen he communicated with online was shot by the girl’s mother Friday, officials said. Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot after he allegedly smashed through a glass door and attempted to enter the Goochland home, Goochland County Sheriff James Agnew said. Skinner bought duct tape and a knife after he arrived in the U.S., Agnew said. The mother saw Skinner enter her home and warned him a few times that she had a gun, then fired after he broke the glass door, according to Agnew. Officials said Skinner was struck in the neck and remains hospitalized. “All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him — the only inference is that he had very bad intent,” Agnew said. The sheriff added that Skinner’s arrival to the U.S. was totally unexpected, according to Stuff. Skinner will be charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with intent to commit a serious crime, the sheriff said. New Zealand police said they’ve offered their help to U.S. authorities. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
She's just lucky it happened in Virginia and not the UK, or else the mom would be in jail. Of course, if she lived in the UK she wouldn't have had a gun in the first place and her daughter would probably now be under the control of a rape gang.