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There’s an email going around about a foiled mass-killing in San Antonio that occurred a few days after the Sandy Hook massacre. There’s something about it I don’t like….
…became the law in Oklahoma on November 1, 2012. World doesn’t end. (Note: Open carry has always been legal in New Hampshire; it is guaranteed by the New Hampshire State Constitution. You can read about that from 2nd Amendment hero Sam Cohen of Pro-Gun New Hampshire HERE.)
Note to the Democrat Party. One of the best ways to reduce violent crimes (like rape) is to support a well trained and lawfully armed populace. Add concealed carry and now you have a populace that is unaware as to who among them is well trained and well armed. In every instance, this reduces the … Read more
The Lakes Region Porcupines meet at the New Hong Kong Buffet in Belmont, NH every third Saturday of the month, and this Saturday ONE of the big topics was the despicable act by a brilliant but sick, demented, mentally ill person. Now, these folks are rather Libertarian to full bore Libertarians (heh! I seem to be the token Conservative) and just about all of them fully support the Second Amendment – and some open carry all the time. I have a concealed carry permit and I believe several others do as well so it was logical that the topic of the murders in the Aurora, Colorado would come up.
Some were insistent that if someone had been carrying (open or concealed) in that theater, some of those that died or were hurt could have been saved. I was the only dissenter in that if you looked at the environment and looked at how the shooter, James Holmes, had equipped himself, it would be unclear. A dark theater, a deranged shooter who was in rapid fire mode wearing complete body armor (ballistic helmet, body armor including throat and groin protection) who also had thrown two “grenades” that emitted a noxious gas that affected breathing and sight (not sure exactly what as I haven’t seen or heard the details, but it could have been tear gas or pepper spray cannisters – or something homebrewed). Mass confusion – people screaming, moving to get out; unless someone was a trained SWAT or Spec Ops operator used to working and reacting PROPERLY in such a situation, I’m not convinced if a single person would have been able to make a difference.
Before I started shooting, I used to think “that can’t be THAT difficult, right?” Aim it at a target couple hundred feet, pull the trigger. Shooting a target with a handgun, if you have not done so, is HARD – and starting out, being consistent at 5 or 10 yards is much harder than I ever thought. Further out, and you learn that just a wee bit of a tremble in your hands, your stance, your finger pulling the trigger ALSO putting a sideways “push or pull” on the handgun, anticipating the recoil ahead of the shot, having bad eyes (like me); well, let’s just say that this is a high skill technique to do it well over and over.
Now add in a Red Bull can of adrenaline when you realize the horror of what is going on, your eyes are tearing up from the chemical agent, trying to avoid getting shot yourself – this is not an easy shot just at a unprotected person trying kill you but with the body armor the spots that are vulnerable become exceedingly small.
And he’s moving.
In the wake of the mass murder tragedy at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater yesterday—and the immediate effort of the Mainstream Media to link it to the Tea Party movement—it is worth remembering that More Guns Means Less Crime.
For instance, when a would-be mass murderer shot his way into a packed church in Colorado during a Sunday service in 2007…
This is so funny! What appears below is a column from today’s New Hampshire government-newspaper, the Concord Monitor. I glanced at the top of the top of the column and though “Hey, great! My friend—the excellent Rep. JR Hoell—has written an interesting piece about 2nd Amendment concealed carry for everyone!” So I happily read the excellent column…