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Failure to follow lawful commands can be deadly

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http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/07/officer-kills-suspect-in-sw-houston/

I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for the deceased in this case.  The family can debate in ignorance if they like but, folks, when an officer says “let me see your hands,” that is NOT the time to start getting cute or deciding demonstrating your complete lack of understanding of the law.  This officer apparently gave the orders in both English and Spanish but, the decedent decided he didn’t have to show his hands and kept his hand hidden from view in a manner indicative of a concealed weapon.

If an officer gives you a lawful order, you are bound by law to comply, not debate the officer’s authority or otherwise resist.  Furthermore, you cannot lawfully resist arrest, even if you know the arrest is wrong.  And at the end of the day, you will never, ever, win a fight on a street with the cops.  You might manage to beat “a” cop but, you cannot out run Motorola (or Fox if you’re in Houston) and there are almost always more cops than you are prepared to handle.  For your own safety, just do what the cop says.
-Gary

 

Ish Just Got Real as some might say.

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http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/02/congressmen-urge-the-un-to-trample-the-us-constitution/

Don’t be surprised if you haven’t seen this mentioned in mainstream media…They approve of almost anything and everything Democrats do, including selling the entire US population into slavery for the benefit of big insurance firms by calling it health care reform.  But we’ve also heard both the President and Attorney General of the United States go on record saying they could envision ways of getting around the Constitution to enact and enforce stricter gun laws.  Obama and Holder are not alone in their desire to get around the Constitution. See the except below:

 “…a group of anti-gun members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), went so far as to circulate a letter last week to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, in which they “strongly urge the United States to take a leadership role in pushing for a strong, verifiable Arms Trade Treaty.”

These House members insist that the treaty include “controls on a comprehensive list of weaponry, including small arms and light weapons,” as well as controls on ammunition. For good measure, they wrap their unconstitutional demands in the mantle of advancing “human rights” and preventing international violence.

Don’t you dare think these people give a rats butt about SCOTUS rulings stating that the Constitution does indeed guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms.  After years of courts ruling in their favor, suddenly, that decision was a politically motivated ruling by activists judges and in their minds, invalid.  They support the Bill of Rights only up to the point it furthers their own agenda.  The minute those right apply to a view point other than their own, they’ll go out of their way to try to alienate those rights for the people who don’t share their own point of view.

-Gary

Repost from the Vuurwapen Blog

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http://vuurwapenblog.com/2012/07/05/training-with-military-vs-competition-shooters/

This is a well written article and it echos the thoughts of a great many of us who’ve had the opportunity to train with a wide variety of instructors.  I’ve trained with military, law enforcement shooters and competitive shooters.  While they may have very different perspectives on a wide variety of subjects, at the end of the day, you’re really paying them to help make you a faster, more accurate shooter and that’s pretty much it.  There are some things you’ll learn with one that you may or may not cover with the other but, in either case, if you think you’ll become some sort of super-secret ninja-squirrel “operator” just from attending a few classes, you are fooling yourself.

-Gary

Typical Left-leaning Local Media Slant on Castle Doctrine

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During Sunday’s show (July 1), we mentioned an article by the Houston Chronicle discussing an apparent increase in the number of justified homicides in Texas.  That article can be found here (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Killings-deemed-justified-are-on-the-rise-in-Texas-3676412.php).

As is typical of the media, they sensationalize the facts and the “expert” opinions they cite are themselves, biased to the left.  Here’s the real deal, in plain English.  The Texas Legislature did not and never has intended to give anyone carte blanche to kill at will.  The only person in Texas at any given time who has the “right” to kill another person is an executioner acting on a signed death warrant from the court.  Everyone else had better be prepared to have their actions reviewed.  If you read the law, it consistently requires that one’s actions be “reasonable.”  Believe it or not; you, as the actor in any given case, don’t get to decide what is and isn’t reasonable.  What is reasonable is decided, at the very least, by a local magistrate or grand jury based on evidence reported to them by the investigating officers.  If you are true billed and formally indicted, a jury of your peers will be tasked with deciding if your actions are reasonable.

As we’ve recently seen in the Raul Rodriguez case, “Stand Your Ground” is NOT an automatic get out of jail free card to shoot anyone, anywhere you see fit.  It’s true, you no longer have a “duty to retreat” but, that change assumes you didn’t go looking for a conflict or otherwise end up in a situation of your own making.  The intent was to clarify one’s right to defend himself if he happened to find himself being attacked away from home.  For example, how does one “safely” retreat if you’re at your office or place of business rather than your home when faced with a deadly threat?  Or if you’re simply out making that late evening, ice cream and pickles, run for a mother to be when you’re accosted in the parking lot?  A lot of folks will say run back to the store but, running isn’t necessarily an option for an elderly person or anyone with a disability let alone those of us lacking a “successful lifestyle body” (i.e. fat boys).

We’re suppose to AVOID, not seek, confrontations….

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http://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-jury-convicts-man-in-stand-your-ground-case-3629425.php

Raul Rodriguez went against everything concealed handgun license applicants are told about avoiding unnecessary confrontations.  Folks, it’s not enough to read the “Cliff Notes” version of the class regarding non-violent dispute resolution and use of force. Parroting cute little buzzwords on camera or the 911 tape while being an idiot and seeking a fight rather than avoiding one just provides admissible evidence of you being an idiot.

-Gary