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PSA: This is how you get shot by the police

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Watch this video. Watch it and here me when I tell you THIS is how young men get shot!

The commentary is spot on. Now there are other factors in play but, this is very much the same way Tamir Rice got shot. It’s very much the way John Crawford III got shot. It’s how many young men have lost their lives. Failure to shut the #$%& up and follow the officer’s lawful commands!

I am not saying there are not cops who are racists. There have indeed been cases of officers plainly doing the wrong thing. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt. I have actually had an officer tell me he would kill me and my father (also a cop) and have “two dead n*****s on the side of the road,” if he pleased. But, that’s not what happened here and this officer clearly wasn’t trying to shoot anyone even though he would have been justified in doing so in this case. This could easily have been another one of those “hands up, don’t shoot” moments that was dictated this “kid” who was advancing on an officer who was clearly telling the kid to stop and get on the ground. Had he taken one more step, we likely would be hearing of yet another shooting.

So all hear me. Listen well. Comply, comply. comply! Don’t try to explain anything or tell the officer how you think he should and or how things should be done. If the officer is telling to you to get down on the ground, do it. Don’t turn around and ask questions. Don’t stick your hands in your pockets. Don’t reach toward your waistband or behind your back. Don’t do anything but exactly what the officer tells you in that moment in time. If he’s wrong being a screw up, file a complaint. But you can’t live long enough to do that if you make furtive moments or move toward the officer. And whether or not those movements are threatening is not something YOU determine. It’s is ALL in the perception of the officer. Comply, comply, comply!

-GM

Everytown to “educate” media on reporting about guns

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When it comes to reporting on guns, local and regional reporters bear the primary burden. They are often trapped into narrow deadline-driven beats with little time to develop expert sources, investigative angles or broader perspectives. And newsrooms and news managers are unprepared for the overwhelming, spasmodic tragedy of mass shootings. As a consequence, incidents of gun violence are too often viewed in isolation as random, inevitable tragedy rather than part of a wider phenomenon with complex causes but amenable to prevention efforts.

via Apply Now: Covering Gun Violence | Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma.

When you hear gun owners and others talk about media bias, this is a prime example. The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (the very name is a contradiction of terms), is holding a workshop, funded by Everytown For Gun Safety (Michael Bloomberg) to “…help journalists and news organizations in the Southwest improve their reporting on guns and gun violence.”

According to the Dart Center website, the workshop will:

  • Serve as a forum for improving journalists’ knowledge of guns and gun violence, and the implications of public policies like background check requirements
  • Explore new research, reporting ideas and best practices with leading public health and policy experts
  • Confront challenges — and identify opportunities — that exist for local journalists pursuing these stories with limited resources
  • Provide practical tools to enable journalists to successfully produce meaningful stories on guns and gun violence.

By the time attendees are done listening to the “national public health and policy experts; researchers and clinicians; award-winning journalists, and prevention advocates and survivors,” they will have learned to be more effective at pushing an agenda rather than accurately report facts and allowing the public to reach its own conclusions.

Fox News is often the first media outlet to be discussed as being “biased” but, here we have a supposed school of journalism (Columbia University) where allegedly, one is supposed to have a free “exchange” of ideas, that is openly and actively seeking to further indoctrinate the media into pushing one side, and only one side, of an issue. How is this not bias? How is this even remotely considered intellectually honest and ethical? Folks, as much as support for gun rights is reported at an all time high, make no mistake, we are facing a war of a lifetime going forward and the mass media is complicit in an effort to out right lie to the general public. That lie begins in schools when kids are young and continues through their professional lives as demonstrated here.

-GM

 

HB195: Unlicensed carrying of a handgun

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“…HB195 is not limited to carrying a handgun openly. If it were to pass in its as-filed form, Texans could carry a handgun openly or concealed without a CHL.”

via HB195: Unlicensed carrying of a handgun.

Charles Cotton has posted a summary on HB195, a bill filed with the current Legislature authorizing the carrying of handguns openly or concealed, without a CHL in the state of Texas. But Cotton also lists a number of concerns about the bill as written that he indicates will create legal problems for gun owners. You can read more about those concerns here. –> https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/frontpage-articles/73-hb195-unlicensed-carrying-of-a-handgun

-GM

Muriel Bowser: ‘You have a mayor who hates guns’ – The Washington Post

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“You have a mayor who hates guns…If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.” – Muriel Bowser, Mayor, Washington, D.C.

via ‘You have a mayor who hates guns’ – The Washington Post.

Well, I’ll give her this much…At least Muriel Bowser is honest and upfront about it. She would ban all guns, given the chance. To hell with the People (all of them as opposed to just those who voted for her), the Constitution (you know, the law!) or the rulings of the United States Supreme Court, she’s just going to do it her way! That the seat of government in the “Free World” is a place that seeks to restrict freedom every chance it gets boggles the mind.

-GM

Armed customer stops restaurant robbery suspects in their tracks

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A customer is being called a hero after pulling a gun on two armed robbery suspects at a Houston restaurant.

via Armed customer stops restaurant robbery suspects in their tracks.

Gun-control proponents would have you believe this sort of thing NEVER happens. Instead they want you to believe the incident in Idaho a almost two weeks ago is something that happens every day. The reality is the opposite. With hundreds of thousands of people licensed to carry guns in Texas alone and several million more throughout the country, Veronica’s Rutledge’s death was indeed a tragedy worthy of coverage but, stories like the one above rarely make the news. There is profit to be had and an agenda being pursued in constantly supplying the public with tragic stories and frightening statistics even if they aren’t necessarily true.

GM