Watch Marine's EPIC Response To @GretchenCarlson #TheRealStory, Conservatives Who Support Gun Control

After the ISIS-inspired Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando which maimed 53 people and snuffed out the lives of 49 others, the topic of gun control is once again front and center on the national stage. 
What is different this time is that some conservative pundits and legislators are joining with the anti-gun Left to call for restrictions on firearms, and they are doing so from a position of ignorance.

Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson took to the air to ask the question, “Should ‘assault weapons’ be banned?” Let’s watch A US Marine's EPIC response.

First off Ms. Carlson, the weapon used by the Islamic terrorist was NOT an AR-15. This is the weapon used by the assailant, it is called a Sig Sauer MCX carbine, a modular, multi-caliber rifle system that can be customized to fire a variety of different caliber rounds, including 5.56 NATO, 300 BLK, and 7.62×39. The ONLY thing that weapon has in common with an AR-15, other than the fact that it is black, is that it accepts standard magazines which are common to scores of different firearms.

I’d like to point out that the gun-control legislation currently before Congress specifically exempts this weapon, a Mini-14 named after my late wife DeLynn, from further restrictions, yet would ban the sale of weapons like this AR-15, which I named in honor of my late daughter Ashley.

• Both of these beautiful ladies are lightweight, gas-operated, magazine-fed, air-cooled, semi-automatic rifles.

• Both weapons fire .223 caliber and 5.56x45mm NATO rounds at a muzzle velocity of 3,200 feet-per-second.

• Both weapons have an effective range of just over 500 yards.

• Both weapons are semi-automatic, and that means that they are NOT “machine guns” as Dirty Harry Reid proclaimed on the floor of the Senate.  A machine gun will continue firing until the shooter lifts his finger from the trigger; but both of these weapons send only one round downrange with each pull of the trigger.

Mini-14 & AR-15: IDENTICAL In Function

Fully-automatic firearms are already banned for civilian use by the National Firearms Act of 1934, Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Firearm Ownership Protection Act of 1986. Fully-automatic firearms are for military and police use almost exclusively.

By every scientific and practical measure these weapons are identical in function, the only differences are cosmetic, and anyone who says any different is either ignorant of the subject matter, a Left-wing gun-grabber, or a special kind of stupid.

The Mini-14 weighs in at six pounds six ounces without ammunition, the AR-15 weighs one pound one ounce, less. That is because instead of the wooden stock on the Mini-14, the AR-15 uses composite plastic barrel guards that allow the easy installation of accessories.

This flashlight does not make the weapon any deadlier, but it did come in handy as I left the woods each night last hunting season.

• The laser sight does not make the weapon any deadlier, just more accurate.

• The telescoping stock does not make the weapon any deadlier, just easier to customize to the length of a shooter’s arm.

• The pistol grip does not make the weapon any deadlier, just easier to control.

• The flash suppressor does not make the weapon any deadlier, just more polite.

Most importantly, the black color does not make the weapon any deadlier, and if anyone thinks it does then they might be racist (or just really, really dumb.) #BlackGunsMatter!

The reason that Florida has a three day waiting period for hand guns is because handguns are used in a majority of firearm homicides. It’s called a “cooling-off period,” and it is designed to allow those who get so angry at another person that they think that buying a gun and taking a life would be a good idea time to think about that decision. The reason there is no waiting period to buy a rifle is that less than 1% of firearm homicides are committed with a rifle of any kind.

 

The latest FBI statistics reveal that of the 8,124 gun murders committed in 2014, only 248 were committed with rifles, and so-called “assault rifles” comprised only a sub-set of that number. In 2014, an American citizen was twice as likely to be beaten to death with an assailant’s bare hands, and more than 5 times as likely to be stabbed to death, than they were to be killed by an AR-15.

In fact, if one were discount gun homicides in the cities of Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., where Democrats and drug gangs overwhelmingly use handguns to turn the streets of those cities into battlegrounds bloodier than any in Afghanistan, the United States would be the 4^th Safest Country on the Planet. If we really want to decrease gun violence we should ban Democrats!

Congress said “No.” because the Assault Weapons Ban signed into law by Bill Clinton is widely recognized to have been an utter waste of time and energy, having negligible impact on real life gun violence at all. Clinton even blamed passage of the ban on the subsequent trouncing received by Democrats in the polls. Just ask the New York Times how successful the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban was the last time.

Yes, we do need the lightweight, accurate, AR-15 to hunt deer and protect our families; but as Judge Andrew Napolitano has stated many times on FOX, the 2^nd Amendment isn’t about hunting, nor even personal protection.

The 2^nd Amendment was added to the Constitution to give “We the People” the ability to overthrow a tyrannical government should that dark day ever come, and to listen to the ACLU that day has already come.

You can click this link to hear ACLU attorney NateWessler call Barack Obama, “Judge, jury, and executioner,” characteristics described by Founding Father James Madison as “the very definition of tyranny” in Federalist Paper #43.

I’m so happy that you agree I have a Natural Right to life Ms. Carlson. You know, I was right here in this very store a few weeks ago when the little old lady behind me tapped me on the shoulder, pointed to my weapon, and said, “That’s cool. I wish more people would carry guns.” “No ma’am,” I replied, “it’s not cool; but in today’s world it is absolutely necessary. You could not possibly be safer than you are right this moment.”

She liked that. So I will continue to carry my weapon every single day - 24/7/365 – in order to preserve my life and the lives of the innocents around me.

I have to, because as a Conservative Christian publisher I get death threats all of the time; but the FBI won’t do a thing about it. One man who offered a reward for my death and the deaths of my family members, in addition to explicitly threatening the lives of federal agents, is still actively posting. So I assume responsibility for my own safety, and the safety of those I love.

Ms. Carlson, before the Pulse nightclub massacre, the highest mass shooting body count was racked up by the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 and injured 17 with a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, both popular and easily available handguns.

Timothy McVeigh snuffed out the lives of 168 people Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Building, including 19 babies, and maimed another 680 with a truck full of fertilizer and racing fuel.

Julio Gonzales killed 87 people when he used a few gallons of gas and a book of matches to torch New York City’s Happy Land Social Club in 1990.

Terrorists armed with knives killed 29 and wounded 130 people at a Chinese train station in 2014, and the Palestinian “Knife Intifada” continues to this day.

On 9/11/2001, the worst terrorist attack the US has ever experienced, which took the lives of more than 3,000 innocent people, was carried out by Muslims armed with nothing more than box cutters and pepper spray.

A gun is just a tool folks, it is a hard heart that kills, and a sick one that murders innocents at school, at work, or at play. Until someone comes up with a test to determine the content of a person’s heart, there will be evil people who will use any available method to advance whatever devilish agenda has infected their twisted minds.

Further restricting guns is not the answer, especially not now when we are at war with radical Islam, when any trip to our children’s schools, a mall, restaurant, movie theater, or dance club, could turn into a life or death situation. I fear that soft targets will be targeted by ISIS terrorists more and more, and in the nine minutes it takes police to respond to a call for help, hundreds could die. 

Every American citizen is a member of the militia referred to by the 2^nd Amendment, and they should have weaponry that would at least give them a fighting chance against the modern weapons certain to wielded by tyrants or terrorists.

Now is the time for that American militia to train to repel attacks on this great nation by the blood-thirsty followers of a blood-thirsty religion and a blood-thirsty god. Greg Gutfeld says so, and who am I to argue with Greg? He’s like Mighty Mouse.

And that is My Take.

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Truth From The Trenches At The 2016 Republican National Convention

13 months after issuing my response to the "#EricShepardChallenge," which has gathered steam and morphed into #FuckYoFlag, (where people desecrate Old Glory by stomping on it, burning it, and even wiping their nasty asses with it,) I have yet to have a single person take me up on my counter-challenge to "Come And Take It!"

I can't even PAY THEM to take me up on a fair fight! Watch this short video and see for yourself:



It has become obvious to me that those who would burn or wipe their ass with the American flag are cowards who only get "brave" when they cover their faces and cause a ruckus as part of a gang that outnumbers their opponents 20-1. I've run into their type before, and they do NOT scare me.



I can't call them stupid, however, because had I the opportunity in a proper venue (ie, a ring of some sort,) I would have been merciless in my defense of Old Glory. The #USMC spent more than a million dollars turning me into one of the finest war-fighters on the planet, and it was/is my intention to utilize the hand-to-hand combat skills taught to US Marines with extreme prejudice should the need to defend myself arise.

If they won't come to me, I'll go to them. I plan on covering the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and you can bet that I'll be looking for flag burners to confront. They claim that burning an American flag is protected speech and, unfortunately, the Supreme Court agrees.

American veterans, and Patriots who never served, are expected to stand by and do nothing when our nation's flag is desecrated, so I'm going to be engaging in a little exercise, an experiment if you will, to see what it takes to "trigger" them with a little "micro-aggression" of my own. I want to see how they like it when the shoe is on the other foot, to learn exactly how much of MY protected speech they can stand before becoming violent.

I'm betting it won't take much.
 
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Lay Leaders Of Iraqi Anglican Church Kidnapped And Killed; Churches Bombed; Entire Congregations Slaughtered Since '03; 400,000 Christians Flee Iraq

During my interview with Syrian Opposition Leader Malik al-Abdeh, portions of which will be posted as part of a brand new The Truth Is Viral this weekend, we spoke about the demographic makeup of Syria and how it factors into the unrest facing the regime of Bashar al-Assad. I asked Malik if he thought another Islamist government like those that have sprung up in Tunisia, Egypt, and now Libya, could take over Syria in the aftermath of Assad's ouster. So far, every government overthrown in the so-called "Arab Spring" has been taken over by Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Nour.

"In regards to Syria," Malik explained, "I don't think the Muslim Brotherhood will be able to take over the country, or even enjoy particular prominence in Syrian political life. First of all, you have to realize that there is a considerable non-Muslim population in Syria; the Christian minority makes up almost 10 percent of the population. In addition there is a very significant number of non-Sunni Muslim minorities - the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Muslim organization - in Syria, equal to about 13 percent of the population. You also have another nine percent of the population that is Kurdish, so (Syria is) a very diverse and secular country. It is a lot more secular than other countries in the Middle East."

So was Iraq before the U.S. invasion.

Iraq was fairly secular as well under the boot of Saddam Hussein. He wanted absolutely no competition for control of Iraq, especially from Mullahs claiming the authority of the Almighty, so Hussein kept a lid on religious strife - brutally. With Saddam's authoritarian security services out of commission, for a time after the invasion it appeared as though the Iraqi insurgency was going to devolve into a full-scale, three-sided, civil war between the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds - a sectarian religious war - with Christians caught in the middle.

Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, nearly half of the one million Christians in the predominately Muslim country have either been killed by Muslim extremists, or they have fled the country to avoid being killed. Since 2003, four to six hundred thousand Iraqi Christians have fled to Jordan, Syria, Europe, and the United States.



For Christians living in Iraq, every day is filled with apprehension, worry, and sometimes outright terror; assaults, kidnappings, and murders - individually and en masse' - have claimed the lives of entire congregations. Over the past few years attacks by Sunni and Shia Muslim sects, both with well-armed militias at their disposal, have claimed thousands of lives with scores of churches blown up, sometimes while packed with worshipers. Christian churches now operate with armed guards at the entrances and on their Sunday School buses. One, St. George's in Baghdad, has been particularly hard hit; this post is from their Facebook page:

St. George’s Church in Baghdad is one of the few functioning churches left in Iraq. The church serves all denominations of Iraqi Christians from the surrounding neighborhoods. The congregation comes from Christian traditions that include Roman Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, and a mix of Protestants such as Anglican, Presbyterian and evangelical.

Because of the security situation in Iraq, several armed guards keep watch over the building and safeguard during services. A bus brings most members to the church helping to avoid the threat of kidnapping. Despite preventive efforts, the reality of violence remains.

Tragically, in September 2005 all of the lay church leaders were kidnapped and killed. Yet, despite the loss, the church members keep in good heart and continue to develop as a church body. It is a most wonderful gathering of people from many different backgrounds. Following the death of the initial leadership, a new team has been established in which women are playing a central role. ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH - FACEBOOK WALL

From another post by St. George's:

I just spoke to our churchwarden -his nephew and his father had just been shot dead outside their house in Nineveh. The nephew Alhassan was due to be engaged on Friday. As I left church yesterday I was phoned again by church members, they had just heard that their family home in Nineveh had been totally blown up.

None of our people are traditionally Anglican but now in the midst of trauma denominations do not matter, all that matters is that that we believe in Jesus. In the last service I told our people what I regularly tell them: "There are no guarantees that we will not be killed this week, but there is one guarantee that when we see Jesus we will be like him." At this the people always cheer.

We cannot deny the success of the Surge; violence is still down in Baghdad. The sad reality though is that many of the terrorist groups like Al Qaida have moved north to places like Mosul. Who is responsible for the violence is still not clear. There is agreement that the violence is Sunni, some say it is Al Qaida types, others are placing the blame on the Kurds. This seems quite unlikely as many of the Christians have now escaped Nineveh / Mosul and are seeking refuge in Kurdistan.

Added to these many problems and dangers that the Christians are facing, there has also been the recent dismissal of the parliament to allow minorities to have representation reserved in the regional governments. So life is very hard at this time for the remaining Christians in Iraq. The majority of this minority have already fled. Those left are the ones who can't afford to leave or are refusing to. ST. GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH - We thought it could not get worse, it has.

The church has not updated its Facebook page since 2008. I have no idea if any of the congregants are even alive. I have sent emails to the listed contacts and even to some FB users who posted on the church's page, but have not yet received a reply.

Here is a short PBS documentary about Iraq's "Disappearing Christians."

Watch Disappearing Christians of Iraq on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

Christians are facing religious persecution in many Islamic countries. We're not talking about being called names now, this is honest-to-goodness life and death. People are being killed in the most horrible ways for the the crime of professing faith in Jesus Christ, and some of them are just children; like this young girl who was beheaded in Indonesia simply because she was a Christian.

This past Christmas Day in Nigeria three churches were blown up with worshipers inside, killing at least 40 of them. The following information comes from John Hinderaker's post at Powerlineblog.com: "A Month of Christian Persecution."

The so-called “Arab Spring” continues to transition into a “Christian Winter,” including in those nations undergoing democratic change, such as Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis dominated the elections—unsurprisingly so, considering the Obama administration has actually been training Islamists for elections.

Arab regimes not overthrown by the “Arab Spring” are under mounting international pressure; these include the secular Assad regime of Syria, where Christians, who comprise some 10% of the population, are fearful of the future, having seen the effects of democracy in neighboring nations such as Iraq, where, since the fall of the Saddam regime, Christians have been all but decimated.

Meanwhile, it was revealed that “Christians are being refused refugee status [in the U.S.] and face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs under Sharia, while whole Muslim communities are entering the U.S. by the tens of thousands per month despite the fact that they face no religious persecution.”

Categorized by theme, November’s batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed according to theme and in alphabetical order by country, not necessarily severity.

Hindraker's blog goes on to detail attacks on Christians - just for the month of November, 2011 - in countries throughout the Muslim world: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, Kashmir, Iran, Algeria, and Afghanistan where Afghani Abdul Rahman narrowly escaped execution - by the AFGHAN GOVERNMENT - for apostasy; abandoning Islam for Christianity. According to Christianitytoday.com, there are still 10,000 more Afghan Christians literally living under the knife.

Religionofpeace.com has a much more inclusive list, though admittedly not complete as "many incidences of violence go unreported," of attacks on Christians since 9/11. I had toyed with the idea of embedding that list in this post, but on further reflection, aesthetically it's probably not a good choice. Check out the list for yourself and you will see why.

What is it about those Muslims who choose violence as a way to get their point across? They murder their victims when they are at their most vulnerable (at prayer,) the age and sex of their victims seems not to matter one bit (old ladies, little girls, babies,) and it is all too shockingly apparent that the ways they choose to murder their victims is as horrific as they can make it.

If you have never seen a beheading video, please don't go looking for one; trust me, it is the most horrible thing you will ever witness. I've seen a few of them, and the sounds and images that were seared into my brain will haunt me until my dying day. Funny thing is - funny odd, not funny haha - 99 times out of a hundred the victims of Islamic extremism are other Muslims; but I digress. Sunni vs. Shia violence is a topic for another day.



So what does this disturbing trend bode for Christians in Syria? Ironically, the only protection that Christians have had in Middle-Eastern countries are dictatorships that have kept an iron boot on the neck of Islamist parties. In all fairness to Malik, when we spoke he was unaware of the fact that Hakim Abdel Belhadj, the al-Qaeda terrorist that helped overthrow Moammar Gadaffi (with help from the CIA and Qatari government,) was slipping into Syria with a cadre of 1,000 battle-hardened terrorists fresh from the Libyan killing fields.

However it is my belief that TPTB, using the CIA and al-Qaeda terrorists as their muscle, have embarked on a program of sweeping change in the Middle-East. They are setting up a new paradigm, a new source of income for the next 50 years for the Miitary-Industrial-Complex: The Abrahamic Wars.

For those who are unaware, al-Qaeda is the military arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ayman al-Zawahiri, AQ's Top Dog, was a member of the Brotherhood from the age of 14. When Sayidd Qutb was executed by the Egyptian government, Zawahiri swore to spread the Brotherhood's message - and Islam - all over the world.

But if what's been happening across the Muslim world repeats itself in Syria, then hundreds of thousand of Syrian Christians may find themselves having to make the same decision that their Iraqi counterparts have had to make: Flee or die.

Since the MSM has done their best to ignore this issue, I guess it now falls under my purview. I'll keep an eye on developments and keep you updated.