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Gary Kleck’s Vindication, 25 Years Late

Thursday, 26 April 2018 05:34

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, April 25, 2018:

Gary Kleck, professor of criminology who is now retired from Florida State University, and another professor at FSU, Marc Gertz, teamed up to do a study in the mid ’90s about how often Americans used firearms to defend themselves. The study was so carefully crafted that Marvin Wolfgang, acknowledged by the British Journal of Criminology as “the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world,” was forced to admit its excellence:

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What if “Theoretical” Becomes “Actual” in Deerfield, Illinois?

Monday, 09 April 2018 09:57

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, April 9, 2018:

Deerfield, Illinois is a pleasant little town about 25 miles north of Chicago, a few miles west of Lake Michigan and just off Interstate 94. Temperatures are pleasant, registering average highs of 85 in the summer and in the low 20s in the winter. Its population hasn’t changed much in the last ten years, as the town and environs have gained and lost businesses over those years. It’s currently home to Walgreens Boots, Baxter Healthcare, Consumers Digest, and Caterpillar. It used to be headquarters of the Sara Lee Corporation but that closed down in 1990 and the company sold its land to developers.

There are about 20,000 people living there, in an estimated 6,420 households (which datum will be important later on in this article). The local government consists of a mayor and a board of trustees. It considers itself a village, and is represented in the House of Representatives by Democrat Brad Schneider, whose Freedom Index is a treasonous 16 out of 100.

That should explain why the mayor, Harriet Rosenthal, and the board of trustees decided it would do its bit in fighting violent crime and mass shootings: inflict pain on its law-abiding citizens through one of the most draconian and tyrannical pieces of anti-gun legislation to come down the pike in some time. As the Chicago Tribune explained:

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New Poll a Healthy Antidote to Adolescents’ Phony “March for Our Lives” Rantings

Monday, 26 March 2018 05:22

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, March 25, 2018:

A healthy antidote to the histrionic rantings of propagandized and beguiled students flooding the Washington Mall on Saturday was released on Thursday. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey found that the average American has an increasingly favorable view of the legal possession and use of firearms when it comes to self-defense. The polling results were based on questioning 1,100 adults, in contrast to the adult-manipulated adolescents who participated in what amounted to a day-long temper tantrum.

The key questions asked were:

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Media Bias Evident in Coverage of Great Mills High School Shooting

Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:26

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, March 21, 2018:

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Just hours after the shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland that ended without significant blood being shed by innocents thanks to an armed school resource officer (SRO), Gadsen1805 commented regarding an AP story about the incident: “Good guy with a gun puts an end to a planned mass shooting … let’s see how much press this gets.”

A better question Gadsen1805 might have asked is “How is the mainstream media going to twist this to fit their anti-gun agenda?”

The shooting took place at

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No Weapons Violations in First Six Months of Campus Carry at KU Lawrence

Thursday, 08 March 2018 06:27

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, March 6, 2018:

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John Lott (left) being presented SAF’s Journalist of the Year

In a report that the national media didn’t deem newsworthy, the Office of Public Safety at the Lawrence campus of the University of Kansas (KU) said last week that during the first six months that students were allowed to carry concealed on campus, there were no incidents — zero criminal weapons violations — to report. But the office did report that overall crime, mostly thefts, dropped by 13 percent.

The report said nothing about the freedom granted students starting last July to carry concealed on campus if they so desired, but instead stated that the drop in crime and the utter lack of weapons violations were likely due to “the use of security technology on campus, such as cameras … and more police and security officers [that] were added to the Public Safety Office in 2017.”

Undoubtedly, if there had been one weapons violation — just one — it would have made headline news in every liberal media outlet in the country. But in its absence, the media has remained silent.

The Kansas City Star noted that prior to July 1,

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When Firearms are Present, Shooters are Absent

Thursday, 08 March 2018 05:40

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, March 7, 2018:

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John Lott

John Lott, in his book, The War on Guns, gave his readers an astonishing statistic:

Since 2011, there have been only three mass public shootings in areas where concealed carry was allowed … these cases are very rare. From 1950-2010, not a single mass shooting occurred in an area where general civilians are allowed to carry guns.

Over the entire period from 1950 through February 2016, just over 1 percent of mass public shootings occurred in such places.

Put another way, according to Lott more than 98 percent of the time shooters choose places where their intended victims aren’t allowed to defend themselves with firearms!

Those shooters may be certifiably insane, but they aren’t stupid. Take, for example, Khalil Abu-Rayyan, an ISIS supporter who was planning an attack on one of the biggest churches in Detroit. According to Lott, Rayyan explained his choice of target this way:

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Media Stacking the Deck for Gun Control Following Florida Shooting

Friday, 23 February 2018 06:35

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 22, 2018:

During the two-day White House conference on school safety, Andrew Pollack, the father of a child who was killed during the Florida school massacre last week, summed up the feelings of many: “How many schools, how many children need to get shot? I am not going to sleep until it is fixed!”

The question is, what is “it” that needs to be fixed?

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Potentially Deadly Mass Shooting Thwarted, Ignored by MSM

Tuesday, 20 February 2018 06:50

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 19, 2018:

Mainstream media (MSM) bias was never more clearly displayed than when it ignored what could have been one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history in favor of the Florida school shooting. It happened the same day — Valentine’s Day — in Amarillo, Texas, when an armed street person entered the Faith City Mission and took between 100 and 150 worshipers hostage. Joshua Len Jones, age 35, who had been attending the morning service, left the building, retrieved a handgun, reentered the building, and threatened worshipers with it

The MSM was no doubt alerted by local media as soon as the event took place. But what unfolded would not serve their anti-gun agenda

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Active Shooter Defense Classes Springing Up Following Texas Church Massacre

Saturday, 11 November 2017 06:31

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, November 10, 2017:

In just the last two years, former FBI agent J. Pete Blair, author of the FBI’s “Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013,” has trained more than 130,000 citizens in how to respond to the sudden presence of an active shooter. Blair now leads the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training program at Texas State University. Said Blair: “We’ve seen a series of incidents and an increase in lethality [but] it could be that we’ve had a really unlucky few weeks.”

Lucky or not, American citizens are flocking to training classes offering strategies they can use if they are confronted with an armed attacker. Churches are

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Where will Kate Steinle’s Killer Spend the Next 15 Years?

Tuesday, 07 November 2017 06:42

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, November 3, 2017:

Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, also known as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez or simply Francisco Sanchez, is more likely known to millions as the illegal Mexican immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle on Pier 4 in San Francisco on July 1, 2015. Those millions will remember that Zarate had been deported five times and had returned a sixth time, that he has a rap sheet including seven felonies, and that San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” status allowed him to go free even when the sheriff knew that ICE had put a “hold” on him.

They will remember that Trump made this case a cause célèbre during his run for the presidency last year.

They will shortly learn where Zarate is going to spend the next 15 years of his life: dodging border patrol agents once again, or inside a cell in a U.S. maximum security prison. He’s charged with second degree murder which carries a sentence of 15 years to life.

The trial, which began last week, is entering its final stages.

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Key Issue in Steinle Trial: Was Shooter’s Act Intentional or Accidental?

Friday, 03 November 2017 05:53

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, November 2, 2017:

Since the trial of Garcia Zarate began, the jury has been subjected to the testimony of numerous witnesses, including bystanders who were nearby when Kate Steinle was fatally shot on July 1, 2015. Others providing testimonies included police officers and forensic experts. There were cellphone videos showing a figure, presumed to be Zarate, walking away from Steinle immediately following the shooting, and throwing something into the bay. There was an intense interrogation of the off-duty BLM ranger whose weapon, which was stolen from his car four days earlier, was used by Zarate in the shooting of Steinle.

They even heard part of the more than four hours of interrogation of Zarate by police following his arrest.

As the trial enters its final days, the issue is

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Trial Begins for Illegal Immigrant Who Killed Kate Steinle

Wednesday, 25 October 2017 05:36

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 24, 2017:

The trial of Mexican immigrant José Inez García Zárate for shooting Kate Steinle in July 2015 began Monday morning in San Francisco. At issue will be only whether Zárate (also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez, or Francisco Sánchez) shot Steinle intentionally or accidentally. If the jury finds him guilty, Zárate faces 15 years to life in prison.

Opening remarks by Kate’s father, Jim, were presented to the jury through tears. He and his daughter were walking

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Los Angelinos Are No Safer Today Than They Were on Monday

Thursday, 31 August 2017 05:41

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, August 30, 2017:

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The Los Angeles Times reported that on Tuesday the city council was going to repeal its ban on “ultra-compact” handguns that has been in place since 2001. It’s responding to pressure from the NRA and the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) that the city must conform to the roster of firearms already banned at the state level. It’s not because of a change of heart on the part of those council members.

The law was put in place in 2001 based on the assumptions that

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LA City Council to End Its Ban on “Ultra-compact” Handguns

Wednesday, 30 August 2017 05:36

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, August 29, 2017:

According to the Los Angeles Times, LA’s city council is “poised to roll back its ban on ‘ultra-compact’ guns” on Tuesday, thanks to pressure from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA). Those groups hold that California state law overrules and overrides the city’s attempt to ban small, concealable handguns from its citizens.

The ban, passed in 2001, was based on several assumptions that have proved to be false. For example,

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Judge Declares Florida’s Expansion of “Stand Your Ground” Law Unconstitutional

Thursday, 06 July 2017 05:29

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, July 5, 2017:

The decision by Florida Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch on Monday delighted opponents of the state’s “Stand Your Ground” laws. Declaring on procedural grounds that changes just enacted into law by the Florida legislature were unconstitutional, Hirsh’s decision “totally derails these changes to ‘stand your ground’ [law],” chortled Tamara Lave, law professor at the University of Miami’s School of Law. She added that an appeal could put the matter before the state’s Supreme Court.

The original “Stand Your Ground” law passed by Florida’s legislature in 2005 opened the door for nearly two dozen other states to pass similar laws. They expanded the so-called “Castle Doctrine” — no duty to retreat from a threat of violence in one’s home — to include

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Anti-gunners’ Victory Celebration in Peruta v. San Diego Likely to be Short-lived

Thursday, 29 June 2017 05:43

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, June 28, 2017:

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In one of the more inane and nonsensical effusions of rejoicing over the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to let stand a lower court’s anti-gun decision, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra sullied his credibility and those of similar view with this:

[It’s] welcome news for California and gun safety everywhere. It leaves in place an important and common-sense firearm regulation, one that promotes public safety, respects 2nd Amendment rights and values the judgments of sheriffs and police chiefs throughout the state on what works best for their communities.

This packs more misstatements, half-truths and just plain damnable lies into one paragraph than has been seen in recent years. By disarming its citizens, California has virtually guaranteed an increase in violent crime, especially gun violence. The onerous restrictions on the Second Amendment applied to law-abiding citizens fail to respect it but instead do serious if not fatal damage to it. And as far as judgments by local sheriffs and police officers as to the applicability of the Second Amendment to its citizens, one needs only to bring to mind the history of tyrants operating without restraint.

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Why Mainstream Media Ignored the Story of the Capture of Two Escaped Convicts

Tuesday, 20 June 2017 05:45

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 19, 2017:

At a press conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, homeowner Patrick Hale gave all credit to Jesus Christ for the anti-climactic capture of two escaped convicts that occurred on his driveway last week. Though there were a dozen microphones lined up to hear his story, few, if any, were from the mainstream media. Said Hale:

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Whistleblowers Ask Trump to Drop Investigation Into WikiLeaks

Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:48

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 17, 2017:

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The Courage Foundation released a letter on Monday signed by more than 100 free speech activists (including Noam Chomsky and Edward Snowden) asking President Donald Trump to drop his administration’s investigation into Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks.

The Courage Foundation funds legal defense for whistleblowers and journalists such as Assange and Snowden. The letter presses the point that the real issue is freedom of the press under the First Amendment:

The threat to WikiLeaks escalates a long-running war of attrition against the great virtue of the United States: free speech. The Obama Administration prosecuted more whistleblowers than all presidents combined and opened a Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks that had no precedent….

It is reported that charges, including conspiracy, theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act are being considered against members of WikiLeaks, and that charging WikiLeaks Editor, Julian Assange, is now a priority of the Department of Justice.

This refers to Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ comments during his visit to the southern border last month:

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John Lott Proves His Premise is Correct Once Again

Saturday, 06 May 2017 05:33

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, May 5, 2017:

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The premise of John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime, now in its 3^rd edition, is this: when a criminal doesn’t know if his potential target is armed, he reconsiders. When he is assured that his target is defenseless, he has much less reason to do so.

Lott puts it this way:

Criminals as a group tend to behave rationally – when crime becomes more [risky], less crime is committed.

That means that

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Trump Preframes the Budget Conversation with His “Blueprint”

Saturday, 18 March 2017 05:49

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, March 17, 2017:

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After reading Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal, “Peter W.” wrote how “The Donald” preframes a conversation with an opponent: “When he makes an opening bid, it is far away from where his deals end. It is a poker game with high stakes, and it is up to the other to negotiate a better position.”

That is what Trump and his OMB Director Mick Mulvaney offered on Wednesday: the opening bid in the budget conversation to take place later on this year. Mulvaney was very clear about that: “This Blueprint is not the full Federal budget, [but] it does provide lawmakers and the public with a view of the priorities of the President and his Administration.”

It also serves to warn the public – the American taxpayer who is the deeply interested third party in that conversation – that the budget is going to be much larger than the one Obama left his office with in 2017, which was $4.15 trillion.

It’s called “America First – A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” and it’s Trump’s attempt to set the parameters of the conversation with Congress after his full budget is released in late May. The strategy might have worked well for Trump – he brags that he successfully closed more than 100 real estate “deals” during his career – but dealing with 535 members of the House and Senate is, to put it mildly, going to be a different cup of tea.

Said Trump:

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