Just minutes after midnight on Thursday evening, July 19, 2012, 24-year-old James Holmes walked into a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, dressed in a gas mask and full ballistic riot gear.\u00a0 He was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a .40 caliber Glock handgun.\u00a0 Without warning, and with no apparent motive, he stood before the movie screen and opened fire on the sold-out audience, killing at least 12 and wounding 59 more.<\/p>\n
The killing spree, with 71 killed and injured has been called the \u201clargest mass shooting in U.S. history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigations indicate that Holmes acted alone.\u00a0 And while he had no apparent motive for his attack on a theater packed with total strangers, elsewhere in the country we find self-appointed race pimps such as the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton inciting black youths to violence over the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, in Sanford, Florida.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s killer, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, has been charged with second degree murder, although it is beyond comprehension that prosecutors could ever prove \u201cwillful intent\u201d on Zimmerman\u2019s part.\u00a0 To do so would require jurors to be convinced that Zimmerman threw himself onto his back, broke his own nose, and repeatedly pounded his own head against a concrete sidewalk, causing him to feel as if his head was \u201cabout to explode.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, blacks across the country have been lead to believe that Zimmerman pursued Martin and that in doing so he provoked a violent confrontation, culminating in Martin\u2019s death.\u00a0 That is unlikely to be proven, and when Zimmerman is found not guilty by a jury of his peers, the violence that the race-baiters and the mainstream media have incited will likely make the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles pale by comparison.<\/p>\n
In fact, we may already be seeing some of that predicted violence.\u00a0 In major cities across the country, especially in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, and New Jersey, we hear reports of a new urban phenomenon called \u201cThe Knockout Game,\u201d in which mobs of black teens attack lone individuals\u2026 usually elderly whites, Asians, or homosexuals.\u00a0 The object of the \u201cKnockout Game\u201d is for one of the black youths to strike their victim so hard as to render him\/her unconscious with a single blow to the face.<\/p>\n
Police report that, if the victim is not rendered unconscious by a single blow, he\/she would be attacked by the gang, en masse.\u00a0 As one \u201cplayer\u201d confessed to police, \u201cWe used to walk to where a lot of people be at (sic) and hit \u2018em.\u00a0 If one of the homeboys didn\u2019t knock him out, then the others would come.\u00a0 Whoever knock him out would be king.\u201d<\/p>\n
In St. Louis, for example, a news report tells of an attack on a Vietnamese couple, 72-year-old Hoang Nguyen and his 59-year-old wife, Yen.\u00a0 The couple was taking a walk when they were accosted by a group of four black youths.\u00a0 As Mrs. Nguyen described the attack, one of the youths pushed her husband\u2019s face to the side so as to make a \u201cclear target for his fist.\u201d\u00a0 Nguyen was punched so violently that he fell to the ground and struck his head.\u00a0 The attacker then turned his attention to the woman, punching her so hard that she suffered a fractured eye socket.\u00a0 Unable to defend herself or assist her husband, she could only watch as her husband was kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground.\u00a0 He succumbed to his injuries later that day.<\/p>\n
The history of gun control is quite clear.\u00a0 According to statistics compiled by an organization called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO):<\/p>\n
56 million people were murdered by their own governments during the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n The Soviet Union banned gun ownership in 1929.\u00a0 Between 1929 and 1953, some 20 million Soviet dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.<\/p>\n Turkey banned gun ownership in 1911.\u00a0 Between 1915 and 1917, some 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.<\/p>\n Germany banned gun ownership in 1938.\u00a0 Between 1939 and 1945, some 13 million Jews and other \u201cundesirables\u201d were rounded up and exterminated.<\/p>\n China banned gun ownership in 1935.\u00a0 Between 1948 and 1952, some 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.<\/p>\n Here at home, using the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. as justification, the U.S. Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968, in what many saw as a direct violation of the 2nd<\/sup> Amendment.\u00a0 Then, in 1993, 86 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult in Waco, Texas were killed by FBI and BATF agents because of the government\u2019s belief that the Davidians were in possession of automatic weapons made illegal by the Gun Control Act.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most telling recent statistics come from Australia where, in 1998, the government confiscated and destroyed some 640,380 personal firearms, at a cost of approximately $500 million dollars.<\/p>\n An August 4, 1999 report by the Orange County Register<\/em> concluded that the confiscation of handguns had resulted in a major increase in crime.\u00a0 The Register<\/em> reported that, in just one year following the confiscation, Australia-wide, assaults were up 8.6 percent and armed robberies were up 44 percent.\u00a0 In the state of Victoria, alone, homicides with firearms were up 300 percent.<\/p>\n But all is not lost.\u00a0 Help is on the way as more and more states enact \u201cconcealed carry\u201d laws, allowing thoroughly-screened law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons.\u00a0 A new Oklahoma law, effective November 1, 2012, goes one step further; it allows those with \u201cconcealed carry\u201d permits to carry firearms openly, in full view.<\/p>\n The new concealed carry laws are already beginning to pay dividends.\u00a0 On Friday, July 13, in Ocala, Florida, 71-year-old Samuel Williams was seated in the back corner of an Internet Caf\u00e9 when two black teens\u2026 Davis Dawkins and Duwayne Henderson, both 19 years of age\u2026 walked into the caf\u00e9 brandishing a handgun and a baseball bat and shouting obscenities at the patrons.\u00a0 Within seconds, Williams leapt to his feet, drew his .38 caliber handgun, and began firing at Henderson.<\/p>\n Fearing for their lives, the two robbers fell all over each other attempting to escape.\u00a0 Rounds from Williams\u2019 handgun struck both teens.\u00a0 Both were later arrested by Ocala police and have been charged with attempted armed robbery with a handgun and felony criminal mischief.\u00a0 State\u2019s Attorney Bill Gladson is quoted as saying that, \u201cBased on what I have seen and what I know at this time, I don\u2019t anticipate filing any charges (against Williams).\u201d<\/p>\n A January 1, 2006 TexasInsider.com<\/em> report by Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, the original author of the Texas Concealed Handgun Law, tells us that when the law took effect in 1996, critics predicted anarchy in the streets as Texans returned to the bad old days of the Wild West.\u00a0 But such was not the case.\u00a0 As Patterson reports, \u201cSince the passage of the Concealed Handgun Law, the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows an 18% drop in handgun murders (in Texas), down from 838 in 1995 to 688 in 2004\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Patterson goes on to say, \u201cTexas Department of Public Safety Uniform Crime Report indicates the overall crime rate in Texas has continued to drop over the past ten years.\u201d\u00a0 And although the population of Texas has grown by 3 million in that ten year period, the number of crimes per 100,000 population has dropped from 5,478 to 5,032.<\/p>\n Patterson concludes by saying that, \u201cTo the supporters of individual liberty and the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, this outcome is no surprise.\u00a0 However, the Concealed Handgun Law isn\u2019t just about personal safety.\u00a0 Perhaps even deeper in its roots in constitutional freedom, the Concealed Handgun Law is about trust.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, concealed carry laws are about trust.\u00a0 Law abiding citizens trust other law abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons responsibly.\u00a0 And just as 71-year-old Samuel Williams did what he saw as his duty in the Ocala Internet Caf\u00e9, perhaps saving the lives and property of a dozen or more innocent victims, if he had been seated in the front row of the theater in Aurora, Colorado we might not be mourning so many deaths today.<\/p>\n The Aurora, Colorado killer was outfitted from head to foot in full ballistic riot gear and a bullet from a .38 caliber handgun might not have penetrated his body armor.\u00a0 But chances are that the impact of one or two .38 caliber or .45 caliber slugs would have knocked him from his feet, preventing him from killing and wounding 71 people.<\/p>\n The American people are now angry and aroused and it would be a good idea if the parents of those who play the \u201cKnockout Game\u201d and who take part in \u201cflash mob\u201d anarchy would get their young men under control before they find themselves crying at a graveside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just minutes after midnight on Thursday evening, July 19, 2012, 24-year-old James Holmes walked into a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, dressed in a gas mask and full ballistic riot gear.\u00a0 He was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, … Continue reading