The tactics of self defense are something I have thought a lot about.
It is tough to write about it though because:
I am not a gun fight veteran, so all of this is theoretical.
I am not a lawyer and so what may be tactically sound might get you legal hot water.
But with this latest in Synagogue shootings, I thought I would post something I had been thinking about.
At first, this was not related to places of worship but parking lots. Namely, what to do if you are in a parking lot shoot out.
I have posted this video before, but I want to post it again and focus on a different part of Clint’s statement.
Starting about 1:40, Clint explains why you don’t stick your head above something. You’ll get shot it in. Stay down, take cover.
So now let us evaluate the parking lot shoot out from the show Breaking Bad, where the two Mexican hit men are trying to kill Hank.
Hank is wounded and goes out the far side of this Jeep for cover.
That’s good, but then he gets stalked.
Notice how many cuts of the of the hit men’s boots.
Particularly this image:
Think about what a JHP will do to a foot or ankle.
No it’s not lethal, but I can’t imagine a bad guy staying on his feet after a hit like that.
Once the bad guy falls and hits the ground, you now have a clean shot at the rest of him.
Precision shooting is not easy, but we are taking about the distance of the width of a parking space…
Or…
The width of a couple of pews.
Once again, I’m going to turn to Clint.
If your instincts are like mine and you are standing in the pews when the shooting starts, you are probably going to drop and take cover before you get your weapon out.
Don’t stick you head up and get shot in the face.
Feet, ankles, shins, and knees are sensitive and delicate and taking an active shooter down to the ground by shooting under or around the end of your cover so you can finish him off without exposing yourself seems like a very reasonable tactic.
I have no idea how what I said would play out with the cops or in a court of law, but if it gets that far it means you survived the active shooter.
Representative Jim Hagedorn, a Republican from Minnesota, spoke at the Noon Kiwanis Club meeting at the Worthington Fire Hall. He was praising American agriculture, as he serves on Agriculture Committee, and is from a agriculture heavy state.
“Agriculture is a national security issue,” he said, noting that he feels that dependence on importing food is a threat to the security of the nation.
“Nobody (in America) goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families,” Hagedorn commented while speaking about the availability of food in grocery stores, and America having a food supply that is abundant and nutritious in stark comparison to other counties. He added that agriculture is what makes this possible.
He said that to sustain agriculture, he calls for good government, taking care of farmers when times are tough and enabling international trade.
High food security (old label=Food security): no reported indications of food-access problems or limitations.
Marginal food security (old label=Food security): one or two reported indications—typically of anxiety over food sufficiency or shortage of food in the house. Little or no indication of changes in diets or food intake.
Food Insecurity
Low food security (old label=Food insecurity without hunger): reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of reduced food intake.
Very low food security (old label=Food insecurity with hunger): Reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.
Look at the details for food insecurity. Low food security says “little or no indication of reduced food intake.” So even low food secure people are not starving. The suffer from “reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet,” which means they are not happy with what they are eating day to day, but are not going hungry.
Think about Ilhan Omar. She is from Somalia. She is from a nation that we sent some of our best and bravest warriors to die to deliver food to the people in the middle of a man made famine.
You would think that someone from a country where children have the skinny arms and swollen bellies of kwashiorkor, she would appreciate that in America we have enough to eat.
Nope.
She can’t let a Republican say anything nice about America so she has to bring of food insecurity.
“Reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet.”
That’s like saying that the poor in America have “entertainment insecurity” because they have televisions with basic cable but reduced quality, variety, or desirability of entertainment because they don’t have HBO, Showtime, Cinamax, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.
This isn’t a real problem. This is a made up problem that these people created so that they could create another program that gives them more authority.
You would think as someone from Somalia, she would understand what hunger really is and how little of it we have in the Unites States. But no, she’s a Leftist, so she has to figure out a way to make the poor resent the abundance that they have and cut America down just a little bit more.
I realized yesterday that they cannot make that information available as it is against the law. One of the requirements for anybody becoming a Guardian is that they get a Concealed Weapons License. Unless something happens and the police is involved, who has a CWL is confidential in the State of Florida. There is a bill which has great probability to become law that will make the records of those applying via the Tax Collectors remain confidential (it was issued with a sunset proviso originally) with ample support from both sides, so I doubt pretty much any politician would like to open that can of worms that would be to open CWL records to the Sunshine Law.
I took a long weekend to have some fun at NRA and the world goes to hell while I’m not paying attention.
So I did by best from the road to follow the Poway Chabad (San Diego synagogue) shooting.
The first thing that I noticed was that the coverage was very different.
The media was saturated with images of vigils and the police response to the Tree of Life shooting. It was the same day-in-day-out coverage they do for other mass shootings.
On Sunday the media played the same interviews of the Rabbi on a loop, but the saturation coverage just wasn’t there.
One might be inclined to think the difference was in body count. One person killed is far less interesting for the media than eleven.
But I think the reason for the significantly more downplayed coverage is WHY the number of casualties in Poway was lower.
The army veteran who helped chase away the Poway synagogue shooter stopped by the FOX 5 studio to recount his experience.
Oscar Stewart, 51, was inside Congregation Chabad Saturday when a gunman with an AR-type assault weapon opened fire on the last day of Passover, said police.
Stewart had been a member for six months at the time of the shooting.
Stewart recalls hearing pops coming from the synagogue lobby during a Torah reading. He originally started to run with other congregation members, but intuitively decided to turn around toward the gunfire.
When entering the lobby, he saw a young man with a rifle, as well as Rabbi Goldstein with bloody hands. He got as close to the shooter and yelled as loudly as he could, he recalled. Stewart’s memory from the exact moment is foggy and doesn’t remember exactly what he said. However, the words were loud and powerful enough to cause the gunman to exit to synagogue.
The off-duty Border Patrol agent and an Iraq War Army veteran helped stop a suspected gunman who had opened fire at Chabad of Poway on Saturday in what authorities praised as an “act of courage.”
One person died and three more were injured in the hate-fueled attack during Passover services.
Stewart, 51, was in the back of the room when the shots rang out, he told reporters. The veteran said his military training kicked in.
“I ran to fire. That’s what I did. I didn’t plan it. I didn’t think about it. It’s just what I did,” he said.
According to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, the suspected gunman fled the synagogue to a nearby vehicle. Stewart was in close pursuit.
“Stewart caught up to the vehicle as the suspect was about to drive away,” the department said in a statement.
Stewart said he began punching the shooter’s window when Morales told him to get out of the way.
He yelled, ‘Clear back, I have a gun,'” Stewart said. Then, Morales began firing.
The off-duty agent hit the car, but the gunman drove away, police said. Authorities later arrested John T. Earnest, 19, along Interstate 15. A rifle was found in the front passenger seat, police said.
“Mr. Stewart risked his life to stop the shooter and saved lives in the process,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
Not just did Jews run towards the sound of gunfire, they rushed the shooter, and fired at him.
A Breitbart article was sent to me (so take this with a grain of salt) that the gun used by Morales was not his weapon but one given to him by another worshiper.
A source in the San Diego Jewish community told Breitbart News on Saturday evening that the U.S. Border Patrol agent who chased the shooter at a Poway, California, synagogue earlier was given a gun by an armed parishioner.
The congregant had come to the synagogue to say Yizkor, the memorial prayer for the dead, as is customary on the last day of Passover, which coincided with the Jewish Sabbath. He had brought a gun in his tallis (prayer shawl) bag as a precaution.
When the shooting started, according to the source, the congregant handed the gun to an off-duty Border Patrol agent, telling him that he knew better what to do with the gun than the congregant himself.
This seems to be confirmed by the Rabbi in a press statement he made in which he said the Morales got his hands on a gun.
The reason only one person was killed in this shooting instead of eleven or more, was that there was resistance, even armed resistance, to the shooter.
Jews are not supposed do that.
Jews are supposed to die without resisting, that’s how the media likes them.
The media loves mass shootings where many people die as martyers to whatever agenda the media want to push.
In Parkland it was gun control. At the Tree of Life it was Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” quote.
Armed Jews resisting mass murder is what the Israeli’s do, and the media and Democrats just hate that.
They had to cover this story just enough to get their digs in at Trump, but they don’t want to dwell on the story too much or they will have to start explaining how fighting back saves lives, and they just don’t want to do that.
Trust me, the first time some piece of shit enters a synagogue with a rifle and gets shot by a Jew before he can even shoulder his weapon, that story won’t get 30 seconds on CNN.
Speaking of which, I am never going to synagogue without my trauma bag ever again.
I woke up this morning to the alerts that a coup was in progress in Venezuela and the taking of Caracas’s military airport, La Carlota. When I log in to Twitter, it was being downgraded to a call to arms by Interim President Guaido outside the airport but with a “sizeable military contingent” backing him up.
Then images started to pour and when I saw this video, I figured it was a nice show of nothing.
One crate of bananas and one belt fed machine gun does not a revolution make.
