“After reviewing all the evidence, I believe there can be little serious doubt that P.O. Manney was justified in firing at Dontre Hamilton, who was attacking him with a deadly weapon (baton). The more difficult issue is whether P.O. Manney fired more shots than necessary, or continued firing after he could reasonably perceive that Hamilton was clearly no longer a threat. Police officers in Milwaukee and throughout the United States are trained to fire to “stop the threat”. The 13 or 14 shots fired by P.O. Manney would, in all likelihood, have been fired in roughly 3 to 4 seconds total elapsed time, from first shot to last….

….While, as can be expected, the many witnesses to this event give varying accounts of what they saw and heard, several witnesses with the best, closest views of what occurred have stated that P.O. Manney stopped firing when Hamilton fell to the ground, and Manney did not continue firing after that point.

via Milwaukee officer shoots man 14 times, ruled “justified self-defense” | FOX CT.

I was cured long ago of the “one-shot, one-kill” malady and “stopping power”. Too many cases out there where a bad guy has absorbed amazing amounts of shots and pretty much kept going long enough to make you believe in monsters. In the latest issue of SWAT Magazine, there is a case where the criminal got shot with everything but a mini-gun and still kept coming with the only shot that made him non-threat was a non-lethal hit to the arm that broke the bones and rendered him unable to keep using his firearm.

Go read the whole thing as it is interesting and good info to process.

As the group neared the bank, Ratliff donned a Santa Claus suit he had borrowed from Mrs. Midge Tellet, who ran the boarding house where they had been staying in Wichita Falls. They let Ratliff out several blocks from the bank. Followed by children attracted to “Santa,” Ratliff joined the other three in an alley and led the way into the bank. He did not respond to the greetings directed at Santa, and the other three drew their guns, indicating that it was a holdup.

via SANTA CLAUS BANK ROBBERY | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

At least one and it happened in Cisco, Texas on December 23, 1927. It was complete mess and things did not go well for customers or robbers. But at least is good to know that it was not the many-copied idea of some Hollywood writer.

Hat Tip t Sheriff Jim Wilson.

She has set the original video in private mode. Here is the new version. It seems to be shorter:

Director Rejina Sincic has created a disturbing video, advocating that teens commits multiple felonies—several of which could lead to injury or death through negligent discharge of the weapon—because of her own hysterical, irrational fear of firearms.In the video, a boy steals an unholstered (presumably loaded) firearm from his mother’s room, drops it unsecured into his bookbag, and then carries it to school. After class the boy pulls the pistol out of his bookbag and puts it on his startled teacher’s desk, saying, “Can you take this away? I don’t feel safe with a gun in my house.

via CRAZED: Gun Control Cultist Calls For Children To Steal Parents’ Firearms, Bring Them To Schools – Bearing Arms.

So, who can be so stupid as to produce this ad and mean it to be safe? Meet Rejina Sincic:

According to her site: “Rejina Sincic is an Indian film director and screenwriter based in San Francisco. Her production company is Rejina Productions and is also the Co-Founder of Sleeper13 Productions. She completed her bachelors in Film Studies from University of Utah in 2006… Rejina has a great passion for filmmaking and is always looking to collaborate with creative people who have the same drive.”

Now, she may have gone to college and have a fancy degree, but the brain department ain’t precisely working. Now if a kid in real life decides to pull the same stunt, he is gonna face some serious charges. Let’s review what would happen in Florida:

Theft of a Firearm: Felony Third Degree. (5 years)
Illegally carrying a concealed firearm: Felony Third Degree. (5 years)
Weapon in School: Felony Third Degree. (5 years)
Weapon at Bus School Stop: Felony Third Degree (5 years)
Weapon inside a School Bus: Felony Third Degree (5 years).

So basically the kid may get up to 25 years in prison for being stupid enough to follow the “feel-good” BS of Ms. Sincic’s video. If the prosecutor is a**hole enough, he will ask and get that the poor bastard be tried as an adult, then make a deal and let him plea guilty to serve only one 5 year term and become a Felon for life with all the “goodies” that come with it.

Will somebody please tell this idiotic woman to remove the video? Thank You!

Update: Apparently she already has felt the heat, but failed to process the data and is asking for support.

This is gonna be good.

Hat tip to Big Fat Dave for the screen cap.

Where do I even begin? Is CSGV insinuating that the NRA is fomenting a race war? That would mean that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are getting paid by the NRA.  That would be a fantastic leap of mental stupidity…but probably not that hard for CSGV.

People with bodyguards are bad and in cahoots with the NRA….OK so that makes both Michael Bloomberg and Shannon Watts bad people supporting the NRA? See? This is what I mean about oversampling fortified eggnog.

Ad when the Intern says “The rest of us” I take it he/she means unarmed people and specifically unarmed gun control fans. Are they suddenly seeing the light and figuring maybe they should start packing some heat themselves? But that would contradict everything they stand for!

Oh well, there are always other Interns in the pipeline.

Having thus found error, the next question for the Court of Appeals was whether the error could be said to be completely harmless.  If not, a new trial was required as a matter of Texas law.

Given that Rodriguez entire defense was based upon the justification of self-defense, and that self-defense might have been mistakenly thought by the jury to have been lost as a matter of law based upon Rodriguez’s open carry of his pistols at Fornol’s house, the Court of Appeals was obliged to “conclude that conviction was not a foregone conclusion absent the charge error, and that this factor supports reversal.”

And thus Rodriguez won himself a new trial.

via Raul Rodriguez | Stand Your Ground | Texas Court of Appeals.

Those of you will remember this case where the defendant was video-taping his argument and eventual shooting with his neighbor.  I am letting Andrew Branca delve into what happened and why was the decision reversed since he gets the big legal bucks explaining stuff.

I know some think the legal stuff is not “sexy” but we need to understand how things work past pulling the trigger and what kind of manure hurricane one might be involved in after a self-defense shooting. So, pull up your big toddler pants and get yourself instructed.

As the state of Washington implements Initiative 594, it seems as though several agencies want nothing to do with the new law. Passed via ballot initiative on the November 4th election, I 594 requires background checks on all firearm “transfers”, including private sales. Reading through 18 pages of vague legal-ese, it looks like it’s nearly impossible to enforce.

via Washington State Agencies Punt On New Gun Law | Progressives Today.

Probably the best game of political Hot Potato being played in the country at this time.

In the meantime, enjoy the official soundtrack of I-594

They started last Friday and will last till the 25th. They have a drive-thru covered in Christmas lights, lit trees, a nightly “snowfall” for the kids to play in,  Christmas movies, a small cafe and other stuff.

Oasis Church holds two Christmas related world records: Largest display of nativity sets and most live & lit Christmas trees.

Trees of Hope Giveaway Recap 2014 from Oasis Church on Vimeo.

Oasis Church just opened another location in North Miami so no record-breaking stuff this year (they are sharing between places) and they do need some help to make this new site as great as the original. So please visit, enjoy the fun stuff (click on the link for more info) and be generous.

And about the unasked question, yes you can. They do not only not frown but approve.