TAMPA, FL (WFLA) — A church maintenance worker thwarts a break-in at a church by using his concealed weapon to keep the suspect at bay.News Channel 8 reporter Lindsey Mastis and photographer Malik Parler were driving to another story when they saw a man with his hands up, and another man with a handgun pointed at him outside the Culbreath Chapel at 302 Kennedy Blvd.

Ed Clayton, a maintenance worker with First Baptist Church in Tampa, tells News Channel 8 he decided to bring his concealed weapon because the doors to the church had been breached earlier in the evening. He was tasked with boarding them up. But he worried someone might be inside.

Source: News Channel 8 there as man attempts to break into Tampa church | WFLA.com

Actually there has been a rash of break-ins at local South Florida churches lately and it was bound to happen that sooner or later there was going to be a confrontation.  I am glad in this instance things did not go tragic and the Idjit decided to surrender.

“I saw the guy walk up the sidewalk and he saw me and took off running. So I ran down the sidewalk and when I got to the end of the sidewalk I didn’t see anyone,” he recounted. “I look over in the bushes and he’s hiding.”

Clayton said this is the first time he’s had to pull his concealed weapon on someone.

“As soon as I hit the sidewalk over there, I took my weapon out just in case. I didn’t know where he was,” he said.

Soon, a Tampa police officer pulled up with her weapon drawn, and other officers came running. They ordered the suspect on the ground and took him into custody.

Police do not believe Clayton will face any charges because he has a right to protect himself and property. Clayton told News Channel 8 he has a permit for his handgun.

Happy ending!

But what makes this story also interesting is that we have video of Mr. Clayton keeping the subject covered and the police arriving.

But how come Tampa PD did not shoot down Mr. Clayton? If we go by what some Chief LEOs and politicians have told us, rank and file cop of the street cannot distinguish a criminal from a good guy with a gun and everybody is gonna get shot.
Maybe it was a tiny bit exaggeration from their part….Lies.

Hat Tip to Jeff A.

Our old friends at the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence never fail to amuse me. The latest hissy fit they pitched was about the shoes that Miranda Lambert wore to the Academy of Country Music Awards.  I was unaware that tiny decorative guns were an Insurrectionist device of some sorts. The Joyce Echol’s shoes properly named ‘Come And Take It’ model run for $849.  Married guys, save your comments. You know better.

The Open Minded followers of CSGV were prompt on their demonstration of imbecility, prejudice, homophobia and the inability to come up with other than old redneck cliches.

Yes, some really thought they were real guns… and they called her (and us) stupid. We are going to need a chainsaw to cut this densely-packed irony

Using the language of freedom and individualism in this way “creates this duality between a generic deserving group – could be homeowners, students, law-abiding citizens – versus the ‘special rights’ that government is giving to a ‘less deserving’ group,” Filindra explained in an interview…

…Particularly with respect to the modern gun-rights movement that really took off in the ’80s and ’90s, the language “creates this distinction between ‘law-abiding citizens’ and ‘criminals,'” 

White resentment is fueling opposition to gun control, researchers say. – Washington Post.

Go read the article. It is another of those “studies” that tell us you are a racist scum-sucker because you have guns and they have the statistical methods to prove it! But it does not take long for the “researchers” to let us know that Freedom is bad, Individualism is dangerous. and if you talk about them or dare to live under those two principles. you a Racist, toting a burning cross in the middle of MLK Day.

And then they target the modern-day gun-rights movement. Shame on us for “playing” with the language and somehow make the distinction that we are different and even better than the poor misunderstood members of society such as rapists, strong-arm robbers and murderers. How dare we assume that air of superiority? See? That is racism right there!

There is no longer a fixed set of parameters defining what is good or who are the good people. When they change the definitions and demonize those who they consider a threat to their sociopolitical goals, they fail to see how dangerous a game they are playing. You all know the old gun rights line: When Guns are outlawed, I’ll be an Outlaw. It is more than just a cute catchphrase: It is a serious warning.

We will not give up. We will not be taken in boxcars to a trip to the showers.

You force us to become outlaws, be ready for us to behave like outlaws.

And to those Social Justice Warriors and assorted Gun Control Activists that relish at the idea of making us into subjects, I ask you to take whatever adequate protections you may require, open the Bible, read Hosea 8:7 and digest it.

Consider that a warning that many before you have ignore with terrible consequences.

 

“Can you not understand that the death of the individual is not death? The party is immortal.”

1984. George Orwell.

It has been over half a century and it seems the inhabitants of NYC still have not learned their lesson. And I do not mean that they tend to be uncaring bastards or not, but that they have been pretty consistent in voting for the politicians that have perpetuated the manufacturing of more Kitty Genoveses through these 52 years while keeping Winston Moseley  taxpayer subsidized with three cots and a roof with free medical and dental.

Just imagine the untold billions of dollars wasted in unnecessary (and failed) police work and the gradual descent into a New York resembling closely to a Snake Plissken world of surveillance and control. Most of the rest of the country has rejected the Sullivan Law versions they had in each state and has progressed to recognize the individual’s right not only to defend himself but the moral right to come to the aid of the innocent.

But if that is what they chose to live in, have at it and enjoy it. But please keep your whining complains to yourselves and the NYC need to but in and make the rest of the country as miserable as you. Gun Control Carpetbaggers are not welcome.

And they will return to their houses of “Higher Education” where they will pontificate to the rest of the world about the Evils of consumerism, pollution, Global Warming and tell us to “Feel the Bern” and be responsible for what happens in the world.

I have seen this pic floating around in Facebook, allegedly a scene from The Walking Dead.

Lots of negative commentaries about the way this guys is manipulating the gun. But I am here to tell you that they are wrong.

He is using the middle finger to pull the trigger because the index is keeping the slide from rattling, a common malady of the 1911 pistol.

And yes, he is aiming but at a level that mere common folk cannot achieve: He is aiming the gun with his Third Eye. Why go bilateral vision when you can chakra?

I’m going to double down on a segment of a post made by Miguel the other day on Camiella Williams.

For the record, The Trace is an anti-gun propaganda news site, backed by Michael Bloomberg.

It published an article titled “A Young Chicago Woman Has Lost 23 Loved Ones to Gun Violence. She Wants You To See Their Faces.”  The article starts with Ms. Williams going through her social media account showing all of the people she knew that were lost to gun violence.  It is a tear jerking tragedy.  This poor girl who loses everyone close to her because of guns.

Except, that we find out that poor Ms. Williams is not just an innocent bystander in all of this.

“Not so long ago, gun violence could have consumed her life as well. Williams joined a gang in elementary school, bought her first handgun in sixth grade, and began dealing drugs in high school. It wasn’t until she was 19, when she was pregnant with her child, that she decided to break away from the dangerous trajectory that she had set herself upon as a girl on the city’s South Side. Her path from street life to graduate school has taken 10 years.

‘If I didn’t have my son,’ Williams says, ‘I don’t know where my life would have been.’ But she can guess. Either the gang disputes she often encountered might have lead her to kill someone. Or someone would have tried to kill her.”

Ms. Williams was very much a part of Chicago’s gang culture.  More than a culture, it is an open war.  There is a reason that these sections of Chicago are often referred to as Chiraq.  It is an appropriate parallel, with rival gangs fighting over territory much like rival extremist sects in the Middle East.

Much like everything else the antis do, they focus on the guns, not the bigger issue of gang violence.  Back to Ms. Williams, we find out that she and her friends violated pretty much every state and federal gun law they could.

“Williams soon fell in with a group of teenage boys that belonged to a local gang. When she was in fifth grade, two of them taught her how to shoot. For target practice they would set up light fixtures on a backyard fence where one of them lived.

Williams doesn’t know exactly how her friends got hold of their weapons, but she says it was never too hard to buy or borrow a gun in that part of the city, where today a handgun can be purchased for as little as $25.”

At this point the article causes me to lose all sympathy for Ms. Williams, describing how her life goal was to become a drug kingpin at an age where she couldn’t get into PG-13 movies on her own.

“A year later, in sixth grade, Williams got her first gun: a loaded 9mm pistol she bought from a friend with $25 of her allowance money. After school, she’d rush home and stuff the heavy weapon in her backpack before heading out. She’d pull it out of her pack to scare kids in the neighborhood. ‘That power, that fear that other people had, I got a rush off that,’ she says.

By high school, Williams had begun to sell marijuana. ‘I wanted to be the female [Pablo] Escobar,’ she says. ‘I just wanted to sell drugs and get cars.’ Over time, she acquired two more guns, a .38 and a .22. Increasingly a target for rival gang members — many of whom attended her high school — she felt she needed the weapons for protection.”

When I was in the Sixth Grade, the most criminal thing that I did was stay up later than my parents on Saturday nights to see boobs on HBO.  This girl was selling drugs and brandishing guns.

But don’t worry, the article tries to make Ms. Williams into a tragic victim.

“She didn’t imagine it ever going beyond that. ‘My friends were not out killing people,’ she says.”

Oh really?   Color me skeptical, but there is an old expression: lie down with dogs wake up with fleas.  Meaning… if you are a member of a gang, selling drugs, carrying illegally obtained guns, cavorting with people engaged in likewise crimes, you are morally culpable for anything that occurs because of that… like drive-bys and gang murders.  This girl was no tragic bystander, she was a willing participant in a gang war.

Ms. Williams get pregnant, gets very close to getting killed herself, drops out of the gang, and becomes an anti-gun activist.  A touching story of redemption … that only a bunch of myopic, anti-gun liberals could love.

Neither Ms. Williams nor anybody else associated with The Trace comes close to addressing the real issue here, the gang culture that is tearing inner city Chicago apart.  Chicago is on the path of having the bloodiest year ever.  Sure, maybe the guns used by gangs in Chicago come from Indiana and Wisconsin.  But let me tell you something.  I lived in Indiana and Illinois.  Indiana, which has much more lax gun laws than Illinois does not have anywhere near the murder rate of Chicago.

It’s not the guns stupid.  It’s the culture.  It is a culture where a man get’s shot in the back for wearing the wrong hat on the wrong street corner while trying to visit his mother.

But the antis don’t want to address the root cause of Chicago’s murder rate.  Why?  Because it’s a difficult problem to fix, it requires being judgmental about other people’s way of life, and it’s not a means by which they can exercise their desire to control people they don’t like.

In this article, we get a good peek into the problems in Chicago.  Poor, (predominately) black kids who turn to gang life and drug dealing, which gun violence is a large part up.  We almost have a moment of clarity.  But no… never mind the hopelessness, poverty, self destructive behavior.  It’s the guns.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why this will never get fixed.