VIOLENT father-and-son drifters Gino and Mark Stocco — who are armed with a high-powered rifle — have been linked to a stolen Toyota Landcruiser as it emerged police came within 100m of the fugitives.Wagga police crime manager Detective-Inspector Darren Cloake told The Daily Telegraph the men were armed with a high-powered SKS rifle, which is a Chinese version of an AK-47.On Friday evening, police came within 100m of the father-and-son who had secured a fence with a chain and lock and cut through other fences anticipating a showdown with police.

Source: Gino and Mark Stocco manhunt: Fugitives armed with AK-47 | HeraldSun

This is outrageous! We cannot have criminal running around with military weapons like that! Maybe we should heed Hillary Clinton’s call:

What do you say? Where is Wagga? Let me Google it…wait.. Australia? But…but… that is not supposed to happen anymore! They solved all that stuff when they “bought” the guns back and imposed heavy Gun Control Laws! Unimpossible!

But let’s do it anyway because this time it will work. I promise.

Hat Tip to Mark W.

Should we tell them that Castle Doctrine was defined by Sir Edward Coke, in his The Institutes of the Laws of England, 1628? The NRA came to be a couple of centuries later and unless Wayne LaPierre got his hands on Doc Brown’s DeLorean and pulled a Back To The Future, I really don’t see how the “gun lobby” had anything to do with its creation.

But Lies is about the only message Shannon and Co. can put out for her followers and the loyal media lapdogs.

PS: RULE FOUR states that you should make sure of your target and what’s behind it. An innocent woman is dead because of that brutal violation. Get a light for your night weapon and challenge verbally and loudly.

If what you posted here is true…

Does that mean Jews have a degenerate culture also?

So much antisemitism from our friends at the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence!

I commented in one of Miguel’s previous posts, CSGV: Fantasy vs. Reality regarding the similarity between having a gun and a fire extinguisher.  

Miguel made the comment:

“Example of that, my house. Mom had a grease fire and she used the small fire extinguisher we had in the kitchen. She was equally upset about the fire and the powder messing the stove.”

I was tempted to respond to his comment, but I decided to turn it into a post.

A few years ago I was living in Rapid City, SD, going to school there.  I lived in a terrible little community on the east end of town, right near campus.  The community was a collection of duplexes that were old military housing from when Ellsworth AFB was a SAC base.  The housing was sold off by the USAF to a developer who turned it into apartments.

What you need to understand about renting in Rapid City, is that most of the property managers who owned “affordable” rented the maximum units allowable to government subsidized tenants.  It was low hanging fruit.  Why did I live there?  I was a grad student married to another grad student and there weren’t many options for a place to rent near campus that was pet friendly and affordable.

The neighborhood was rough.  The police were out regularly, one of my neighbors was arrested at least once a week.

It was the middle of winter, in my last year in Rapid, and an overnight blizzard was underway.  Snow was coming in sideways, double digits below zero with the wind chill, final snow fall was in excess of 20 inches.  It was early am, maybe 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning when my dog starts going nuts.  I get out of bed at the prodding of my wife and I hear it.  Someone was pounding on my door.  I yell through the door something along the lines of “who’s there, what do you want?”

What I get back is “LET ME IN.”

“NO”

“C’MON MAN, IT’S COLD.”

“NO, I DON’T KNOW YOU”

“IT’S COLD. I GOT NO POWER MAN.  LET ME IN.”

I looked out the window and see that some of the houses in the neighborhood are dark.  A transformer had gone out in the storm (not uncommon) down the block and rendered about the community without power.  I still had electricity and have the habit of leaving the kitchen light on 24/7.

“NO, GO AWAY, I HAVE A DOG.”

“I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR DOG MAN, LET ME IN.”

“I’LL CALL THE COPS.”

What’s important to understand at this juncture, is that during a blizzard, there are no cops.  Emergency response is non existent.  Your house could be on fire and there is no way of getting to you.  When you live in blizzard country, especially in rural blizzard country, it’s a fact you must accept.  Viability is zero and the cops or fire department can’t plow their way through more than a foot of snow to get to you.

“F*CK YOU.  F*CK YOUR DOG.  F*CK THE COPS.  YOU HAVE POWER.  I’M COMING IN.”

The guy then starts punching the glass pane in my front door.

“HEY, STOP THAT.”

“F*CK YOU.  I’M COMING IN.”

Punching continues.

So I go hurry back to the bedroom and grab my shotgun.  At this point my wife is freaking out, on hold with 911, and the dog is barking her head off.

I go back into the front room, shoulder the shotgun at the front door and yell

“IF THAT GLASS BREAKS I’M GOING TO BLOW YOUR F*CKING HEAD OFF!!!”

Lo and behold, he stopped punching my window.  He went from aggressive to sheepish right quick.

“C’MON MAN, I’M SORRY, IT’S COLD, LET ME IN.”

“GO THE F*CK AWAY.”

And he trudged off into the dark and the snow and the cold.

So yes, I have pulled a gun on somebody.  I didn’t fire a shot.  I didn’t have to.  He found himself eye level to the muzzle of a Mossberg 500 just on the other side of a single pane of glass and decided that he didn’t need into my house as badly as he thought he did.   I don’t know what he would of have done had he gotten into my house.  I don’t know if he was sober.  I can’t imagine a completely sober person venturing out into a blizzard just because his power went out.

Problem solved.  No SWAT team necessary.  Cops couldn’t have made it up the hill I lived on in a blizzard anyway, had my wife managed to get through to them.

The antis can tell you that no property is worth your life, just give the bad guy what he wants.  The Newspaper of Record can tell you that “The modern man has no need for a gun.”  Bloomberg and the CSGV can tell you that you are more likey to kill your whole family and then yourself with your gun in a ham-fisted comedy of errors than defend yourself with it.

At that moment I needed a gun.  I had a gun.  I USED my gun, and everybody came away alive.

And I’ve also put out a fire with a fire extinguisher and didn’t end up in a burn ward afterward either.

When some pearl-clutcher tells you, you don’t need something, and you will just hurt yourself with it and just leave your self reliance to the professionals.  Go out and buy what they tell you not to have.  Go out and buy two of them.

“They always quote the Second Amendment rights. This Second Amendment was written in 1791 when you needed to have a gun. You had all the outlaws. But we don’t need the guns in the urban communities,” he said.

Source: Tough gun laws urged after shooting death of L.I. girl – NY Daily News

The killing of an innocent 12-year-old girl is a tragedy, but that Hempstead’s Mayor Wayne Hall  would go as far as pimping her death for gun controls while  spouting such a level of cognitive dissonance goes beyond the real, specially when apparently there is something fishy going on in that particular household.

From the same article:

“Authorities should have done something before this happened, because this has been going on for months now.”

Someone has shot at that house “four or five times in the last few months. The previous one was about five weeks ago, and before that it was one after another, just days in between,” Cruz said.

There is a lot more going on when a family has been targeted 5 times for drive-by shootings. But have no fear, Mayor Hall is a proud member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns/Everytown. They have all the answers..unfortunately they are the wrong ones.  And it seems that the Village of Hempstead is having a wee bit of a crime issue, in fact it is twice the violent crime of New York City and has a murder rate more than four times the national average.

You would have thought that the NY Safe Act would have brought those statistics down to zero or a least under the national average, but appears it did not. Just like any other Gun Control measure.

I think I am going to introduce a new term for people like Mayor Hall: Corpse Pimps.

Except that as far as I could determine,  Agents of the ATF do qualifiers only twice a year and shoot the old Practical Pistol Course, a 60 round course of fire which is the lowest common denominator used by FLETC. One IDPA or IPSC match may have higher round count and all the tactical exercise that PPC does not have.

Mr. Chipman is Senior Vice President of ShotSpotter, (a gun fire locator company used by several police departments in the nation but with actual dubious results and little in the way of solving crimes) and he was also as senior adviser for Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Being from ATF and MAIG does not make for a very convincing resource…

Gabriel Astengo got into a fisticuffs with a maintenance man inside an elevator. When he breaks the fight and retreats, the man follows him outside to re-engage. Astengo draws his concealed weapon, pistol-whips him in self-defense.
Astengo gets charged with Aggravated Battery, a second degree felony which could get him up to 15 years in prison.

There are two videos available for you to watch.

And another view:

Astengo ends the fight and leaves the confined space of the elevator.

Alvarez follows
Alvarez wants to re-engage. Astengo places his hand on his gun.
Fight begins again.
Astengo pistol-whips him. He ends up with the charge of Aggravated Battery.

Now, here is the thing: If Alvarez would have been the one with a deadly weapon and pulled it after Astengo left the elevator, the prosecution would have stated that the “clock” for the original incident inside the elevator had ended and no self-defense could be claimed. However, it seems the prosecutor decided to make it one continuous event even when the video clearly shows Alvarez disengaging and retreating. That takes us to the mantra I have kept repeating over and over since Stand Your Ground came into effect in Florida:

The prosecutor determines if you retreated enough.

More the reason why we need to maintain Stand Your ground in the books.

Now let’s go over the shoudda-couldda-wouldda. 

Leave the ego at home. Astengo could have clearly taken the next elevator if he already had words with Alvarez.

Distance is your friend. Avoid sharing small spaces with angered people. Alvarez could had a knife or a gun of his own. Good thing he had neither and was not a trained hand fighter.

Don’t count of video evidence to support your case. Astengo was lucky the place had cameras everywhere but that may not be the case with an event in which you might be involved.

Although the legal outcome was favorable, Astengo is probably out of several thousand dollars worth of saving paying for his defense.

Avoidance, De-Escalation and Deterrence are still cheaper and safer.