Category: Self Defense

Hide and Seek at Gunpoint

Not a Good Neighbor

Not a Good Neighbor

Jesse Smith of Ocala, Florida grabbed his Glock pistol after hearing his daughter and wife screaming.  This guy was playing hide and seek under the covers of his daughter’s bed, after returning home from a birthday party.  63-year-old Paul Matheny’s criminal past includes three arrests for indecent exposure.  Details here…

Gun Control, Self Defense

Police Response Time

Police Response Time
No matter what some people would say, being a victim isn’t noble or morally superior to being a capable survivor.
Predators who select victims based on the expected inability to resist, often desist when even a small number of the expected easy marks give them trouble. For example, where even a few women are known to be armed, all women benefit from the reduction in attempted rapes and other violent crimes. That no external differences indicate which person is defenseless and which isn’t makes all of us safer.
When a threat to your safety comes from a hostile human, it is unrealistic to expect that an assault would be postponed long enough to let you call for help … www.a-human-right.com

Percent distribution of incidents where police came to the victim, by police response time and type of crime. source: U.S. Dept of Justice, 2008. (most recent data available)

Response Time
Within 5 min
6-10 min
11 min to 1 hour
Within 1 day
Longer than 1 day
Length of time unknown
Not ascertained
Violent Crime *
28.3%
30.3%
33.5%
2.5%
0.4%
5.0%
0.0%
Robbery
32.3%
38.8%
28.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
Aggravated assault
20.9%
32.6%
36.4%
4.8%
0.0%
5.4%
0.0%
Simple assault
31.4%
28.0%
31.8%
2.4%
0.1%
6.2%
0.0%
Property crimes
12.8%
20.2%
47.8%
12.6%
1.9%
4.7%
0.0%
Household burglary
13.6%
21.8%
46.9%
12.6%
1.9%
3.3%
0.0%
Motor vehicle theft
12.5%
22.2%
49.1%
11.5%
1.3%
3.3%
0.0%
Theft
12.5%
18.9%
48.0%
12.7%
2.0%
5.9%
0.1%

* Includes data on rape and sexual assault.

Firearms, Gun Control, Self Defense

President to Press his Anti-Gun Agenda “With or Without Congress”

This from the NRA…

Last year, in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Conn., Barack Obama gave a State of the Union performance that was filled with theatrical pandering.  Seeking to capitalize on that tragedy by exploiting the understandably intense emotions that followed in its wake, the President reiterated his support for increased background checks and bans on common semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, which he referred to as “weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines.”

 
As usual, Obama’s remarks were short on evidence to support the efficacy of his proposals.  That’s because evidence was (and still is) sorely lacking–and experts at Obama’s own Justice Department acknowledged that fact, even if the President will not. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms, Gun Control, Self Defense

SAF Thanks Gun Companies For Support in CA Microstamping Case

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation is expressing heartfelt gratitude today to three major firearms companies – Ruger, Smith & Wesson and Glock – for their supporting documents in the on-going case of Pena v. Lindley, a lawsuit challenging the California handgun roster requirements that include microstamping and magazine disconnects.

 
Earlier this week, Ruger CEO Michael O. Fifer and Smith & Wesson President and CEO James Debney submitted declarations to the court, explaining their respective companies’ positions on the California microstamping requirement. Late last year, attorneys representing Glock, Inc. filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the SAF case. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms, Gun Control, Self Defense
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