Second Amendment Stuff

Mika on Church Shootings: 'Inane' To Think Armed Citizen Can Make a Difference

We all know that firearms are used as many as two and a half million times a year for self-defense.  And, as we recently saw graphically demonstrated in the senseless shootings at the New Life Church in Colorado, a law-abiding, armed citizen can make a difference.   

In the tragic New Life Church incident, Jeanne Assam, who, according to media reports, had a permit to carry a concealed firearm and was volunteering as a “security person” at her church, shot a heavily armed, homicidal madman as he began attacking innocent parishioners.  New Life’s Senior Pastor Brady Boyd hailed Jeanne as “a real hero,” because the gunman she shot “had enough ammunition on him to cause a lot of damage.”  There is no question that this brave citizen’s decisive action with her personal firearm saved many lives.

Even when faced with the facts, some are just not ready to accept the truth.  Check out this piece by Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters.org.  He outlines the blatant liberal (and anti-gun) bias by some in the media.

Colorado Church Shootings

From FoxNews.com:

A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.

Take note that an armed person on-site stopped the gunman.  Read the full story here.

Yes ... It Was A Gun-Free Zone!

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Omaha dealing with the aftermath of the mall shooting this week.  I pray that God grants you comfort and strength.

As is the case every time something like this happens, we hear from the anti-gun crowd who insists that more laws would have stopped a shooting like this.  The problem is ... those who would shoot people for fun aren't really focused on obeying things like gun laws.  Case in point: The mall was already supposed to be a  "gun-free zone". In a great opinion piece on FoxNews.com, John Lott discusses the fact that the media coverage has totally ignored this fact.

A Google news search using the phrase "Omaha Mall Shooting" finds an incredible 2,794 news stories worldwide for the last day. From India and Taiwan to Britain and Austria, there are probably few people in the world who haven’t heard about this tragedy.

But despite the massive news coverage, none of the media coverage, at least by 10 a.m. Thursday, mentioned this central fact: Yet another attack occurred in a gun-free zone.

Surely, with all the reporters who appear at these crime scenes and seemingly interview virtually everyone there, why didn’t one simply mention the signs that ban guns from the premises?

Check it out here.