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More Guns, More Crime? Nope…

A study published recently in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and presented at the American College of Surgeons 104th Annual Clinical Congress in Boston this past October sheds light on something responsible gun owners have known for years:

Does more guns equate to more crime?

According to the study, titled “State-Level Firearm Concealed Carry Legislation and Rates of Homicide and Other Violent Crime,” confirms “what a number of other studies have found:

Having more people without criminal records carrying concealed firearms does not increase violent crime.”

In the “Background” section of the abstract, the authors (Mark E. Hamill, MD, FACS, FCCM; Matthew C. Hernandez, MD; Kent R. Bailey, PhD; Martin D. Zielinksi, MD, FACS; Miguel A. Matos, DO; and Henry J. Schiller, MD, FACS) claim that “over the last 30 years, public opinion and state-level legislation regarding the concealed carry of firearms have shifted dramatically. Previous studies of potential effects have yielded mixed results, making policy recommendations difficult. We investigated whether liberalization of state-level concealed carry legislation was associated with a change in the rates of homicide or other violent crime.”

Said researchers used violent-crime and homicide-rate data “collected from the U.S. Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 30 years, from 1986 to 2015,” evaluating state-level legislation for “each study year on a scale, including ‘no carry,’ ‘may issue,’ ‘shall issue’ and ‘unrestricted carry.'”

Results (unsurprisingly) showed that “after adjusting for state and year, there was no significant association between shifts from restrictive to non-restrictive carry legislation on violent crime and public health indicators.”

Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., (I’ve personally and thoroughly read and scoured through three of his authored books) author, economist, researcher and world-renowned expert on guns, gun laws and crime, has found as much through his work as president and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). CPRC’s goal has been “to provide an objective and accurate scientific evaluation of both the costs and benefits of gun ownership,” and Lott’s book, More Guns Less Crime, has become a bible of sorts to pro-gun-rights groups looking for accurate information to debunk anti-gunners’ claims of the opposite (i.e. more guns, more crime).

The study ultimately concluded that there is “no statistically significant association between the liberalization of state-level firearm carry legislation over the last 30 years and the rates of homicides or other violent crime.”

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a pretty significant statement to be published in a medical journal.

But that’s not even what I found most interesting because, as I mentioned earlier, intelligent people already knew that more legally owned guns on the street actually helped to save lives.

The authors wrapped up the abstract by suggesting that “policy efforts aimed at injury prevention and the reduction of firearm-related violence should likely investigate other targets for potential intervention.”

Responsible guns owners have been saying that all along, and now it finally appears that others are starting to see the light…

Let’s hope more follow suit soon.

Signs of End Times According To Biblical Scripture:

Sanhedrin Invites Nikki Haley to be Honorary President of Organization of 70 Nations Rabbi Hillel Weiss, spokesman for the Sanhedrin, explained their decision to choose Nikki Haley to head the organization. “Nikki Haley displayed a strength of character that showed a deeply sincere and unwavering willingness to fight for truth,” Rabbi Weiss told Breaking Israel News. “She was a faithful representative of the president, but her character gave her a strength that went far beyond the requirements of her job.”

Terrorist deportation bill passes first reading in Knesset.
A bill that would allow Israel to deport the family members of terrorists passed its first reading in the Knesset Wednesday. Sponsored by Bayit Yehudi MK Moti Yogev with backing from Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the bill would allow the army to expel family members of a terrorist from their home, by removing them from their town or city, or demarcating an area in which they are not allowed to enter.

Knesset approves Netanyahu as defense minister.
The Knesset approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment as defense minister on Monday evening after opposition MKs spoke out against the appointment for nearly three hours.

Tension with Moscow seems over as Russian defense delegation visits Israel. Ties between Israel and Russia were said to be tense in recent months after Syria shot down a Russian plane in September. Russia blamed Israel.

EU, Russia to Trump: 2-state solution only viable Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Warning comes as Haley hints at Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ peace plan: Long, takes advantage of new technology, and has a lot both sides will like and things they won’t like. The US ambassador, who said she has read the plan, told the UN Security Council that “both sides would benefit greatly from a peace agreement, but the Palestinians would benefit more, and the Israelis would risk more.” Haley, who is stepping down at the end of the month, said moving forward to negotiations and peace “will need leaders with real vision to do it.” She declared: “The world will be watching.”

Netanyahu ahead of UN debate: Hezbollah puts all of Lebanon at risk. Hezbollah puts the people of Lebanon at great risk and endangers their lives, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday at a special briefing for the foreign press. Netanyahu spoke ahead of the UN Security Council debate later in the day about the discovery of Hezbollah’s terror tunnels along the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Netanyahu: The IDF is the only army fighting Iran, and we are winning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is winning the fight against Iran and over Iranian influence in Syria, in a speech at the Globes conference Wednesday. “The IDF is the only army that is fighting the Iranian army in the world, and now we are seeing great successes,” Netanyahu said at the event.

Eight EU states warn Trump peace plan will fail unless based on 1967 lines. Any Israeli-Palestinian peace plan not based on the pre-1967 lines will fail, eight European Union member states warned…“We…would like to reiterate once more and emphasize the EU’s strong continued commitment to the internationally agreed parameters for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on international law, relevant UN resolutions and previous agreements,” ambassadors from the eight nations said in a joint statement…

Brexit: EU to reveal no-deal plans.
The European Commission will publish its no-deal contingency plans on Wednesday – an attempt to mitigate the damage if the UK crashes out of the EU. The proposals are designed to limit disruption in certain key areas, such as finance and transport, if Brexit goes ahead in March without a deal. As PM Theresa May’s proposed exit plan flounders in parliament, both sides are preparing for the worst-case scenario.

European Union diplomatic communications ‘targeted by hackers’. Hackers successfully targeted the European Union’s diplomatic communications over a period of several years, The New York Times reports. Thousands of messages were intercepted in which diplomats referenced a range of subjects from US President Donald Trump to global trade. The breach was reportedly discovered by the cyber-security company Area 1.

Syria war: Russia, Iran and Turkey fail to agree on new constitution body. Talks in Geneva on setting up a constitutional committee for Syria have ended without a clear outcome. The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey attended the United Nations-sponsored talks to build a sustainable peace in the country, but failed to agree on the committee’s makeup. The UN says more work needs to be done before it is set up.

US pledges $10.6B aid for Central America, southern Mexico
The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico. The U.S aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.

Girl’s inoperable brain tumor disappears. Doctors unable to explain it. A girl’s inoperable brain tumor is gone and doctors have no explanation. Today, Roxli Doss is doing what she loves, and that’s horseback riding. “She is just as active as she ever was,” said Scott Doss, Roxli’s father…The family held a benefit for her in August, and the community responded in a big way. At that point, all Gena and Scott Doss could do was pray for a miracle.

Christians ‘Standing in the Way’ of China’s Xi Jinping’s Totalitarian Rule. …China’s current leader believes in the absolute power of the Party and wants his government to exert control over every aspect of Chinese life. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has severely cracked down on human rights, religious freedom and freedom of expression. Christians are experiencing some of the worst persecution in decades.

Putin: Russia has enough missiles without violating treaty
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday rejected the U.S. claim that Russia developed a new cruise missile in violation of a key nuclear treaty, arguing that Russia has no need for such a land-based weapon because it already has similar missiles on its ships and aircraft. Washington warned this month it would suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 60 days if Russia did not return to full compliance.

Netanyahu: UN must act against Hezbollah tunnels
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the United Nations Security Council to take action against Hezbollah tunnels dug from Lebanon under the Israeli border. Speaking ahead of a Security Council session on the issue, Netanyahu said UNIFIL, the UN presence in Lebanon, should be granted “unrestrained access to any area in southern Lebanon,” where the Iranian-backed Hezbollah has traditionally operated unfettered.

The Latest Facebook Scandal: Netflix, Spotify Could Read Private Messages, Yandex Was Given IDs. “This is just giving third parties permission to harvest data without you being informed of it or giving consent to it”

Will catastrophic Yellowstone supervolcano eruption set off the End Days war of Gog and Magog? A mystic rabbi suggested that an alarming spate of recent geyser activity in Yellowstone National Park may be the precursor to the pre-Messiah war of Gog and Magog. While scientists predict that seismic activity will increase, people of faith look for the spiritual implications.

SODOM AND GEMORRAH: San Francisco Creates World’s First ‘Transgender District,’ Paid for with Taxpayer Money
San Francisco is creating a “transgender district” and using public money as part of the process, according to a new report.

Pastor arrested for ‘showing movie about Jesus’
Authorities have arrested a Christian pastor for showing a film titled “Jesus Christ,” charging him with attempting “forced conversions” in India.

Washington state Women’s March chapter shuts over anti-Semitism concerns. The Washington state chapter of the Women’s March has shut down over concerns of anti-Semitism by the national leadership of the movement.

Pope Lectures Against Blaming Migrants For Evil, Urges Fraternity Of ‘Globalized World’. Pope Francis decried nationalism Tuesday and lambasted political leaders who blame migrants for societal problems, lauding instead the fraternity of the “globalized world.”

DOJ, ATF Are About to Find Themselves in Court Over the Newly-Released Bump Stock Ban. For over a year, gun owners have prepared for a ban on bump stocks. After the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, the Trump administration vowed to make the firearm accessory illegal.

11-Year-Old Boy Dressed In Drag Dances At Gay Bar, Gets Dollar Bills Thrown At Him. On December 1, an 11-year-old boy dressed in drag danced on stage in a sexual manner at a gay bar in Brooklyn, NY, called 3 Dollar Bill. The child, Desmond Napoles, was dressed as a Gwen Stefani-lookalike — full drag make up, a blonde wig, and crop top included — as he bounced around onstage to No Doubt’s Like a Girl” and collected dollar bills from male adults viewing the number.

NYT Guest Column: Human Extinction Could Be Good for the Planet. A philosophy professor writing for the New York Times pondered whether the extinction of the human race would be a positive thing for the Earth.

40% of Millennials Don’t Know Jesus is the Baby in the Nativity Story. The new generation of millennials are not just offended by traditional aspects of Christmas, two out of five of them are not even aware that the baby in the Nativity story is Jesus.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Sent His Beard Hair to a Rapper Who Does Witchcraft to Protect Him From ISIS. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey keeps banning conservatives who want to protect people from ISIS with things like border security, stronger vetting and discussions about Islam because he apparently has a better solution: actual witchcraft.

FEEMASONRY: WORSE THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED!

LET’S BLAME FIREARMS. NOT THE KILLERS THEMSELVES.

It’s an interesting phenomenon that, when looking at
murders, most of the time the crime is rested squarely to blame on the shoulders of the murderer.

AOC FOLLOWERS

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ

THE REASON WHY THE LEFT SO RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOW THIS NUT CASE

THE REASON IS BECAUSE HER FOLLOWERS ARE NOT BRIGHT. NOT BRIGHT AT ALL.

ELECTION PROCESS

A PEOPLES THAT ELECT CORRUPT POLITICIANS, IMPOSTORS, THIEVES AND TRAITORS ARE NOT VICTIMS…BUT RATHER ACCOMPLICES.

George Orwell

ALEXA

I ASKED ALEXA WHAT A WOMAN WANTS AND SHE HASN’T SHUT UP FOR THREE DAYS NOW!

THE THOUGHT POLICE

CALIFORNIA LAWS

California Kicks Off 2019 with 1,016 New Laws

California is arguably America’s best example of the perils and pitfalls of big government. Like clockwork, the state makes national headlines for imposing increasingly restrictive measures on both individuals and businesses.

Despite the state’s longstanding policy of intervention—and its failure to produce lasting results—its lawmakers continue to expand the size and scope of government.

The latest show of big government hysteria in the Golden State is the enactment of more than 1,000 laws at the start of 2019. Outgoing Governor Jerry Brown signed 1,016 bills in 2018, and while some aim to lessen the intrusiveness of government in California, many continue to extend the arm of government further into people’s lives.

You Get a Law, and You Get a Law, and You Get a Law…

Some of the laws now in effect drew national attention when they were first signed. They include the state’s ban on plastic straws in restaurants unless a customer requests them, the requirement that restaurants list only milk, water, and other low-calorie beverages on children’s menus, and a new mandate that publicly traded companies have at least one woman on their board. (The law’s definition of a “woman” appears to include anatomical males who identify as female. According to the text of the bill: “‘Female’ means an individual who self-identifies her gender as a woman, without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth.”)

Further, California, which already enjoys the top rank in the country from the pro-gun control Giffords Law Center, enacted even more firearms restrictions. Despite the rash of headline-grabbing shootings that have occurred in the state, citizens and lawmakers alike favor tighter gun policy. Some of the new laws include raising the minimum age to own a rifle or shotgun to 21 (matching the existing age requirement on handguns), imposing a lifetime ban on most individuals convicted of certain misdemeanor domestic violence, and prohibiting firearm ownership for those treated in “designated facilities” for mental health issues more than once in a one-year period. Lawmakers are pushing for even more measures, relaunching their failed attempt to limit Californians to one gun purchase or transfer per month. Former Governor Jerry Brown rejected this legislation, but the state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, may be more willing to support it.

In a separate realm, in addition to a number of laws targeting sexual harassment in the workplace, the same legislature passed legislation to protect Capitol workers and lobbyists who report sexual misconduct. However, they stopped short of requiring records of these incidents to be made available to the public. Another new law makes it illegal to mis-gender LGBTQ nursing home residents.

Since January 1, California government has also imposed new regulations intended to curb climate change and wildfires, including a mandate that utilities generate 60 percent of their energy—up from 50 percent—from renewable sources by 2030.

The state minimum wage rose to $12 for companies with more than 26 employees and $11 for smaller businesses (pursuant to a law passed in 2016).

Even pets are tangled up in newly enacted legislation. Retail stores are banned from selling dogs, cats, and rabbits unless they come from shelters, and in a quintessential California move, pets can now be included in divorce court custody proceedings.

It’s Not All Bad, but Mostly It Is.

To be fair, some laws have lessened the scope of government in residents’ daily lives. In one example, street vending is now subject to fewer regulations from local authorities. In another , the public now has access to internal police investigation records and footage of police-involved shootings, a move that fosters government transparency.

Despite this progress, California lawmakers’ penchant for passing intrusive legislation shows no signs of waning. Even the state’s legalization of cannabis in 2018 was hindered by the government’s excessive taxation, regulation, and bureaucracy, leading to a much smaller economic boom than other states have enjoyed upon ending prohibition.

Despite lawmakers’ ‘good intentions’ (MY ASS), also note the following as well.

California spends about $98.5 billion annually on welfare—the most in the US—but has the highest poverty rate in America.
California has the highest income tax rate in the US, at 13.3 percent, but the fourth greatest income inequality of the 50 states.

California has one of the most regulated housing markets in America, yet it has the highest homeless population in America and ranks 49th (per capita) in housing supply.

Considering the Democrats regained their super-majority in the legislature in the 2018 election, the ever-increasing expansion of the state’s government is almost certain to continue.

Let’s JUST HOPE the remainder of this country never, EVER follows suit.

DEMOCRATIC DIVERSITY

>> Remarkable diversity
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>> Stanford College Republicans: Today, the 116th Congress was sworn in, and all day long, the media was salivating and fawning over the “remarkable diversity” of the new Democrat members. It was a day of “firsts,” we were told incessantly. It was indeed a day of many firsts. While the new Democrat majority offers many members of note, I wanted to highlight a few “firsts” who are examples of the “diversity” that was sworn in today. Here are my Top Most “Diverse” (Ridiculous) House Freshmen.
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>> #1. Ilhan Omar: the first person who married her brother to commit immigration fraud ever to be elected to Congress. Omar is also the first open supporter of female genital mutilation to ever be elected to Congress. Such amazing diversity!
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>> #2. Rashida Tlaib: One of the first Muslim Brotherhood-linked and anti-Semitic candidates to be elected to Congress. She also claims to be a “Palestinian.” Wonders never cease.
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>> #3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Where do we even begin? Let’s just say she is the first person elected to Congress who lied about being from the Bronx, and thus, made up her life story. She’s also an overt Marxist, in case you forgot.
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>> #4. Abigail Spanberger: The first substitute teacher from an Islamist school (nicknamed ‘terror high’) ever to be elected to Congress.
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>> #5. Donna Shalala: Rep. Shalala was HHS Secretary from 1993 to 2001 under Bill Clinton and worked from 2015 to 2017 at the Clinton Foundation, and in 2016 she admitted in an interview that some significant Clinton Foundation donors received “courtesy appointments” in the Clinton State Department. To top it off, apparently she can’t let go of politics: at 78, she’s the oldest female House freshman in history.
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>> These are just a few examples of the “firsts” that the media has been celebrating today. If you are looking for corrupt politicians who show an open disdain and animosity for American principles and values, you can always count on the Democratic Party.

DISORDER IN THE COURT -OR- A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

MOB RULE TAINTS KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION

Smithtown, New York, resident arrested for threatening two United States senators,” a Department of Justice press release advised. “Defendant left multiple threatening voice-messages for two U.S. senators regarding the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

It was just another example of unhinged craziness in a confirmation process turned into a media circus by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s minority party “leadership.” Ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein threw an 11th-hour “Hail Mary” by introducing sexual assault allegations against the justice-elect. She withheld the information for weeks until she sensed the only play she had left was to try and derail the train. The accusations came from a Democrat college professor who seemed not to remember any details from an assault she says happened 36 years earlier except she was certain Brett Kavanaugh attacked her — even though no one else who she says was present remembers it happening.

Then a second woman came out of the woodwork to accuse Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her, with the caveat she had to call her friends to jog her memory, admitting to them she could not be certain it was him. And a third — one reportedly with plenty of skeletons in her own closet — accused Kavanaugh of facilitating gang rapes. Yet again no others, including her friends, seem to know what she’s talking about.

OVERLOADED BANDWAGON

Such tenuous allegations were enough for the media and all the Democrats to jump on the #IBelieveWomen bandwagon and make “Guilty until proven innocent” the benchmark for oxymoronic “progressive justice.” I could write a whole ‘nother post on innumerable cases of false accusations and how the mandate to automatically accept a woman’s word never seems to apply to those pointing at Hillary’s hubby, but for the sake of argument, I will digress on that one at this time.

“Kavanaugh bears the burden of proof,” Editor-in-chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Benjamin Wittes wrote in The Atlantic. “The question isn’t whether he can win confirmation — it’s whether he can defend against the charge he faces in a manner that is both persuasive and honorable.”

No. Here’s the real question:

Since when are accusations by those with the means, motive and opportunity sufficient to convict any American in the court of public opinion or anywhere else? It recalls the character Mayella Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird, who falsely accused a black man of raping her. The burden of proof falling on an innocent, victimized defendant is what made the injustice in both cases so outrageously horrifying to people of conscience.

This is the stuff of lynchings and witch hunts. It is also the type of inflammatory rhetoric used to incite mobs. Is it any wonder, after the continual attacks from posturing Democrat leadership, main-stream media and hordes of social media bomb-tossing apparatchiks, we saw Kavanaugh lose control of his emotions? After being afforded full due process, of course …

A MIXED BAG (of nuts)

For now, gun owners are in a mood to celebrate. After all, Kavanaugh was presented to everyone by the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation as worthy of their support. But I believe he will possibly prove to be a mixed bag on guns.

“Kavanaugh argued (in dissent) that the District of Columbia’s ban on possession of most semi-automatic weapons and its registration requirement for all guns violated the Second Amendment,”

The National Review’s opinion doesn’t mean gun owners now have carte blanche to start overturning the status quo.

“Judge Kavanaugh’s text, history, and tradition methodology for Second Amendment cases will not please people who believe that all gun control is impermissible, nor will it please advocates who want to make the Second Amendment a second-class right,” attorney and author David Kopel notes. In essence, he was pointing out Kavanaugh won’t make either side completely happy.

He’ll be big on stare decisis (the doctrine of precedence in court decisions) and a damn site better than anything the Democrats would find acceptable, making him unpopular with the gun-grabbers who want it all, and a significant impediment to their agenda.

Democrats believe adding Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court makes continued Republican dominance in the legislative and executive branches a threat to be attacked using all weapons and tactics at hand. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 85 and has suffered serious health issues. Stephen Breyer is 80, the average retirement age for the past 11 justices. A judiciary dominated for the foreseeable future by Republican appointments is the worst nightmare for “progressives,” assuming the judges don’t become turncoats and swampers like Warren, Brennan, Burger, Souter, Stephens, et. al.

“Expect the Democrats to pull out every filthy trick in the book to try and destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh and bring pain to him and to his family,” It’s almost entirely predictable.

What’s wasn’t predictable is what happened during last November’s midterm elections, so we’ll see if enough gun owners are motivated to keep the momentum on the High Court going or if a predicted “Blue Wave” washes away their hopes.

Expect things to get “New York state of mind” ugly either way.

CLARIFICATION

JUST CLARIFYING SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.

THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE A ‘JUSTICE’ SYSTEM.

IT’S A ‘LEGAL’ SYSTEM WITH NO ‘JUSTICE’ INVOLVED.