Arizona Militia's 1st Armed Border Patrol Set for Today

The Arizona Republic ^ | January 4, 2003 | Ignacio Ibarra

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Bisbee, Arizona Militia leader Chris Simcox says he is set today to lauch the first patrols along the border with members of his Civil Homeland Defense group

Simcox says he plans to have groups of armed citizens patrolling three areas of the Arizona-Mexico line, though he wouldn't specify the sites.

A second patrol, to be put on for the news media is scheduled for Sunday.

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I believe the M.O. will be to secure the illegals by non-violent means and hand them over to authorities.

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lock and load ping!

[Sparta]

ping!!!

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James S. Wood / Staff
Water bottles stack up at a popular rest area for illegal border crossers on the Agua Prieta, Sonora, side of the border fence.

So supplies are left on both sides of the border. If the left has such a hard time accepting civilian patrols, maybe the patrols can just clean up the supplies whilst on patrol.

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Exactly, I believe the supplies are left there by folks helping the illegals invade our country willingly.

Isn't that called a charge of Treason in war time?

[Geezerette]

Every patriot counts!!

Y'all come down!!

g in AZ

[Principled]

Would something put into those water just that would shift a persons bowels into high gear be of some help in taking these folks into custody?

Syrup of ipicac (sp?)
Ex-Lax
lysergic acid ditholomene?

[Principled]

s/b lysurgic?

[buffyt]

We had car trouble in Nov. and ended up stranded in Benson Az for a few days. It is 23 miles from Tombstone. Isn't that where the militia idea started? I am ALL FOR IT! I don't go to Mexico or Canada illegally! In our county, Brazoria County, Texas... we have 4,174 concealed handgun licenses active. There is an article on the front page of our paper today about Brazosport Security & Self Defense Institute, where you can go to learn how to SHOOT your gun. I think I will post the article.
http://www.thefacts.com

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I love it, this is he kind of activitism that keeps our country strong.

And what galls the liberals the most is that there is nothing they can do about people making peaceful citizens arrests on authorized private lands and calling the U.S. Border Patrol to pick them up.

This is what the Bush Administration should be promoting for volunteers, to shore up the high traffc illegal entrance areas..

[buffyt]

The Facts

http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?wcd=6414

There are 4,174 concealed handgun licenses active in Brazoria County.

January 04, 2003

Learning gun control

Gary Broadus, owner of Brazosport Security & Self-Defense Institute, gives Sandra Kozak of Freeport a gun safety lesson at the Greenwood Gun Club near Brazoria Friday. Brazoria, Galveston and Montgomery counties are among areas in Texas with highest gun ownership per capita.

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We go armed

By Allison Pollan
The Facts

Published January 04, 2003

Like many women during the holidays, Sandra Kozak received jewelry from her husband. He also gave her a semiautomatic Bersa Thunder .380 pistol.

Kozak, 24, said her husband gave her the gun so she could protect herself against intruders. She is often at their Freeport home alone with their two young children during his extended shifts at work.

“I’m having to stay at home with two babies,” Kozak said. “It’s just for my safety because there was a break-in next door to where we live.”

Kozak, who never had shot a gun until a private lesson Friday, plans to apply for a concealed handgun license, and next week she plans to take the required class to obtain it.

If her license is approved by the state, Kozak will join the ranks of Brazoria County’s more than 4,100 concealed handgun license owners.

Currently, there are more than 222,800 concealed handgun licenses active in the state, 4,174 of which are in Brazoria County, according to Department of Public Safety records.

Brazoria County is among Texas counties with the most licensed gun holders per capita.

Slightly more than one in every 100 adults in Texas can legally carry a pistol. In Brazoria, Galveston and Montgomery counties that ratio is three in every 100 adults.

According to December DPS statistics, cities having the most active concealed handgun licenses include Alvin, with 815 licenses; Pearland, with 1,215; the Lake Jackson area, with almost 600 and the Angleton area with about 420. The Freeport area, which includes the cities of Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Surfside Beach and Quintana, had almost 600 permits, state records indicate.

The Brazoria area had 253 active licenses, the Sweeny area had 121, the Danbury area had 52, the Manvel area had 140, the Rosharon area had 143 and the Clute and Richwood area had about 170.

To obtain a concealed handgun license, Texas residents must pay a $140 fee, provide identification and fingerprints and take a handgun course.

Anyone with a felony conviction, certain misdemeanor convictions, pending criminal charges, drug or alcohol dependency or certain psychological diagnoses can not get a license. Also, people with defaults on taxes, governmental fees, student loans or child support are not eligible for a concealed handgun license.

Area law enforcement officers said while the numbers may be high, they have not encountered problems because of people carrying concealed handguns.

“The licensed handgun owner ... has not created a problem, to the best of my knowledge, in Brazoria County so far,” said Charles Wagner, chief deputy for the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Department.

Wagner attributed the high number of licensed handgun owners to the county’s rural nature.

“You have the people that are out in the countryside, out where the roads are a little more lonely,” Wagner said. “They might feel they want the gun along for protection.”

Wagner said the county’s significant number of outdoor sportsmen also might be a cause for some concealed handgun licenses.

“They’ve got licenses so they don’t have to worry about carrying the gun back and forth to the range,” he said.

Alvin Police Chief Mike Merkel agreed sports enthusiasts and people seeking protection were the key component for the county’s high number of licenses.

“I think one of America’s No. 1 fears is the fear of being victimized,” Merkel said. “We spend a lot of money buying security-related items or equipment ... and there are many of us that have never been victimized, but it’s a preventative kind of measure we use to feel good about minimizing the risk, should there be a risk.”

Merkel said Alvin’s high number of licenses also might be because Alvin Community College teaches handgun licensing classes.

Gary Broadus, who teaches one-day handgun license courses in Clute, said more than 3,000 people have taken his courses since 1996.

“The main reason I’ve seen people get the license is the right to go ahead and carry the gun in the car while traveling,” Broadus said.

Broadus said the majority of people who take the class are men aged 35 to 40, but women are increasingly becoming licensed.

After Sandra Kozak fired her first rounds into the target, each bullet hitting within the target’s chest area, she said she was glad for the experience.

“I was nervous,” Kozak said. “It gave me a little rush.”

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Bang, For Real Americans.

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Exactly, I believe the supplies are left there by folks helping the illegals invade our country willingly.

I have a friend that lives on land almost touching the border. He reports that there are people who leave full water jugs on his road for the illegals to drink as they invade. He also reports that whenever he sees the jugs he pokes holes in all of them to drain the water out. However, that doesn't seem to stem the flow of illegals coming up his road and trashing his property.

[Principled]

Is that the same as LSD? I just want them sick, not make them high? Or am I wrong?

I think it's the same...

I was thinking that if it got around that there was LSD in the water, nobody would drink it. But I never thought that they might LIKE it!!

Anything to discourage illegal entry would be good IMO.

[RonF]

That would be lysergic acid diethylamide. You might consider both the ethics and your own legal position if you started putting that in a location where your clear intent is that it be consumed by unknowing people.

[RonF]

Also, giving either an emetic or a laxative to someone who's presumably highly stressed and dehydrated in a desert environment could kill them, especially if they're kids. Is that your wish?

[Principled]

Simply removing the bottles should be attempted murder.