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Russia-Ukraine updates: Captured Russian troops weep as they admit to killing innocent Ukrainians Russian troops slaughtered a Ukrainian policeman’s family, including his newborn baby and 6-year-old daughter — all while his brother heard it in a phone call, according to reports. Policeman Oleg Fedko, 30, was working in the Kherson region when his parents and partner picked up his kids to keep them safe last Thursday, the day Russia launched its war, according to The Sun, citing local reports.

A picture is worth a thousand words. So these two pictures tell you two thousand words worth of Ashley Babbit’s. He is demonstrably incompetent. There are four critical rules for handling any firearm, especially a pistol: Treat every gun as if it is loaded until you inspect it to ensure there is no ammunition in the chamber. Always point the gun in a safe direction (in other words, do not point the gun at anything or anyone you are not prepared to kill or destroy). ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Know your...

When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats' Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party's chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a "bipartisan" effort to learn what "really happened" in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have the left's version of events on Jan. 6 enshrined as the official history of the United States. And what is the left's version? It is that the forced entry and five-hour occupation of the Capitol by hundreds of Trumpists was "an attempted coup d'etat," an...

The Case for More Guns, Learn to Think Like The Sheep Who Chose to Be UnarmedAmmoland Inc. Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Dean WeingartenCourtesy Dean Weingarten People in the gun culture often express amazement about people who want them disarmed. They ascribe the desire to hostility and malice. It may be true for a minority of those who actively wish for a disarmed population. A significant number, likely a majority, have made a voluntary decision to be unarmed.It is important to know your opponent and to understand their motives.Three years ago, this correspondent wrote an essay on...

Portland, Oregon’s City Council approved $1.4 million for “unarmed” patrols to be stationed in parks to fight gun crime. KGW reports there will be “two dozen” such patrols, working a schedule that ensures someone is working “around-the-clock.

Despite Democrats’ claim the January 6 protests were an “armed insurrection,” the FBI has now revealed no one arrested was carrying a single firearm on the Capitol grounds that day. One America’s Pearson Sharp reports.Video

Warning: This story contains graphic images. A woman was shot in the neck inside the Capitol building, according to videos and photos shared to social media Wednesday afternoon. UPDATE: NBC reports the woman has died.

Part of what kept the Jacob Blake frenzy alive on the left was the fact that he did not have a gun.  The media and their paramilitary fighters on the street imply that the fact that Blake had a knife was inconsequential.  To them, he was unarmed.  The same thing is happening with Ricardo Munoz's death in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  A police officer shot Munoz when the latter came after him with a knife.  In reality, close-contact knife attacks are horrific and are just as deadly as bullets from afar. The facts are uncontested: the police got a call from Munoz's family that he was off...

The family of a black New York man fatally shot during an encounter with a white New Jersey state trooper is demanding answers after receiving little information about his death. Maurice S. Gordon, 28, was shot and killed May 23 on the Garden State Parkway in Bass River, where he was pulled over by a New Jersey State Police trooper, the New Jersey Attorney’s General Office announced late last month. But other key details in the police-involved shooting have been limited, an attorney for Gordon told the Burlington County Times after seeing a portion of video of the fatal encounter. “As...

Being armed or unarmed is, in many ways, a state of mind. An armed person sees the world differently from a person who has decided to be unarmed.  Nicolo Machiavelli, the famed author and political philosopher, states it well in The Prince: Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for...

Police shot and killed an unarmed teen who ran away from a traffic stop Tuesday night in East Pittsburgh, authorities said. Authorities identified the dead teen as 17-year-old Antwon Rose, a Woodland Hills High School student who district officials said was one English class shy of graduating. He had been riding in a car linked to a non-fatal shooting 13 minutes earlier on North Braddock's Kirkpatrick Avenue, according to Allegheny County police. A 22-year-old man wounded in the North Braddock shooting was treated and released from a hospital. The deadly shooting in East Pittsburgh happened at 8:40 after borough police...

There are a significant number of people in the United States who have chosen to be unarmed, and who want the government to ensure as many others are forcibly disarmed as possible. They are a small, but vocal minority. To most people in the gun culture, this is an alien mindset. It is worthwhile to understand people on the other side of an argument. The left is routinely attempting to shout down and silence people in the gun culture; one of the strengths of Second Amendment supporters is the willingness to engage with people who want most people in...

At the NRA annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, in 2018, protests were held outside the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Saturday, 5 May, 2018.  By the time I arrived at the protest site, the main group of gun control supporters had left. I was told they numbered about 200-250 people. Their numbers were dwarfed by the attendees at the NRA annual meeting. An estimate for meeting attendance was not available at the time of this writing. The last NRA annual meeting, in Atlanta, was 81,836. In 2016, in Louisville, it was 80,452. 87,154  has been reported for attendance at...

SEATTLE — A federal judge has upheld a $15 million verdict against police in a small Washington state city who shot and killed an unarmed black man, in a ruling that blistered the city’s lawyers for suggesting jurors ruled against law enforcement only because they didn’t want to be known for siding with white officers. The ruling Thursday from U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found that the jury had plenty of reasons to conclude that the shooting of Leonard Thomas during a 2013 SWAT operation in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood was outrageous, The Seattle Times reported. Thomas was unarmed,...

Ben Shapiro, conservative columnist and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, and Comedian Adam Carolla sparred with Democrat legislators on over white privilege and free speech at a House Oversight committee hearing Thursday concerning recent attacks on the First Amendment rights of conservatives on the nation’s college campuses.

Writing in the New York Times, a columnist for the lefty Guardian ponders the latest "lone wolf" Muslim attack on London with a celebration of restraint: “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts,” George Eliot wrote in “Middlemarch.” On Thursday, in a statement to the House of Commons about the attack that had occurred right outside Parliament the day before, Prime Minister Theresa May echoed that sentiment, paying tribute to the “ millions of acts of normality” that are the most powerful weapons against extremist violence. This was London’s counterattack: to show that it takes...

An unarmed Florida therapist was shot by police while trying to calm down his autistic patient, authorities said. Police in North Miami were responding to a report of a man with what appeared to be a gun when they came across Charles Kinsey and his patient, who had run away from a group home.

<p>A 17-year-old robber's arm was severed in Brooklyn after he held up a 39-year-old man at gunpoint for a pair of pricey sneakers, police sources said.</p> <p>Through the app Wallapop, the pair had arranged to meet up at 1 p.m. on Friday in Canarsie.</p>

CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB) - The American Red Cross honored local heroes during the 8th annual Heroes Luncheon. Among the brave men and women recognized, Lt. Cmdr Tim White gave his first TV interview describing his experiences during the July 16th shootings. Lt. Cmdr Tim White says the community has been so supportive since the attacks. White wants to thank everyone for donating their time and money to help the victims and their families, and for showing the local military their support. "We've been receiving cards, and letters, and gifts to the units and it's been overwhelming, it's been really amazing,"...

Nov. 16, 2015 | 06:12 PM Norway postpones disarming of police after Paris attacks Agence France Presse OSLO: Norway's police, who were to stop wearing their service weapons this week, will remain armed until December 1 because of the Paris attacks, Norwegian authorities said Monday. The country's 6,000 uniformed officers have been exceptionally authorized to wear their firearms on their belts since November 2014 due to a heightened threat of Islamist attacks. In ordinary circumstances, police keep their firearms locked in their patrol cars. Last week, just hours before the Paris attacks, Norway's police chief had announced they would be...