MY GUNS

MY TAKE ON FIREARMS - A CIVIL DISCUSSION
OF GUNS, POLITICS, AND VOTING

I AM A SHOOTING ENTHUSIAST,
I forget exactly, at an NRA rally in Tampa, I addressed the adult crowd some with children in matching camos, when some restrictions on firearms (big magazines and auto firearms) were being discussed in Congress. The crowd was pretty well charged up. My turn to speak and I defended our rights; promoted the NRA, and then “ Asked them to raise their hands and show their membership card if they supported the NRA, hands went up; I asked them to hold up their drivers license’s, most raised their hands; I asked them if they had a credit card, yes, hands went up. Then I asked them to hold up their Voter Registration cards… it was pathetic”. Those who fervently defended their right to bear arms were not voters. This is wrong.

We vote hopefully to put those in place to make wrongs right. We have serious issues in this country, and most of it being caused by whom we elect. And it is coming to a head with acts of domestic terrorism , the rebirth of racism, wanton killing and an election of sorts totally out of normalcy or control. Most voting is done in the curtained voter both usually based on a previous decision by what TV Channel you watch or name recognition.

Little is ever done to research and resource the individual being voted for. Fareed Zakaria, one of the honest brokers of news, in his writings expressed disbelief as to how we decide who to vote for and name recognition was, number one, most having no idea of that politicians stance on issues. This is wrong.

And year after year, those same politicians will do nothing, respond to nothing, repair nothing, but cheerfully accept donations from groups that fuel the gun lobby, mainly the National Rifle Association with the complete knowledge of the usual propaganda and mis-truths. Though a majority of members voted for more stringent gun controls, it went unheard by the NRA hierarchy Money trumps almost anything. In any other industry this would be called “bribery”. In other countries, they might get shot. But this not the whole or real picture. This is wrong.

Einstein’s most important statement might have been, defining insanity, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. This is the core of our political system failures. Elect the same jerks, they’ll get the same bribes, you’ll get the same results. This is wrong.

NRA STYLE PROPOGANDA
Mr. Wayne Lapierre, head of the NRA, its grand mufti, fueler or is it fuehrer of the party, grand chancellor of misinformation lies and social media guru is not in my opinion, a truth teller. He is a publicity head with a million dollar a year paycheck and it shows me this has nothing to do with anything other than follow the money and the money is huge in this industry. With most products in the industry starting at about 200.00 dollars and the sky is the limit, it relates to millions, most likely billions of dollars. This is wrong. This is what he put out. My question is, “Are people so gullible they believe this horseshit?”

JACKBOOTED FOREIGN SOLDIERS ON AMERICAN SOIL - There were no black jackboots from foreign countries on the ground. Major lie told by the NRA. The so-called the New World Order which had nothing to do with guns, it involves financial worldly growth of the new players in commerce and finance like the BRIC countries which are Brazil, Russia, India and China, nothing more. The phrase goes back to Roman times and has been used many times in the US by politicians and especially President Bush 41.

THE FACT IS: The jack-booted foreign soldiers on our soil are not in numbers as threatened by the NRA. I am at Ft. Benning frequently for the past thirty years and CentCom at MacDill AFB where we have 64 coalition nations training with us, I see a lot and it’s all about training and coalition and they don’t wear jack boots. At Ft. Benning we have the “School Of The Americas” for training with our South and Central American friends to work with us on stability and drug control lately the biggest problem.

BLACK HELICOPTERS - There were no black helicopters swooping down on your back forty other than mosquito control boys which will be in abundance this year because of ZIKA. And they are not black. And because of Congress underfunded. Florida is in Zika’s sights and Bill Nelson our Senator asked for two billion dollars and only got half. Ask your Republican Congressman when you find out someone in your family has contacted Zika, first though to be virtually harmless and not transferable. I guess they thought Syphilis was not transferable either. Ask Al Capone.

2ND AMENDMENT - There is no assault on the second amendment. The unsubstantiated rhetoric “Soon they’ll be taking your guns away”. The NRA cries that no matter what’s going on in the political world, it portends an imminent massive gun confiscation with President Obama wanting more background checks? Nope, they are convinced, Paranoias Americanus, he’s really coming to take your guns. There's an election coming up? If Democrats win, they’re going to take your guns. This starts the paranoia. This is wrong and stupid, I guess that also describes those that believe it. They send money to the cause.

YOUR MONEY WELL SPENT - Wake up don’t be that gullible, it’s all a scam to get your money. Follow the money, it was yours they are giving away, attacking your naivety of the laws governing our land. You give to the NRA, they start the rumors, the money goes to the politicians and you get jerked off. The NRA makes money, the politicians make money, the gun manufacturers make money and you get jerked off, somewhat feeling good that you thwarted the big federal gun take away.
Feel better now that you have been duped, like voting for T-RUMP, he doesn’t care about you, you ar nobody, those jobs and positions will go to his rich friends and opportunists, you can’t be that stupid to believe him.

A RECENT GUN SHOW
It was scary, I have been around weapons from my 13th birthday, and thats sixty years. I have owned my fair share. Not scared of the weaponry but the rhetoric and attitude of those handling those weapons. I did not believe people are that easily fooled, I’m not calling them stupid, just till I went to a huge local GUN SHOW this weekend and listened to comments from some of the participants both sellers and buyers. There I found some stupid.

I used to be an attendee and frequented the gun shows every couple of months as a competition shooter and hunter, always looking for ammo bargains in bulk to support my competition, till I had to give up three gun matches and sports shooting for health issues. Ask anyone with TMJ what a long gun on your cheek will do for you.

Eleven rounds from a tricked out Remington 1100 killing steel plates and I went for the ice packs to avoid a migraine. The Sporting Clays with an over under Beretta did me in, the pain was not worth it.

Years later I got a discount coupon and a friend offered to drive. The show was graced with the usual normal everyday citizens looking for self defense, protection, killing an afternoon, male bonding, showing siblings the sport, and preservation. Another segment was the collection of super patriots, defenders of the faith, self appointed saviors of the country, basically nobodies, playing their role, complete with their lies and prejudices talking their usual trash about Black Presidents and Helicopters painted black and why they are going to support TRUMP. And an able body of listeners soaking it in, very similar to the crowd at an awards dinner given at an annual Hatfield and McCoy event when the topics turned to who did what to who first.

I just casually looked and listened to conversations and could easily read any one of them, no surprises, I would guarantee you there were no Rhodes Scholars in that part of the mix. Considering from a great many resources all available data, the patriots did not score well above the moron category and did win the stupid contest: A few simple quiz questions indicated few knew anything and for the imaginary home invasion they feared, their defense after careful compilation, should consist of an AR-15 with a 100 round drum and a Slide Shot accelerated trigger.

HERE IS TRUTH
a) Most confrontations end with less than four shots.
b) Most likely you will not have time to choose or get to your weapon this is not a duel.
c) Most likely you will send a shot through drywall injuring someone else like your kid.
d) Most likely you will scare the other guy into shooting, he will shoot first and you could die.

The correct answer is an inexpensive alarm system, plans are on the web to make such devises yourself. A large dog with highly protective demeanor like a Rottweiler, which is an oversized pit-bull on steroids, a simple to use side arm with multiple caliber capacity like the RUGER LRP in .38 Special or the .410 .45 ACP .45 Colt, made by Smith and Wesson called the Governor, or a 20 gauge home defense shotgun.

NRA APPROVED SOLUTION
You shouldn’t just have one gun, you should have lots of guns, maybe a golf bag full so you can select the right one because you never know when the government is going to send their Jackbooted thugs in Black Helicopters to invade your home because you forgot to pay that fine for not mowing your lawn or watering on the wrong day. This is wrong and stupid.

At the show, there were ten lanes filled with every kind of weapon imaginable. Im guessing 90% or better were either Military style AR’s and combat shotguns, high capacity pistols with little purpose other than offense or claimed defense and all kinds of accessories.

At one time the two most popular military weapons sold were the venerable Colt 1911 pistol and the Colt AR-15, duplicate of the M-16 except for the sear converting it from semi-auto to full auto. With no patent protection, the Colt AR-15 variants today include those by major manufacturers like Ruger, and S&W and custom shops like Rock River, Bushmaster, Remington, DPS, STAG, and about six others.

On a large amount of tables there were the DIY components handily parked so you could build your own. Only the receiver has to be registered and you are off and running with the weapon custom tailored for your needs. The 1911handgun, my favorite of all time has about thirty companies both factory on line and custom grades in every imaginable configuration bought with a credit card and a clean background.

What was not present were hunting rifles and sporting shotguns! Even the collectors looking for that elusive Remington or Colt .45 Single Action revolver owned by General Custard, the man whose arrogantly stupid leadership made custard out of the Seventh Calvary were not present in numbers. Two I recognized as collectors seemingly quite bored (no pun intended) at their table.

You had every kind of barker there selling telescopic sights, laser beams, belly, plastic, leather, custom molded, and ankle holsters, really low-end Chinese made range bags from cheap to cheaper to garbage, ammunition from third world countries, licenses for concealed carry and homemade beef and antelope, elk, and white tail jerky. I love jerky for storage in my backpacks when hiking and this guy had some good stuff. I keep the in the fridge till I hit a trail.

Jerky and trail mix, the survivalists only way to go. The best item for sale was the Fire Starter Model three as seen on Naked and Afraid since the bow drills didn’t work well this season. This was not the Sportsman Organization for Sportsmen I knew as the NRA years ago. Sports had nothing to do with this.

This was a paranoia convention of media whipped citizens. Unique and some of the folks looked scary, dressed an appeared to have graduated magna cum loudmouth with degree from the six grade. Scary folks carrying or shouldering elaborate versions of the M-16 Auto Sear or AR-15 Civilian Sear or Semiautomatic with a SLIDE STOCK option that turns it into a FULL BLOWN Assault rifle.

Some wore big knives on their belt or carried a Samurai sword knockoff cross back fashion. Right from the CUTLERY CORNER.NET AKA the Rambo knife shop on TV Saturdays at 5 AM. Check your local stations for those great knives mostly imported stuff made by slave labor in India and other third workers labor camps. They can make you a knife dealer from 159.99 and they’ll send you 120 pieces of sellable knives so you can go to a gun show, get a table and get rich. Most of these “collectables” as one person told me retail for under ten and sometimes under five dollars and their cost is about $1.60 each, yes the decimal point is in the right place. Being a chef, I value my fingers more than a cheap blade.

THE LOOPHOLE - Add the backdoor gun deals at gun shows, which I have witnessed enough times and nothing being done about it and you wonder whether the government is doing anything. The non FFL “Buyers” are standing at the front door trying to buy guns even before those coming to the show to trade or buy components can get inside, it’s been right out in the open. Obviously there is not enough funding, voted down in the GOP house nor enough policing of the industry all promulgated by the public relations department of the NRA. A gang banger in Chicago or elsewhere will pay three times what the gun is worth because it is not registered.

Not the same group of people today as their was in the past. The economy, the media has fanned the flames. I do not like more laws as much as you do. But compromise is a good word and a few small controls worded correctly would both satisfy both sides. There are loopholes, there are procedures that need to be in place. I see violations all the time at gun shows from those working the dark side.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
At one show I had my AR-15 on my shoulder, tricked for three gun matches and was looking I was looking for accessories (a better scope and a longer barrel for varmint) not looking to sell, pics on the web or magazines don’t really tell you fit and finish. And I got hit five times from the parking lot to the front door if I was willing to sell for cash on the spot. One idiot waving 800 dollars in my face.

THE SAFE WAY - If you are contemplating selling your legal registered Pistol, Revolver,AR or AK-47 or AKM, better get it documented with a notary and plenty of identification from the new owner. At the show none were dealers, at least ten more inside the arena. No trail, no paperwork and if I had sold, my name would be first on the list if it was ever used maliciously. It’s not always the unregistered dealer in arms, sometimes its someone not thinking of consequence if it was a weapon registered to them. You don’t want a knock on the door, right or wrong. They will come to see you, they will make inquires to the various lists and credit exchanges which record those inquires. You don’t need that notoriety. If I sold my guns to my brother, I would have that form since I can’t guarantee it wouldn’t be stolen from him.

And the deaths in this country keep mounting by guns with no registration. Your dues do not support the industry, they are bribes to our political officials. And other information spread, literally endorsed by and put forth by the NRA throws fuel on the fire, stirs up the fringe idiots to taking things into their own hands.

Adam Winkler, Law professor at UCLA, in simplest terms, explainable and barren of insulting rhetoric, name calling, false accusations, fear of loss of guns sees the rights…

Meet the Second Amendment, the simplest rebuttal goes. It creates the unfettered right to own guns in America. NOT TRUE. This claim — prominent among gun-rights advocates — implies that the Second Amendment establishes not just a right to own guns, but a right that the government cannot legally limit. NOT TRUE.

None of our rights work this way. "The Supreme Court has said repeatedly that no right under the Constitution is absolute," says Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. “ In general, where the government has very strong reasons to restrict a right, it can."

Take the First Amendment right to free speech, which sounds pretty ironclad that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech". In the most famous example of what Winkler is talking about, the Supreme Court has said the First Amendment doesn't protect your right to shout "fire!" in a crowded theater that is not, in fact, on fire.

You can’t say whatever you want, wherever you want, in other words, if what you want to say might cause a riot endangering public safety. Also, about those air-tight free-speech rights: You can’t just libel people willy-nilly, or incite murder, or leak government secrets, or distribute child pornography, or say certain words on TV, or pass out political pamphlets wherever you want.

"Same thing with gun rights," Winkler says. "We already restrict access to firearms in many ways. We prohibit people from owning machine guns. We prohibit people from owning shoulder-launched missiles and hand grenades. We prohibit felons and the mentally ill from possessing firearms. We prevent children from owning firearms.”

The Supreme Court declined to review local laws that prohibit certain kinds of weapons like semiautomatic guns. “We see a lot more absolutist rhetoric today than we did in the past,” Winkler says, "partly because we have over the last 40 years seen the rise of a rather extreme pro-gun movement, led by the NRA."

dWe can still argue about semiautomatic weapons bans and universal background checks and whether such policies would curb gun violence. But citing "the Second Amendment!" by itself in those debates isn’t a valid argument for shutting them down.

ENOUGH DEATH IN SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, MOVIES, and BARS
We have seen enough death, this is more than the second amendment, this is about a situation totally out of control. I will support the second amendment with everything in my power as long as it is truth. But I will not support the rhetoric of organizations who are not honest brokers or individuals with no merit.

When Sarah Palin gets honored by the NRA I just have to look elsewhere for reason. Actually she is worse ‘ Either dumber or stupider' than the last time she reared her head and I’m sure it caused Sen. McCain, he denies it, to ask himself ‘ What the f*ck was I thinking'? Her last speech was jumble of mass incoherency, some thought she was either drunk or cannibis actuated.

The truth is the position of the good members of the NRA is being ignored when a substantial percentage 80% plus want to change the gun registration laws, with common sense approaches and enforce the established laws which are ignored. New leadership is needed.

I want an NRA of the old days, sports , hunting, recreation, promoting safety and get the hell out of politics. Obviously dead bodies of women and children, and non-combatants, mean nothing to them, the checks from Wayne LaPierre and the gun lobby do.

And the excuse about 2nd amendment rights and denial of service for those on federal lists such as no-fly and terrorist who might be denied a weapon or concealed carry permit don’t carry easily with me. We can afford to affront someone once in a while, but we can’t afford another San Bernardino. Thats a weak excuse and it’s about time a few in Congress step up since their party is turning in a bad direction anyway.

Strange today with fewer Americans living in rural areas and hunting no longer as popular a recreational activity as it once was, far fewer Americans own guns today than a generation or two ago according to data from the General Social Survey. And their numbers tell the story of a gun culture, for hunting purpose often a rifle and a shotgun has changed to a culture of mostly handguns. And this is just what the NRA encourages, by feeding twin climates of fear.

THE GOEBBELS OF THE NRA
Wayne LaPierre, regularly describes America as a kind of place where only the armed can survive. As he wrote in a 2013 article, “Hurricanes, Tornados. Riots, Terrorists, Gangs, Lone criminals. You need a gun.

The NRA and the gun manufacturers are in a symbiotic relationship, where they both benefit whenever guns become a political issue. For the NRA, it’s about members and money. Follow the money, for the gun manufacturers, it’s about sales and protection from legal liability. And as long as gun owners are kept agitated, angry, and afraid, they both win.

The NRA gets tens of millions of dollars from gun manufacturers, through a variety of channels, not just checks but advertising in NRA publications and special promotions the manufacturers run. For instance, every time someone buys a Ruger, the company donates $2 to the NRA. Buy one from Taurus, and they’ll pay for a year's membership in the NRA.

What do you call the frightened, paranoid, insecure guy having a midlife crisis who prepares for the inevitable breakdown of society and shakes his fist and shows disrespect at the President? You call him a customer. He's the one who responds to every "urgent" appeal from the NRA to donate a few more dollars and go buy another rifle or handgun or two, while the manufacturers watch their profits rise and their stock prices soar. He's money in the bank.

NOT NEW TO THE AR SERIES

Twenty-five plus years ago I had the opportunity of test firing the “shorty” version during trials with bells and whistles, a compact version of the M-16. Being evaluated by the Military for its special assignment troops, it was, lighter faster smaller and more powerful.

It was being tested before being issued to special forces, designated Prototype M-17 at that time and the new number became the M4A1. At a special demonstration at MacDill AFB, I had the prototype (I believe built by Knight Arms) that had the Mil-Spec three shot burst (Auto) lever to single shot (Semi -Auto) and Safe plus a forward grip and a whole bunch of optical attachments on the picatinny rails. After approval it was the first builds of the shorties went to the Air Force security personnel as they had the oldest weaponry of the services some dating real far back like WWII.

My hair was still black then, and I was 25 lbs. lighter. Now before any critics want to comment on my lack of hearing and eye protection, bug off. I have custom deep ear protection form fitted deep with noise abatement, in my ears with tiny velcro sponge overs and my glasses are my prescription shooting glasses (Oversize Orange Lexan) for sporting clays.

Lots of clay bird and rifle shooting, maybe too much, had serious repercussions plus I was getting older. My friend Bengay and with wise advise from Dr. Arthur Itus and his partner Dr. Autho Pedict warned me of impending TMJ had I continued.

I was literally destroying my cheekbone and bite patterns, back to pistol shooting. Years later, I miss the sniper distance shooting work but don’t miss the pain.

I supported Women’s Sport Shooting, got a few chances to shoot with some of the best people like the Louise Mandrell, General Norman Schwartzkoph, and my friend who just happens to make Beretta’s, kinda family affair.

THE COLT FIREARMS NAME GAME
IT CHANGED FROM SERVICE WEAPON M-16 TO THE COLT SPORTER

Last night in Orlando, a man armed with an assault-style rifle killed at least 49 people plus the shooter and wounded 53 others in a crowded nightclub. Six months ago, in San Bernardino, Calif., a man and woman armed with assault-style rifles killed 14 people and wounded 20 others at a holiday party. In 2012, in Aurora, Colo., a man armed with an assault-style rifle killed 12 people and wounded 58 others in a crowded movie theater. Also in 2012, in Newtown Conn., a man armed with an assault-style rifle killed 28 people and wounded 2 others at an elementary school.

One common denominator behind these and other high-casualty mass shootings in recent years is the use of assault style rifles, capable of firing many rounds of ammunition in a relatively short period of time, with high accuracy. And their use in these types of shooting is becoming more common: The customer favorite for mass killing is still the AR-15/M-16 series.

There have been eight high-profile public mass shootings since July of last year, according to a database compiled by Mother Jones magazine. Assault-style rifles were used in seven of those. All AR-15’s

ITS NOT A SPORTING WEAPON, IT WAS DESIGNED FOR KILLING PEOPLE - The .223 round is a maiming round, on impact it tumbles and rips flesh as it was designed to do. Even a poorly aimed hit can be dangerous and require the best in trauma room trained gunshot staff to treat.

San Bernardino clearly shows what two terrorists can do, and the .223 or 5.56 round they used killed 14 and sent 21 to the ER. It has at has no business being on the streets except for the police and military. It is not a home defense weapon, most likely you’ll do more harm than good as it can rip through drywall and into another room almost as lethal.

Its major role like the AK47 and clones is people count and wounding. In war a severely wounded soldier needs five stretcher corpsmen to get him to a MASH facility. That takes six to eight out of action. 35 innocents with less than 65-75 rounds fired. Imagine what they could of done had the police not stopped them. They had 1400 rounds with them and 5000 rounds total in their garage.

And let the police have the tools they need Mr. President. Don’t disarm the cops for political points, as was discussed after Ferguson, and let the bad guys get any more leverage. And San Bernardino proved the need for those “Bearcats” and protected “HUM VEES”.

NOT - CONFIRMED - ONGOING INVESTIGATION - The two weapons, AR-15 that might have been modified were, retrieved from the deceased killers in San Bernardino were both (according to one source) illegally converted to full auto which basically is nothing more than a change of a few sear parts, or reworking the sear and against the laws by the ATF. If so they…

They are keeping quiet about this, nothing confirmed but the straw purchase by the buyer make have implications. Who sold them the sear parts or converted the parts. A good practiced shooter can use the semi-auto mode with deadly results. Regardless it is a severe felony based on classification. Auto’s are class three. But this is yet to be confirmed buy the FBI and if so who did it, was it a gunsmith, a hack job, and how much more was the buyer or the terrorists involved. Thats the real question.

Now a company by the name of Slide Fire has a stock a ten year old can fit to an AR-15 which automatically converts the weapon to firepower equalling a Full Auto Weapon. Very impressive and totally legal so far. If the shooter in the following paragraphs had access to it, it is possible he could have killed a lot more.

6-12-2016 BREAKING NEWS - DEADLIEST SHOOTING IN US HISTORY

Today 6-12-2016, my phone inked computer RSS incoming news alarm woke me from a deep sleep. Unusual when it goes off at 3:30 AM, this is either big or tragic, it was both. I am 102 miles from that location in downtown Orlando. Sometimes it get followed by a call from the paper to go there. No call this time, the entire world was on it’s way.

The original report that approximately 20 people have died and 42 wounded in an attack on a LGBT gay nightclub called Pulse in Downtown Orlando. A very popular place and it was themed Latin night, a common event quite popular with the LGBT community which is very well accepted in the Orlando area. The shooting was at 2:02 AM when 320 people were having a good time either at the bar, the tables or the dance floor. It suddenly turned to horror when shots rang out , police say the suspect took hostages for three hours and died in gunfight with SWAT officers after they breached the building with a Bearcat.

The shooter was armed with an assault rifle, now confirmed and described as an AR-15 and a Glock handgun, and had some ‘type of device’ which was negligible, and the FBI says shooting is ‘act of terrorism’. There are suggestions suspect had 'leanings' towards radical Islam, FBI says

Local journalist Paul Brinkmann says counsellors are being called in to help all those affected by the attack in the Pulse nightclub, which describes itself as Orlando’s premier gay nightspot.

Then from a joint news conference it got worse, 50 dead including the shooter, 53 in the trauma center at ORMC. The ORMC Mass Casualty program initiated at first chance and as soon as possible six trauma surgeons were brought in.

The man being investigated for the gun attack at the Orlando nightclub is 29-year-old Omar Mateen. It is believed the US citizen was not on a terrorism watch list, though he was currently being investigated for a previous unrelated criminal act. It is also unclear why he was investigated by the FBI for hate crimes (verbal) and dropped in rating. They did not take it seriously. Now it turns out others came forward including an ex-wife about his demeanor. It is believed he was equipped with a AR-15, and a Glock handgun purchased a short time ago (under two weeks) and he passed the background test.

Eyewitness Anthony Torres has been writing about his experience. - He and his friends decided to leave Pulse nightclub just before the shooting started. Suddenly shots fired as we made it out just barely. People are screaming that people are dead. Crazy… They are just pulling people out in stretchers loading them up. Omg please god let everyone make it - tonight was supposed to be a fun night! One more minute and we could have been shot or worse..

We were sitting in the VIP section right by the entrance.. We decided to get up and leave ... Not even a few seconds later is when it all started.. People where screaming and running looking for their loved ones along with seeing injured people sitting on the floor .. It was so surreal .. it seemed fake... This had to be planned...

We were lucky to walk away from this, but my condolences to the friends and family who lost their loved ones tonight and for everyone that has been injured tonight; I’m praying for you all..

The White House has just released a statement about the shooting in Orlando. It says President Barack Obama "was briefed this morning by Lisa Monaco, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism". "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of the victims.

"The president asked to receive regular updates as the FBI, and other federal officials, work with the Orlando Police to gather more information, and directed that the federal government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the community."

PART TWO- WHEN CHILDREN DIE

I am a political junkie, and consumer advocate in the Tampa Bay area. I write a lot and there are no sacred cows. Wrongs need to be brought to the surface and that includes those by greedy corrupt politicians, fake religious God partners, bad restaurants, corporate scamming and other lowlife’s. To keep a balance I also write about good people, those who try to make a difference in someones life. But nothing hurts me more than to hear of accidents that could have been avoided and are mortal to our children.

It’s a social issue, the guns are not the problems, as the expression goes, it’s the idiot behind the wheel, the finger on the trigger, and gross neglect. Weapons don’t have brains, children don't know consequence, and neither do some of the parents. They don’t “go off” of their own accord.

When children die from a gunshot there is one commonality. That child did not walk into a Firearms Dealer or Store, present his Mickey Mouse Club Membership card and purchase a weapon with marbles. Someone had a hand in ending this child’s life or his siblings life due to neglectful actions by an adult. Blame it on ….

Parental Stupidity - Ignorance of gun safety , placement, under lock and key, access to children etc. Some people have acquired guns with no training, nor a knowledge of laws pertaining to their weapon.

Another problem is Genetics - Parents who want children to be just like Dad, only Dads never truly embraced safety. Mentions it once goes to the range, and forgets everything. Most likely he is the same party teaching his children guns are macho, manly and so forth.

A real culprit is the Media, Television, Computer Games, and Real War. - Another problem is the media exposure. The news media doesn’t do enough to promote gun safety, the TV has entertainment shows are mostly shooting and violence and lets face it we live in a country with 340 million people and about two guns for everyone. Having an ongoing war for 13 years certainly qualifies as one of the main endorsers of violence.

And number one on my hit list are computer games where you reboot and re-life certainly sends a bad message. Dead kids don’t get up for another round. Thats an 8 year old at the NRA show in

DON’T BLAME THE GUNS, BLAME THE IDIOT ADULTS
MAY 2016 - My paper tells me this week alone two children in separate accidents under the age of six managed to find loaded guns in their home left unlocked, unguarded and the children killed themselves. One was four and one was five. Parents at fault.

APRIL 2016 - Another unsecured loaded gun found it’s way into the hands of a five year old boy who shot his 4 year old sister to death. State laws will dictate trial of the parent under neglect and the accessible gun laws. Regardless it won’t bring back the child. Parents at fault.

NOVEMBER 2013 - A nine year old was arrested by local police in my town in the Tampa Bay area when the bus driver saw a gun in this kids pocket and radioed law enforcement. It was a two shot Derringer in a 45 plus caliber, a common back up pocket weapon commonly carried in bear country. Had he fired it the results would have been devastating. The kid went to juvenile hall and under Florida law the parent(s) will be charged. By rights the child can even be taken away from the parents.

This article contains information gleaned from the front pages of the newspapers, some research on my behalf and a desire to get the truth out because those with interests (people who make money from this endeavor) try to lighten or assimilate the tragedy. the NRA will tell you these are isolated incidents.

APRIL 2016 - Three months ago, the very pretty and not so bright Jamie Gilt, 31, a mother, self adored model, actress, story teller high-profile pro-gun activist, whatever was shot in the back by her four year old boy after grandstanding probably looking for some publicity from the NRA. A real gun advocate,e almost a Palin clone, she bragged about she’s teaching her 4 year old how to shoot. It appears she never graduated the four year old course on being a good mother.

Jamie posts about firearms on her social media accounts while driving through Putnam County, Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday. She was shot in the back by her four-year-old son after he found her pistol lying on the back seat of her truck just 24 hours after she boasted about his shooting skills online. This true, he hit the target at almost two feet.

“Even my 4 year old gets jacked up to target shoot with the .22". She reportedly believes she has the right to shoot anyone who threatens her family - and plans to teach her offspring the same mentality.

I can see it now “The Terror of the Kindergarten” on the HBO channel. Watch a five year old settle disputes over who gets the sandbox!

She placed the youth in a carrier in the backseat with a loaded gun accessible to him…he shot her in the back. Mom might see some time when she recovers. Had the bullet struck the spine, she might never recover, she is very lucky. Lucky but stupid and I don’t believe she stands a chance at the Mother of the Year awards.

Jamie is expected to face a misdemeanor charge of allowing a minor access to a firearm, authorities said Tuesday. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday filed an affidavit with local prosecutors asking that Gilt be charged with the second-degree misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of up to 180 days in jail, Capt. Gator DeLoach told reporters.

And not to say she’s an angel… In 2013, Jamie Gilt, 30, was arrested by Jacksonville Sheriff's Department on April 4, 2013 after she was detained by security guards at Dillard's department store in the town. The prominent gun rights activist was spotted stuffing children’s clothes into her purse and hiding the bag in the child's stroller. She was arrested by Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department and charged with a felony count Grand Theft Retail. Officers released her on a bond of $2,503 pending a court hearing.

‘The suspect was detained by loss protection personnel and the property, totaling $455 was recovered. 'The suspect was arrested on the above charge and transported to the Duval County Jail.' Had she been convicted of a felony grand theft and had a felony arrest record she would not have access to guns.

And as if stupidity can’t happen again…

APRIL 27, 2016 MORE TRADGEDY
One day after Patrice Price was accidentally shot to death by her 2-year-old son while driving, her friends and family gathered to remember her as a woman who loved her children. "She loved shopping, she loved dancing, she loved her kids. She loved looking fabulous," said her sister, Cherneice Stewart.

The 26-year-old Milwaukee woman was driving her boyfriend's car when a gun slid out from under the driver's seat and her 2-year-old son picked it up and fired it from the back seat. The bullet went through the driver's seat and hit Price in the back as she drove south on Highway 175 near W. Vliet St. about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Adding to the tragedy was the fact Price had borrowed a car from her boyfriend, a security guard, because hers had been stolen four days earlier. When her car was stolen, the car seats for her sons — the 2-year-old and a 1-year-old — were also stolen, said Stewart.

MAY 2013 - Ms. Saylor Martine, of Oklahoma, fifteen, died after she was shot in the head while toying with a firearm. She was with her sister. The culprit, according to the police, a semi-auto owned by her parents. It was purchased by Mom for her own protection. So the story goes, she and her sister had been handling the gun when they placed it down on a counter, where it discharged.   I call her the girl with angel eyes, how tragic.

No one believes the gun went off by itself, and fifty years in this game and I haven’t seen one go off by itself except in a fire. But I’m sure there is enough grief to go around, and the Sheriff is hesitant is doing anything about it. He spoke and thought it was a gun defect. Obviously there is more to this. An accident means no one is charged, especially the only one who knows the truth. The sister or possibly the mother, but a child is dead and someone was negligent. The mother should be charged, and the child will have to live with it.

OCTOBER 2008 Christopher Bizilj
A family man goes to a gun show in his small New England town of Westfield, MA with his son and a camera. It was co-sponsored by the local traffic ticketing Sheriff who had a financial consideration (sponsor and partner) in the show. See picture of this A-Hole below.

With an “Instructor” watching, (determined to be uncertified, not old enough, the son of one of the sponsors, recently recruited, 14 year old) the 8-year-old boy at the gun fair aimed a full auto Uzi submachine gun at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera. The 14 year old “Instructor” had told the father he didn’t think this was safe.

It was his first time shooting a fully automatic gun, and anyone who has ever fired an UZI or Scorpion or Scepter know these things have the muzzle rise of an ATLAS rocket for the untrained.

It was too much for the 8-year old boy, simply the weapon had too much muzzle rise for him and literally shot his head off with Dad in the beginning proudly filming this important event in his child’s life. No one got charged.

Now gun safety experts — and some gun enthusiasts at the club where the shooting happened — are wondering why such a young child was allowed, permitted, in the same range, in the same field, at the same gun range to fire a full auto weapon used in war.

Simple, follow the money. Money, a gun show, lots of vendors showing their wares, you don’t have to be an idiot to figure that one out. And the sheriff put it together. Local, state and federal authorities are also investigating whether everyone involved had proper licenses or if anyone committed a criminal act. Well there’s the hangup. Most prosecutors are elected or appointed officials and the lobbies are very powerful. We predict nothing will come of it.

More on this story and the conclusion: Http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/14/massachusetts.gun.show.verdict/index.html

During the gun show, was firing the micro Uzi when he accidentally shot himself in the head. He died instantly. At the trial, upon hearing the verdict, Fleury broke into tears. He later hugged his wife and spoke to reporters outside the courtroom, offering his condolences to the Bizilj family.

"This was meant to be an educational event for people and unfortunately this terrible accident happened," Fleury said, his voice heavy with emotion. "And I do want to express my heartfelt sympathy to the Bizilj family and their friends for this terrible accident.” Christopher's father, Charles Bizilj, was present at the time of the shooting and videotaped the entire incident. Parts of that tape were shown to the jury, which also heard emotional testimony from the father. The trial lasted 10 days.

"I ran over to him. His eyes were open and I saw no reason for him to be on the ground. And I tried to talk to him and he didn't respond. I put my hand behind his head to try to pick him up and there was a large portion of his cranium missing. And I put my hand against the back of his head," Charles Bizilj told members of the Hampden County jury.

Fleury faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter and up to 10 years for each count of furnishing a machine gun to a minor. His lawyer, Rosemary Scapicchio, had argued that while Fleury helped organize the show, he wasn't directly responsible and hadn't actually given guns to the children there.

Carl Giuffre and Domenico Spano have also been charged in connection with the incident. The two were in charge of the show's shooting range and are accused of having provided the Uzi that killed Christopher Bizilj. Prosecutor William Bennett said he will decide next week whether to proceed with the case against them, given Fleury's acquittal.

AUGUST 2014 Charles Vacca, 39
PHOENIX — The 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot and killed a firing range instructor with an Uzi last week told her mother immediately afterward that the gun was too powerful for her and that it had hurt her shoulder, according to a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office report released Tuesday.

The family huddled around the girl, fearing she was injured, and did not realize that instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was wounded until another employee ran over, according to the report. After realizing what had occurred, the girl's parents immediately removed her and their other two children from the property and brought them to the nearby restaurant so they wouldn't see what happened, the report states.

The New Jersey family had been vacationing in Las Vegas and on Aug. 25 was shuttled to Bullets and Burgers, the firing range at Last Chance property in White Hills, Ariz. The family had taken a ride on a monster truck before heading to the shooting range, according to the report.

The girl's father was the first to fire the weapon, a mini Uzi 9mm, and then the girl took her turn. With the girl's mother recording, Vacca showed the 9-year-old how to stand and shoot the gun, allowing her to fire a few rounds.

At this point Vacca switched the gun into its automatic setting, according to a deputy who would later view the mother's video. "(The father) said all of a sudden he heard a lot of rounds fire and saw (his daughter) drop the gun to the ground," the report states.

Range instructor Ross Miller witnessed the incident, and told deputies that he saw the girl start to shoot the weapon, and the recoil sent it straight up into the air and "crossed the path where Charles had his head," the report stated. Employees immediately started applying pressure to Vacca's head wound and called 911.

Medical personnel arrived and stabilized Vacca before transporting him to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas via helicopter. Vacca passed away shortly thereafter, according to the report.

The girl's parents did not permit investigators to talk to their children because they were "going through a lot," the report states. The man said his family was in shock and they wanted to leave the area and return to Las Vegas, according to the report. The girl's mother allowed investigators to access the video on her cellphone.

Investigators collected evidence from the scene, including the firearm, the magazine and four live rounds. Deputies were instructed to retrieve copies of the release waivers signed by the family, but were told by employees that the waivers had blown away after the incident. But prosecutors are not filing charges in the case. Because the mistake was made by the instructor who is dead.

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