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@ziegler2u You’re so right. And when that time comes, what you owned and what your “status” was, doesn’t matter. We’ve lost the ability to be kind to one another. The “race & social status” baiting of the Democrats has created this destruction in our society. It has to change.
Well, sparky, the evidence is coming… remember that raid in Atlanta to secure all the documents and electronic records? Yea, it’s coming. Democrats are the absolute masters of voting fraud… just look at what’s happening right now with mail in ballots in California… buy it’s all about to come out. But, of course, you won’t can because you’re so brainwashed by the Democrat Psy-ops nothing, not even real evidence, could change your mind.
So, why the hate Tina? We all know what he meant. Save the Republic, save democracy… we need the SAVE America Act to stop the kind of BS mail in voting that’s happening in California (and many other blue states) to bring back “trust” in the results of our elections. I have never cared if a Democrat or Republican ultimately won if the election was “above board”. Let the real American people speak. Unfortunately, after 2020 and 2022, I don’t believe ANY election is above board. And there are many millions of American Citizens who feel the same way.
@RagingBull767@pensivejames And if we don’t vote in mass like it’s 2024 again, it will get worse than before. The administration is getting them out, just not fast enough.
DAY 5. National Gun Violence Awareness Month. And I am still here. Still at the chalkboard. Still with data. And today I have a story for you that I think about more than almost any other.
I want you to imagine what six seconds feels like when it matters.
Not six seconds waiting for a light to turn green. Not six seconds deciding which coffee to order. Six seconds in which two people you know — men you worshipped alongside, men whose handshakes you knew, whose kids you watched grow up in the same pews — are shot dead in front of you. And then the man who killed them turns toward the rest of the congregation with a loaded shotgun and there are two hundred and forty people in that room who have nowhere to go.
Six seconds.
That is the entire story of December 29, 2019, at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. And I need you to know it, because the people who want your gun have been hoping you forgot it.
His name is Jack Wilson. He was 71 years old on the morning it happened. A firearms instructor. A volunteer — VOLUNTEER — security team member at his church. A man with a wife of 51 years who raised their family in Hood County and who, by all accounts, was just a steady, quiet, prepared man living a decent life.
Keith Thomas Kinnunen walked into that Sunday service in disguise. Fake beard. Fake wig. Long coat. He sat down in a pew like everyone else. He waited through communion. And then he stood up, walked toward a church official, pulled a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun from under that coat, and fired.
Richard White, 67, was a security volunteer. He was shot first. Tony Wallace, 64, was a deacon — he had just finished passing out communion to the people he loved, doing the most ordinary and sacred thing imaginable, when he was shot and killed.
And then Kinnunen started walking toward the front of the sanctuary.
Two hundred and forty people, Mike. Two hundred and forty.
Jack Wilson said afterward that he had "eyes" on Kinnunen from the moment he walked in. Something about him. A gut that comes from years of paying attention. He was standing at the rear of the church. He drew his SIG Sauer P229. He had people still standing, still panicking, still in his line of fire.
"I had to wait about half a second — or a second — to get my shot," he said. "I fired one round. The subject went down."
One round. Forty-five to forty-seven feet. To the head. In a room full of panicking civilians between him and the target.
The entire attack — from first shot to last — was over in SIX SECONDS.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said afterward: "This church responded in seconds and it saved the lives of potentially over 200 people. They are the model for what other churches and places of business should focus on."
Jack Wilson said something else. Something that has stayed with me since the first time I read it.
"God's hand was on mine when I pulled the trigger."
He called himself "no hero." He said he was placed in a position he did not want to be in but HAD to respond because — his exact words — "evil exists."
Evil exists.
Three words that every gun control bill in the history of this republic cannot address, refute, negotiate with, or legislate into submission. Evil exists. Jack Wilson knew it. He was ready for it. Two hundred and forty people went home to their families on a Sunday afternoon in December because one 71-year-old volunteer had the tool, the training, and the will to respond to it in under a second.
Now. Let us talk about the numbers behind why this story matters beyond White Settlement.
The FBI — the same FBI that is supposed to be tracking these things — reported just three new incidents of armed civilians stopping active shooters between 2022 and 2024. Three. In three years. The Crime Prevention Research Center, using the FBI's own definition, documented 78 such cases over the same period. The FBI missed 75 of them. Not miscounted. MISSED. According to Dr. John Lott's October 2025 analysis, the FBI has been systematically undercounting armed citizen defensive stops by more than three times the actual rate — for over a decade.
Why does that matter? Because policy gets written from those numbers. Laws get passed from those numbers. Senators cite those numbers in committee hearings while standing in front of the cameras in orange shirts and talking about awareness months.
Here is a number they will not put on a billboard: in locations where citizens are legally permitted to carry — meaning not gun-free zones — armed citizens stopped 51.5 PERCENT of active shooters. HALF. Not one in ten. Not one in twenty. HALF of active shootings in carry-permitted locations are stopped by a legally armed civilian.
Here is another one. Concealed carry permit holders in Florida committed violent crimes at a rate of 0.2 per 100,000. The general population rate? 4.0 per 100,000. The people the gun control crowd has been warning you about for thirty years are TWENTY TIMES SAFER than the average person walking the streets of your city.
And here is one more, because I am a science teacher and I do not stop at one data point. Since 1987, studies and surveys consistently show between 1.4 million and 4.3 million defensive gun uses in the United States every year. The floor estimate — the absolute most conservative number from the National Crime Victimization Survey — is 65,000 per year. 65,000 times every year, at a bare minimum, a law-abiding American uses a firearm to stop or deter a violent crime against them or someone they love. And the FBI reports 3 in a three-year period.
That is not a measurement gap. That is a deliberate editorial choice made at every level of the system, from the FBI to the nightly news to the June orange ribbon fundraising campaign, to make sure you see the cost of firearms and never see the benefit.
Jack Wilson is 77 years old now. He is a county commissioner in Hood County, Texas. He still attends West Freeway Church of Christ. He still goes to that building where two of his friends were murdered and where God's hand was on his that morning. He said he hopes he never has to do it again. But he would.
That is not a threat. That is the quiet, steady, uncelebrated reality of 102 million armed Americans who go about their lives every day prepared to be the last line between the people they love and the evil that exists in the world.
The awareness campaign wants you focused on the 4 people who died that Sunday. I want you focused on the 240 who did not.
Both facts are real. Only one of them justifies the policy the left is selling.
Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism. So every June, they make sure you only see half of them.
But what do I know — I am only a medically retired combat medic, a science teacher who has built his entire career on the idea that evidence matters more than emotion, and a father of four who sleeps better at night knowing that Jack Wilson's kind of person exists in this country.
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@Excellentsalvic No. The cheating in California is massive. As I read form someone on X, you can vote your way INTO communism, but you can’t vote your way out. After all the fake ballets are counted, I’m not sure Spencer Pratt will be in the top 2. Watch.
Oh my god, give me a break. We didn’t go to open the straight, we went to crush the nuclear program and make sure they couldn’t have a nuclear weapon. If we hadn’t gone in, and Iran completed the 9-11 nuclear weapons they had the enriched uranium to build, then what? All you idiots would be saying “why didn’t someone stop them”! When you see the rattlesnake in the room, you kill it. You don’t wait for it to bite. For 47 years Iran has terrorized the region, proxy terrorist groups have killed many innocent people, and this regime killed 40 thousand of its own people just months ago. But hey, let’s just sit back and watch. Fucking retards.
You’re so right @MurraySuggests that we should just “carry on” and let Iran and proxy terrorists run wild over “civilization”. Thousands of dead Americans over the years… too bad I guess. Holding the threat of shutting down 20% of world oil exports through the strait of Hormuz or collecting “protection money” in international waterways for guaranteeing safe passage… oh, but the jooos ! STFU and let the adults in the room fix the shit-show your Democrat wonder boy Carter created.
@C_3C_3@DB09215406 Well, since it’s not a Federal election, the states can do whatever they want to. Which is why California will become an even greater shot-hole before any change takes place.
@BskiMike22802 always brings the FACTS to an argument. Not feelings, not Psy Ops… truth. Follow him for some very thorough, thought provoking content about many topics you don’t know about… but really should, to be an informed citizen of these great United States.
Let me ruin your June for a second.
Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.
So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.
In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.
Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.
But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.
Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.
ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.
I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.
Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?
There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.
Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.
Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.
When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.
There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.
No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.
Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.
I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.
So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.
I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.
You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.
But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.
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He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.
But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.
You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.