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[Rep. Warren Davidson @Rep_Davidson]

FISA Section 702 expires on Friday.

It is a valuable tool to monitor foreign threats, but it should not be used as a blank check to spy on Americans.

Fix FISA. Require warrants. Uphold the Fourth Amendment.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@HoffmanTactical Took about three hours of trying but just placed my order. Thank you for what you do and for constantly innovating.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@acjuelich Our rollout started with Audit mode and moved about 3/4 to block over three months. Still have a few for Office that I’d like to enable but can’t. The KQL, and even the ASR canned report is pretty helpful.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

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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#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@sziehr @RivianTrackr As @TravisKetchum pointed out in a recent video, even if they had gone with 800v or a more expensive fast charge chemistry, the infrastructure isn’t there to take advantage of it. RJ says people use fast DC charging ~6-7 times/year. Is adding cost worth the hype?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

We need to stop the backdoor searches of Americans’ data and prevent the government from spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant based on probable cause.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@lovelivesatire @RecklessSquirel @PrintsandtheRev @UGlobin36458 @NaviGoBoom I think the reuse is great, but the lower is not an A2 lower without those reinforcements. You can stamping whatever you want but those changes are the distinction used by the title 2 community. They didn’t make those changes for no reason - adding thickness and reinforcements….

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@deadend_king Love the shoop sound of the seal breaking on a fresh ammo can!

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

They can restamp all they want, but that receiver is missing the reinforcements of a true A2 lower. The front pushpin area and the buffer tube are missing the bulked up reinforcements of a true A2 lower.

I’ve seen a full auto marked AR-15 like the one above and a true M16A2 (auto marked) with the lower reinforcements.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@d19augu @MrMxptlx @BuzzPatterson And along the way the debris from the engine got sucked into the center engine and killed it too.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@CalebChamberla6 @OSHCutInc Post the link to the cut files and the BOM please m

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Dear GOP,

I know I'm new to this movement.

I'm not anyone important, I'm just a regular voter who started paying attention.

...and I'm trying to figure out WHAT IN THE HELL is going on with you

Because honestly... I'm really confused.

From where I am, it looks like you're sitting on the EASIEST WINS IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY and for some reason... you just won't take them.

Why aren't you forcing daily votes on clean, single-issue bills that everyone already agrees on?

Mandatory voter ID.
Defunding fraud.
Defunding the Taliban.

Stuff that polls through the roof and the stuff normal people agree on.

Why aren't you at LEAST trying to win?

I don't understand.

Why are you betraying the same people who gave you a mandate... a few months ago???

Why are you still funding fraud?!
Why are you still funding NGOs that HATE conservatives?!
Why are some of you trying to push MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS?!

I keep trying to assume there's some smart reason I just can't think of... some masterful long game

...but it doesn't look like a long game to me

It looks A HELL OF A LOT like corruption.

It looks like you'd rather lose comfortably than win for the America people, uncomfortably.

It looks like you're more scared of making Democrats a little sad, than you are of disappointing the people who put you in power.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how that math works in your favor... unless there's corruption at play.

You tell people like me to show up.

You have said things like...

Speak up!
Vote!
Donate!
Volunteer!
Bring our friends along!

AND WE HAVE!!!

BUT WE NEED YOU TO DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING AT ALL, FOR US.

Use the power that was JUST given to you and FORCE THE VOTES.

Make the other side go on the record OVER AND OVER.

Enforce the talking filibuster.
PASS THE SAVE ACT!!!
DEFUND THE TALIBAN.
STOP PUSHING MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS.

You won... would you PLEASE start acting like it?!

Because if you're not even going to try, I genuinely don't know what we're doing here.

Sincerely,

A brand new conservative who isn't going anywhere, but really, REALLY needs you to start fighting.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@LeaderJohnThune How about you get off your butt and pass the SAVE act?

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@RidgelineCyber Ran this yesterday.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@mandyarthur @RepThomasMassie

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@RepThomasMassie @RepBoebert Hey @RepJamesComer how about supporting a fellow Kentuckian here and get on board. Asking as a constituent…

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

People should be less concerned with how many bills someone passes in Congress and be more appreciative of how many terrible bills they have stopped.

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts How about you cut spending, pass the SAVE act, and act like a republican and not a uniparty?

[Ferbz @ClarkeFerber]

@travis4nh Less that it should be legal, but more it shouldn’t be illegal. You own the consequences of your actions. If I want to play with ballistics and throw some mortar rounds into the air, I should be able to as long as I’m willing to own the consequences if my actions impact others.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

Are you satisfied with the job that Congress is currently doing?

Please share for broader polling.