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A "family festival" in suburban Kansas City was overrun with "teens" who began BEATING POLICE OFFICERS and UNLEASHED BEAR SPRAY on attendees.
The fire department kept coming back to treat people who couldn't breathe.
It took 3 POLICE AGENCIES to get the crowd under control and during a foot chase, officers recovered a 3D-PRINTED GHOST GUN off another juvenile.
Only two teens were detained and then released to their parents.
This is the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW teens have hijacked this festival.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!
@EEEE7ft @GOP_is_Gutless I wonder how Karmelo is going to feel about not using that money for a good defense lawyer once he's rotting on prison.
Oh well, at least he has a stack of shoes to return to in 30 years...
Unless mom & pops run out of spending money and have to pawn them.
A Massachusetts school is allowing Sikh students to bring knives to school for “religious purposes” while admitting any other student who brings a knife would be suspended or expelled.
You can’t even make this up.
I’ve debated on speaking about this but I’ve decided staying silent is being complicit. It’s going to be long so know that. I’ve taken my daughter to the mall in Tulsa to shop her whole life. Recently, that mall has become unbearable. It’s overrun with people who don’t speak English, don’t adhere to our societal norms (personal space, waiting in line, etc). I can’t stand it so we don’t go anymore.
I’ve had many of my kids birthdays at Incredible Pizza in Tulsa. I decided to take my grandkids there yesterday. Same situation. Overrun with people who don’t speak English, have no manners, don’t know how to be civilized in a civil society. I live in supposedly the reddest state in the country. Why are we being forced to deal with these people who refuse to assimilate & don’t belong here?
Before you type your paragraph to me about being racist, Islamophic, or any of your other stupid buzzwords, know that I don’t care. Don’t waste your time saying it. IDGAF. I want MY COUNTRY for my family, not cheap replacements that don’t contribute & ruin every place they inhabit. There, I said it.
DAY 7 of National Gun Violence Awareness Month. And I need you to hear something over the noise.
She was screaming for her son.
That is the detail that stays with me. Not the blood. Not the chaos. Not the stampede of people pouring toward the exits of a Michigan Walmart on a Saturday afternoon in July. It is the sound of a mother somewhere in that store, screaming for her son, that tells you everything about what kind of moment this was.
It is July 26, 2025. Garfield Township, Michigan. 4:40 in the afternoon. A crowded Walmart on a summer Saturday — the kind of afternoon where the parking lot is full and the aisles are full and there are carts and kids and people checking their phones comparing grocery lists. Normal. Ordinary. The specific, unremarkable Saturday afternoon that most of us have lived a hundred times without thinking about it.
And then Bradford James Gille walks in.
He is 42 years old. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia since 1999. Between 2015 and September of 2024 — just ten months before this day — he lived at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Saline, Michigan. His mother told a reporter years ago that her son was fine when he took his medication. The problem, she said, was that his illness told him he was fine and did not need it.
He brought a folding knife with a 3.5-inch blade. And he started stabbing people. Randomly. Employees. Shoppers. Anybody within reach. Eleven people in total — six of them critical, five serious — before he turned and walked toward the parking lot.
The store erupted. People stampeding. Carts overturning. A woman somewhere screaming for her son. The specific kind of sound that does not leave you, if you have ever heard it.
And then Derrick Perry moves.
He is a retired United States Marine. An off-duty employee of Munson Healthcare. A man who, by his own description, was in that store for the same reason everyone else was — because it was Saturday and he needed something. He sees Gille heading for the door. He does not run. He follows.
In the parking lot, on video that was seen by millions of people on X within hours, Perry draws his legally-carried concealed handgun. He plants himself between Gille and the rest of the world. He shouts at him to drop the knife. And while bystanders around him are calling for him to shoot — people yelling at him to just end it — Derrick Perry holds his ground and holds his fire.
Because he is not the judge. He is not the jury. He is not the executioner. He said so himself, on Good Morning America, two days later.
"The only thing that separated me from the other gentleman that had stepped in as well was what I was carrying in my hands."
Let that sentence sit for a moment. The other gentleman — Matt Kolakowski, also a Marine, who rammed Gille with a shopping cart — was willing but unarmed. Perry was willing AND armed. The gun is what made the difference. Not the willingness. The tool.
Gille dropped the knife.
Perry held him at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived. Not one additional person was stabbed after Perry drew his weapon. Not one.
Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said it plainly at the press conference: "What they did was amazing. It's not very often that we have citizens that are willing to step up and take action."
The Traverse City Police Chief called Perry a hero. His daughter posted on Facebook that it was "a proud daughter moment." His daughter-in-law called him "a true hero." People suggested a Presidential Medal of Freedom. And then — as predictable as the sunrise — the national conversation moved on to the next thing, and Derrick Perry went back to his life, shaken in the ways that men who have seen real violence get shaken, and mostly quiet about it, the way Marines tend to be.
Bradford James Gille was charged with one count of terrorism and eleven counts of assault with intent to murder. That is what this was legally classified as. Terrorism.
And the man who stopped the terrorism? He was carrying a concealed handgun on a Saturday afternoon in Michigan because he has the right to do that. And because of that right — because of that specific, constitutionally protected, politically embattled, orange-ribbon-opposed RIGHT — eleven people were the last victims instead of more.
Now let me give you the number that the awareness campaign does not want you connecting to Derrick Perry's story.
Because there is a number. And it is extraordinary.
In 2025, the homicide rate in the United States dropped to approximately 4.0 per 100,000 people. The Council on Criminal Justice, analyzing data from 40 cities, found homicides fell 21 percent from 2024 alone. The FBI's own preliminary data showed an 18 percent drop in homicides between September 2024 and August 2025. Gun assaults specifically fell 22 percent. Robberies fell 23 percent.
If those final numbers hold, 2025 will have the lowest homicide rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900. One hundred and twenty-five years of records. And 2025 sits at the bottom.
Here is what happened simultaneously, in the same country, during the same years.
Since the Supreme Court struck down "may issue" carry laws in Bruen v. New York in June 2022, the number of states with constitutional carry — meaning no permit required to carry a legally-owned firearm — went from a handful to 29. Twenty-nine states. Forty-six point eight percent of the American population now lives in a constitutional carry state. Over 67 percent of the land mass of this country is now constitutional carry territory.
Everytown for Gun Safety predicted crime would soar after Bruen. They said it explicitly. More guns, more violence. The data they did not predict: homicides fell 14.9 percent in 2023, another 18 percent in 2024, and another estimated 21 percent in 2025. Three consecutive years of historic drops in violent crime, every single one of them occurring AFTER the largest expansion of legal carry rights in American history.
Meanwhile, gun ownership itself hit record highs. Tens of millions of firearms were purchased over the same period. More guns. In more hands. In more states with fewer restrictions.
Less crime.
Every single year. Three years running. By historic margins.
John Lott spent decades running the numbers. More Guns, Less Crime. That was not a talking point. That was 13,312 statistically controlled regressions across every county in America, now confirmed in real-time by the largest crime drop in 125 years happening simultaneously with the largest expansion of carry rights in American history.
Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.
And here is the fact that should end this particular argument permanently: the people who told you more armed citizens meant more violence were not just wrong. They were wrong in the most measurable, most documented, most empirically catastrophic way possible. The opposite happened. On the scale of an entire nation. For three straight years.
Derrick Perry is not a statistic. He is a Marine who was carrying a handgun on a Saturday afternoon because it is his right to do so, and who used that right to stop a terrorist from stabbing more people in a Michigan Walmart while a mother somewhere in that store screamed for her son.
He held his fire when he did not have to. He held his ground when everyone else ran. And then he went home. No congressional medal. No prime-time documentary. No awareness month.
Just a man. A gun. And eleven people who went to the hospital instead of the morgue.
I think about that mother a lot. The one screaming for her son. I hope she found him. I hope they sat in the parking lot afterward and held each other for a long time without saying anything, the way families do when they realize how close it was.
I hope she knows Derrick Perry's name.
But what do I know — I am only a combat medic who has heard that specific sound before and who has never once wished there were fewer armed, trained, willing people in the vicinity when it happens.
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@MarketMindful88 @SRPostX If I went to your country I wouldn't break your laws.
I'm not happy he died, but if he hadn't been breaking the law he'd still be alive today.
Also, show me ANY proof this was racist. He went to a high crime area he should have avoided. What does that have to do with race?
Credentialism is one of the strangest religions ever invented. A piece of paper signed by the right stranger is treated as evidence of wisdom, while actual results are treated as anecdotal.
It’s what mediocre people build when reality keeps asking for proof of competence.
DAY 6 of National Gun Violence Awareness Month. And today I need you to smell the charcoal.
Close your eyes for a second. Stay with me.
It is a warm Wednesday night in Charleston, West Virginia. May 25, 2022. The kind of late-spring evening where the air is thick with that specific mix of grilled meat and cut grass and whatever someone's grandmother brought in a covered dish. There is a combined birthday and graduation party outside the Renaissance Circle apartment complex. Thirty to forty people. Neighbors. Family. Kids running around the parking lot the way kids do when the adults are busy celebrating.
Somebody is turning another year older. Somebody else just finished school, closed a chapter, crossed a finish line that probably felt like it took everything they had. There is music. There is laughter. There are children. The kind of night that should disappear quietly into memory the way good evenings do, unremarkable in the best possible way.
And then Dennis Butler drives through.
He is 37 years old. Four-time convicted felon. He has roughly twenty arrests on the Kanawha County books by the time this night is over. He has faced firearms charges, malicious wounding charges — charges that repeatedly collapsed when witnesses failed to show up to court, the way charges against certain men have a way of doing. A career of consequences that never quite caught up to him.
He drives through that parking lot too fast. Because there are children playing. Someone — some parent or neighbor, tired and decent in the way tired, decent people are — tells him to slow down. Politely. The way you tell a stranger to slow down when kids are in the lot.
Butler leaves.
The party exhales. Music comes back up. Someone refills a cup. The smell of the grill is still in the air and the kids are still running and for a minute everything is fine.
Then the headlights come back.
Butler parks his vehicle. He reaches into the back seat. And the man who left because someone asked him to slow down in a parking lot where children were playing comes back with an AR-15-style rifle. And he starts shooting into the crowd.
Thirty to forty people, friend. Families. A graduation party. Children.
Here is where the story changes. Here is the part that CNN decided you did not need to know.
A woman at that party — her name was never released, which is how she wanted it, and I will respect that — saw Butler in the back seat and heard the shots and made a decision in the space of a single breath that most people will never be tested to make. She did not run. She drew her legally-owned pistol. She engaged the threat. She fired. Butler was struck multiple times. He died on scene.
Not one person at that party was injured. Not one.
Charleston Police Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett stood at the podium afterward and said this: "Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night."
He said something else. Something that I think about every time I hear the words "gun control":
"She did the right thing. I don't know if any other person would have done that."
I do not know her name. She probably went back to her life the following day, shaken in ways that do not have clean edges, living with the specific and complicated weight of having done the exact right thing in the worst possible moment. That is not glamorous. That is not a movie. That is a human being who was handed an impossible situation and did not flinch.
She deserves a congressional medal. She got a brief mention on local news in West Virginia and then she disappeared from the national conversation entirely.
Here is why.
This story broke on May 26, 2022. The day after. The DAY AFTER Uvalde. Every major network was running wall-to-wall coverage of Robb Elementary. Every talking head in America was building the case for gun control in real time, emotional and urgent and righteous. And on that exact same news cycle, a woman with a pistol stopped a four-time convicted felon with an AR-15 from massacring thirty to forty people at a birthday party in West Virginia.
ABC did not lead with it. NBC did not lead with it. CNN did not run it. MSNBC — shocking, I know — did not find a way to make it fit. Because it did not fit. A woman with a legally-owned handgun stopping a man with an AR-15 who was shooting into a crowd of children is not a story that serves the agenda being constructed that week.
Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. They claimed to want to stop gun violence. They suppressed the story of the gun stopping the violence. Every single time.
Now let me give you the numbers behind what just happened in that parking lot, because this is a science classroom and we do not stop at one story.
The Crime Prevention Research Center ran the analysis the FBI should have run years ago. Using the FBI's own definition of an active shooter — a person killing or attempting to kill people in a public space — Lott's October 2025 study identified 561 active shooting incidents between 2014 and 2024. The FBI reported 374 and credited armed citizens with stopping 14. Lott found the actual number is 202. That is 36 percent of active shooting incidents stopped by a legal concealed carrier. MORE THAN ONE IN THREE. The FBI's number — the one cited in the Senate, the one cited in gun control hearings, the one cited by every organization with an orange awareness ribbon — was off by a factor of more than fourteen.
Here is a number that should end every "but who are these people carrying guns" argument permanently.
Concealed carry permit holders in Florida and Texas — states that track this data rigorously — are convicted of firearms-related violations at ONE-TWELFTH the rate of police officers. Not half. Not one-third. ONE-TWELFTH. The people the gun control campaign has spent thirty years warning you about are an order of magnitude more law-abiding than the trained professionals we trust to carry firearms by job description. A 2025 peer-reviewed study by Lott, Moody, and Wang confirmed the conviction rate for concealed permit holders in Texas at 17.6 per 100,000. The general adult population arrest rate runs between 2,100 and 2,200 per 100,000. That is not a rounding error. That is a different category of human behavior entirely.
And this is the part where I need to tell you something the government already decided for itself — twice — in federal court.
DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 1989. The Supreme Court of the United States held, in a case involving a four-year-old boy beaten into a permanent vegetative state while the county watched and documented and did nothing, that the government has NO constitutional duty to protect you from harm by a private individual. None. Zero. The Constitution does not guarantee you a police response. It does not guarantee that the officer will arrive in time. It does not guarantee anything except that you have the right to live in a republic where those laws are written.
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 2005. A woman had a restraining order against her estranged husband. He took her three daughters. She called the police. Repeatedly. They did not act. He murdered all three children. She sued. The Supreme Court held — again — that she had no enforceable constitutional right to police protection. The restraining order was not a guarantee. The government was not liable.
Two cases. Two unanimous holdings. The government is not required to save you.
So let me put this as plainly as a science teacher can put anything: the political class that just told you — in two Supreme Court decisions — that law enforcement has no legal obligation to protect you as an individual, is the same political class demanding that you surrender the tool that a woman in Charleston, West Virginia used to save thirty to forty people on a warm Wednesday night in May.
She did not wait for the police. She could not wait for the police. The parking lot was already full of gunfire before anyone could have dialed 911. And when it was over, every single person at that birthday party went home alive. Every. Single. One.
Dennis Butler — four-time convicted felon, man who came back to a children's party with an AR-15 because someone asked him to slow down — is the only person who did not.
Justice is sometimes that clean.
The woman who made it clean does not have a monument. She does not have a congressional hearing. She does not have a June awareness month. She has her life and the lives of the people around her, and she has the specific and steady knowledge that when the moment came, she was ready.
I hope she sleeps well. She earned it.
But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who has packed real wounds on real people, a science teacher who believes evidence is not optional, and a father of four who is profoundly grateful that women like her exist and profoundly disgusted that the people trying to disarm her call it compassion.
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Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.
For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.
Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.
No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.
I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.
I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.
I’ve been kicked out of better places.
But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.
I told you, communists, socialists, and Nazis are the same thing.
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This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧
@ImMeme0 Look at that black girl trying to 'outsmart' the Asians.
This will not end the way she thinks it should.
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