Frank Bond

it’s easier to lie to people than to convince them they’ve been lied to.

[KittyTrouble @CatSaavy]

Imagine the heroic #Veterans who sacrifice on June 6 generations at Omaha Beach - many dying face down in the mud and water - only for the Democrats to run a Nazi admirer like Graham Platner for a critical Senate seat in Maine.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@jamestalarico Except for Steyr and Soros. ‘Cause that’s “good” billionaire money.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@Microinteracti1 I hope they don’t invite us back for WWIII. 2 wars there was enough.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@Microinteracti1 Soooo Skynet?

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@LTCTheresaLong And *that* is what a competent, moral person of integrity does! You talk the talk and walk the walk. Bravo!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This is not talked about enough:

Austin Metcalf's killer raised $700k so far in donations from people showing support for murdering a white kid

[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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[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@SenGaryPeters Remind us when Heterosexual month is celebrated.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@grahamformaine And you like Nazis and frequently spout Nazi/fascist things.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@lisamurkowski And what about the Save Act?

[Dave Bondy @DaveBondyTV]

Rep. Emily Dievendorf, D-Lansing, requested $2 million in taxpayer funding for a nonprofit program that has drawn criticism in other states for reportedly working with violent offenders while not cooperating with police investigations.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐭.

I hate that Berkshire Hathaway bought UnitedHealth stock.

Because Buffett has spent a lifetime teaching investors to look for businesses with durable moats, pricing power, recurring revenue, and customers who have nowhere else to go.

UnitedHealth checked every box and that ought to terrify every American.

The greatest investor of our lifetime looked at the company sitting between patients and their doctors and saw a wonderful business.

Of course he did.

FYI, UnitedHealth does not cure diseases. It does not perform surgery. It does not comfort patients.

Instead it collects a percentage of the money moving through a healthcare system that becomes more expensive every year.

The sicker the system gets, the larger the opportunity becomes.

Berkshire has already sold the stock.

The lesson remains.

When denying care, controlling data, owning physicians, and raising premiums create the kind of economics Warren Buffett admires, the problem is larger than one insurance company.

The incentives are rotten all the way down.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@BobDinMI I did see the thread and subsequent photo. It just looks like there is no purse visible in the first photo even if you zoom in. Was the other photo from a different angle?

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@TomSteyer You count every vote, no matter how phony or dubious they are.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@GovWhitmer As governor you have no authority over federal constitutional rights. Spare us your worthless virtue signaling.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@Milajoy California: Proof? We don’t need no stinkin’ proof!

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@mattvanswol The only stitching the whole thing together is the mighty dollar.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Frank Bond @TrustButVeri]

@SenRandPaul Will the parliamentarian allow it?