Frank Murphy

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@knox1711 @DefiantLs US would never publish this data!!! Thanks for sharing.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@ProfSteveKeen When do honorary professors get to actually call themselves professors????

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@therealmissjo @CanonFrancais Love it. Viva La France. Reclaim your country. Only way is to get liberals out of office.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@trainofangels00 Liberals in the US like to use the term transitory. Thats what they said about inflation month after month, quarter after quarter and eventually, year over year.

Yes, of course they were lying. They always lie.

Good luck with your “temporary “ or “transitory” recession.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Net zero for Canada is a farce. You are already consuming more CO2 than you produce. What do you think all those trees are doing? Consuming CO2 and producing O2. You are net positive!

And even if you discount the contribution of trees, Canada doesn’t contribute a hill of beans to global CO2. China has increased their CO2 output 300% in the past 15 years. 12 gigatons per year. That’s more than US, EU, Canada, Mexico and all of South America combined.

Don’t be a fool, western countries have spent trillions of dollars reducing emissions (US and EU approx 25% reduction during same time frame) and yet China spends nothing and increases output by 300%.

Canada’s 0.5 GT/yr is 1.3% of the global total and is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT!

If CO2 is really killing the planet, then every country in the world needs to coerce China to significantly reduce their emissions. But guess what, nobody even mentions it!!!!! Why, is it killing the planet or not.

The answer is, it is not. Stop being duped.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

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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[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

He’s a trillionaire because he created 10 times that in value for the US and the world. He hasn’t taken anything from anyone thereby making them poor. He has also paid more in taxes than 90% of the US combined. And you may not know it but he also very generous and helps lots of people, but he doesn’t do it to impress you. Your logic is nothing more than a red herring.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@Tikisrose @PeterHRatcliffe Then it’s like a flu shot if it only last 6 months. And out of curiosity did your daughter get very sick or like a regular cold. N

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Really, all major network news programs, 60 min, msnbc and cnn have extreme liberal bias. Fox is only one with a conservative platform.
Lots of studies show the bias, including 95% negative comments for Trump and 90% positive for Biden, Harris and Obama. But keep deluding yourself.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Guess you don’t realize that 50% of democrats are on welfare. And many of these are criminals and minorities. Only 25% of the population is actually liberal, your other 50% are exactly what I said. Even the 25% that are liberal aren’t smart, but think they are. Yes, most go to college, but the are right brain emotional thinkers. So most go into social sciences or HR or teaching. Some are brilliant and creative, but that’s a few. Very few engineers or accountants or anything that requires analytical thinking. So, keep on thinking what your thinking because I know you brain power is limited. But you’re dead wrong on almost everything, but because you’re liberal you always overestimate your own abilities.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Pretty sure vast majority of so-called Zionists are liberal. And only 10% of tech companies are operated by conservatives. And blaming education system on Trump is the dumbest thing out of your mouth today. Just check the scores over the past 40 years. Only 1 direction since department of education got involved and implemented no child left behind. And anytime you would like to compare educational and intellectual bona fides, I’m game. But, I guess when you can’t debate issues, you try character assassination…. Typical.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@FelonSkunk37088 @Saganismm Pretty sure your viewpoint is biased by the liberal superiority complex you all seem to suffer from. And I’m confident all the criminals and welfare recipients on the liberal side of the equation brings your averages well below conservative IQs.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

You took my comment about Trump too literally. Created him as in created the desire to support a disruptor and an outsider. And yes, he is not an example of decorum when it comes to name calling. But at least he directs it to individuals, most of which deserve some lambasting. Whereas, liberals, like yourself exclaim with certainty that MAGA are Nazis, racist and ignorant. Except for a very few, Thais statements are absolutely incorrect.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Not another variant of the “Iran is winning the war” theme. Jeezus, get ur head out of ur ass. Yes, Iran has some hidden military assets, but when 90% of ur military is obliterated, you’ve lost. The only decision that Trump is making is, is it enough to accomplish our goal of eliminating the nuclear threat from Iran? And can it be done via negotiation or is more military intervention necessary? And at what cost?

That’s an EXTREMELY logical approach. But I love how you’ve twisted it to ur own narrative. How about STFU and get back to ur very critical academic work and leave the real life hard work to those that can…

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

I really don’t know any fundamentalists or how many there are versus regular Christians. I do know this, there is a coordinated attack by Socialists on Christianity to degrade the religion. I’m not a particularly religious person, but I firmly believe the morality that religion provides is essential for a functioning society. That’s why eliminating religion is one of the top goals of Marxism.

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

Hmmm. mRNA technology under development for 30 years with no approvals, but gets approved in 6 months for COVID. With one big stipulation, the government gives immunity to the vaccine manufacturers. Nothing fishy about that.

How many other drugs using mRNA technology have been approved since? One, a RSV vaccine. I wonder what the risk factors are for that?

To me, the fishiest thing of all was how the government pushed mRNA vaxs over the non-mRNA vaxs, like J&J and AZ. Why, pray tell? They said it was because of potential clotting from these products, but the incidence rate was far lower than the serious side effects from the mRNA vaxs.

And why are we still receiving propaganda by shill doctors pushing this technology??? I guess it has been determined that the coverup hasn’t quite worked and more propaganda is needed.

When will it stop?

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

@MouthyOldBat @Saganismm So true. Religious people, trying to be good to others, raise their children with morality and principles, following laws, paying taxes, giving to charity, respecting the constitution and loving our country. They are the worst!

[Frank Murphy @fmurf99]

And yet when conservatives try to engage liberals in debate it always devolves into name calling and shaming. Liberalism used to mean openness to ideas, but no longer. You either conform or you are shunned. It’s sad, but don’t be placing all the blame on Trump and his supporters. You created him.