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Vietnam Veteran. God and Country. I love the Constitution. Your feelings don't matter.

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@smashbaals Religious services were held in the Capitol.
https://t.co/tW0883kp1M

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@globeandmail These are the folks who would write a tutorial on how to change a light bulb; but would insist that only dim bulbs be changed.
They aren't very bright.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST NOW: Karmelo Anthony supporter says Karmelo should’ve kiIIed Austin’s twin brother HUNTER as well

And the Karmelo group AGREES with her.

They’re OPENLY calling for MURDER. This was NEVER about self-defense. Some of them just want to see white people murdered in cold blood.

They can’t be reasoned with.

“BOTH of the brothers should’ve been dead, if you ask me.”

Disgusting.

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@mariashriver You would be amazed at what Abraham Lincoln did to reporters and editors, then.

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If you can give me the names of some of your ancestors and where they lived in 1930, 1940, or "maybe" 1950, I can try to help. The 1950 census index is iffy.
I DO NOT want anything that reveals your personally identifiable information. I have access to census and Confederate service records. Let me know if I can help.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.

The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.

But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”

Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.

I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Tapper: What would you say to a Republican who says if a Republican combat veteran had a Nazi tattoo, you wouldn’t be so forgiving?

Carville: It’s true. I would say you're exactly right.

About sums it all up.

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@BamaSaltyMarine You have friends you don't know. Don't forget that.

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@FPWellman He didn't lie.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

2018. This is the kind of rage Democrats expressed over the uncorroborated allegations against Kavanaugh by Blasey Ford.

Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Platner.

What now, Liz?

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

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.

IF you agree:
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COMMENT below — did you know the bathtub number? Or did the narrative keep that from you? Tell me.

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#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Meet Rep. Jimmy Gomez. Jimmy has repeatedly insinuated that President Trump sexually abused minor girls, without evidence.

Jimmy has been one of the most vocal mouthpieces attempting to tie Trump and Republicans to Epstein.

It turns out that Jimmy is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for sexually assaulting at least one female aide 30 years his junior.

Every one of these Epstein-obsessed people has turned out to be a total pervert themselves.

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@Ojeda4America Take a civics class.

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@LaurenWitzkeDE But not angry enough to do anything of consequence.

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@tony_como You should be campaigning for the right to arm yourselves with guns.

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@exterminatorx @BamaSaltyMarine It's always enlightening to see someone look at ancient history with modern eyes. Their degree of enrage is directly proportional to their historical shallowness.

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@Inevitablewest @WolfeGlenda Nothing will happen.

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@SulliGK09 If there were an NGO running guns and ammo into England to support the native English population, I would donate.

[Swig 🇺🇸 @OldRowSwig]

What’s happening in England is another textbook example of why you never give an INCH on gun rights.

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@Apaxio3 @aldotcom Start here:
By the start of the war, there were 878 textile factories built in New England, employing >100,000 people and producing >940 million yards of cloth annually.
You can't grow cotton in Massachusetts.