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Guns Save Lives; Why Aren’t the Stories Reported?

December 31, 2012

By Renee Nal

Responsible adults with guns save lives in America all the time, yet the stories of heroism are rarely reported beyond the local news. Are these stories not newsworthy? Are people not interested in stories of self-defense?

Stories of brave individuals should be reported more often in the mainstream media, as they are inspiring, interesting, and newsworthy. However, the tales of responsible gun-owners saving lives give credibility to Second Amendment advocates. In the biased mainstream media, much more coverage is given to those who favor the illusion of safety by legislating to the margins, who do not follow the laws anyway.

Consider the story of Davon Obryant Gee, 19, who attempted to use a stun gun on a 17-year-old girl during an argument. She ran, but Gee caught up with her and started beating her on the lawn outside of a house in Evansville, Indiana. A young child was in the house at the time. Her grandfather warned Gee to stop “several times,” but was ultimately forced to shoot the attacker, who was threatening to use the stun gun on the 79-year-old man with a heart condition.

In Harris County, Texas, a man was awakened at 2:00 am on Thursday morning by the sound of glass shattering. He got up to investigate and found a man entering his condo through a window. The 22-year-old intruder ignored a warning for him to leave. The quick-thinking homeowner, who had his “Concealed Handgun License,” shot the man, who later died.

Sometimes, guns save lives. But this reality is rarely reported past the local news.

More examples, and some others from the past week alone, can be found at the links below.

Read More: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981831057

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Shooting-at-gas-station-in-northeast-Houston-185102451.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-ar-intruder-shot-20121225,0,1937389.story

Photo Source: Andrew D. Brosig/The Daily Sentinel/AP via the Christian Science Monitor

Shame On Biden--He's A Skinflint

For all his puffery, Joe Biden shows that his real attitude when the camera is not on, like when he files his tax returns.  The galling omission is the low amount of contributions to charity, less than 1.5% of his income. That means is he was a normal worker, he would have contributed less than $1000 toward a charity. That is abaismal.

However, Biden makes us really upset when we see that in 1999, he gave a paltry $120! No wonder he thinks getting rid of charitable deductions is no big deal! If you want to read the entire report it is at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-12-biden-financial_N.htm

Obviously, this year he is giving more but it seems to be a Democratic trait not to give to charity.  Study after study has shown that Republicans and Conservatives give more to charities than do Democrats and Liberals/Progressives.  It must be that they believe that government will take care of us and that they are unwilling to part with any of their money.

We have a President and Vice President who have increased their contributions over the past years. Is this part of being hammered by the press or have they become charitable? We would bet on the former.

What is your opinion?

Conservative Tom

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, this year's tax return looks almost identical to last year's.

Returns for 2011 released by the White House show the Bidens paid $87,900 in federal taxes on adjusted gross income of $379,035. Their income was $143 below their 2010 return, but their tax bill was $1,274 higher. In both cases, the effective tax rate was just over 23 percent.

On the latest return, the Bidens listed $5,540 in donations to charity.

Most of the couple's income came from the vice president's salary of $225,521 and Mrs. Biden's wages of just over $82,000 for teaching at Northern Virginia Community College.

Delusional White House

In my 60 plus years  that we have been taking up space on this earth, nothing has been so out of touch as the latest Vice President Biden statement on the Bin Laden killing. He asserted it was the boldest mission in 500 years!  Huh? He seems to forget the D Day invasion which was incredibly more complex or the Civil War or the Revolutionary War or the creation of the country itself. What about the Israeli raid on Entebbe? There are so many operations in military history that were far more dangerous, more complex and more skillfully executed than the Bin Laden killing.

As we know, Biden has a way of spouting off and telling us what the White House is really thinking. In other words, the Administration really BELIEVES that this was the greatest raid in modern warfare.  That is delusional! If those same words would have been spoken by a Republican, the press would have called in the shrinks and men with white coats who carry those white coats with sleeves that tie behind you!

Conservative Tom

White House Backs Biden's Claim That Killing Bin Laden Was Boldest Mission in ‘500 Years’

By Fred Lucas

March 20, 2012

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the presidential house in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, March, 6, 2012. Biden is on a one-day visit to Honduras. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

(CNSNews.com) – The White House asserted that Vice President Joe Biden did not misspeak when he said, “you can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan,” referring to President Barack Obama’s decision to kill Osama bin Laden.

During the press briefing Tuesday, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about the Biden comment made Monday at a fundraising event in Morris Township, N.J. “What did he mean by that?”

The question prompted laughter throughout the briefing room, as Carney kept a straight face.

“I think he meant the decision the president made, as you all know and are aware of, was a very difficult one,” Carney said. “It has been reported that the information we had obviously was high quality, but it was not conclusive, that the advice the president was getting from his senior most national security advisors was mixed on what to do, mixed at best. But in the end, he had to make a very big decision.

Obama gave the order to the Navy Seals in early May 2011 to invade the compound in Pakistan where bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, lived and kill the terrorist mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. The Obama reelection campaign, in fundraising and in a recent 17-minute film, has focused heavily on this event.

“I think one of the reasons he felt so confident in making that decision was that he knew the forces he would send in on the bin Laden mission were the absolute best that have ever existed and that they would fulfill their mission with great professionalism and success,” Carney said. “Obviously, it would have been a different story if bin Laden hadn’t been in that compound.”

The same reporter asked – in context of the 500 years remark – “More audacious than D-Day?”

Carney was less adamant in his answer.

“Well, the historical assessment I think I’ll leave to him and others,” Carney said. “But there is no question, this is a very difficult decision that only commanders-in-chief have to make.

“He didn’t misspeak?” the reporter asked.

Carney answered, “No.”

D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944 when 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of French coastline to fight Nazi Germany forces on the beaches of Normandy. More than 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircraft supported the invasion that allowed the allies to gain a foothold in Normandy by day’s end, according to the U.S. Army website.

Ultimately, 9,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded, but 100,000 soldiers marched across Europe to defeat German forces because of the invasion.

Biden attended the fundraiser at a private home in New Jersey where the cost for a regular ticket was $1,000, and the VIP reception cost $5,000, according to the White House press pool report. The event was expected to raise $400,000 for the Obama reelection campaign.

During the event, Biden recalled the decision to strike the compound and kill bin Laden.

“You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan,” the vice president told the donors. “Never knowing for certain. We never had more than a 48 percent probability that he was there.”

“Do any one of you have a doubt that if that raid failed that this guy would be a one-term president? Biden continued. “This guy is willing to do the right thing and risk losing.”