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New App Allows Reporting of Crime to Police and Neighbors

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Reputation.com Continues to Spread Falsehoods About Old West

For months now, Reputation.com has been running ads pounding into our heads that the Old West was full of "itchy trigger fingers."

Not true.  See here.

UPDATE: Just a few days after posting this, the ad seems to have been suddenly replaced.  Hope the old ad is run out of town for good.

Kids TRUST parents to keep them safe.

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Kids trust parents to keep them safe.

At my free clinic you (and your whole family) can practice malfunction clearing and other drills, and have fun target shooting with a laser simulator, while getting a quick update on trust maintenance topics:

 

John Lott's Website: Something to remember when the Supreme Court releases its decision on the Chicago Handgun ban case on Monday

John Lott's Website: Something to remember when the Supreme Court releases its decision on the Chicago Handgun ban case on Monday.

Here are the latest numbers on Chicago's crime rates over time. DC's crime rates are available here. Mayor Daley's reaction to the Supreme Court striking down the DC handgun ban in Heller. From the Chicago Tribune June 28, 2008):

John Lott: Gun grabbers treat criminals as victims

Washington Times

More people are killed every year by falling vending machines than by holders of a concealed-weapon permit.

LATEST FBI CRIME DATA CONTINUES TO REFUTE ANTI-GUN RHETORIC

LATEST FBI CRIME DATA CONTINUES TO REFUTE ANTI-GUN RHETORIC, SAYS CCRKBA - Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms.

BELLEVUE, WA – For the third year in a row, violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Preliminary data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate went down 5.5 percent in 2009, compared to statistics from 2008

How to Contact Sacramento About the Latest Demonic Infringement of Your Right to Self-Defense

Of course, the only way to really get their attention is to stop contacting them completely and spend all your time training with firearms.  Imagine if everyone did that.  But if you think someone is still listening up there, go ahead:

Your Legislature.

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NEW REPORT CONFIRMS MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME

SAF Press Release :: REPORT CONFIRMS MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME; NO PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT, SAYS SAF.

A report published by MSNBC.com confirms “everything gun rights groups have been saying for years, that more armed citizens does not equate to increased violence, and actually coincides with a reduction in homicides,” the Second Amendment Foundation said today. The on-line news agency this morning released an investigative report that record numbers of American citizens are now legally carrying firearms for personal protection. Yet, the report also reveals that homicide rates have declined dramatically during a period when gun sales have skyrocketed. Further, the report noted that Washington, DC with its extreme gun control has the highest murder rate in the nation, while Utah, with very liberal gun laws, has the lowest rate.

GREEN = LIFE

Today we are tired of the left appropriating our language in its norm-changing attack on family power. Today, we are TAKING THE WORD GREEN BACK! Today, we wear green as a sign of solidarity among all REAGAN CONSERVATIVES.

Lemmings: Jogger jumps off Calif. cliff to flee attacker

The Associated Press: Jogger jumps off Calif. cliff to flee attacker.

MALIBU, Calif. — Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Southern California jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside.

Not Again - Brady Ranking No Longer Funny, it's Sick

Of Arms and the Law: Brady releases its annual report card.

Massachusetts scored 54 out of 100 points. No. 1-ranked California scored 79. Utah scored zero." And their 2008 [lastest available] homicide rates, per 100,000 population: California 5.8 Massachusetts 2.5 Utah 1.5 A good correlation: the worse your Brady grade, the lower your homicide rate. Here's another story:

30-State Concealed Carry (CCW) Class at Laguna Hills office in South Orange County, CA

Visit www.worldexaminer.com for details. 

Japan Success Reducing Crime Due to People Control Not Gun Control

Japan: Gun Control and People Control(Dave Kopel).

Handgun Control quotes a Japanese newspaper reporter who writes: "It strikes me as clear that there is a distinct correlation between gun control laws and the rate of violent crime. The fewer theguns, the less the violence." But while Japan may be a gun-banner's dream, it's a civil libertarian's nightmare. Japan's low crime rate has almost nothing to do with gun control, and everything to do with people control. Americans, used to their own traditions of freedom, would not accept Japan's system of people controls and gun controls.

Video Backs Up Clayton Cramer's Research: Much More Common for Victim to Disarm and Shoot Criminal than Vice Versa

This video backs up Clayton's research described below:

Who Is The Armed Citizen? :The Armed Citizen.

As for those clever and dexterous criminals who can snatch a loaded firearm from a defender’s hand, the ones you always hear about from the gun-ban crowd, a quaint irony presents itself. In this analysis, the opposite is far more common. Among the surveyed incidents, a defender’s gun was taken away and used against him or her only seven times. Criminals’ guns were used against them nearly 200 times! (Note that research methods used to filter news stories for shootings do not bias the tally either way.)

EDITORIAL: Guns decrease murder rates - Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Guns decrease murder rates - Washington Times.

A telling story is illustrated by the murder numbers since the handgun ban and gun-lock bans were struck down. Between 2008 and 2009, the FBI's preliminary numbers indicate that murders fell nationally by 10 percent and by about 8 percent in cities that have between 500,000 and 999,999 people. Washington's population is about 590,000. During that same period of time, murders in the District fell by an astounding 25 percent, dropping from 186 to 140. The city only started allowing its citizens to own handguns for defense again in late 2008. Few who lived in Washington during the 1970s can forget the upswing in crime that started right after the ban was originally passed...

2nd Pizza Deliveryman Killed In Less Than 2 Weeks

Pizza-related self-defense articles here, here, here, and here.

Pizza Deliveryman Shot And Killed During Robbery In Belmont - cbs3.com.

This is the second time in the last two weeks that a pizza deliveryman has been robbed and killed.

11 Year Old Boy Shot by Home Invaders, Shoots Back with .22 Saving Mom and Self

Three held in Palmview home invasion : News : KGBT 4.

The woman told deputies that the home invaders shot through the door and hit her son on the left hip area. Her son had a 22 cal. Rifle and shot back at the alleged robbers. The woman waited, opened the door, saw that the suspects were gone and called 911. Deputies found blood all over the floor and noted that the front door had been knocked down. Paramedics took the woman's 11-year-old son to the McAllen Medical Center where he’s listed in stable condition. But deputies told Action 4 News that a man with a gunshot wound to his neck ended up at the same hospital.

FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And Large Magazine Sales Soar

Astounding. How could this be?

NRA-ILA :: FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And “Large” Magazine Sales Soar.

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.

Gun Sales Way Up Yet, AMAZINGLY, Murder Drops

Not exactly the global warming-type hockey stick the Brady Bunch would like to see - more like a full-size 1911 held bass ackward by a confounded Brady Buffoon.

SAF Press Release :: MURDER DOWN, GUN SALES UP; PROOF THAT GUNS DON’T CAUSE CRIME: SAF.

The FBI released data Monday that shows murders dropped by 10 percent from the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, according to data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that during the first six months of this year, gun sales were up. January 2009 background checks rose 28.8 percent over the same month in 2008, February’s NICS checks were up 23.3 percent and in March they were up 29.9 percent over March 2008. The trend continued in April, with NICS checks up 30.3 percent, while May showed a slowdown, up only 15.5 percent, and in June they were up 18.1 percent.

A Reminder that Guns are Used More Often for Defense Against Crime than its Commission

Searching for the most notorious criminal case in Orange County history | gibson, county, case, most, orange - News - OCRegister.com.

He never used a gun, he confessed, because guns made too much noise. Instead, he beat his victims – including three women – with a hammer or other blunt instrument.

Victim disarms attacker, ends suspected serial rapist's spree

Victim disarms attacker, ends suspected serial rapist's spree.

When pressed, people like this can’t link to a credible story where the attacker took away the victim’s gun. Apparently, such readers seem unable to find stories like the one above, even though Clayton Cramer’s Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog has been documenting such cases for years.

California told to prepare massive prisoner release | Reuters

California told to prepare massive prisoner release | Reuters.

U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive healthcare problems

Kaleidoscope evacuated when man threatens to shoot self

Kaleidoscope evacuated when man threatens suicide | sandberg, center, authorities, entertainment, evacuated - News - OCRegister.com.

MISSION VIEJO -- Sheriff's deputies shut down and evacuated the Kaleidoscope Entertainment Center on Saturday night after a man threatened to commit suicide in public. Deputy Darren Sandberg said the unidentified man told his girlfriend that he would shoot himself at the center

UK: Being mugged is now part of my everyday life

Being mugged is now part of my everyday life | News.

The difference now is that we've got so used to it that we almost take it for granted — and I speak as someone whose car was carjacked and whose house was broken into, with us in it, listening to his every stumble.

Customers Ignore Dead Convenience Store Clerk Gurjeet Singh In Gary, Indiana - cbs2chicago.com

Customers Ignore Dead Convenience Store Clerk Gurjeet Singh In Gary, Indiana - cbs2chicago.com.

GARY, Ind. (CBS) ― Click to enlarge1 of 1 Surveillance footage from a convenience store in Gary, Indiana show this man in a red shirt shooting and killing the clerk. Gary Police Department Close Surveillance footage from a convenience store in Gary, Indiana show this man in a red shirt shooting and killing the clerk. A 26-year-old convenience store clerk is shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Indiana. Police say witnesses stood by and did nothing.

Daily Herald | Chicago has 7 shooting deaths in 24 hours

Daily Herald | Chicago has 7 shooting deaths in 24 hours.

Chicago had seven shooting deaths in 24 hours this weekend, and police say they have no suspects in custody.

GREENWICH VILLAGE LEADS ALL MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS IN VIOLENT CRIME INCREASE - New York Post

GREENWICH VILLAGE LEADS ALL MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS IN VIOLENT CRIME INCREASE - New York Post.

Assaults in Greenwich Village lead the frightening upturn, with a whopping 43 percent increase so far this year compared with the same period in 2008.

Father beaten into coma on way to buy ice cream for his kids

Father beaten into coma on his way to buy ice cream for his kids | amormino, alley, authorities, wife, sheriff - News - OCRegister.com.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A father of two on his way to get some ice cream for his children Tuesday night was beaten into a coma in an alley near his home. Authorities have no motive for the brutal attack.

CalGunLaws.com: FBI Confirms It: Criminals Ignore Gun Laws

CalGunLaws.com: FBI Confirms It: Criminals Ignore Gun Laws.

The FBI recently completed a major study of shootings of police officers. Titled 'Violent Encounters: Felonious Assaults on America's Law Enforcement Officers.' Since its publication, the existence of the damning report on the five-year study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation #FBI# about how cop-killing criminals ignore gun laws, and where they get their guns, has not been publicized. Calgunlaws.com has one of the first copies of the report obtained publicly.

Fatal Stabbings Up by 50% in New York City in 2008 - NYTimes.com

Gun killings down, knife killings (and presumably Brady score) up.

Fatal Stabbings Up by 50% in New York City in 2008 - NYTimes.com.

Each of these was featured last year in a snapshot of murder in New York City, where authorities have long been battling illegal firearms — and seeing a degree of success. But these people were killed by knives, contributing to a troubling statistic in homicides.

WND: China's 1-child policy now threatens crime wave

But will the crime be domestic within China, or international?

WND: China's 1-child policy now threatens <I>crime wave</i>.

A new study published by BMJ, which used to be known as the British Medical Journal, has documented a worsening problem on which WND has been reporting for 12 years: the domination of males in a Chinese society that encourages the abortion of unborn daughters. The new report says males under the age of 20 outnumbered females by more than 32 million and warned, "China will see very high and steadily worsening sex ratios in the reproductive age group over the next two decades." One of the authors, Therese Hesketh, told the Associated Press that translates into a huge threat of criminal activity.

Der Wienerschnitzel in Mission Viejo robbed | restaurant, suspect, road, took, police - News - OCRegister.com

Der Wienerschnitzel in Mission Viejo robbed | restaurant, suspect, road, took, police - News - OCRegister.com.

The restaurant is on La Paz Road, near Marguerite Parkway. The robbery took place around 8:10 p.m., and the suspect, wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, was last seen leaving the restaurant parking lot on foot, police said. Police suspect the robbery is related to a rash of armed robberies – including at a Shell gas station in Dana Point, a gas station in Lake Forest, and a fast-food restaurant on El Toro Road in Laguna Woods – that have occurred in the past few days. Each case describes a similar-looking robber

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com.

There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one: It's just not true. In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S. What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.

Cost of locking up Americans too high: Pew study | U.S. | Reuters

Cost of locking up Americans too high: Pew study | U.S. | Reuters.

One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States.

Nearly 4,000 L.A. inmates may be freed - LA Daily News

Nearly 4,000 L.A. inmates may be freed - LA Daily News.

Nearly 4,000 jail inmates would be released early and about 600 deputy and professional positions would be eliminated to meet budget cuts, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Monday.

Anaheim Hills police forum draws packed crowd | OCRegister.com

Anaheim Hills police forum draws packed crowd | police, anaheim, residents, welter, hills - News - OCRegister.com.

ANAHEIM More than 250 Anaheim Hills residents packed into an elementary school multi-purpose room for a meeting with police Thursday night to discuss concerns about a recent uptick in crime.

Large Knife in Stanton

Machete-wielding man robs Stanton store | clerk, downing, walked, robbery, sheriff - News - OCRegister.com#slComments.

Authorities initially reported the weapon was a machete, but later said it was a large knife. The robber is described as a white man, with dark hair, between 20 and 22 years old, about 6-foot-1, and weighing in around 200 pounds.

WND: Judges back a one-third reduction in state prison population - Los Angeles Times

WND: Judges back a one-third reduction in state prison population - Los Angeles Times.

Reporting from Sacramento -- A panel of three federal judges, saying overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate healthcare, tentatively ruled Monday that the state must reduce the population in those lockups by as many as 57,000 people. The judges issued the decisionafter a trial in two long-running cases brought by inmates to protest the state of medical and mental healthcare in the prisons.

NRA-ILA :: Brady Campaign Flunks Math Again!

NRA-ILA :: Brady Campaign Flunks Math Again!.

On January 12, the FBI released preliminary crime date for calendar year 2008, indicating that the nation's murder rate has fallen to a 43-year low, and the nation's total violent crime rate has fallen to a 35-year low. The data suggest that since violent crime peaked in 1991, the nation's murder rate has fallen 46 percent, and the nation's total violent crime rate has fallen 41 percent. The FBI will publish final data for 2008 later this year. In the same time frame, federal, state and local gun control laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive, Americans have been buying over 4 million new guns every year, and the number of guns (including semi-automatic and other firearms that use standard magazines that hold more than 10 rounds) is at an all-time high. Less gun control has coincided with less crime. Pretty simple stuff. For most people, that is.

OCSD: FBI: Gangs Are Moving to the Suburbs

OCSD: FBI: Gangs Are Moving to the Suburbs.

The FBI has released its 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment. It was prepared by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). It reported that approximately one million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active in the U.S. as of September 2008. The assessement made clear that living in the surburbs is no protection against gang threats. The report shows that Orange County has one of the highest number of gang members of any county in the Pacific Region, which includes California and Nevada.

FBI: Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of U.S. crime - USATODAY.com

FBI: Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of U.S. crime - USATODAY.com.

Criminal gangs in the USA have swelled to an estimated 1 million members responsible for up to 80% of crimes in communities across the nation, according to a gang threat assessment compiled by federal officials.

Jaguar carjacked at gunpoint | OCRegister.com

Jaguar carjacked at gunpoint | jaguar, saturday, black, males, mcfadden - News - OCRegister.com.

Three males, one armed with a handgun, carjacked a black 2002 Jaguar Saturday morning in Tustin. The car was later found in Santa Ana. At about 4:15 a.m. Saturday, the Jaguar was stopped at a traffic light at McFadden Avenue and Tustin Village Way, near the I-5. A man, about 6 feet tall and armed with a black handgun, forced the driver out of the car.

Gunman forces woman from home, takes her to bank--OC Register.com

Gunman forces woman from home, takes her to bank | woman, martinez, bank, police, anaheim - News - OCRegister.com.

ANAHEIM - A woman was taken by an armed man from her home to a bank where she works and ordered to get money, police said.

Mission Viejo Muggers Use Bats

Some residents alarmed by muggers with bats in Mission Viejo | males, truck, four, furey, bats - News - OCRegister.com.

MISSION VIEJO – Four males armed with bats and driving in a small, light-colored truck beat and robbed two men as they were walking alone Wednesday evening, authorities said.

'Armed clown bandit' wanted in 4 bank robberies | robberies, bandit, bank, eimiller, armed - News - OCRegister.com

'Armed clown bandit' wanted in 4 bank robberies | robberies, bandit, bank, eimiller, armed - News - OCRegister.com.

No one was physically injured in the takeover robberies, but Eimiller said many employees and customers experience trauma after being intimidated in this kind of robbery. The Armed Clown Bandit is described as a Latino or black man in his early 40s with a muscular build, 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall and approximately 180 pounds. He has acne scars on his jaw line and a pointy nose, according to witnesses. He also is described as being well-spoken, in nonaccented English with a low voice.

Mayors say OC-LA No. 2 in ‘09 U.S. job losses - Handling Hard Times - OCRegister.com

Mayors say OC-LA No. 2 in ‘09 U.S. job losses - Handling Hard Times - OCRegister.com.

The O.C.-Los Angeles-Long Beach area is expected to suffer the second-largest drop in jobs among U.S. metropolitan areas this year, with only the New York City area being worse, reports the U.S. Conference of Mayors

Crutch, Baseball Bat, Great Dane Help Foil Ladera Ranch Robbery

Great Dane Helps Foil Robbery (KTLA).

LADERA RANCH -- An Orange County couple's Great Dane proved, once again, that a dog is a man's best friend. The couple has their 180 pound canine "Ace" to thank for foiling an attempted robbery.

Pre-Hutchens: FBI stats show violent crime dropped in OC cities

FBI stats show violent crime dropped in OC cities | percent, violent, fbi, crime, fell - News - OCRegister.com.

Violent crime in Orange County's eight largest cities fell by 12.7 percent in the first six months of 2008, according to statistics released today by the FBI. The eight cities – Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Orange and Santa Ana – reported a combined 2,472 violent crimes in the first half of last year, down from 2,832 in the same period of 2007. Those eight cities each have a population of more than 100,000, qualifying them for the FBI report. Violent crime includes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Nationwide, the FBI reported a 3.5 percent drop in violent crime in the first half of 2008.

Tough economic times? Some turn to bank robbery | robberies, bank, increase, banks, county - News - OCRegister.com

Includes map of Orange County bank robberies.

Tough economic times? Some turn to bank robbery | robberies, bank, increase, banks, county - News - OCRegister.com.

After a 30-year low of bank robberies in 2007, bank heists climbed steeply across Southern California in 2008, statistics show. In Orange County alone, there were 145 bank robberies – an increase of 41 percent compared to the previous year.

Rise in 'justified' shootings continues

Rise in 'justified' shootings continues.

Various law enforcement agencies across the country also have reported an increase in justified homicides.