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I have been trying to tell people who say we are having a mass shooting epidemic, that if you reall believe that, then you have been successfully propagandized, or you are not using the word correctly. Heroin clamps 35,000 lives per year. Traffic fatalities claim 37,000 lives per year. School shootings? Not even remotely close. In fact, it’s so stark a difference, that when you apply the exact same logic to it when you consider traffic fatalities, you will have to give up your car. That’s right... give it to me, because if you don’t then every car wreck leaves you with blood on your hands.
Check out The Liberty Doll.. she will set the record straight.
You will need some very long waist level boots to get through the new-speak terminology that comes flying out of this man’s mouth. He is literally one of the most deceptive propagandists I have ever heard. Calling an AR-15 a “weapon of war”, while not only does this idiot have no clue about, but anyone who would intentionally take an AR-15 into a combat situation would be an idiot. If you don’t know why by now, you are lost. Listen to Brian deconstruct this authoritarian.
- FBI doesn’t explain why they took jurisdiction in a State case. The original traffic stop was performed by Texas State Police.
Eyewitness Video of Shooter and Police pursuit and takedown.
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These are articles as they came in regarding the man known as the “Odessa Shooter”. Original article will be in standard black print. My comments and observations will be in red print, as I have just a few. The following is from CNN. I have been monitoring all news sites but considering I expect the most amount of propaganda to come from CNN, I am watching them a bit more closely.
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- As so far one of the most concerning details related to this case besides the AR-15 and ammo this essentially dirt poor man living in a box hobo managed to afford seems to be a call made to law enforcement by his neighbor when he had yelled at her with his rifle in hand and after killing random animals from the top of his shack.
The police FAILED to RESPOND or apparently even think to call the neighbor back. The neighbor said she thought it was due to the fact that GPS did not work out there. This should not be a factor in law enforcement when it is in your jurisdiction. I know asa firefighter there were areas that GPS either did not work or was incorrect. We had maps, county dispatch, and we would have the 911 call center make contact with the original caller if all else failed. And that was when it had nothing to do with a gun. So I reject the GPS explanation.
Someone needs to get to the bottom of that very quickly. You have to be pretty powerful to call off a 9/11 “man with a gun” report. I do not buy that they “just didn’t bother” to show. Sometimes when the Feds are operating in an area or have a location under surveillance they put the address into local county dispatch to be called before any other units roll. I’m not saying that this is what happened here, but just considering all possibilities. Can you imagine someone making this call, the police just blowing it off and something happening? It just makes no sense.
You don’t defeat criminals by disarming those who do not commit crimes.
8:07 p.m. ET, September 1, 2019
FBI agents are searching a shack connected to the shooter
From CNN’s David Shortell
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team Unit are walking in and out of a small shack here in West Odessa, carrying out bags of what appear to be evidence collected from a scene connected to the shooter.
I don’t know if it is standard in this specific area for the Federal Government to get involved immediately in what is a local, at most a state jurisdictional case. How is this FBI jurisdiction, and why are they gaining entry to this man’s property? Where was the local Sheriff or State Police?
The property — a small tan structure made of metal — has had its door busted through, and authorities have taped off the area around it.
A law enforcement official told CNN earlier that the FBI was executing a search warrant at a property here believed to be connected to the shooter.
The property is off a dirt road in a rural community about 15 miles west of the movie theater where the gunman was taken down after the Saturday shooting spree.
7:38 p.m. ET, September 1, 2019
Police still don't have a motive for the shootings, source says
From CNN's Josh Campbell
A law enforcement official tells CNN authorities have not yet been unable to identify a motive in the Midland-Odessa shootings.
The source noted their investigation continues to try to determine what triggered the shootings.
What we do know is that this began with a motor vehicle stop allegedly. I have been searching for warrants and records - I will update when I find something.
The official indicated authorities expect to execute additional search warrants associated with the shooter.
7:22 p.m. ET, September 1, 2019
Odessa shooter's neighbor says he threatened her with a rifle
From CNN’s David Shortell
A neighbor of the west Texas shooter says the 36-year-old came up to her house last month with a big rifle and yelled at her for leaving trash in a nearby dumpster.
Harassing someone while brandishing a rifle - a fine line when it comes to legality if he never threatened her, or pointed it at her, this is of course an issue, but honestly for Texas not completely crazy.
Veronica Alonzo also described how her neighbor would frequently shoot out of a structure on top of his house at night into his yard, often going to retrieve dead animals afterwards.
The indiscriminate killing of animals that are not pests is a sign of a demented mind. Most serial killers begin early with torturing and killing or just killing animals for no apparent reason to anyone else.
Investigators at the gunman’s home Sunday were seen placing dozens of small red flags in locations outside his property, around locations that Alonzo indicated he would shoot at.
No doubt collecting spent casings if ammunition.
Alonzo said she called police after the incident last month, but that they had never responded because the location of the property does not show up on GPS and is difficult to find.
This explanation for the police NEVER RESPONDING to a call regarding a man with a gun acting oddly, is beyond unacceptable. A property should not have to “show up on GPS for law enforcement to be able to locate it in their jurisdiction. They are not pizza delivery men. I find this excuse unacceptable. We will be inquiring as to why there was no attempt to make contact after this report and call was made. This woman living out there near this guy is a prime example as to why people should not be disarmed. Regardless off shootings that occur, good people do not deserve to be made helpless by politicians because others could care less about their self protection .
Alonzo said that the shooter’s home had no running water or electricity. She said she saw him sitting in his gold Toyota Camry with the heat on when the weather was cold.
If he had no money, no electricity, and no water, just out of curiosity I wonder where he got the money to continue purchasing ammunition or where he got the AR-15 he was reported to have allegedly used? Not impossible, but in another report we are told that he recently failed a background check to purchase a gun. We are still looking into that as well. As I stated above I find the jurisdiction of the FBI to be very interesting in this case.
UPDATE - THIS JUST IN -
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Ator, 36, was arrested in 2001 for criminal trespassing and evading arrest, both misdemeanors, according to public records. Adjudication was deferred, though the details of the case are not immediately available.
Ator’s record also includes a 2018 traffic citation for a federal motor carrier safety violation, according to Ector County court records.
A LinkedIn account under Ator’s name said he was a truck driver. A Facebook page under his name contained only one publicly visible photo of the shooter posted in 2012, and the account has since been removed.
The FBI executed a search warrant Sunday at a rural property in West Odessa believed to be connected to the alleged shooter, according to a law enforcement official.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs said at an earlier news conference Sunday that investigators were conducting "searches at this exact moment in time to make sure that there is nobody else (is) even possibly connected to this."
Combs affirmed the assessment by local police that authorities believe the shooter acted alone Saturday.
FBI says that shooting has no connection to terrorism
The FBI said they do not believe there is any connection to domestic or international terrorism in the Odessa and Midland shootings from Saturday.
“At this point I can tell you we do not believe — we do not believe, there's any connection to any domestic or international terrorism,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs said.
Police say AR-15 “type” rifle was used.
This will no doubt have people freaking out. “BAN THE AR-15!!! What most of these gun control folks have no clue about, is that they have no clue. It is only a style. Like wearing a dress. If I showed them a semi auto with a wood stock, no handle grip, no barrel shroud, etc, they would likely think much differently about it. I try and explain it to liberal women like a dress. Imagine there was just this one dressmaker, and everyone just had to have one of her dresses if it was the only dress you had. All it is is fashion, and they think that because it is the most popular style, that “it” should be banned. It’s just stupid. Unless of course you are taking to those who want to ban all weapons. But those folks if they tried would be committing treason. We should start prosecuting for that. If they can advocate the use of force and the threat of violence to demand confiscation, I have no sympathy.
FBI explains why they were “Johnny on the Spot”
The suspect in the Odessa and Midland, Texas, shooting used an AR-type weapon according to Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke, so it will be no shock to anyone that reporters were trying to make that the subject during the governors press conference at which the governor says “I have seen too many of these”. And while I see this unfolding I can not help but think that a lot of this just seems in-natural to me. All at the same time that Red Flag Laws and the TAPS Pre-Crime Act are being pushed through. “Preventative law enforcement is Bolshevism not American. Some say that the times have changed and so we may have to change with them. Um - no. Worst case scenario, hold public classes and start having regular citizens attend some training as volunteer militia peace officers. No law enforcement duties. The only responsibility assumed is that of preservation of life. That sounds to me like a far better idea than disarming people or implementing pre-crime programs. Think about it. If every able bodied individual, who has a clean record and never harmed anyone goes and gets trained in the shoot-don’t shoot program, and they are armed everywhere including these stupid Gun Free Zones, we would have a far safer world.
So now to the Johnny on the spot FBI -
FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs said his agency responds to Texas frequently. The FBI is “here now almost every other week supporting our local and state partners on active shooters. We're almost every two weeks an active shooter in this country," he said.
Combs did say they are serving a federal search warrant in the area, but added there are numerous incident scenes across the area.
- So it appears that we have our answer as to why the FBI was there... although this sounds rather strange that this shooter began with a motor vehicle stop by the Texas State Police, and the MRAPS and FBI were not only ready to go, but that the Texas State Police relinquished jurisdiction in a case of a guy who tried to kill their own. Still seeming odd to me.
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Two of my good friends and hard core truth tellers, Brian Young of High Impact Flix, and Adam Green of Know More News come together for a live stream to discuss the most recent confrontation between Adam and Alex Jones of InfoWars.
Adam essentially fried
Alex’s hind quarters until crispified. Alex Jones for a very long time has taken part in the ideological subversion and the manipulation of the masses via Psychological Operations. But in this even he could not evade Adam’s onslaught. He tried with the left right paradigm tactic, by trying to make a false equivalent... oh so “I’m the bad guy and you’re with AOC and Omar... and when Adam attempted to respond to that he was cut off.
After watching the video above, check out Adams video nailing Jones
There you have it. The proof is in the pudding. Jonestown is a cult, one that Adam and I at one time followed. I have to give him some credit though. Joes did wake me up to the threat of the United Nations.
Many everyday people hear the term PsyOps and they automatically think “conspiracy theory” which to them has become a term synonymous with “not real” or deceptive content. YouTube has only solidified this incorrect assumption. It was by fact the Central Intelligence Agency that demonized this term not long after the assassination of who I consider to be one of our last actual “real” Presidents, and by real I mean in terms of his willingness to try and break free from the extremely well oiled political machine being controlled by a conglomerate of criminally predisposed international bankers and powerful corporate bodies. This term, as we know still pervades corporate media today who try to shun the independent journalists and researchers out there as their credibility slips they cling to desperation. I hope you enjoy this presentation as much as I did.
Don’t be fooled by those in power and who wield political and influential control. The same people who would have you falsely believe that the recent TV sensationalized mass shootings can be stopped if more laws that only those who care about laws will follow, are passed. At the same time they virtue signal showing images of children allegedly killed by these criminals. But you know what they fail to compare it to?
37,000 people died in 2016
(last stats I had available) in motor vehicle accidents.
That is not only far more than by the evil black “assault STYLE” rifles, but if you were to apply the same logic they brainwash the masses with about this it would require that either everyone “turn in their cars tomorrow” or be complicit with the death of every innocent child killed in traffic accidents every year. Folks, you are being played by a corporate media that has perfected the mass sensationalism that modern technology can deliver. It is a tragedy when anyone loses their lives, for any reason. But this is simply a part of living and being free to pursue your everyday happiness or the necessities of life.
In a recent discussion I had on twitter I had a young man of about 24 years, who was in college, tell me that I was a baby killing murderer because I defend the right of an individual to keep and bear arms. Me. Complicit in murder.
I don’t want to have to say this as I am not trying to glorify myself, but in all honesty, as a firefighter I have not only assisted in the saving of more lives than I can count, but I have risked my life on many occasions to accomplish that. I never cared about race, gender, religion, background, if they used drugs, if they were a saint or a sinner. Whenever the call came, I stood ready to answer it. For a brief time while staying the weekend at my mothers home to visit I got a call and headed out. While I was gone several intruders attempted to do a home invasion. My mother was armed and just pulling her gun chased them away.
Back to twitter boy... this insanely indoctrinated fool, who called me a baby killer, etc, not only has never taken any personal responsibility for his life, but has never placed himself in the position of sacrificing his safety or life for another, has the balls to make this statements to me while being fully willing to have me, as well as my mother disarmed because of his virtue signaling mentality likely programmed into him by his gender fluidity pushing cultural Marxist who has all but destroyed this young man. One day it just may be that a very normal individual may have legal trouble and an emergency room calling for the resident proctologist to remove the foot that is planted past the ankle in this boys anus. But one thing is for sure, the more of these brain dead stick eating granola heads these universities pump out, the less and less likely that our country will be able to survive. During WW2 if people had not had some grit, and character, many may not have survived the peaceful conditions here in the states. I could not possibly imagine a room full of these morons even trying to figure out how to open a can of food without an opener. They would likely starve to death staring at it.
So to me, listening to these two guys above here talk about anything is refreshing, especially after that.
My my my ..... these are the days that try men’s souls.
I have been following this bloke from down under for some time. He has investigated the “stuff they don’t want you to know” sort of topics. The actual true nature of the police that I believe most police officers as the public is oblivious to. There has been a vocation in America since nearly the very beginning. That vocation was known as a “peace officer”. Mostly the Sheriffs assumes this role. Then in more metropolitan areas you had the creation of private police officers. The sort similar to that of Wells Fargo to protect the railroads. But also was created “corporate, or “commercial” law enforcement. This is what we have come to know as “policing for profit”. Most departments have become a hybrid of both. I believe that within this fusion, and especially after the 14th Amendment was forced upon us unlawfully by means of absolute subversion of the American Republic, we know have a very serious problem.
You, by now, no doubt know that the US Supreme Court has determined that corporate law enforcement have no duty to protect you. That has come to a blazing shock to many people. To this day it causes arguments with people who suffer from cognitive dissonance because they have been lied to and propagandized for so long they just can’t handle the truth. Well in this video a bit of the veil is removed. We will be walking down this road together in upcoming articles and video presentations. Start with our Patriot Manifesto, and by reading the research that is at the bottom of every article we post on the Reconstruction Replacement Government.
It is so hard listening to this authoritarian newspeak manipulator, but it’s almost like one just can not believe how many people buy into the hypocrites like him that one must confirm that they actually exist. Almost like a moth to a flame, I watch while scratching my head.
Brian Young of the High Impact Flix channel decimated the hypocrisy in short order. While “Beta male” O’Rourke consistently champions a form of government we were supposed to completely avoid. This notion that defending “Democracy”, being so important that some political overlords feel the need to resort to dropping bombs on people, is the hallmark of a great idea. Oh yes, Democracy is so great you will either love it or lose your life. It reminds me of the scene from “The Godfather” when Micheal Corleone explains to his soon to be wife a contract his father wanted a Hollywood mogul to sign where mob enforcer Luca holds a gun to his head while his father explains that either his brains or his signature will be on the contact.
As Brian points out, Ben Franklin had some words to explain “Democracy” in its essence..
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner”!
A word of thanks to a good man, with courage and integrity, with a big heart, but the common sense to keep it in balance. Brian Young has caused me to pause on many occasions and literally stop and think. Many people have had really interesting comments on his content. Some admitted to disagreeing with on some things but admitted that he had positively challenged them, and in many situations. I attribute this to the mind control of government propaganda. In fact, If you asked me after watching his content to give a short few words to relay his message I would say ...
#PrinciplesOverParty and #FreedomFromTyranny
He has helped many content creators on YouTube who have been censored and wrongfully accused. I would like to publicly state my appreciation. It is an honor to call Brian Young my friend. Life seldomly provides the opportunity to have good friends. My father was a very wise. He said “you can count good friends on one hand, and usually have fingers to spare. How true.
A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputy was making it all up when he claimed he’d been shot in the shoulder by a sniper last week, officials say.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Angel Reinosa lied about being shot by a sniper last week. (AP)
Deputy Angel Reinosa, 21, reported Wednesday he’d been hit with a bullet around 3 p.m. as he was walking to the parking lot, launching a manhunt and evacuation at a local apartment complex where a sniper supposedly fired off two shots. Is Reinosa just bat sh!t crazy, was he trying to play a joke? Or is he one of those folks being used by some clandestine compartment of government like the CIA, or the Mossad? But seriously.
Officials said late Saturday that Reinosa wasn’t actually shot.
“There was no sniper, no shots fired and no gunshot injury sustained to his shoulder. Completely fabricated,” Capt. Kent Wegener said at a press conference, according to ABC 7.
But one of the most disturbing things that occurred to me... the news reporters were telling it as if it were all absolutely true. No fact checking, no phone calls... just absorb, and regurgitate. Think about that for a few moments.
Completely fabricated. No information on his medical history, or any familial mental health issues
After investigators found no evidence of injury to Reinosa’s shoulder, he admitted he hadn’t been shot — and that he had cut holes in his own shirt.
“Must of his statement was self-serving, didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but he didn’t get into detail as to why he cut the holes or why he fabricated this story. No motivation,” Wegener said. Who does something like
this? I’ll be keeping a close eye on him. But I can’t make any sense of this. Unless he really really wanted to be fired so there was no disputable workman’s comp? Maybe, just maybe, I didn’t really write this. It was Elvis Costello.
I do find it extremely humorous that a few main stream news folks jumped on this story. They opened up wide and ate a total “you got played” sandwich !
Reinosa has been fired and is expected to face criminal charges for filling a false report of an emergency, according to ABC 7. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office could also file more charges if prosecutors see fit. But personally I do not understand their reaction at all. There has hardly been enough time for them to do a thourough and detailed mental health evaluation. I was talking to one of my staff and ran this by them and the first response I got was -
“C’mon Tom, the guy likely got the date of their upcoming false flag incorrect. It’s not as if anyone will putthat together.” Were there any Homeland Security exercises going on?
No, but seriously. He seems to me perhaps a Section 8 either way. So the reaction of the department is what is curious to me. I would have expected something like, “Angel not we are sure what made him do this. These are NOT the actions or the behavior of a sane deputy would just decide one day, “Hey I want to be the biggest jerk I can be, get fired and lose my benefits, health care and pension from a really well paying job. Yeah - that’s exactly what I want to do.
I am curious to see the results of any testing they may run him through.
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Superintendent - The Heat of Inaction - Why did Cruz Slip Through the Cracks? He didn’t.
Had to reduce those arrest statistics to keep the Federal Grant Program money rolling in.
Nicolas Cruz had serious problems. There is a documentary I will be posting at the bottom. It is interesting.
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Nikolas Cruz - Revealed to “Have Been In the Promise Grant Program - Runcie Caught in the Lie!
Runcie and the School Board Both Caught in the Lie!
The truth... Cruz was not arrested for (in my opinion) 2 major reasons.
1 - The actual intentional and in all probability very intentionally, Nikolas Crus was not arrested when in fact the SRO’s has more than enough justification to intervene.
2 - He could have either been brought back into the program by actually “being proactive”, Or, of course what is far more likely, that there were instructions as we hear in the video “not to arrest him”. This can also be for 2 different or combined possibilities.
- He was a “targeted individual”. He clearly “heard voices”, and not only governments get into this activity. Along with intelligence agencies also private corporations, ideologues, perhaps corporate structure much like the SPLC, or any hard core cult like believing anti-gun group, or coordinated effort, these operations have long taken place. Denying this is to deny reality itself.
I’m not accusing. But with what we know for fact in the past about that history, it is more than a reasonable consideration. Some may call it “Conspiracy Theory” all they like. I have hard evidence of the things I That I articulate my ponderings. And I want people to understand, I make no solid “this is it” theory, unless I have an overwhelming amount of evidence to present.
He was compliant, and shows signs and symptoms of psychological manipulation trauma. I would be willing to bet they also did not test his blood for some common but slightly exotic mind control drugs. The Devil’s Breath comes to mind. What I am putting forward is perfectly scientifically reasonably possible. Drugs like concentrated Scopolomine from a tree in South America has flowers that grow on it. Concentrated they make the intoxicated extremely suggestive. Some people become total slaves to a handler. But all inhibition is completely removed. And this is just one such drug. There are literally dozens known to those in spycraft, governmental or corporate espionage, and Black Ops. There is a serious agenda being pushed hard out there. What a better way than to pave the way with “it bleeds it leads”, and complete ignorance as to the fraud being comitted when millions of dollars are flowing just from one Grant program alone. There are quotes about this planned process of subversion of the U.S Constitution, of the ruin of Individual Natural Rights for that of collectivism.
Dana Ashlie explains how the government targets individuals (TI or Targeted Individuals) with "energy weapons" (think this could be related to MK-Ultra?), basically tormenting them and causing them to hear voices in their heads by transmitting spoken sentences into their minds. The interesting thing is, nearly every mass shooter reported of hearing voices in their heads including Nik Cruz so Dana speculated the government is heavily involved and how this is related to Project Bluebeam which will basically fake the Second Coming. it's also interesting to note that many TIs who heard voices in their minds were misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and I remember reading about one article about this shooter in Florida who was diagnosed as such and heard voices.
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As I said in this column last week, Republicans Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are joining forces with liberal Democrats to soon enact “red flag” gun confiscation laws. I also reported on the push for the enactment of other gun control measures such as universal background checks being promoted on Capitol Hill and by the White House here.
I urge readers to watch my 8-minute video exposing Donald Trump’s betrayal of his promise to protect the 2nd Amendment and share it with as many of your friends as you can. If we don’t convince our U.S. senators to reject these egregious gun control measures, THEY WILL BE PASSED, AND TRUMP WILL SIGN THEM INTO LAW. We have about two or three weeks to convince our senators to reject these new gun control laws. That’s it.
If law-abiding gun owners don’t call their U.S. senators en masse, and I mean posthaste, you are very likely to wake up one morning around 4am to the sound of a SWAT team breaking down your door to confiscate your guns, prepared to kill you or any member of your family who resists. Why? Perhaps because a gun-hating neighbor hates you having guns or a relative doesn’t like you and is looking for any way to “teach you a lesson” or your ex-spouse is looking for any way to “get even” with you or an anti-gun cop with a grudge wants to send a political message or a family doctor or school teacher overheard one of your children talk about how many guns daddy has and became alarmed, etc., ad infinitum.
Plus, the FBI has just recently stated that if you believe in “conspiracy theories,” you are a “domestic terrorist threat.” That statement is from an FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau’s Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019. That FBI designation alone could very easily precipitate a “red flag” gun confiscation order being rendered against you.
And Donald Trump himself recently demonstrated how dangerous “red flag” laws are. In a tweet on August 13, President Trump said,
Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!
Are you paying attention? Donald Trump was threatening to use a “red flag” law to authorize police agencies to take away an American citizen’s Natural God-given right of self-defense simply because Trump didn’t like what the citizen said—about him.
Folks, don’t you see? Those in authority can use “red flag” gun confiscation laws against ANYONE they want and for ANY REASON they want.
In other words, there doesn’t have to be a reason. Under “red flag” laws, all it takes for police to come and seize your guns is for someone to make a “red flag” accusation against you. That’s it. And, yes, it really IS that easy.
“Red flag” laws not only eviscerate the 2nd Amendment, but the 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, 6th Amendment, 7th Amendment and 8th Amendment.
The enforcement of “red flag” laws is actually much worse than you think, so says Donald Kilmer, an attorney who has litigated and defended against many state and federal gun charges.
Everyone is debating “red flag” laws like they’re some new thing, but California has had variations of them for decades. We call them domestic violence restraining orders, civil harassment restraining orders, workplace restraining orders, elder abuse restraining orders, mental health seizures and prohibition orders, and, more recently, gun violence restraining orders.
They’re all meant to disarm dangerous people — but they’re all fundamentally flawed.
None of these red flag laws would have prevented recent mass shootings. And in my 23 years practicing law in the heart of Silicon Valley, I have litigated dozens of these cases. I’ve seen firsthand the practical enforcement problems that emerge in real-life cases.
These kinds of court orders are usually obtained from a judge ex parte. That’s fancy Latin for: The judge only hears one side of the story, it is not your side, and you may not even know about it until after the fact. Then they immediately strip you of fundamental constitutional rights for the duration of the orders. You’ll get your “full due process” hearing, but not until later.
And any violation of these orders is separately punishable as a crime. So even if you are innocent of the underlying conduct that inspired the “red flag” order, if you violate the order pending your hearing, you can still face criminal charges.
That kind of situation is ripe for danger. In one situation in Baltimore, police ended up shooting [and killing] a man when they came to collect his guns under a “red flag” law.
In one case in Southern California, a client had to pay a $1,000 ransom, that was reduced from an initial “offer” of $4,000, to get his 50-gun collection back.
Experienced counsel to defend you in a “due process” hearing will run about $15,000 in fees. If you lose and want to appeal, expect to spend another $25,000 to $100,000 in fees and costs. And even with all of that, you might still lose.
To win these hearings, you have to refute an allegation that you pose a danger to yourself or others where a judge already issued a temporary ex parte order that concluded you were already a danger. Many judges will likely err on the side of caution, and against your rights.
As a practical matter, if the government’s interest is in separating a potentially-dangerous person from guns, it makes no sense to leave other guns that belong to family members in the home. So, if you live with someone that gets a red flag order issued against them, then you and others living in the same home risk losing your guns, too.
Even if you win, the judge isn’t going to just hand your guns back to you at the end of the hearing. It’s probably a good idea to “lawyer up” just to go through the process of recovering your guns, so you don’t go to jail or prison for accidentally breaking an obscure firearm law or regulation. You wouldn’t want to set off a red flag.
Law-abiding gun owners better get a big whiff of reality SOON and realize that if they are going to maintain the right to keep and bear arms much longer, THEY must step up to the plate and defend that right—and I mean RIGHT NOW.
The NRA is compromised and is in complete disarray and is offering NO HELP. Donald Trump has already proven he has ZERO fidelity to the 2nd Amendment (or to the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, for that matter). Most Christians and conservatives are in a state of deep denial and hibernation, believing that their yellow-haired savior would never betray them, in spite of the fact that he has already betrayed them—repeatedly.
It is up to individual freedomists and gun owners who are willing to fight for their right to keep and bear arms to fend off this assault against our 2nd Amendment liberties. Reinforcements are not coming; it is up to YOU AND ME.
How much does the 2nd Amendment mean to you? Each of us will determine the answer to that question by what we do or do not do RIGHT NOW.
P.S. I, again, URGE readers to watch my 8-minute video regarding Trump’s betrayal of the 2nd Amendment and the push for the enactment of “red flag” gun confiscation laws and share it with everyone you can. In the video, I also include the phone numbers for both the White House and U.S. Senate, where you can call and voice your opposition.
P.P.S. Here is my video Open Letter To Our Legislator, Judges And Lawmen regarding “red flag” gun confiscation laws. Please watch it and share.
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