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Not only has Obama ruined our relationship with Israel, Russia, China and promoted a nuclear armed Iran, he has threatened to attack Israel to protect Iran, and increased the chances that there will be a nuclear exchange in the middle east.
I wonder if the next move will be to extend the US ‘nuclear umbrella’ to protect Muslim nations from Israeli nuclear retaliation when the nuclear weapon that Iran is developing is used, and prompts an Israeli response. Israel had better be increasing their nuclear alert status.

Revolving door

Jamal LaFortune began his criminal career just two months after his 18th birthday, when he was arrested for  First Degree Misdemeanor Battery. It is entirely possible that his criminal career began before that, but the state of Florida doesn’t release the criminal records of minors.

Over the next six months, he would be arrested 4 more times for crimes including prowling, grand theft of a motor vehicle, possession of burglary tools with intent, and trespassing. After that, he progressed to the big boy crimes. Before his 20th birthday, he would be arrested twice for aggravated assault and aggravated assault with a firearm. He was a convicted felon before he was even 21.

He was arrested seven more times in the next year for a list of felonies including armed robbery, drug offenses, credit card fraud, and theft. 

Less than a month after his 21st birthday, he entered an Orlando area theme park and opened fire on the crowd. Only the fact that he had bad aim prevented him from becoming another national news story.

In three years, he had amassed a total of  10 arrests that included 5 felony convictions- three of those included aggravated battery with a firearm, yet he was still walking around, a free man. At the time of this shooting, he was out on bail after being arrested for multiple armed robberies in the Orlando area. The last felony arrest for which he was convicted included possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, 5 counts of possession of ammunition by a felon, 2 counts of possession of drugs, and grand theft of $5000 or more. Each of those felonies could have carried a penalty of 15 years. Additionally, he qualified to be a habitual violent felon.

Yet, he was out on the streets, committing more violent crimes, while out on bail. Again and again. Even after his conviction, he was out in less than three months. 

Tell me again how firearms are the problem.

Universal checks?

Two criminals were arrested with stolen firearms in their car.

Raymond Leroy Leonard, 55, of Lake Panasoffkee and Jessie L. Pereida,
27, of Webster, were traveling in a vehicle in the vicinity of Catfish
Johnny’s restaurant in Lake Panasoffkee when a deputy noticed the
vehicle had an expired registration tag.
During the traffic stop, a
deputy confirmed that Leonard is a convicted felon. The deputy also saw
firearms in the back of the vehicle in plain sight, the arrest report
said. A check confirmed that some of the guns had been reported stolen
in Lake County.

This is why laws requiring background checks do not work. 

What makes a killer?

A police officer in England is alive today, simply because her attacker chose not to kill her. In the video below, a man in handcuffs attacks the Sergeant, knocks her to the ground and pounds her head into the ground, knocking her unconscious. Watch the video:

If you listen carefully, the officer’s breathing changes as she goes unconscious, and remains that way for almost a full minute. During that minute, the man could have simply strangled her to death, if he had wanted to do so.
One commenter said:

Damn good job the officer didn’t have a gun or a tazer as it could have been much worse!

Which is ridiculous. The only reason that the officer is alive is because the man who attacked her wasn’t a killer. He had the means and the opportunity, but not the will. having a weapon doesn’t make a person into a killer, having the mindset of a killer does.

As for me, I am not willing to bet my life that a person who attacks  me is not a killer, so I carry a gun, and hope like hell that I never have to use it.