VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 1/14/13 (Part Two)

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20. 'Gun control' doesn't survive Christmas
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James Durso sent me this:

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From politico.com: http://tinyurl.com/al9slkm


'Gun control' doesn't survive Christmas
by Dylan Byers
January 2, 2013

Number of mentions of the term "gun control" in the news, according to Nexis.

On the day of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., we published a chart showing the Sisyphean nature of the national gun control discussion. In the immediate aftermath of a shooting, such as the one that took place in Aurora, Colo., mentions of the term "gun control" spike in the news media. In a matter of days, that discussion all but disappears.

This time was supposed to be different. "It is hard to believe this will not be a watershed moment when we start to talk about, deal with and even perhaps legislate on guns," ABC News's Z. Byron Wolf wrote. He was one among many in the media who believed the momentum for gun control legislation was strong enough to turn the tide on a familiar pattern.

Blame it on the fiscal cliff, blame it on Christmas, blame it on our ability to forget, but the national discussion about gun control has once again ebbed. Mentions of the term "gun control" on television, in newspapers, and in online media are down to pre-Sandy Hook levels, according to the Nexis database.

Barring a post-holidy resurgence -- which is certainly possible -- the gun control discussion has once again gone the way of... the gun control discussion.

UPDATE: A colleague wonders:

...and how many of those gun control clips mentioned david gregory........even smaller when you factor that out.

That goes for Piers Morgan as well.


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21. Jesse Ventura debates Piers Morgan on gun control [VIDEO]
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Board Member Dennis O'Connor sent me this:

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Jesse Ventura turns to Piers Morgan’s audience and asks how many believe in his argument against gun control; pretty risky on that show, but he gets away with it and wins!


From youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/axxuutg


Jesse Ventura Debates Piers Morgan on Gun Control
by FrontSightMovies
December 23, 2012

If you want to see what Americans really feel about gun grabbers like Piers Morgan, watch this interview Piers had with Jesse Ventura. The audience at the end of the interview tells the real story of how Americans feel about gun control, no matter who the gun grabbing TV stooge may be that is trying to persuade us to give up our ability to defend ourselves again all enemies.


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22. Law abiding citizen
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Sue Ward emailed me this:

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From patriotslament.blogspot.com: http://tinyurl.com/a4dwann


Law abiding citizen
by Joshua Bennett
December 29, 2012

I am sick of the term "law abiding citizen" and I am especially sick of it when used in reference to gun rights and gun control.

What does having the Right to defend yourself have to do with some State deciding whether or not you deserve that right based on how law abiding you are to it's edicts and proclamations?

If the State says that guns are now illegal, and to own one would be to break the law, are you going to be a law abiding citizen then? What if the State, which is nothing more than a gang of thieves, is unethical, am I still suppose to be a law abiding citizen?

My Right to defend myself, my family, and my property predates the State. The 2nd amendment didn't invent the Right to be armed, it was already known that one had the Right to be armed.

What gives an illegitimate State the Right to say that only "law abiding citizens" can be armed? Abiding by what laws? Who's laws? The States arbitrary law that merely is intended to enslave us?

Quit using that term. It's another way of saying law abiding serfs.

Boot licking slaves.

You think when the colonist revolted against the King he thought that they were law abiding citizens? Should they have been disarmed because of it? Should they ever have been allowed to be armed?

Following the regulations,statutes and political laws of a State have nothing to do with the Right to be Armed.

Our Right to be armed is specifically to resist an over powering and corrupt State. Secondly for personal self defense, and lastly to be able to feed ourselves by hunting.

We know why Patrick Henry cherished the rifle.

An armed people.

Not a "Law abiding citizen".


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23. Demand a plan [VIDEO] - shows Hollywood gun hypocrisy
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**Warning: This video has the "F" word in the title, but it is well-done and shows the massive hypocrisy of Hollywood.


John Murphy shared this:

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From youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/addtjyu


*GRAPHIC* Demand A Plan - Demand Celebrities Go !@#$A Themselves!
by ma5one
December 25, 2012

Hypocrite celebrities and their anti gun agenda, all credits to this video go to

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hhkrp ... ture=watch

***Warning*** content is graphic/explicit. I am not the original creator of this video. Credit is given to the original creator. I just agree with the message. Don't say, "Demand a plan for gun violence", when Hollywood glorifies gun violence. It is hypocritical. Thanks for watching. Note: The song at the end is not to be taken literal, as I stated before, I did not create this video. I do believe in freedom of speech, however, that is why I did not alter the video.


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24. Ogden police apologize for raid on wrong house
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If this person had used a gun to protect his family instead of a baseball bat: “We would have wasted you, ” say the police, who endangered an innocent man.


From standard.net: http://tinyurl.com/aa9o9gl


Ogden Police apologize for raid on wrong house
by Tim Gurrister - Standard-Examiner staff
January 1, 2013

OGDEN — Police Chief Mike Ashment has apologized for six armed officers serving a warrant on the wrong house and traumatizing two young girls who still won’t sleep in their own beds.

But the chief is not ready to concede five of the officers carried assault rifles and shotguns in the 2 a.m. entry Dec. 20 at the home of Eric and Melanie Hill.

A departmental investigation is ongoing in the serving of a warrant on the Hills for a military man charged with desertion, Ashment said Monday, and could be finished within a week. Derek Billmire was arrested later the same morning at a Harrisville residence on the desertion warrant, he said.

The Hills have been meeting with media regularly since the story broke over the weekend.

They counted two shotguns and three assault rifles among the officers who crowded into their modest home in the 1000 block of Harrop Street.

“They were huge rifles, huge,” said Melanie Hill. They described the long guns as equipped with LED lights and carried by men dressed all in black, one wearing a helmet.

“They kept yelling at me that I was Derek,” said Eric Hill.

His daughters, ages 4 and 10, had just awakened him in his bed to say someone was pounding on the front door. He left them and wife Melanie there while he went to answer the door with the baseball bat he keeps by his bed.

By his account, the pounding was very loud as he peered through the kitchen window blinds, seeing nothing, before approaching the door asking who was there. A voice said Ogden police.

He opened the door and someone said drop the bat, which he did, he said, seeing the array of gun barrels. He was then immediately taken out of the house and handcuffed, three of the officers staying with him while the other three went in.

Then he was brought inside, one of the officers keeping a gun on him while he was placed on his living room couch, handcuffed in his pajamas. The others peppered him with questions as to who else was in the house and did he have guns.

“I was downstars cuddling with my kids crying,” Melanie said. Hearing the shouting officers, she went to the bottom of the stairs and found one of them approaching, demanding she bring her husband’s ID upstairs.

Which she did, and the officers relented. “Then they started shuffling out,” Eric said. The ordeal lasted about 20 minutes, he said.

“I can certainly understand him being alarmed,” Ashment said. “I’m not saying he did anything wrong … It’s unfortunate that Mr. Hill and his family had to endure this.”

Ashment stressed that his officers had no intention of kicking Hill’s door in, which is legally allowed for a search warrant. But the officers had an arrest warrant they had received an hour earlier from Weber Consolidated Dispatch, he said.

“They had no intention of forcing their way in,” the chief said. “It wasn’t a search warrant. It was an arrest warrant for desertion.”

Preliminary reports say only one officer had anything resembling a rifle, he said, declining to comment any further on the investigation under way by one of his lieutenants.

He declined to speculate on any potential discipline of the officers.

“The prudent thing to do is let the investigation take its course,” he said.

The Hills said the officers made no apologies as they left, nor any acknowledgement of their crying children.

But Ashment said, “When they found out he wasn’t the person they were looking for, according to the officers, they apologized and offered handshakes.”

The Hills recall the apparent officer in charge making reference to the deer rifle and shotgun Eric owns, and which were in the house. Hill said he didn’t want to frighten his wife and daughters further by getting a gun out.

As he left, the senior officer advised him that would have been fatal.

In his parting remarks, Eric remembers him saying, “We would have wasted you.”

“I thought he said, ‘We would have blown you away,’” said Melanie.

Ashment said he can’t imagine “my guys” saying anything like that.

“If our officers do something inappropriate, I want to address it,” he said.

The department has no policy or protocol on warrants served on the wrong person, as it’s such a rarity.

“Nothing beyond do the right thing, apologize, explain why you were there … we don’t want people afraid of the police,” Ashment said.

Ashment has telephoned Eric Hill to apologize and asked him to meet with his lieutenant as part of the investigation. Hill has declined, doubting the department’s investigation of itself as useful.

“I understand police officers have a difficult job, I really do,” he said. “They don’t know who’s on the other side of the door. But this is asinine.”

He argues that police could have avoided putting everyone in danger with a minimum of research, such as checking the license plate on his vehicles that night, talking to neighbors, or checking county records on the home, which he owns.

Billmire, Hill said, is 6 inches taller than he, from checking his booking mug, and has red hair and a beard.

“This year we’ve had over 105,000 police incidents as of today, the last day of the year,” Ashment said, referring to activity with enough police response to require assigning of an incident number. “When you deal with that many dynamic sets of circumstances, not everything is going to go seamlessly.”


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25. Guns Save Lives: Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder
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From wsbtv.com: http://tinyurl.com/b82hfjb


Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder
by Kerry Kavanaugh
January 4, 2013

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.

The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.

But the man eventually found the family.

"The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he's staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver," Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh.

The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved.

"She's standing over him, and she realizes she's fired all six rounds. And the guy's telling her to quit shooting," Chapman said.

The woman ran to a neighbor's home with her children. The intruder attempted to flee in his car but crashed into a wooded area and collapsed in a nearby driveway, Chapman said.

Deputies arrested 32-year-old Atlanta resident Paul Slater in connection with the crime. Chapman said they found him on the ground saying, "Help me. I'm close to dying." Slater was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center for treatment. Chapman said Slater was shot in the face and neck.

In February, Slater was arrested on simple battery charges, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office. He has been arrested six other times in the county since 2008.

Kavanaugh was the first reporter at the scene as deputies investigated. The victim's husband told Kavanaugh he's proud of his wife. He was on the phone with her as the intruder broke in.

"My wife is a hero. She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do as responsible, prepared gun owner," Donnie Herman said.

He said he's thankful for his family's safety.

"Her life is saved, and her kids' life is saved, and that's all I'd like to say," Herman said.

Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri learned from Chapman late Friday night that slater has been placed on a ventilator and suffers from punctured lungs, a punctured liver and a punctured stomach.

He said if Slater survives the night, doctors will try to operate in the morning to repair the damage.

Chapman said Slater has four exit wounds.

Slater is currently being charged with burglary.