Jonathan Gentry on Ferguson, Missouri

Six+ minutes - worth your time.

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Thank your GI

Today, I checked the temperature in the attic. 117 degrees Fahrenheit. I think about the GI's we have sent over to the hot sandbox. In addition to bugs and bullets, they are dealing with that kind of heat or more daily.

If you think that's not too bad, take your lawn chair up there and sit a while in shorts and a T-shirt. Then think about wearing/carrying boots, pants, jacket, flak vest, helmet, rifle, ammo, food, water, etc., and going for a hike around your attic.

Yeah, thank your GI!

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Smoky Mountain Rapist gets 27 years

The rascal was already in prison, had been there before, and preyed on this woman in the Park. The law got him, after the fact. Knoxville and Farragut disarm victims before the fact. Read my Examiner commentary HERE.

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Eric Holder has great empathy . . .

. . . except for black woman with a legal gun. Read about it HERE

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Kroger snubs Bloomberg group

This week, Kroger refused to kowtow to Bloomberg's minions. Please follow the link in the story and thank Kroger. Read the story  HERE

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Lessons from Ferguson, Missouri

Here are some points to ponder, when considering the last week+ in Ferguson, in no particular order.

• If you are considering getting a defensive firearm, don't wait until you need it.
• The police were not available to protect stores. Do you think that in a major calamity, they will prioritize on you?
• Whether the officer was justified in shooting or not, his life is forever changed.
• The bullet hits shown in the autopsy report on TV last night would be consistent with flinching. A right-handed shooter will often place shots to the lower left. If the young man was charging the officer, as one report stated, the first shots to the lower left would have been followed by the shots that got higher, culminating in the lethal shot into the head.
• Some ask, why so many shots. The simple answer is that in a defensive situation (assuming that to be the case here), one shoots until the threat ceases.
• A firearm or two with ammunition, emergency food supply, and water, are always in good order.
• Civil order can deteriorate very quickly.

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Shiloh's Brew and Chew owner speaks to Farragut Gun Club

About three weeks ago, I reported on Shiloh's Brew and Chew's owner, Sharma Floyd, putting up Guns are Welcome signs.

Here is the video of Sharma Floyd speaking to the Farragut Gun Club about her decision, and the results of that decision.

 See my examiner piece HERE.

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Nip it in the bud

I am not so naive as to believe any action on the part of the US Government against radical Islamists will have everlasting consequences. But, when it comes to fighting the Jihadi's who want to destroy us, here are some observations.

1. They (Jihadi's) hate Israel and they hate us. No, I am not painting all members of Islamic faiths with the same brush
2. We are still too dependent on their oil
3. Armies, including ISIS, do not get bullets and beans ex-nihilo. Someone has to supply the money
4. Not all in item one are willing to die for their cause, but will spend billions for the cause

So, instead of just sending a few JDAM's at combatants at the front, the United States should, additionally

1. Make haste to develop our own realistic (forget solar and wind) energy sources, rather than be at the behest of OPEC
2. Declare all money, food, and munitions suppliers to the Jihadi's to be a Clear and Present Danger to the United States
3. Send some of the same airmail that the Jihadi's are receiving to these individuals, cartels, etc.
4. In spades

The jihadi's and their patrons* must learn to fear us more than they hate us. Then, as Jefferson and Reagan demonstrated, they will leave us alone for a while. 

Anything less assures our eventual destruction.

For more on the subject from friend MJM, click HERE.

*a person who gives money and support to an artist, organization, etc

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Should you carry in a bank?

A Fox Business article implies that you shouldn't. I demur. Read the story HERE.

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John Lott's Website: Canadian mail order guns from 1902 to 1975

It was legal in US until GCA 1968. Do you really feel safer now?

LINK:
John Lott's Website: Canadian mail order guns from 1902 to 1975 

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Caution about guns in airports

Be careful. Having a gun in your carry-on in Knoxville is bad. Trying to legally check one in New Jersey or New York can be so much worse. Read more HERE.

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DC carry ban lifted, almost

Washington, DC's ban on carrying firearms for personal defense has been ruled unconstitutional. See the story HERE.

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Heroic PA doctor uses defensive handgun in gun free zone

In spite of being in a GFZ, the doctor packed heat. Locally, Knoxville and Farragut persist in banning guns in parks, in spite of reported crimes in those areas. More at Examiner HERE.

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Vote Campfield Tennessee Senate District 7

Why vote for Campfield?

With no right to personal defense, nothing else matters.

See video and discussion at Examiner HERE.

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Shiloh's Brew and Chew

Shiloh's Brew and Chew supports the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. See the Fox news Report HERE (after the ad).

Go show a little love. Spend some $$.

Address: 1805 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville, TN 37804

Phone:(865) 233-7307

Here is their Web Site.

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Jason Zachary for Congress

I will be voting for Jason Zachary to represent the Second District of Tennessee. Status quo is not working in Washington, D.C. As part of that status quo, the Duncan family has held the Second District seat for half a century, almost 20% of our nation's existence. As he wrote in a letter to my wife some years ago, the only term limit Mr. Duncan agrees with is for the electorate to vote him out. Let's honor that.

With that in mind, I am reproducing, with permission, this from Bill Johns:

Letter to the Editor:

KNS and KNS Editorial Board-

Almost fifty years ago in 1965 when gas cost around .30 cents a gallon and a first class stamp cost a nickel is also when the former Congressman John Duncan, SR. was elected to office for Tennessee’s 2^nd District.  At that time, no one had been to the moon, Silicon Valley was just in its infancy, and the Woodstock  Festival was even years off.  Since then the Duncan legacy has built and maintained their very own and personal “entitlement program” with this seat financed through five decades of US taxpayers, pork programs, and influence. 

Musing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Its like shampooing your hair. . . .

How many times has this scenario played out in my lifetime?

Hamas (or some other Islamist militant group) fires indiscriminately into Israel, shooting not at military targets, but at the general population.

Israel fires back, inevitably hitting and killing noncombatants, because the aforementioned jihadis hide among the general population.

American alphabet television has a tear-fest over the loss of life in Gaza.

Israel apologizes for hitting the noncombatants.

A cease-fire is called.

Hamas doesn't honor the cease-fire.

Israel resumes combat operations.

Some outside government brokers a peace deal.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

How many times? Does anyone know?

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Veterans disarmed while commuting to VA facilities

Did you know that when a vet needs to visit the VA in Knoxville he/she must travel to and from the VA facility unarmed. Doesn't matter if they have a Permit. Doesn't matter that Tennessee law now authorizes permitless vehicle carry. More commentary HERE.

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CDC should stick to their business

The CDC keeps having serious problems with storage of deadly bacteria.

They should concentrate their resources there, rather than their bogus leftist attempt at designating guns as an epidemic problem.

The epidemic is one of recidivist criminals plaguing our society, and our sport fishing criminal justice system.

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Chicago violent crime epidemic

There is an inverse relationship between lawfully owned guns and crime. More guns, less crime. Chicago, on the other hand has a long gun ban history, with a correlating high crime rate. Read my commentary HERE.

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Questions about guns in Target, etc. . .

The recent addressing of firearms policy by Target stores raised some questions over on Facebook. I address those questions HERE.

Target's policy is similar to that of Chipotle, as reported HERE.

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Defend the border

A note to Rick Perry and other southern border state governors.

You have, I believe, the authority to call out the National Guard. It is high time to activate them, and unroll a few hundred miles of concertina wire.

Razor Wire Public Domain Staff Sergeant Nicholas Phelps - US Air Force Public Affairs

We are undergoing a full-scale invasion and the dear leader in Washington is not going to do anything about it.

Step up! Seal your portion of the border! Quit complaining about his inaction!

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Car carry now law in Tennessee

Today, Tennessee joins almost half the States, legalizing vehicle carry of a defensive firearm without a permit. Read more HERE

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Camp4u: And if you do.....

On Corker's tax proposal: Camp4u: And if you do..... 

Taxed enough already, Bob! Do you want us to eat cake, too?

Marie Antionette (Public Domain)

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Don't be a straw man

Comments on this week's Supreme Court ruling on a straw man purchase of a firearm HERE.

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Zenith Zoysia update

If you have bare areas, take a look at these photos, and then check out the tab at the top entitled Tennessee lawn grass. These are photos of Zenith Zoysia taken during the second growing season. Click to see a larger image. Seed were sewn over plug aerated soil May 2013. These pictures were taken June 17, 2014.

Seed sprouted last summer, watered last summer PRN, and only rain water this second summer. No topsoil here.

The longest stolon (runner) is about a foot long.

By the end of year four, with just rain water, this are should have close to complete coverage.

The green clump in the center is a Zoysia plant. As it grows, it will put runners out into the bare area.

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Unwarranted attack on permitless open carry

My rebuttal to a recent letter to the editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel. If you subscribe to the N-S, you can see the slightly edited version they published HERE.

Photo © Oleg Volk. All rights reserved. Used with permission

The recent letter writer, Ben Brabson, in his opposition to permitless open carry of handguns, begins with an ad hominem attack on Senator Campfield, and ends with a false assertion concerning the conduct of fellow Tennesseans.

He reminisces about his childhood firearms usage and the safety indoctrination he received from his father and uncles. I guess he missed the Bill of Rights indoctrination, which speaks of keeping and bearing arms, not for food gathering or pest control, but for defense against unlawful felonious aggression. I guess he missed the definition of infringed in the Second Amendment, which has the same meaning as abridged in the First. Maybe, too, he missed the definition of the people.

The fact is, the writer shows his callous disregard for the safety and well-being of his lower-income neighbors who can’t afford the poll tax on the individual right to bear arms. He, by extension, becomes a co-conspirator with criminals who prey on the lawfully disarmed. Are the lives of these citizens of such less value?

He asserts that if permitless open carry is passed next year,

there will be a version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral repeated in every county of the state on a daily basis.

He may be surprised, then, to learn that every county of every state bordering Tennessee, except Georgia already has permitless open carry. Can he point to crime statistics that would support his assertion? In Kentucky alone, that would add up to 43,800 gunfights last year.

He insults Tennesseans by insinuating that we are less capable of self-restraint than people in those seven states. Are we, sir, such a bunch of rubes, that we can’t be trusted to exercise a God-given, natural right, unless we first purchase a permission slip from our Master, the State?

Respectfully,
Liston Matthews

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Ultimately, there is no middle ground. Gun prohibitionists keep looking for ways to reduce/eliminate private ownership and use of firearms. They are never content, either, with partial steps. Given their choice, total prohibition is the ultimate goal.

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