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After Columbine, Bill Clinton proposed using armed policemen to protect schools in the same way that we protect our banks, businesses and neighborhoods. The NRA made the same common sense proposal and were met with screams of derision by nutcases on the left.

One of their justifications is that “there was an armed guard at Columbine and it didn’t help.”  As usual, they have no idea what they are talking about.

There was an armed sheriff’s deputy sitting in a car in the front parking lot when the shooting broke out inside the school. There was also an armed motorcycle cop nearby writing a traffic ticket. By the time they got there, they couldn’t get within sixty yards of the shooter – far out of range for a pistol.

What they did accomplish was keeping the shooters occupied and allowing for many students to escape. They also kept the perpetrators from detonating the huge amount of explosives they were able to bring into the school – because there were able to get in without passing a guard.

Had there been an armed guard at the front door, it is very unlikely that Columbine would have happened.

On Friday National Rifle Association CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, in a statement to the press, hit back against calls for stricter gun laws that have been raised since the Sandy Hook shooting, arguing that “gun-free'” zones actually made schools less safe by inviting armed criminals. He called for an armed police officer or guard to be placed inside every elementary, middle and high school in the United States.

Nikitchyuk criticized the proposal. “Do you really want to have a shootout like in O.K. Corral in our schools?” he told CBS News.

Newtown parents reject NRA plan – CBS News

The point that LaPierre was making is that the shooting would not have happened if there was armed security. Shooters go after gun-free zones because they know that they can do a lot of damage. Apparently Nikitchyuk feels that what happened at Sandy Hook is better than facing the very unlikely possibility of a gunfire exchange.

If Sandy Hook Elementary School had an armed policemen two weeks ago, 26 people would almost certainly still be alive. This should be obvious to even the most disordered mind.

Note the area inside the red circle. The top front third of the magazine is lower than the top back, to free up the bullet and allow the shell to enter the chamber. This is a real AR mag and is built for use with 5.56/.223 shells.

An Airsoft magazine does not have that feature, and is flat across the top.

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How will they they lie their way out of this one?

As a responsible citizen, NRA member and CCW holder, I am very careful to abide by all gun laws – but apparently that requirement doesn’t apply to reckless liberals who think that everyone else is as mentally disordered as they are.

Sandy Tops List of 2012 Extreme Weather & Climate Events

By Andrew Freedman, Michael Lemonick, and Dan Yawitz  From unprecedented heat waves that shattered “Dust Bowl” era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out for the U.S. No country on Earth rivaled the U.S. in 2012 in terms of extreme weather and climate events, as one rare episode after another rocked the country.

Sandy Tops List of 2012 Extreme Weather & Climate Events | Climate Central

In other words, they are focused on 2% of Earth’s area and ignoring the record cold and snow in Alaska (part of the US last time I checked), Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia.

The rest of their claims are blatant lies and omissions. Temperatures were much hotter during the Dust Bowl. Sandy was a freak storm aggravated by some of the highest tides of the year and a rare blast of October Arctic cold.

They are counting mild winter temperatures as “extreme weather.” The US is experiencing a record lull in severe hurricanes and had one of the quietest years on record for tornadoes.

As far as heatwaves go, the 1930s were much hotter. The graph below shows record maximum temperatures set at all GHCN HCN stations.

But this comparison isn’t fair. Many new stations have been added and skew the data towards favoring recent records. An apples-to-apples comparison (using only continuously active stations since 1930) shows that 2012 barely cracked the top ten.

These people are destroying US history and should be held accountable.

How about 1927?

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NOAA is about to claim that 2012 was the hottest year ever in the US by a wide margin, but their date shows otherwise. If US temperatures average less than -2C for the rest of the year (which is quite likely) – then 1921 will remain the hottest year according to untampered GHCN HCN data.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

The press has been bombarding us all year with claims that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting, and at a record rate – based on a blatantly fraudulent article from NASA that 97% of the ice had “unprecedentedly” melted. The article also said that this unprecedented event happens every 150 years and was right on time.

July 24, 2012

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

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“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist

NASA – Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

The graph below plots daily maximum temperatures at the center of the ice sheet this summer. Maximum temperatures have averaged -24C this year, with a peak temperature of 2C

Saturday is forecast to be the coldest day of the year at -59C

Weather Forecast Summit, Greenland | Summit Weather | Wunderground

NASA chose to misrepresent lie about cherry-picked information, in order to create the impression that a non-existent meltdown is occurring.

NBC’s David Gregory broke DC law by possessing a 30 round AR mag.

Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC’s David Gregory violated D.C.’s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.

Breitbart contacted the office of the police chief and asked if there were any plans to look into this apparent violation of the District’s gun laws. In response, Chief Lanier replied, “Yes, we are investigating the incident to determine if the magazine was in fact real.”

DC Police Investigating NBC’s Gregory for Brandishing Illegal Magazine

There is no question that the magazine he is holding is real. It will be interesting to see what excuse is used for the final cover-up. My Scenario A is that they will claim it was an Airsoft magazine, which is a blatant lie.

There is a huge excess of snow on Earth, the largest since at least 2002.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Snow extent is an excellent proxy for temperature, which is extremely cold – due to a Mann-made overheated atmosphere.

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The US constitution haters at the Journal News made the insane move of listing all gun owners in nearby counties, with the following justification :

ABC News reached out to the Journal News for a statement. The paper told ABC that its readers “are understandably interested to know about guns in their neighborhoods,” after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn.

New York Journal News Publishes Gun Owners’ Names In Westchester, Rockland Counties

I’ll bet that their readers would also be understandably interested to know some other things about their neighborhoods.

• Which of their neighbors have had sexually transmitted diseases
• Which of their neighbors have been treated for mental health problems
• Which of their neighbors are gay
• Which of their neighbors have AIDS
• Which of their neighbors are on welfare
• Which of their neighbors are drug addicts
• Which of their neighbors are illegal immigrants
• Which of their neighbors have been convicted of drunk driving
• Who their neighbors voted for
• Who their neighbors are sleeping with
• etc.

Why doesn’t the Journal News print all of that information too? Why not just go full totalitarian and make everyone slaves of the state while they are at it?

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

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