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10/16/2026

GUN CONTROL FOR YOU. ARMED PROTECTION FOR THEM. Look at the names. These are prominent Democrat politicians who have supported restrictions on civilian gun ownership while benefiting from armed protection during their political careers.

Presidents have the Secret Service. Congressional leaders have Capitol Police. Governors and mayors can have armed police details. Wealthy politicians can hire private security.

**And there is absolutely nothing wrong with protecting their lives with fi****ms.**

The question is why the ordinary American's ability to protect his own life should be treated differently.

When a politician faces a credible threat, armed protection is considered a reasonable and necessary precaution.

But what about the single mother living in a dangerous neighborhood? The elderly couple who cannot physically overpower an intruder? The woman walking to her car after working late? The family whose nearest police officer may be several minutes away?

**Are their lives somehow less worthy of armed protection?**

Chuck Schumer supported the federal assault-weapons ban. Yet he personally described being rushed to safety on January 6 by a Capitol Police officer carrying a submachine gun.

Nancy Pelosi championed an assault-weapons ban while benefiting from Capitol Police protection as Speaker.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama advocated gun restrictions while receiving Secret Service protection.

These examples don't mean that every gun restriction is a prohibition on self-defense. But they raise a legitimate question about who gets access to armed protection and who must navigate the restrictions imposed by government.

We don't begrudge these politicians their security. We want them protected. We want their families protected.

**We simply believe the lives of ordinary Americans deserve the same respect.**

An armed professional standing between a politician and a violent attacker is using a fi***rm for a legitimate defensive purpose.

An ordinary, law-abiding American seeking the means to defend his own family is acting from that same fundamental desire to survive and protect the people he loves.

The Second Amendment was not written as a special privilege for government officials, the wealthy, or those fortunate enough to have an armed security detail.

**It protects a right of the PEOPLE.**

Our position is straightforward: public safety and the constitutional right to armed self-defense must apply to Americans regardless of their wealth, political office, or social standing.

**The right to defend your life does not come with a government title or a security detail.**

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**Supporting sources:**

Pelosi's remarks supporting the assault-weapons ban:
https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/transcript-of-pelosi-floor-speech-on-the-assault-weapons-ban

Schumer's account of armed Capitol Police protection:
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-majority-leader-schumer-remarks-at-senate-rules-committee-on-the-january-6th-insurrection-and-the-need-to-protect-our-democracy-and-confront-donald-trumps-big-lie

Federal law governing Secret Service protection:
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title18-section3056

10/16/2026

ARMED HERO STOPS OREGON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTER IN SECONDS BEFORE POLICE ARRIVE

A 16-year-old gunman opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, killing three children and one adult. Federal law enforcement sources confirm the shooter was armed with a sh***un. He was stopped cold by an armed good Samaritan carrying a legal concealed weapon who intervened inside the school.

Police received the first call at 12:59 p.m. reporting shots fired into a car. Moments later, multiple 911 calls reported the attacker had entered the building and was shooting. Officers arrived on scene at 1:02 p.m. By then the shooter was already dead. Bend Police spokesperson Sheila Miller stated it “may have been a bystander.” Federal sources told Fox News the bystander “definitely prevented more deaths.”

This attack happened in a school district that bans staff from carrying fi****ms, one of only 25 such districts in Oregon. The armed citizen did what gun-free zone signs cannot. He ended the threat in the critical minutes before law enforcement arrived and stopped what could have been a far larger body count.

Pray for the families of the innocent children and adult who were murdered. God bless the hero who refused to stand by while evil ran loose. This is what the Second Amendment looks like in action when seconds count.

SOURCES
CBS News
CNN
Fox News
USA Today
Bend Police Department
Crime Prevention Research Center

10/15/2026

🚨BREAKING: A man in North Carolina was arrested after he showed up to a small-town church full of worshippers armed with two flamethrowers, crossbows, over 500 rounds of am******on, knives, duct tape, police scanners, and a notebook listing addresses of churches and schools.

He was sitting in his truck wearing full body armor and camouflage. A church member spotted him and called 911. An off-duty police officer working security walked up and confronted him. The man falsely claimed he was law enforcement enforcing a smoking violation.

Police disarmed him without a shot being fired.

This is a chilling reminder of the growing need for serious security at churches.

10/15/2026

🚨WOW: On New Year’s Eve, two men tried to smash their way into Sarah McKinley’s home in Blanchard, Oklahoma. One of them was carrying a 12-inch hunting knife.

Just days after burying her husband, who had died of cancer, Sarah was home alone with her infant. As the men forced their way toward the door, she shoved a couch against it, grabbed a sh***un, and called 911. Her voice shaking, she asked the dispatcher the question no mother should ever have to ask:

“I’ve got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?”
The dispatcher’s answer was clear:
“You do what you have to do to protect your baby.”

Seconds later, the intruder kicked the door in with the knife raised. Sarah fired. The threat ended instantly. Prosecutors later ruled her actions fully justified under home-defense laws.

This wasn’t just a mother’s instinct.
This was a young woman who had already lost everything—except the one life she was still responsible for protecting.

No one should have to make that decision. But when it came, she didn’t hesitate.

Would you have done the same?

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10/12/2026

THERE ARE ABOUT 343 MILLION PEOPLE IN AMERICA. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF GUNS IN CIVILIAN HANDS. With numbers that large, some people are going to misuse guns.

Some murders will involve guns.

Some mass shootings will happen.

That is tragic.

But here is another reality that tends to disappear from the political rhetoric:

CRIMINALS ARE ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF AN ESTIMATED 3–5 MILLION GUNS — AND THEY'RE NOT GIVING THEM BACK.

Those guns don't expire.

They don't disappear because another restriction is passed.

They can be stolen, traded, trafficked, hidden and illegally sold from one criminal to another.

Meanwhile, in 2024 there were 15,364 fi***rm homicides in the United States.

Against a population of roughly 343 million Americans, that amounts to about:

0.0045% OF THE POPULATION.

Every murder is a tragedy.

Every innocent person murdered represents a life that mattered, a family devastated and a crime that deserves to be taken seriously.

But serious public policy should be based on the actual size and nature of the problem — not on making hundreds of millions of peaceful gun owners look like criminals waiting to happen.

Most American gun owners are doing exactly what they did yesterday:

Going to work.

Raising families.

Hunting.

Target shooting.

Collecting fi****ms.

Keeping a gun at home for protection.

Legally carrying one for self-defense.

And hurting absolutely nobody.

The existence of hundreds of millions of fi****ms does not make hundreds of millions of crimes inevitable.

People commit crimes.

Criminals murder people.

Peaceful citizens possessing legal property are not interchangeable with violent offenders.

That distinction matters.

If you don't want to own a gun, don't own one.

If you don't want to carry one, don't carry one.

That is your choice.

BUT LEAVE PEACEFUL PEOPLE WHO DO ALONE.

One of those armed citizens may someday be the person capable of helping when nobody else is there.

The woman who refuses to be an easy victim.

The homeowner confronting an intruder.

The person who happens to be present when somebody begins attacking innocent people.

A gun can sit unused for decades.

And when it is needed defensively, the best outcome may be that its presence stops the threat without anybody firing a shot.

That is part of the gun story too.

DON'T DISARM THE LAW-ABIDING BASED ON FEAR-BASED RHETORIC FROM PRO-GUN-CONTROL POLITICIANS.

Gun policy should be judged by what it actually accomplishes — not by how frightening somebody can make civilian gun ownership sound.

History gives us plenty of opportunity to examine gun-control policies against their promises.

Ask whether the specific law stopped criminals from obtaining guns.

Ask whether it reduced violence.

Ask whether criminals obeyed it.

Ask whether its main burden instead fell upon people who were already following the law.

And ask what happened when another restriction was added after the previous restrictions failed to deliver everything their advocates promised.

Fear is easy to create.

Effective public safety is much harder.

DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO.

Peaceful gun owners are not the enemy.

Violent criminals are.

GO AFTER THE PEOPLE COMMITTING THE VIOLENCE.

LEAVE THE LAW-ABIDING ALONE.

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SOURCES:

U.S. Census Bureau — U.S. Population Clock:
https://www.census.gov/popclock/

CDC — Fi***rm homicide statistics, 2024:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm