We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things. Chesty Puller 12/5/1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir
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A fellow US Marine that I served with took on the mission on rebuilding a Philippines school. Here is his Gofundme page. My brother needs all the help he can get, Lets pull together and help out this fellow Marine.
His story To help, CLICK HERE I came across Cadmang Elementary school while in the Philippines. There are 193 students and 8 teachers. The school is in serious need of repairs, out of six buildings two need to be torn down due to structural failures, the remaining buildings all need new roofs. They have one functional toilet. I hope that using this site will at least allow the school to provide either a safe and dry classroom or at least functioning toilets for the kids. I have talked to the principle of the school and she is desprate for any kind of help. Imagine being a student or teacher here or if this was the only place your child could go for school.
We all have those people in our lives that have absolutely ZERO understanding of firearms, how they function, and the differences between them. As a result, they of course label everything that is not a single shot bolt action assault rifles. These people are usually the ones screaming the loudest for gun bans because they don’t know that what is being fed to them in talking points in the media is patently false. If you know someone like this, share this article with them.
Use this to explain to those who do not understand firearms or what is meant when one states “automatic” firearm. This is truly the best explanation I have seen to date and is very helpful when educating people.
ASSAULT RIFLES AND CAMERAS
If you’re not a “gun person,” the analogy I’ve found most useful is cameras.
For older cameras, you used to hit the button (*CLICK!*) which would take a picture. Then you had to do something – twist a wheel, crank a lever, etc – before you could take another picture. The gun version of that is called a “repeater”. It has a magazine that holds multiple rounds, but you have to manually cycle the action between shots. This includes bolt action rifles, pump shotguns, most revolvers, etc.
Most cameras today do everything once you hit the button. They take a picture, advance the film, and then you’re ready for another picture as fast as you can hit the button. (we’re sticking with film cameras for this analogy). This is a “semi-automatic.” I actually like the British term better – “self-loading.” When you fire, the gun uses the energy of that shot to eject the empty casing and “self-load” the next round so you’re ready to fire again as fast as you can pull the trigger. This includes pretty much every handgun other than a revolver, and most rifles (including AR15s and your grandpa’s Mini 14, M1A, or M1 Garand).
Finally, some cameras will let you use “burst mode” where you hold down the button and it takes pictures as fast as it can for as long as you hold down the button (or until it runs out of film). That’s an “automatic” weapon, or a “machine gun.” That’s what most people *think* AR15s are, what you see in the movies, what the military uses, and what costs $XX,000, takes months to years of background checks, etc, etc, etc. There are nearly no crimes committed with automatic weapons in the US.
THE PROBLEM WITH BANNING ASSAULT RIFLES…
The problem is these three are the most substantive distinguishing categories between different types of firearms.
People wonder “why don’t we just ban semi-autos,” but you’re talking about the vast majority of firearms in the US. “Assault weapon” bans are essentially attempts to define away certain semi-auto rifles based on cosmetic features – it’d be like trying to ban “race cars,” by then realizing that race cars are pretty much just cars (you’re not going to ban “gasoline engines” or “diesel engines”), and therefore defining “race car” as “a car with a spoiler, a loud exhaust, sponsor decals, and/or a large number on the hood.”
Sure, that definition covers the race cars you’re trying to ban, but it’s a meaningless definition – NASCAR could easily take the decals and spoilers off and suddenly their cars aren’t “race cars” (“zomg THE NRA IS FINDING LOOPHOLES IN THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN!!!”), and your kid’s Scion TC is suddenly a “race car” because it has a spoiler on it.
Share this article with those people on your friends list who keep calling for Assault Rifles to be banned but have no idea what they actually are.
A woman posted a selfie online without thinking much of it, then she headed out to work. Not realizing what she was sharing in the photo, she simply posted it and forgot about it, which proved to be a huge mistake when a thug found out about it.
Quinisha Johnson didn’t have much time to check her social media profile after she arrived to her job at a Walgreens in Arlington, Texas. However, her husband Ricci Bradden did, and he became enraged at what he saw. There was something different about this selfie that set the man off, which wasn’t a problem with the countless other bathroom and bedroom pictures she posted before this one, but it wasn’t his wife who would pay. Instead, an honorable veteran Marine did.
Quinisha had no clue what her husband was up to when he suddenly showed up at her work on May 2, just a few short hours after her selfie surfaced online. Within a matter of seconds, Ricci made his rage over her photo known, when he began publicly berating his wife about it, claiming she posted it for attention and was showing too much of her chest.
While that may be true of the recent black and white snapshot (below) that set him off, so did all the other selfies she posted to Facebook in the months and years up to this point. Those didn’t get the same reaction from Ricci that this one did, and when his verbal assault wasn’t enough, he went out to his car to get his gun and make his message more clear, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Quinisha Johnson in her selfie that enraged her husband
“And I was trying to explain it to him that, ‘I married you. You’re all the attention that I needed,'” Quinisha explained to WFAA. The already irate husband shot at his wife’s legs twice, hitting her once in the ankle, before realizing who else was there.
Former Marine Anthony “T.J.” Antell happened to be in the store and immediately stepped in to protect Quinisha by attempting to disarm Ricci with the use of his own gun, which he was legally carrying in his car. Unfortunately, that didn’t go as planned, and the thug immediately gunned down Antell, a father-of-three, before he could get his firearm out of his car. To make matters more tragic, the Marine’s wife was there to see her husband murdered right in front of her.
Ricci fled the gruesome scene, but he later turned himself in to police. He’s since been charged with murder and is being held on $500,000 bond. Meanwhile, three kids are now fatherless and a woman lost her husband, all over a selfie.
Antell was a hero for our country, which didn’t change after returning home, where he selflessly protected a stranger because that’s what he knew needed to be done. A veteran lost his life at the hands of a feral thug, yet there’s no outrage in the media over it. Had it been the reverse, it would be front page news for weeks.
