Kaiduorkhon
Registered Senior Member
Referencing the particularly American issue of firearms – increasing scrutiny is focused in the question: ‘For all of the gathering incidents of mad individuals murdering sometimes dozens of people, and for all of the American dissenters-against and defender-of gun ownership: why are there few – if any – reports (besides those carried in publications such as, ‘The American Rifleman’) of legally carried guns and gun owners, protecting themselves and others - would-be victims of firearms-wielding mass murders?’
In response to any such question(s) asserted by the gun-grabbers, consider the following – information suppressing - example of media censorship and control:
On 15 June 1997, one Floyd W. Creager, a Vietnam combat vet diagnosed with 100% post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and this record, were attacked by five young adult males, the leader of whom brandished a baseball bat, repeatedly striking the sidewalk with it, as he advanced upon us and queried: “You want some of this?” While Floyd Creager refused to yield, I fled into my domicile – which Floyd and I were sitting on the front steps of – and retrieved my hand gun. I returned to the stairway Mr. Creager had stood up from while otherwise remaining still even as the oncoming assailant further advanced upon him, I stepped between Mr. Creager and the 5 perpetrator(s) and fired three shots in the air (at a 45o angle, to insure that the projectiles landed in Monterey Bay, about 300 yards southward); instantly dispersing the entire, threatening group.
No one was physically harmed in any way.
Had I not been a legal gun owner, it is likely that either Mr. Creager, or both of us, may have been overwhelmed and seriously hurt, or worse (I don’t know if - had I not owned a firearm - I would have stood my ground beside Mr. Creager, or not). Then there is the possibility that, had we managed to disarm the nearest man with the baseball bat, one or more of his accompanying ‘back up’ entourage, may likewise have been seriously injured, or worse.
Of course this is a (commonplace) case of a positive employment of a firearm. Repeat: no one was injured… Neighbors witnessed the entire incident from inside their homes. The police were called. This incident was officially recorded as case designation *SC 1997 (*Santa Cruz, CA.) # 93336; refer Sgt. (now Lieutenant) Sepulveda, and/or Lieutenant Skierie, both of whom commended this record for his ‘tactical restraint’. No arrest. No charges.
Shortly after this occurrence, Mr. Creager personally went to the Santa Cruz SENTINEL and told the triage clerk of the incident, and the fact that it could be confirmed by the above named authorities and the official report I.D. The SENTINEL employee asked: ‘Was anyone hurt or injured in any way?’ Mr. Creager answered, ‘No’.
The clerk (remarkably) resolved: ‘Then there’s no story here’, and refused to speak to Mr. Creager, furthermore.
This is a model example of how ‘the press’ ignores constructive, even life-saving facets of gun ownership (and gun carrying, with a permit, which demands a clean police record). Similar events of no one being harmed because a gun was produced (fired or not) as a deterrent to otherwise imminent violence, are commonplace and innumerable; since, when ‘no one is hurt’ - very often, ‘the press’ shuns any report. Whereas, there is indeed a very cogent and important ‘story’ in such proven events.
It seems that ‘the press’ is aversive to any ‘good reports’ about guns and gun ownership.
Please consider that any who would contend against this missive, for having ‘heard it all before’: has yet to hear it anywhere near enough: the raison dete of this communication and all others like it.
(Yes, this writer really is an Apprentice Tool & Die Maker, Machinist, and Gunsmith; also an Ordained Military Chaplin; a 30+ year activist member of the Congressionally Chartered *V.F.W. - *Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States. )
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In response to any such question(s) asserted by the gun-grabbers, consider the following – information suppressing - example of media censorship and control:
On 15 June 1997, one Floyd W. Creager, a Vietnam combat vet diagnosed with 100% post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and this record, were attacked by five young adult males, the leader of whom brandished a baseball bat, repeatedly striking the sidewalk with it, as he advanced upon us and queried: “You want some of this?” While Floyd Creager refused to yield, I fled into my domicile – which Floyd and I were sitting on the front steps of – and retrieved my hand gun. I returned to the stairway Mr. Creager had stood up from while otherwise remaining still even as the oncoming assailant further advanced upon him, I stepped between Mr. Creager and the 5 perpetrator(s) and fired three shots in the air (at a 45o angle, to insure that the projectiles landed in Monterey Bay, about 300 yards southward); instantly dispersing the entire, threatening group.
No one was physically harmed in any way.
Had I not been a legal gun owner, it is likely that either Mr. Creager, or both of us, may have been overwhelmed and seriously hurt, or worse (I don’t know if - had I not owned a firearm - I would have stood my ground beside Mr. Creager, or not). Then there is the possibility that, had we managed to disarm the nearest man with the baseball bat, one or more of his accompanying ‘back up’ entourage, may likewise have been seriously injured, or worse.
Of course this is a (commonplace) case of a positive employment of a firearm. Repeat: no one was injured… Neighbors witnessed the entire incident from inside their homes. The police were called. This incident was officially recorded as case designation *SC 1997 (*Santa Cruz, CA.) # 93336; refer Sgt. (now Lieutenant) Sepulveda, and/or Lieutenant Skierie, both of whom commended this record for his ‘tactical restraint’. No arrest. No charges.
Shortly after this occurrence, Mr. Creager personally went to the Santa Cruz SENTINEL and told the triage clerk of the incident, and the fact that it could be confirmed by the above named authorities and the official report I.D. The SENTINEL employee asked: ‘Was anyone hurt or injured in any way?’ Mr. Creager answered, ‘No’.
The clerk (remarkably) resolved: ‘Then there’s no story here’, and refused to speak to Mr. Creager, furthermore.
This is a model example of how ‘the press’ ignores constructive, even life-saving facets of gun ownership (and gun carrying, with a permit, which demands a clean police record). Similar events of no one being harmed because a gun was produced (fired or not) as a deterrent to otherwise imminent violence, are commonplace and innumerable; since, when ‘no one is hurt’ - very often, ‘the press’ shuns any report. Whereas, there is indeed a very cogent and important ‘story’ in such proven events.
It seems that ‘the press’ is aversive to any ‘good reports’ about guns and gun ownership.
Please consider that any who would contend against this missive, for having ‘heard it all before’: has yet to hear it anywhere near enough: the raison dete of this communication and all others like it.
(Yes, this writer really is an Apprentice Tool & Die Maker, Machinist, and Gunsmith; also an Ordained Military Chaplin; a 30+ year activist member of the Congressionally Chartered *V.F.W. - *Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States. )
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