Category Archives: guns
Violence escalates in Jerusalem: US, UN respond to increasing clashes on Gaza Strip – YouTube
Another massacre, another charade – The Washington Post
As for the only remotely plausible solution, Obama dare not speak its name. He made an oblique reference to Australia, never mentioning that its gun-control innovation was confiscation, by means of a mandatory buyback. There’s a reason he didn’t bring up confiscation (apart from the debate about its actual efficacy in reducing gun violence in Australia). In this country, with its traditions, public sentiment and, most importantly, Second Amendment, them’s fightin’ words.
Source: Another massacre, another charade – The Washington Post
Printing Guns, Drugs, DNA Weapons and… #Hillary?
What do or pals @boeing think? -Divine Eagle: How much of a threat is #China’s new drone to US air superiority?
The US has led the way in the use of stealth aircraft in combat. Now the game could soon be up, as scientists in China and Russia are discovering ways to make the invisible visible. Mark Piesing reports
No they are not “evil”, but they can be deadly – How #Google is fighting #ISIS in Syria – Quartz
Google—or the many products and services now under the holding company Alphabet—provides the connecting tissue between US forces and Kurdish militias fighting against ISIS in war-torn Syria.
New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi writes from the battlefield that fighters are using Android-powered Samsung tablets and Google Earth to track their battle lines and coordinate close air support with the US military:
“Our comrades can see the enemy moving at the GPS address I just sent you,” [a Kurdish fighter] wrote in Arabic to a handler hundreds of miles away in a United States military operations room. Then he waited for the American warplanes to scream in. The strike that ensued soon after blasted a crater at exactly the coordinates provided by the Kurdish fighter. It left a circle of bodies, including one of an Islamic State fighter who died slumped over his AK-47.
What could go wrong? – Heavily-armed white men patrol #Ferguson, ‘ready to confront authorities to defend US Constitution’ — RT USA
Armed to teeth with semi-automatic assault rifles and handguns, members of the Oath Keepers militia, formed of former and current law enforcement and military officers, have blended into the crowd of Ferguson protesters, saying “We’re on your side.”At least four members of the ‘Oath Keepers’ arrived in Ferguson on early Tuesday and began patrolling the West Florissant Avenue, walking through the crowds of protesters gathered there for a ‘day of civil disobedience’ following the anniversary of the killing of 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown, shot dead by white Police Officer Darren Wilson. Continue reading
Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in U.S. – The New York Times
Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 such attacks since Sept. 11, according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By comparison, seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place in the same period.
If such numbers are new to the public, they are familiar to police officers. A survey to be published this week asked 382 police and sheriff’s departments nationwide to rank the three biggest threats from violent extremism in their jurisdiction. About 74 percent listed antigovernment violence, while 39 percent listed “Al Qaeda-inspired” violence, according to the researchers, Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina and David Schanzer of Duke University. Read more
Charleston shooting: For every criminal killed in self-defence in the US, 34 innocent people die – The Independent
I fired my first .22 when I was four years old. My mother kept a pistol in our home for all of my childhood. I adore the constitution (well, many parts of it) I have a lot of sympathy for my gun loving brothers and sisters. But then there are the numbers…
#ISIS Recruitment Video: Excerpts from “There Is No Life Without #Jihad.”
I do NOT support ISIS (though I sympathize with their political grievances). But I am fascinated by the sophistication and quality of their recruiting materials. With everyone I watch I better understand their appeal to the “better angels” of young muslims. These are two clips from the 13-minute Islamic State recruitment video “There Is No Life WIthout Jihad”. My intent is NOT to inspire anyone to join the IS nor to build sympathy for its cause. Rather, I want to help us all better understand why some young westerns are attracted to the movement.
INCISITY 