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^^^^^ Polar bear in a blizzard.

Biden’s not the enemy waiting to attack us from within. He’s the hollowed out, wooden horse they’re using to sneak through our gates.

So, you have the report about his death? Please share so we all know the facts. What exactly is "far right" in your mind? Anyone who is right of far left? You make about as much sense as taking a blind man to a silent movie.

No, they're threatened by vengeful leftists, idiotic PC ideology and unconstitutional laws.

Critics of the police don't seem to realize where they are taking this. Keep supporting the people who want to prevent police from doing their jobs, and when you need them, they will only show up to take a report or draw some chalk lines around your dead body. Meanwhile the same elected hacks that attack the police, will be making sure you lose your right to defend yourself. What a lovely utopia that would be. And don't start with the specifics of this case. The police administrators should be able to decide what was right or wrong without any political or public pressure applied to their decision. They are the experts with all the facts. Anything else is political and will never be in the public's best interest. What we need is a huge public education campaign that informs the public once and for all, once you are under arrest, you MUST comply with lawful orders. PERIOD! Don't agree with that? Don't get arrested.

BTW, what has that got to do with the price of electricity going up due to wind and solar subsidies?

The officer deserves respect. But if I'm not mistaken, he was a conservative and a Trump supporter (which makes him a real America like you said) and wasn't "killed" by protesters. Nobody at the funeral was allowed to talk to reporters. (Free speech suppressed?) It is believed he died from a medical condition, as did everyone at that protest except the unarmed white Air Force woman who was shot in the neck and killed by a black Capital Police officer. I'm sure if the officer was white and she was black, we would still be hearing about it. Who's really brainwashed here? From your link: "Authorities have not publicly specified the cause of Sicknick’s death, which is being investigated by D.C. police homicide detectives."

The Long March to Restore the Second Amendment in New York by Stephen P. Halbrook - Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Timothy “Big Tim” Daniel Sullivan (1862-1913) (right), a New York City politician, in 1911, pushed the Sullivan Act through the City’s legislature-an unconstitutional infringement on our rights. “I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms. I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle. Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?” So recalled U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia about his days as a schoolboy on a rifle team. Scalia’s experience reflected a long tradition. For example, Gen. George W. Wingate, president of the N.Y. Public Schools Athletic League, wrote an essay titled Why School Boys Should Be Taught to Shoot? (1907). President Teddy Roosevelt wrote an afterword for it congratulating the New York pupil who was the best shot of the year. The National Rifle Association was chartered in New York in 1871 by Gen. Wingate and Col. William Church for the purpose of promoting marksmanship. The New York legislature accommodated the NRA by funding a range at Creedmoor, Long Island. The right to bear arms was respected in those days. The 1828 N.Y. Civil Rights Law, which is still on the books, states: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed.” The state did not forbid carrying unlicensed, concealed pistols until 1881, while open carry went unregulated. The Sullivan Law of 1911 was the first law in any state to require a license just to keep a pistol in the home. Carrying was banned without a license—and commoners need not apply. When the law could not be repealed, the NRA turned to the courts. In Moore v. Gallup, a veteran appealed the denial of a license to carry a pistol for lack of “good cause.” The New York appeals court affirmed the denial in 1943. An amicus brief was filed by New York attorney and former NRA president Karl T. Frederick on behalf of the NRA, and another amicus brief was filed for the Forbes Rifle & Pistol Club (which still exists today). The judge who denied the license said it would be a bad precedent “if all citizens of good moral character were to be licensed to carry pistols” for target practice. The appeals court held that the Second Amendment protects “weapons of warfare to be used by the militia,” including “rifles and muskets ... but not pistols,” which “are habitually carried by ... gangsters.” Of course, if pistols were not habitually carried by law-abiding citizens, it was because it was illegal to do so. A dissenting judge opined that the law violated the right to bear arms. Referring to the danger of an enemy attack—German U-Boats had sunk scores of ships off the coast and landed saboteurs on Long Island—he said that “a man of the type of this petitioner who could shoot with accuracy, would be a more useful citizen than one who, if attacked, could only throw a bootjack at his assailant.” While the NRA amicus brief in the above case could not be located, it undoubtedly made arguments based on the Second Amendment and the need to train citizens to shoot, as the NRA long advocated. A New York court held in 1958 that the Sullivan Law did not restrict rifles because of the Second Amendment and the Civil Rights Law. Fast forward to 1991, when New York City banned “assault weapons” like the M1 Garand. In Richmond Boro Gun Club v. City of NY, an NRA-supported challenge, the City admitted that banned rifles had not been used in crime in the City. That made no difference to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in upholding the ban. The NRA supported a challenge to NY State’s “SAFE Act” in NY State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Cuomo, relying on the Heller decision holding that the Second Amendment protects firearms in common use. In 2015, the Second Circuit upheld the ban without a word about why these rifles presented any more danger than others. That brings us to NYSRPA v. City of N.Y., another NRA-supported case, in which the Second Circuit upheld the City’s ban on transporting a handgun away from home. The right to bear arms was trumped by speculation about possible road rage. When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, the City made a stingy amendment to the law, inducing the Court to then decline the case. For decades, the NRA has fought New York diktats tooth-and-nail, always against anti-Second Amendment courts. But, as a result of President Donald J. Trump’s judicial appointments, the Second Circuit has been flipped to a majority of Republican-appointed judges. And the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court fuels hope that the Second Amendment might not continue being treated as a second-class right, even in New York. Attorney Stephen Halbrook has won gun cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, is a senior fellow with the Independent Institute and is author of The Founders’ Second Amendment and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France.

President Joe Biden (D) has made a first move toward going after an industry he called the “enemy.” The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced it “paused” publication of its November 2020 rule written to ensure that large banks provide customers fair access to their services. Put that way, it sounds innocuous. It isn’t. The Obama administration attempted to use financial regulations to go after politically incorrect industries, such as gun manufacturers and dealers, by pressuring banks and other companies not to offer financial services to these legal industries. It was called “Operation Choke Point.” The Trump administration ended this practice. Then, very late in the Trump administration, the OCC announced a final rule and sought public comment. Activists on the Left and in some financial sector institutions protested, as they didn’t want to have to assess companies they don’t like. This rule didn’t attempt to force them to work with any companies; instead, it cautioned them from discriminating against entire industries. Now the rule has been “paused.” The OCC now says it wants to “allow the next confirmed Comptroller of the Currency to review the final rule and the public comments the OCC received.” “The Biden Administration has fired the first shot by improperly interfering in the affairs of the OCC which is an independent agency,” said Larry Keane, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s senior vice president for Government & Public Affairs and general counsel. “There’s no reason for today’s action by career officials in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency other than bending to political pressure from big banks, and stalling or eliminating the rule will not stop the efforts of those of us who support it from continuing these efforts. The Biden Administration should use this opportunity to demonstrate leadership and not just be puppets for the large financial interests who back them,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement. This marks the latest skirmish in a war activists have waged against industries they don’t happen to like. There is some good background information on this issue here.

Nope, it's because you embrace Communist ideology and don't even realize it. BTW, the opposite of leftist is American.

Asst Secy of Energy under Obama. But VH can't give any factual specifics to back up his hatred of anything that blows his leftist narrative to shreds. He just attacks the messenger. Leftists fall for that crap every time.

That kid is not troubled. That kid is trouble. I tend to doubt that kid is only 9 years old. Don't think older kids haven't claimed that to avoid the law in the past. Yes, even juveniles are required by law to obey lawful orders from the police. Would you prefer they were excluded from that law? At what age do they need to start complying with lawful orders? This is why gang bangers recruit young kids to do their dirty work and drug running for them. I wouldn't doubt that girl would've shot one of those cops if she had a chance to.

Starting to think the fencing in DC is just to keep Joe from wandering off

The Dad called the police on her. Calling for him is a ploy she has learned to gain sympathy, just like her telling the cops, "I'm a child". This girl has learned how to play the system. She's going to be trouble for society in the future.

Anytime anyone doesn't comply with lawful commands from police, it is a dangerous situation. It could go bad very quickly and the police know it. It's easy to sit back and judge what happened after the fact. But when you are in it and don't know what's going to happen, you should not be judged by armchair lawyers.

Don't put words in my mouth. That kid was not distressed. She was combative, resisting and creating an unsafe condition for both her and the police. That cannot be tolerated. The police used the least amount of force to subdue her. She should be sent to juvenile prison. Now the city is suffering from more rioting because the kid was a brat. If you think that is acceptable, you need to get your priorities straight.

First off, that is one really big 9 year old. Secondly, she was resisting lawful commands for a LONG time. Third, she was warned she was going to get sprayed. Seems to me these kids are learning to resist the police at a young age. Someone is teaching them they do not have to comply. If she was older, she might have died. This incident may prove to be the one that saves her life down the road. I do not fault the police here at all.

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