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Thursday, December 10, 2015
Texas police chief warns Obama of revolution if gun grab
DALLAS (AP) -- A Texas police chief who warns President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would "cause a revolution in this country" is the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings.
Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in the small East Texas town of Hughes Springs, about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his personal Facebook page that the Second Amendment was established to protect people from criminals and "terrorists and radical ideology."
"It's also there to protect us against a government that has overreached its power," Kennedy says in the video. "You are not our potentate, sir. You are our servant."
He warned people in his town to prepare themselves: "Be ready when the wolf comes to the door, because it's on its way."
Law enforcement officials in Arizona, Florida and New York also have recently prompted citizens to arm themselves - some using similar comments aimed at terrorism.
Kennedy said his call to arms was the result of his disappointment with Obama's Oval Office speech Sunday in which the president vowed the U.S. will overcome a new phase of the terror threat that seeks to "poison the minds" of people here and around the world. The police chief told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's not asking residents to turn into vigilantes or "become super action heroes."
He said feedback on his video has been supportive for the most part.
"There have been a few extremely nasty comments, calling me basically a backwoods redneck hick creating monsters that don't exist," he said.
Wayne Ivey, the sheriff in Brevard County, Florida, said in a video post on the department's Facebook page over the weekend that political leaders appear more interested in being politically correct than protecting people. He urged residents to arm themselves as a first line of defense against an active shooter.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Ivey said.
Another Florida sheriff, Steve Whidden in Hendry County, this week encouraged more people to carry weapons because "we as a nation are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists."
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona issued a statement Tuesday asking "legally armed citizens to take a stand, and take action during a mass shooting/terrorist event until law enforcement arrives."
And last week, Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum in upstate New York called for licensed gun owners in his county to arm themselves when leaving home, citing mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
The FBI said last week that it processed a record number of firearms background checks on Black Friday, the busy shopping time the day after Thanksgiving. The agency processed 185,345 background checks - roughly two per second - the same day that three people were killed and nine others wounded in an attack at a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado.
The previous record for the most background checks in a single day was Dec. 21, 2012, about a week after 20 children and six adults were shot to death in a Connecticut elementary school. The week following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary saw the processing of 953,613 gun background checks.
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Monday, December 7, 2015
Paul slams 'fat-ass neocon bitch' Christie over bulk data collection
Sen. Rand Paul hit out at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as a "fat-ass neocon bitch" over the National Security Agency's bulk data collection due to his willingness to "give up" liberty in the wake of terror attacks over the past few weeks.
Appearing on "Morning Joe," Paul went after Christie, along with Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, over the their stances on metadata collection, adding that they should focus on securing the border in an effort to "defend the country."
"I think it's actually made us less safe," Paul said about the bulk data collection. "Because I think the haystack is so large that we're getting lost in the haystack. I would like to target the people that are coming here to attack us, and I think people like Rubio and Christie and Bush, they're not willing to defend the border, and I think, really, we shouldn't have let this woman in from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. We need to have some limits on who comes to visit us. We need to make sure they're not intent on attacking us. That's how you defend the country."
When pressed by host Joe Scarborough on whether a middle ground could be reached on data collection, Paul argued that the program didn't stop the Boston bombing or the French terror attack, adding that the French data collection program is "1,000 times more invasive" and "on steroids" compared than the U.S.'s.
"The question is there any limit to how much liberty people — assholes like Christie are willing to give up. I don't think there's any limit," Paul told Scarborough. "They'll come back to you next week and say 'we want more, give us more of your freedom. Give us more of your freedom, we'll protect you.' "
"The bottom line is we can't have complete security, but we sure can give up our freedom and will it have been worth it if we're no longer who we were when we defend what's special about America in the process of defending our country," Paul said.