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Sheriffs Send Message to America: Get Armed Now -Warn of Flood of Islamic Terrorists Looking for Soft Targets

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By Leo Hohmann

A study by Pew Research showed that the only gun crimes on the rise over the last two decades have been mass shootings in gun-free zones or so-called “soft targets.”

Now is not the time for Americans to cower in fear, be intimidated by liberal ideology, or apologize for one of America’s longest standing constitutional rights – the right to bear arms – say a growing chorus of religious, law enforcement and political leaders.

Several sheriffs have sent out warnings in the wake of the recent Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Mali and San Bernardino that Americans, now more than ever, need to get armed.

The first was Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona who on Dec. 1 called for 250,000 armed citizens to stop terrorism and mass shootings in Arizona. This represents the number of concealed carry permit holders in Arizona.

“I’m just talking about the areas where you have large crowds and someone pulls out the gun and starts shooting. Maybe somebody with a concealed weapon takes the guy down,” Arpaio told a local CBS affiliate.

He was criticized by some others in law enforcement who said they didn’t think armed civilians shooting bad guys in public places was a good idea because it could lead to “collateral damage,” Tuscon News Now reported.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona

Encouraged to carry

Then came Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum of Ulster County, New York, about two hours north of New York City. In a Dec. 3 Facebook post following the deadly jihadist attack on San Bernardino, he said the county’s 10,000 residents who have concealed-carry handgun permits should use them.

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“In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to please do so,” Van Blarcum said in his Facebook post. “I urge you to responsibly take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm. To ensure the safety of yourself and others, make sure you are comfortable and proficient with your weapon, and knowledgeable of the laws in New York State with regards to carrying a weapon and when it is legal to use it.”

Van Blarcum’s Facebook post received more than 24,000 “likes” as of Friday, 3,289 comments and was shared 30,000 times.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig weighed in on Dec. 2 and said he believes terrorists would be reluctant to target Detroit, as they had Paris last month, for fear armed citizens would shoot back.

“A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,” Craig told the Detroit News. “If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.”

Oakland University criminal justice professor Daniel Kennedy agreed with Craig that terrorists would be reluctant to attack armed citizens.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig has been an outspoken supporter of citizen gun rights.

“We don’t have laboratories where we can test these theories, but there is something to the argument that terrorists want a high body count — and if they can only shoot a few people before they’re taken out themselves, it wouldn’t have the kind of impact they want,” Kennedy told the News.

“An armed citizen won’t give them a high body count. Look at the theater in Paris,” the Bataclan Café, where four men with AK-47 assault rifles killed 89 people during a rock concert. “If some of those people had been armed, it would’ve been a much different story.”

‘A day of reckoning has arrived’

Pastor and author Carl Gallups

Carl Gallups, who served 10 years as a Florida police office before becoming a Baptist pastor and talk radio host, has authored a new book called “Be Thou Prepared: Equipping the the Church for Persecution and Times of Trouble.” In that book he admonishes Christians to take a fresh biblical look at the issue of guns and self-defense.

“In light of several prominent United States Sheriffs, and even well-known media personalities, now advising America citizens to “arm themselves” (specifically in preparation for the possibility of armed Islamic attacks on our soil), I think people can now see where we really are in America at this point in history,” Gallups told WND. “A day of reckoning has arrived.”

Part of the battle is being able to recognize propaganda in the media, which reports that it’s the availability of guns that causes “gun violence.”

In a rare piece of honest reporting on the subject, the Washington Post reported Dec. 3 that there has actually been a “massive decline in gun violence in the United States” since 1993.

The only exception is mass shootings in gun-free zones, according to the Post report, citing a Pew Research study, states:

“Premeditated mass shootings in public places are happening more often, some researchers say, plunging towns and cities into grief and riveting the attention of a horrified nation. In general, though, fewer Americans are dying as a result of gun violence – a shift that began about two decades ago.

Read more at WND

http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/sheriffs-send-message-to-america-get-armed-now/



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    • VirusGuard

      Yes you need all of the 400 millions guns in the USA but not to protect yourseslves from a few hundred muslims but to protect yourself from the government that is controled by bankers in Israel and who run the police departments and the US army.

      Your police in the USA are killing more americans than any islamic terrorist group and yes that includes all those killed on 9-11 because it was the bankers that double insured the towers, placed shorts on airline stock and made a tidy profit on americans blood.

      Why on earth would muslims do little attacks if you look to the past and they can take over four out of four planes and 9-11 and crash them or are you drinking so much cool aid that you now think that security is 10000% better than it was back then.

      FFS Americans the world knows the USA is helping ISIS and yesterday the US bombed the Syrian army who is trying to remove ISIS from Syria because Israel has bribed your politicains to act like a bully to help the bankers extend there home land.

        • sitrep

          Now breaking news coming in. Turkey Activating Missile Defense system on Syrian Border, SAM’s, this could go full on,
          next China will be on the scene

      • sitrep

        Yes on Veteranstoday website, they just said the brits did another air strike this time killing a massive amount of Syrian civilians.
        This could lead to full out WWIII.
        Now some radio host are saying to stock up on food staples.
        if you dont have much money get rice, beans, flour, lard, corn meal, and some canned meats if you can afford it.
        Good luck to all

      • PFCPDH

        If you honestly think that a few middle eastern simpletons were able to hijack the planes with box cutters and somehow fly them in to the towers then you haven’t done your homework. 9/11 was an enormous orchestrated false flag event that was meant to be the new Gulf of Tonkin to launch the US in to Wars in the middle east. The alleged terrorists were only patsies and most of them have been reported to still be alive.

      • Homeowner Of Record

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    • charlie2dogs

      is it time to arrest the traitors yet???

      • Soldier Of God

        The time is for Washington to get up and get to work,or come next term lose their Job😁😁😁🐒😁🐒

    • Anonymous

      Islamic terrorism and tyrannical, liberal government are things the American people are going to have to stand in the gap against. Mr. Obama isn’t going to change his narrative, that looks too much like textbook Muslim taqqiya, his narrative that Islam is peaceful, his intent to import more Muslims terrorists to U.S. soil, while, at the same time, trying to deny American people any effective weapons that can equalize the threats, coming from Muslims, or rogue, unconstitutional government. An aside, you of faith, never underestimate the power of prayer, in the name of the Lord Jesus, the fight not ours alone: we have a Mighty God! I pray simply that the truth be known.

      Islam has, historically, caused huge, violent clashes of civilization. The history of Jihad violence is horrendous. As to Christianity, especially now that the fundamentalist Christians and Constitutionalists are the declared enemy of the Obama government, on his terror suspect list, regardless a true Christian never once perpetrating any act of terrorism, let’s be clear there is no scripture, a grand total of zero scripture verses, in the entirety of New Testament Christianity, where any murder is sanctioned of non-Christians or other Christians. To label Christians this way is slander, is most evil and perverse, would do Nero proud. The Lord is the sole judge in matters of conscience. Historic abuses, such as the Roman Catholic hijacking of Christianity, Inquisitions or any Crusades, which did evil in the name of Christ: evil is evil, and this is not taught anywhere in the scripture of the Christian faith. These were not the acts of true Christians. Scripture is also replete with warnings of devils who come as “angels of light” and fake Christians, of all evil stripes, from the deluded to the false prophet, misleading people. This evil is spelled out in Christianity, warned against, and commands for the Spirit-filled Christian to shun all such things, and for the true Christian to study and know scripture well. This is why “many are called, but few are chosen,” why Christ taught the road to salvation is straight, the gate narrow, and “few there be that find it.” Mega churches are filled with fake Christians that don’t understand Christianity, at all. On the other hand, here’s a website discussing 109 instances of Islam teaching violence, teaching very murder, torture, and for merely what a person believes:

      http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

      Here’s what my faith teaches about the nature of all murderers:

      John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

      By the way, what kind of eternal future do you see for yourself, Mr. Obama, being allied with Satan, being an apostate to your purported Christian faith, a proselyte of Muhammad, one who even ignores Romans 1 and elevates homosexuality? Is God pleased with your perversion of His ordained and sacred marriage covenant? You think?

      Now, believe it or not, this estimate is conservative in the following link, Islamic Jihad responsible for around 270,000,000 murders. Mr. Obama, when are you going to cease to tell everybody to not believe their lying eyes and ears, that Islam is not a violent and evil religion, where you actually have to depend on the Muslim ignoring chunks of scripture to be peaceful? When is your government going to admit the Jihad Muslims openly and constantly declare against America is here? Why are you protecting them? The most religious Muslims are the most hateful and murderous, filled up to their eyeballs and drunk with hate! And I know I don’t ignore chunks of Christian scripture, all the Bible the word of God to the faithful. Here are the fruits of Muslim Jihad:

      http://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/

      Google around, you’ll see even higher numbers.

      The longer this issue is ignored or whispered about, the greater the slaughter of non-Muslims there will be, when they’re not too busy slaughtering each other or terrorizing their societies with Sharia law. I, for one, am also sick of all these so-called “moderate Muslims” who won’t speak out against the likes of ISIS, who are on record, at their mosques, cheering 9/11, praising the terrorists.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0gFIXnhiE

      Also, if Muslims are not the enemies of the American culture, I suppose we can expect they would all renounce Sharia law for the law of the Constitution of the United States? Or do they demand Sharia anywhere they have some enclave? Fact is, the master plan, proven throughout history, happening in the here and now, is they want all you under Sharia, or lacking your head! This is the blackest treason against the United States. Don’t believe your lying eyes what the goal is?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdoztoBEuc

      I won’t hold my breath for all these peaceful Muslims, with their “religion of peace,” wait for them to renounce all violence and laws that are treasonous to the Constitution of the United States of America. Without the Constitution, there is no America, and contemplating the fools that would like to try and go there, I won’t quote the Bible, rather Forrest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

      Sorry if any of the links are repeated, from other posts. It’s not spamming, rather some truthful things all freedom loving people should see.

      This gentleman is funny, and nails the “religion of peace” narrative quite well:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1-h0b5Yhk

    • underdog

      The fact is if a gunmen is going to shoot people up and walks into a room full of people with guns he will not last long . It is just commonsense people .

    • Anonymous

      Why does just about all he law enforcer badges look like the jews Star of David.

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