Columbine Massacre Survivor Introduces Bill To End Gun-Free School Zones

Christine Rousselle / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock) was a student at Columbine High School in 1999, when two of his classmates brought guns to school and went on a rampage, killing 12 students and one teacher, and injuring another 24. He's now proposing a bill that would allow people with a permit to carry a concealed weapon on school property.

Currently, thanks to the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act, otherwise law-abiding gun owners and concealed-carry permit holders are unable to carry in a school zone. Since the act was passed, nine of the top ten deadliest school shootings have occurred.

“This bill will allow honest law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed firearm for protection if they choose to,” Neville said in a news release. “But most importantly, it will give them the right to be equipped to defend our children from the most dangerous situations.”

He is sponsoring the bill with his father, Sen. Tim Neville, R-Littleton. The family is known for its support for fewer gun restrictions.

House Bill 1198 has been assigned to the Democratic-controlled House State Affairs committee. It is not one of the seven gun bills scheduled to be heard today.

An April 2014 poll from Quinnipiac University found 50 percent of Colorado voters supported allowing teachers and school officials to carry guns on school grounds. Men supported the measure 59 percent to 38 percent while were opposed 51 to 42 percent.

According to polls, while roughly half of Coloradans are okay with the idea of teachers being armed, they're divided as to if this is the best strategy to protect students. Thirty-eight percent of Coloradans feel metal detectors are the best way to protect schools, while 30 percent prefer arming teachers and 21 percent want stricter gun control laws.

Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won't, Especially On ISIS And Iran

Hugh Hewitt / Townhall Columnist

 

Jordan's swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot --the rapid execution of two terrorists-- is just the first of our ally's responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee.

 

The president's muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged listeners to my radio show yesterday who are longing for more clarity and especially more seriousness from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They will be even more disturbed when they learn that the president's halting comments on ISIS are far stronger than his complete appeasement of Iran, detailed in Mike Doran's must read "Obama's Secret Iran Strategy." (A companion commentary on Doran's article is Lee Smith's excellent reflection upon it from The Weekly Standard.)

This double retreat, from (1) the face and facts of ISIS barbarity and from (2) the reality of the evil nature and nuclear ambitions of the regime in Teheran, has thrown American foreign policy into more disarray than anytime since the middle of the Carter years. The president has 23 months left to wreck more havoc on America's national security and it is up to the House and Senate to do everything they an to stop him, and to focus the country's attention on the attempted appeasement of Iran and the "strategy" of "least possible force that domestic politics will allow" in Iraq and Syria. Sanctions bill after sanctions bill ought to be forthcoming from the Congress directed at Iran, as well as a demand to stop negotiations with the mullahs pending conclusion of the investigation into the assassination of the Argentinian prosecutor which has "Iran" written all over it. The next president can and should rip up any "deal" done by this feckless Administration with Teheran, but it would be better if none is ever concluded because of obstacles erected by the GOP-run Congress.

Obama: “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends”

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

Wait, what? He said, “our religion”? Back in 2008, when he referred to “my Muslim faith,” it was dismissed as a slip of the tongue. But now, if this AP is accurate in quoting him, this is two “slips of the tongue” in the same direction — along with six years of foreign and domestic policies that aid and enable the advance of jihad and Islamic supremacism.

Of course, what Obama is really doing here is not saying that he is a Muslim, but making a moral equivalence claim that all religions are equally capable of inciting their adherents to violence. That is a dogma that is nearly universally held these days, and is designed to stymie resistance to jihad and Islamic supremacism.

“Obama condemns those who seek to ‘hijack religion,'” Associated Press, February 5, 2015 (thanks to Paul):

President Obama condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring Thursday that “no god condones terror.”

“We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, calling the militants a “death cult,” as well as those responsible for last month’s terror attacks in Paris and deadly assault on a school in Pakistan….

Obama administration: Yes, we are “comfortable doing business” with the terror group Muslim Brotherhood                                                                                        Pamela  Geller / Atlas Shrugs

While other nations, more moderate Muslim nations, are arresting, jailing and sentencing members of the terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, they have found safe haven and sanctuary here in the States.

It has been long believed that FDR’s closest adviser, Harry Hopkins, was a Soviet spy (a number of FDR allies were traitors, including Alger Hiss), but this is far worse. This is not merely a traitor so close to the office of the President; it is the President himself.

One can only imagine what was said at the meeting Obama held today with American Muslim Brotherhood leaders at the White House — press was banned.

“State Dept. Misled Reporters About Meeting with Muslim Brotherhood,” By Adam Kredo,...

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One anti-IslamoNazi cartoon is worth a 1,000 leftist heads exploding

Bare Naked Islam

Here’s the cartoon, by Cameron Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen, that USA Today selected as its daily editorial cartoon for February 2nd:

 

Left wing website FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) is appalled at the “insensitivity” of a USA TODAY cartoon that shows Islam as the modern equivalent of Nazism, threatening a new Holocaust. 

 

(Hardly a stretch when you know the history of the Muslim Grand Mufti al-Husseini’s support for Hitler during WWII, and their shared dedication to the Final Solution)

 

The cartoon lists entities that have nothing in common with each other aside from their connection to Islam–political movements like Hezbollah and Hamas, who have been the targets of far more violence than they are responsible for.

 

According the FAIR, In case you missed the point, the cartoon puts one of the holiest phrases in Islam–”Allah Akbar,” or “God is greater”–in the mouth of a Nazi skeleton.

 

One would hope USA Today would decline to make such a smear its daily editorial cartoon. (I dunno, works for me!)

 

Op-ed:

From the Fire Truth Emerges...If One Opens Their Eyes to It
By: Diane Sori

"The term “moderate Islam” Is ugly and offensive; there Is no moderate Islam -Islam is Islam, and that’s it.”
- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan who rejects the West's notion that 'so-called' moderate islam exists

Early Tuesday morning one of the most horrific acts I've ever seen perpetrated by one human being upon another was done as ISIS released a video...a true Hollywood-style video complete with music keyed to play into this heart-stopping drama...as these savages caged and then burned Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh alive. Setting up jumbotron screens in key cities within their held territories, the ISIS faithful yelled loud and clear “allahu-akbar” as this brave man was reduced to a pile ashes...ashes that a bulldozer then dumped concrete and garbage upon...sealing his fate for all time.

Executed...NOT murdered...executed...we now know a month ago...on January 3rd after being downed over Syria on Christmas Eve...and after his being tortured, paraded through, and spat upon in ISIS held cities, Lt. al-Kaseasbeh met his death with grace and dignity...and with a cry of sheer terror and agony that will haunt me forever.

Starting with a narrator speaking in Arabic condemning any Arab nation...most specifically Jordan...who takes part in the U.S. led air strikes against ISIS...and specifically condemning the pilot soon to die by fire “for what he had done by burning Muslims with the fire of his plane”...these savages used verse 16:126 from the qur'an as justification for what they were about to do (as in 'qisas' which is basically an eye for an eye...he killed fellow muslims by the fire of his plane so he will die by the fires of revenge).

And while the video shows how ISIS is both continually honing their killing methods to strike even more fear into the hearts of those who oppose them, it also shows their relishing in showing just how savage and barbaric one human being can be to another as witnessed by the condemned man standing in a locked cage with a line of armed and masked savages looking on with a line of fuel leading directly towards him. And as this line of fuel is then ignited by a coward whose face is hidden behind a scarf...Lt. Al-Kaseasbeh...whose now familiar orange garb was doused in both gasoline and kerosene beforehand...burst into flames...a human torch whose flames reminded me of those burned alive in Hitler's ovens.

And after Lt. al-Kaseasbeh was NO more, this most vile of videos...a video released on the same day Secretary of State John 'Swiftboat' Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh signed an agreement to promote regional security and economic development...ended with ISIS offering "100 golden Dinars" to any muslim in Jordan who is willing to target then kill other Jordanian pilots...pilots whose names, pictures, and hometowns are shown in the video...shown so there's a bulls eye for these savages to zero in on...zero in on and then kill for money.

So as 'We the People' here in America...a people whose minds have trouble comprehending a group so savage and barbaric as to both physically break and mentally enslave others into obeying their 7th century anything but civilized norms....as we gasped in horror and repulsion at images of a man being burned alive...Barack HUSSEIN Obama had the audacity and sheer unmitigated gall to call these savages an “organization” as in, "It's just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization," while again refusing to call them what they truly are...muslim islamic terrorists...or as I say...savages...savages that have NO right to exist in the world of civilized men.

And how sad a commentary on this administration is it when even a suspected muslim convert, as in former Secretary of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, had the courage to say, "This horrific, savage killing is yet another example of ISIL's contempt for life itself."  Those words were needed to be said by Obama but were NOT for like I always say, "If you don't truly condemn then you condone." But sadly, while correct in his words about ISIS, Hagel just like Obama does NOT get...or maybe he does but chooses to ignore...the fact that by calling these savages ISIL instead of ISIS or even IS they give a shout out to the map of the Levant...a map which does NOT include the Jewish State of Israel being on that said map.

And what of Jordan's response to an act so brutal so vile as to be almost incomprehensible...swift retaliation starting with the words of of army spokesman General Mamduh al-Amiri who said, "The blood of the martyr will not have been shed in vain and...vengeance will be proportional to this catastrophe that has struck all Jordanians"...retaliation that ended in the execution...in the hanging by the neck until dead...of two Jordanian-held prisoners, including would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and al-Qaeda operative Ziad al-Karbouli, both put to death within hours of the video being confirmed as truth.

"The Jordanian response to the assassination of the hero pilot, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, will be strong, decisive and swift," government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani had said and it was even though, sadly, many Jordanians continue to blame Amman NOT ISIS for Lt. al-Kaseasbeh death. Claiming King Abdullah II dragged their country kicking and screaming into a war they still believe is solely between ISIS, the U.S., and our allies, these people just do NOT understand that their more moderate way of life will come to a very abrupt end if Jordan falls to ISIS.

And while we as civilized men grieve for one brave man we must give Jordan credit...the Jordanian military that is NOT the king...for doing what needed to be done in an oh so timely manner for Jordan has proven that if you kill us...if you execute us...we will kill you...we will execute you...instead of acting like our miserable excuse of a president whose motto has proven to be that if you kill us we will release those of you we've captured so that you can kill even more of us.

Sad isn't it...sad but unmistakeably true. So as we now wait and see how this plays out...as we wait for Jordan's, America's, and ISIS' next move...and hope that maybe now a strategy of sorts will finally be put in place to defeat NOT merely to contain ISIS...every American must NOT be afraid to watch the horrific video and see the still pictures at least once so that they really understand the true evil we face...so that they really understand and accept as fact that if these savages are NOT stopped 'over there' that these savages will soon be doing these most unspeakable of acts here on our own American soil as well.

And then after seeing the video* we MUST stand united and strong as one and demand that this president...that Barack HUSSEIN Obama...NOT only say the words 'islamic terrorists' loud enough for all to hear and then start to act accordingly in how he and America deals with them, we also must demand that if he still refuses to do so on either account that LEGAL action MUST be immediately initiated to remove him from office for NOT upholding his oath of office to protect the 'health, safety, and welfare' of the American people...and his ever ready to be used race card be damned.

And always remember...islam is islam is islam...and ISIS is islam...and islam in the guise of ISIS is what killed...what executed...one of their own. And if they can kill one of their own know that they can and will kill us as well...think about and then get the 'bullets and bombs' ready to go.
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* See the full video here: http://rightsidepatriots.my-free.website/home  Click the video button and it's the first video.