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In an article published on Ammoland.com, David Limbaugh opines as to whether or not Comrade Barry and his minions have overplayed their hand and pushed too hard, too fast. Professor Paul digs deep into the Limbaugh piece and considers whether or not the “unrepresented majority” is actually ready to fight back.

They just won’t stop the insanity in the Great White North so we have to keep talking about it. We thought “The Alternative” was a prima facie bad idea, but apparently the folks in Canada, and Ohio for Pete’s sake, do not. This is yet another reason why it is critical to listen louder.

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From www.thestar.com:

“With ongoing controversy about officers shooting unarmed people, the Toronto Police Service is exploring whether a new device, known as a “clown gun,” could be a viable alternative to lethal force.
This spring, a coroner’s inquest jury in Toronto recommended that the police service “continue to explore new technologies in the area of less-than-lethal use-of-force options.” The jury was examining the circumstances around the death of Donald Percival Thompson, a 45-year-old man fatally shot by police while brandishing a machete on April 26, 2013.
The technology slows the first — but not subsequent — bullet down to about 20 per cent of normal speed. It “affixes to an officers’ firearm permitting the first bullet fired to be captured in the device such that it will simply strike the target rather than penetrate as a normal bullet would,” according to a report by the city’s legal department.
Called The Alternative, the device became known as the “clown gun” because the original component that captures the bullet was round and bright orange like a clown’s nose, said Bert Rhine, director of operations with Alternative Ballistics.
“But now just the dock, the part that attaches to the police-force weapon, is orange, and the ball, the projectile, is actually silver,” he explained Monday from the company’s San Diego headquarters.
Staff-Sgt. John Stockfish, head of use-of-force training for the service, told the inquest in April he had scheduled a meeting with the manufacturers of the so-called “clown gun … with a view to evaluating its merits,” according to this week’s police board agenda. The civilian oversight board meets Thursday.
“We don’t talk about items before they are tabled at the board,” TPS spokeswoman Meaghan Gray wrote in an email.
The device, carried in its own holster, is designed to be used by officers when they have a minimum of three seconds “to get the situation under control.”
When the trigger is pulled, the bullet lands in the round silver projectile and is slowed down, Rhine said. “When it hits the assailant or the suspect, it generally knocks them to the ground,” Rhine said. “Our human effect study has shown there’s less than a two per cent chance of penetration.”
The next shot would be lethal.
The police department in Ferguson, Mo., was the first U.S. department to test the device after one of its officers fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, sparking nationwide protests.
However, the department has no immediate plans to introduce The Alternative, which costs about $45 U.S. each, Rhine said Monday.
The Alternative was embraced by the former police chief, but he was fired. And the new chief’s mandate is to strengthen community relations, not buy new hardware, not even the less-lethal variety, Rhine said.
The Granville, Ohio, police department will soon be the first department to deploy it. “They have 22 police officers, and the chief there is very excited about protecting citizens and their officers.”
Rhine could not confirm whether a Toronto demonstration has been set up, but said company officials are going to Montreal next month.
Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack wasn’t familiar with the “clown gun” but doesn’t see it as practical for officers, “fumbling for the end piece in the heat of the moment.”
He does, however, support a plan by the service to introduce a shotgun shell that is “basically a mini beanbag that hits the person and incapacitates, so it gives our officers a less-than-lethal use-of-force option, rather than a firearm.
“The association supports any less-than-lethal option, whether it’s Tasers or a beanbag round, as long as it doesn’t compromise officer safety.”
Correction – August 19, 2015: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly said the clown gun is designed to be used by officers when they have a maximum of three second to get a situation under control.“

From www.ammoland.com:

“We can acknowledge that Donald Trump’s popularity is partially related to his unapologetic defense of himself and his policies, but let’s examine why that is particularly appealing to his supporters and others. How did we get to this point?

Grass-roots conservatives believe that their policies can make America great again, that they can make Americans more secure and prosperous. Many of them still believe in traditional values, which are now in disrepute.

They are appalled at the systematic assault on their ideas in our public schools, our universities, the media and Hollywood. They are horrified by the attacks on their liberties. But they have not surrendered.

They see America disintegrating rapidly and little being done to stop it. They detect no sense of urgency from their elected representatives, and they wonder whether they are living in an alternate universe.

It’s true that the Republicans don’t control the executive branch, but that’s no excuse for always caving and giving sissified overtures of bipartisanship to an implacable bully president.

President Obama is a lawless renegade, flouting the Constitution and the rule of law and mocking his opponents as if they were the ones overreaching.

But too often, Republicans sit on their hands, refusing to exercise their powers to stop him. Some even join in Obama’s condemnation of those few brave souls on our side who try to stop him.

It’s not just that they’re impotent to stop Obama. They routinely downplay his usurpations as if they’re just another day at the office. They forfeit their bully pulpit, forcing the grass roots to publicly oppose these outrages. You might call this a case of the tail wagging the dog, except that the dog, for all intents and purposes, is dead — by suicide.

Liberal Democrats have relentlessly pressed their case, placing their propaganda mouthpieces in our educational system and dominating Hollywood and the media with a monolithically radical message. Their ideas and values are so culturally dominant that those who disagree are too afraid of the PC thought police to voice their dissent publicly.

Conservatives might still hold on to a slight majority, but we are no longer just a voluntarily silent one; we’re a self-muzzled one.

Why are so many good people afraid of their own shadow? Maybe the simplest explanation is that liberal propaganda has slowly succeeded in making conservatives look uncompassionate, racist, sexist and homophobic. It has even made Christians seem mean-spirited.

Liberals trade almost exclusively on identity politics, painting all Republicans and conservatives — except those who pander to them — as haters.

Many are afraid to speak up because they know that no one would have their back. If they violated the guidelines of political correctness, they’d be excommunicated from polite society as knuckle-dragging ogres.

The irony is that liberal policies harm the people they purport to help. The welfare state has devastated the nuclear family, and black families have been hit the hardest. Their economic policies have devastated the workforce. Blacks have been hit the hardest. Their top-down education mandates serve the teachers unions but trap minority children in vastly inferior and dangerous inner-city schools. Their campaign against law enforcement and cops has turned our cities into war zones. Black youths are being hit the hardest. Their abandonment of border security and illegal grants of amnesty are putting us all at risk. Their blocking of entitlement reform is bankrupting America. Their onerous taxes and regulations are impoverishing America and destroying businesses and jobs. Blacks have been hit the hardest. Their gutting of the military and refusal to fight in the war on terror are destroying our national security. Their savage support for abortion on demand is killing millions of babies and has devalued life across the board. Black babies are hardest hit.

Conservatives know that their policies lead to greater prosperity. They believe their values are grounded in moral absolutes, are tried and tested, and are overwhelmingly beneficial to society. They believe their policies demonstrate real compassion because they are based on results, not empty rhetoric and false promises.

They are tired of being vilified. They long for government leaders who will fight back without apology. They want a president who will not just campaign as a conservative but also implement conservative policies when elected.

This means that they don’t want phony pledges to close the border in the future buried in some “comprehensive” reform plan, a partial repeal of Obamacare, half-measures reversing the Environmental Protection Agency’s punitive regulations on the energy industry or meaningless tweaks to the tax code and entitlements. They want America to be strong again and self-aware of its positive impact on the world.

The grass roots have seen very little of these things from the ruling class. That’s why they’re rejecting most insiders and supporting outsiders and those inside who are genuinely trying to change the status quo.

I hope we can look back in a few years and say that Obama miscalculated — that he pushed too far too fast instead of allowing liberalism to continue to grow incrementally. I pray that his arrogance in impatiently accelerating statism is what will finally bring the unrepresented majority to a boil, leading to a dramatic reversal of his fundamental transformation.“

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