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Study: Concealed Carriers Stop More Active Shooters Than Police Do

Data compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that armed civilians stop more mass shootings than police do.

American Thinker pointed to the CPRC data last week week, noting not only that concealed carriers stop more mass shootings that do police, but that concealed carriers do so with “fewer mistakes.”

CPRC president John Lott Jr. observed that his group did a “deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023” and found:

Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.

Lott explained, “From 2014 to 2023, CPRC researchers found that armed civilians stopped 180 of 515 active shooting cases. Of the attacks in places where people were allowed to carry, we found that permit holders stopped 158 of the 307 instances.” In all those instances, an innocent bystander was shot only one time.

On the other hand, “In the 156 cases stopped by law enforcement, we found police accidentally shot the wrong person in four cases, killing fellow officers twice and civilians twice.”

Lott summarized, “These findings highlight a reality that is often ignored: responsible gun owners save lives. Concealed handgun permit holders aren’t reckless vigilantes, but they are law-abiding citizens who step up in moments of crisis when seconds matter and police are minutes away.”

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‘They slaughtered us like fish in a barrel’—citizen reporter exposes Vegas massacre coverup…

The 2017 Las Vegas massacre is one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history—yet, it’s also one of the most mysterious and tightly guarded. Officially, we’re told that 64-year-old Stephen Paddock acted alone, firing over 1,000 rounds into a packed music festival crowd from his Mandalay Bay hotel suite. He slaughtered 60 people and injured hundreds more before turning the gun on himself.

That’s the “official story.”

Just 10 days ago, Glenn Beck released a video on this very topic. FBI whistleblower Steve Friend sat down with Glenn and shared his theory on what really went down with the Las Vegas shooter: “I think that Stephen Paddock was probably working with some government agency, was selling weapons to a terrorist organization, laundering it through the casino…and then, he happened to sell to the wrong people who perpetuated the attack at that moment.”

But after nearly seven years, a lot of big questions linger. No clear motive was ever established, the timelines don’t add up, key evidence mysteriously disappeared, and the media suddenly dropped the story just two weeks after the massacre. Put it all together, and it reeks of something bigger—like the American people are being kept in the dark. Again…

Enter Mindy Robinson, an actress, model, citizen investigative journalist, and Las Vegas local who has spent years investigating the massacre and the deep-seated corruption swirling around it. Mindy has uncovered a disturbing web of government cover-ups, shady law enforcement officials, and a political power structure that’s been working overtime to keep the truth buried from you.

In a powerful X post, Mindy is exposing links between key players involved in the shooting, their ties to corruption in Nevada, and how this case—like so many others—has been swept under the rug.

So, what really happened that night in Vegas? And why does the government seem more interested in burying the story than solving the crime?

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18-year-old trans suspect arrested for plotting Indiana high school shooting

Authorities arrested an 18-year-old transgender suspect who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting at Mooresville High School in Indiana. Trinity “Jamie” Shockley, of Mooresville, was taken into custody on Wednesday and has been booked into Morgan County Jail without bond. The FBI alerted the local police department to the matter on February 11 after receiving a tip that Shockley was planning a school shooting, WTHR reported.

An individual notified the FBI’s Sandy Hook Promise’s Say Something Anonymous Reporting System, saying that their friend was preparing to commit a shooting in Indiana on February 14, according to court documents. The informant said that the suspect had ordered a bulletproof vest and had access to an AR-15.

On February 11, Shockley reportedly told a school counselor that he had allegedly been sending letters to Florida Parkland High School mass shooter, Nikolas Cruz, while he’s been in prison. It was also reported that Shockley had a heart-shaped locket necklace with a photo of Cruz inside.

A search warrant was executed at Shockley’s home on February 12 as part of a joint law enforcement operation consisting of Mooresville police detectives, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office detectives, and officers from the Mooresville School Police.

Court documents state that detectives found multiple photos of Cruz and two other mass shooters – Dylan Roof and Andrew Blaze – in Shockley’s bedroom. Authorities also recovered AR-15 magazines and a box of .40 caliber rounds in the suspect’s father’s bedroom. Additionally, detectives recovered three notebooks in Shockley’s backpack, which included professions of love for mass shooters and the want “to hurt others.”

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Portland Police Chief Bob Day apologizes for ‘exacerbating’ pain after ‘error’ in reporting on 2022 Normandale Park shooting

Portland Police Chief Bob Day released a video on Wednesday apologizing to far-left community members for how the bureau handled the 2022 deadly mass shooting at an organized Antifa demonstration at Normandale Park. However, his statement appeared to have been made on an inaccurate understanding of the event. Chief Day stated that the suspect launched an unprovoked shooting attack on “unarmed traffic safety volunteers.” The truth of the matter is that those “traffic safety volunteers” work directly with Antifa to illegally shut down traffic for their unlawful direct actions. Additionally, Antifa militants went to the demonstration armed and later urged their comrades to destroy evidence, as reported by senior editor of The Post Millennial Andy Ngo.

Chief Day, who came out of 2019 retirement to be the acting Chief of Portland Police in September 2023, wanted to clarify several alleged “errors” that were made in the Portland Police Bureau’s initial press release surrounding the Normandale Park mass shooting that he said “forever changed Portland’s history.”

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Democrat Senator Triggered RFK Jr. Wants To Investigate Link Between SSRIs and Mass Shooters

Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) became upset that President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once suggested antidepressant Big Pharma drugs may be connected to school shootings.

Citing 2023 and 2024 interviews featuring RFK during Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing, Smith read a quote where Kennedy once noted school children didn’t start shooting up schools until drugs such as Prozac were introduced to the masses.

She asked, “So, do you believe that antidepressants cause school shootings?”

Kennedy responded, “I don’t think anybody can answer that question, and I didn’t answer that question. I said it should be studied along with other potential culprits like social media…”

Senator Smith claimed, “The science shows that there is no link between school shootings and antidepressants, and in fact most school shooters were not even treated with antidepressants. And, of those that were, there was no evidence of association.”

“I don’t think you can say that Senator, because with HIPAA rules nobody knows,” RFK answered, referring to the fact that health privacy laws prevent the public from learning what medications school shooting suspects were prescribed.

The HHS nominee also pointed out SSRI drugs have suicidal and homicidal warnings on the labels.

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FBI Detains Possible Accomplice to 15-Year-Old Female Christian School Shooter

CBS 8 in California reported Wednesday that the FBI detained a 20-year-old man for plotting a mass shooting at a government building with the 15-year-old girl who would go on to attack the Abundant Life Christian School on Monday—killing another student and a teacher, and wounding six others before killing herself.

According to CBS, FBI agent served a gun violence restraining order on the man, Alexander Paffendorf, after discovering that he had been in contact with the 15-year-old shooter, Natalie Rupnow, online.

CBS 8, which obtained a copy of the restraining order, reported that Paffendorf admitted to having contact with Rupnow to FBI agents in an interview.

“During an FBI interview, Paffendorf admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rupnow that he would arm himself with explosives and a gun and that he would target a government building,” the two-page restraining order from the Carlsbad Police Department states, according to CBS 8.

The order said that FBI agents “saw the messages from Paffendorf to Rupnow.” A San Diego Superior Court Judge approved the restraining order on Tuesday night, the day after Rupnow’s attack.

TMZ reported Thursday that Paffendorf’s neighbors said he “exhibited seriously creepy behavior—never talking, avoiding eye contact, always wearing his hood up, and other unsettling anti-social habits.”

“In fact, his behavior was so bizarre, she claims it was even brought to his parents’ attention during one particularly eyebrow-raising incident—but they didn’t do anything about it,” TMZ reported.

That Rupnow would be in contact with a “creepy” 20-year-old man isn’t surprising, given her other online affiliations. As Headline USA reported Wednesday, Rupnow, who went by the name Samantha, Rupnow is closely linked to Satanic chat groups known for grooming teenagers to commit crimes, self-mutilation and other acts of depravity.

Rupnow’s links to Satanic chat rooms were exposed Tuesday, when a journalist published her apparent manifesto, which came from the shooter’s Twitter/X account.

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Dismantling the Bill of Rights Is No Solution

After the recent school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, the usual suspects immediately called for more “gun control.”  Joe Biden’s White House released a statement demanding these additional infringements upon Americans’ Second Amendment rights: “Universal background checks.  A national red flag law.  A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”  (The president conveniently ignored reports that the teenaged attacker used a 9mm pistol.)  Democrat Congressman Mark Pocan insists that gun manufacturers be held responsible for the school shooter’s violence.  Disgraced former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (who was rewarded for leaking classified information and lying to federal agents) wants “legislation that changes the context of gun ownership” in the United States and new requirements that “eliminate the ability” of Americans “to purchase guns without a background check.”

So the departing president wants executive authority to determine which Americans enjoy Second Amendment protections.  The congressman from Wisconsin wants to hold manufacturers criminally and civilly liable for the misdeeds of others.  And the former acting director of the FBI wants to fundamentally transform the “context of gun ownership.”  What part of “shall not be infringed” do they not understand?  

If we were still a country that took loyalty oaths seriously, it would be worth noting that all three of these men raised their hands and solemnly swore to protect and defend the Bill of Rights.  As retired FBI supervisory special agent Arthur P. Meister once wrote, “all public office oaths require true faith and allegiance to principles of lawful authority derived from the Constitution.”  An official’s “deference” to the Bill of Rights “must trump all other promises and commitments” precisely because “the public elects, empowers, and allows a select few to govern many.”  The U.S. government cannot expect public trust if its officers regularly violate their oaths to the U.S. Constitution.  Accordingly, if faith in the U.S. government is historically weak, then government officials should consider their disregard for the Bill of Rights the proximate cause.

Unconstitutional attempts to confiscate Americans’ firearms have become such a regular reaction to mass shootings that lawmakers act as if erasing the Second Amendment were no big deal.  “Oh, what’s the harm?” they dismissively suggest on cable television.  “It’s just an annoying little right.  It was written, like, three centuries ago…by white supremacists!  And if it saves even one child, it’s worth it!”  

It does not take much mental acuity to recognize how dangerous the “Let’s do it for the children” exception to the Constitution is in practice.  To save the children from “misinformation,” we must embrace censorship!  To save the children from “hate,” we must snoop on their private text messages and their parents’ bank accounts!  To save the children from inequality and State-sponsored religion, we must discriminate by race and ban school prayer!  To save the children from “global warming,” we must redistribute wealth and ration life-saving energies!  “Doing it for the children” makes it super-easy to dispense with the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments!  

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Report: Teen Wisconsin Christian School Shooting Suspect Linked To Satanic, Pedo & Accelerationist Groups

According to researchers online, the 15-year-old female suspect who killed two people and herself at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this week was associated with Satanic, pedophilic and militant accelerationist groups.

The suspect, Natalie (or Samantha) Rupnow, reportedly published a manifesto that was obtained by Reduxx journalist Anna Slatz via Rupnow’s boyfriend.

Slatz also clarified rumors that either Rupnow or the boyfriend were transgender, saying she was a biological female and he’s a biological male.

The Reduxx co-founder and author posted an 𝕏 thread on Monday detailing how she came across the alleged manifesto.

“I have made contact with the alleged boyfriend of the Wisconsin shooter,” she wrote. “He has very graciously provided me the full manifesto, which I verified by having him screen record himself opening it from a direct link the shooter sent to him via WhatsApp.”

The boyfriend also claimed the image of Rupnow being shared online (seen on the left below) was altered to make her look different and provided Slatz with another image he claimed is authentic (on the right below).

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Mass Shootings Including Police Officer Shot in Cicero, Illinois After Venezuelan Transnational Gang Member Had Been Arrested by I.C.E.

Over the weekend in Cicero, Illinois—a southwest suburb of Chicago—there were five total people shot, including one police officer and one person killed.

This comes just a week after eight people were shot, with three killed just south of Cicero in the Gage Park neighborhood.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Gage Park incident, which has now been confirmed to be Venezuelan and likely illegals.

Recent reporting from WBBM Chicago indicates the shooter of the police officer has been identified as a known “street gang member.” Police have arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Saldivar.

At this time, it is undetermined whether or not the man is directly connected to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan Transnational gang. However, Tren de Aragua-connected gang members have been known to be in the area.

This marks a considerable uptick in Cicero’s murder rate. According to Crimegrade.org, Cicero has a murder rate of 0.0432 murders in 1,000. In the last year, they have seen a spike in violence.

It’s relevant to note there have been considerable changes as Illinois’ sanctuary state status has funneled an influx of illegal immigrants to the City of Chicago. This has had a spillover effect in the suburbs.

In February of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported that there were buses of illegals landing in train stations all over the suburbs. Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines filmed illegals flashing gang signs and tattoos seemingly affiliated with the transnational criminal gang from Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua.

Tren de Aragua has embedded itself all over the country, famously taking over apartment complexes in Colorado. In March of this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported removing a Venezuelan non-citizen with ties to Tren de Aragua from Cicero, Illinois.

In addition to the evidence of Tren de Aragua presence in the suburb of Cicero, there is the involvement of Catholic Charities in placing illegals all over the City and State. In June of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported on FOIA findings that Catholic Charities had been colluding with the City of Chicago to place 13,000 illegals between December 2022 and February 2024.

Another article pointed out that Catholic Charities, along with an Obama Foundation-affiliated NGO, placed over 8,900 illegals in fully furnished apartments. Interestingly enough, there is a Catholic Charities Food Distribution Center located in Cicero, Illinois.

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California religious school shooter’s sickening motive revealed in typed note on his body

The man suspected of shooting two kindergartners at a school in California before turning the gun on himself believed the religion that runs it is responsible for Israel‘s war on Hamas and American attacks in Yemen.

Glenn Litton, 56, has been identified as the shooter who walked onto the campus of Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, claiming to be meeting about enrolling a child, before opening fire.

Honea then claimed that Litton was politically motivated, as they have evidence – a typed note on his body – indicating Litton believed the Seventh-Day Adventist Church was responsible for ‘genocide’ and ‘oppression’ of the Palestinian people as well as American attacks in Yemen.

Litton – an alumnus of Paradise Adventist School as a child  – has a ‘lengthy criminal history and mental health’ issues, including convictions on theft, fraud and forgery. Authorities believe he was homeless.

Honea says they recovered a ghost gun at the scene. As a convicted felon, Litton cannot legally own a firearm.  

The two victims – identified as 6-year-old Roman Mendez and 5-year-old Elias Wolfhard – are currently in critical but stable condition, according to Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea.

Crowdfunding pages have been started for both victims and their families. 

A Gofundme for Wolfhard says the shooter’s bullets ‘went through his chest and abdomen, piercing and nicking multiple organs before exiting.’

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