Works to protect and defend the rights of lawabiding citizens to own and to use firearms. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it had a variable membership of approximately 11 women ranging in. Three Reasons an Assault Rifle is Better Than a Handgun for Home Defense. A while back I wrote an article stating that handguns are best for home defense. I stand by that conclusion. But there are some damned good reasons why having an AR 1. Accuracy. No matter what the size of the bullet, every round fired that doesnt hit its intended target is a big problem. How Many Constitutional Freedoms Do We Still Have Preface While a lot of people talk about the loss of our Constitutional liberties, people usually speak. Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly. A while back I wrote an article stating that handguns are best for home defense. I stand by that conclusion. But there are some damned good reasons why having an AR. Early childhood. Emmett Till was born in 1941 in Chicago he was the son of Mamie Carthan 19212003 and Louis Till 19221945. Emmetts mother Mamie was born. Stray rounds fail to stop the immediate, potentially lethal threat. Equally, theyre dangerous to the health and safety of innocent people unfortunate enough to get in the rounds path. Rifle have more points of contact with the shooters body than a handgun both hands, shoulder and cheek. This makes a rifle a substantially more stable shooting platform than a handgun note handgun singular. This is one of the main reasons why an average shooter is far more accurate with a rifle than a handgun. In addition to the body mechanics rifles are easier to sight a. It takes time, practice and coordination to align a handguns sights. DWXxRI_alA/UA5NwZf_JuI/AAAAAAAAFCc/3C74Cxeai-Q/s1600/chart%2Bthe_best_antivirus_2012.jpg' alt='Bit Defender 2012 Is Trial Separation' title='Bit Defender 2012 Is Trial Separation' />A rifle points naturally you can see where the barrel is aiming. If a home defenders running a red dot on their rifle a device that places a red dot on the target, its even easier to just point and shoot. Under pressure, suffering the effects of a full adrenal dump, the rifles ease of useaccuracy can be the difference between life and death. Illustrative Example Its the middle of the night. You hear someone breaking down your front door. You grab your AR 1. You gather your family, call 9. You train your AR 1. If you were holding a handgun, your shaking hands would make it entirely possible maybe even probablethat you would miss. The AR may not be steady but its steady enough. Youre as ready as youll ever be. Capacity. Ive never been in a real gun battle, but I have some simulated experience. At an event in Arizona, trainers gave each participant a Glock 1. They held a two men enter one man leaves kind of final exam. Although my opponent had recently finished his tour of duty in the armed forces I came out ahead. But not before emptying the magazine on my handgun. Think about that. One opponent, and Id run out of ammunition. While some states restrict handgun magazines to ten rounds a handgun typically holds 1. FBI crime stats show that an increasing numbers of violent assaults involve more than one attacker. If you have three attackers and 1. Even 1. 5 rounds might not be enough. The AR 1. 5s standard magazine capacity is 3. Note thats standard capacity not high capacity. Again, you may not need all thirty rounds to defend yourself. You might not need any. But you might. And if you do, well, there they are. Illustrative Example Imagine youre a shopkeeper living atop a small store. A rioting mob starts smashing windows and loot surrounding stores. Some of the hoodlums outside are throwing Molotov cocktails into cars. Your entire livelihood is on the shelves of your store downstairs. Your wife and two kids are cowering in fear, afraid that theyre about to be burned alive. You dont know how many people are in the crowd about to light the wick on a vodka bottle or run at you with a baseball bat covered in barbed wire. Until and unless the police or National Guard arrives to restore order, you need to be prepared to accurately engage each and every person that attempts to kill you and your family. Ten rounds doesnt cut it. The New York Times understood this when they wheeled Gatling guns out into their lobby on August 1, 1. The New York Times successfully defended itself using the Gatling guns high capacity capabilities. Theres no reason the average American shouldnt have the same protection. Worst Case Its a Club. When you run out of ammo with a handgun, or it jams, or just plain stops working, youre left with something only slightly better than a rock. And the only reason I say its better than a rock is that it typically has a pointy end of some sort. When you run out of ammo with a rifle, you still have a bigass metal pipe at the end of a rather long firearm that will hurt like hell when it hits someone. Admittedly certain assault rifles are better for whacking people over the head than other. The AR 1. 5 is a wiffle bat compared to the sheer mass of the AK 4. But either rifle is better than nothing. Web Page Maker V3 21 Portable Dishwasher. There are other reasons why an AR 1. Suffice it to say, what makes an excellent rifle for offense makes the AR 1. Its an inconvenient truthunless you need a rifle for self defense. At that point an AR 1. Classic. Bike. Nut Classic Parts Manufactory. Nation on the brink of warClick on the picture for a better viewOn the day of the first round of official National Elections in the Ukraine the second round will be in about two weeks, if the person in the lead does not get more than 5. Some of the polling stations have been captured and there is considerable intimidation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions Oblasts. Some polling stations have remained closed, or had to be closed. In Donetsk, 1. 5 are not working at the last count at 0. In Mariupol, of 9. Krasnoarmeisk, 6 out of 5. I wonder what happened to the international observers everyone was talking about a month or so ago The Ukrainians are a People with a big heart and great courage I am convinced that they will together overcome all of these problems today and in the future, wherever they may arise, as an undivided Nation, despite all appearances to the contrary. No Nation stands alone, but it is at times of crisis that it becomes obvious who is there when you need themThere has been a  disinformation war being waged on this countrys sovereign soil since the Kremlins arrogantly self styled velvet invasion of the Crimea at the beginning of this yearIf you read a broader cross section of the news, it is easy to understand that there was nothing velvet about the invasion at all and that the present situation in the whole of the previously autonomous region is nothing less than dangerously catastrophic for ALL residents, with grand theft, intimidation, robbery at gunpoint, kidnappings, murder, torture, rape and pillaging order of the day, orchestrated openly to repress any resistance by their brothers from Russia who of course at the time STRONGLY denied having ANYTHING to do with it and who ostensibly only came there to free the ethnic Russian locals from the oppressive shackles of fascism and the illegitimate dictatorship in Kiev  After their legitimate leader and defender of the faith Viktor Yanukovich was so wrongly forced to flee for his life after the Maidan incident. If you open your eyes and actually look for current information from the Crimea, you will actually find precious little in the English language about what is going in there The leaders hahaha of the countries of the West seems to have conveniently forgotten about them shitting themselves at the poison dwarf Putins obvious middle finger waving at them and the press has conveniently been distracted in other directions with far more important matters than trivia, like the invasion of sovereign territories close to European borders by diminutive megalomaniacs on steroidsFrom the other side within the former Ukrainian territory, all reporting of a current nature has quite simply been turned off. For good reason. Only the propaganda of Russian media, which shows in typical what we have become accustomed to time frame loop bombardment, that everything is normal and wonderful, that the population is in a constant state of euphoria with their new found freedom and the protection by their brothers, is allowed to be distributed outside the newly entrenched borders of the Crimea. All foreign stations have been jammed or their reception made illegal and dangerous to listen to or more accurately, to have found out as in Nazi  times, the mere suspicion is enough to have terminal consequences, so even disagreements with friends and neighbours have also become a dangerous matter The internet is strictly monitored and restricted and bots search tirelessly for dissident activity on the web The population has been forced to automatically become Russian citizens by default a flagrant disregard of human rights under the circumstances and the names and addresses of those who register that they do not wish to give up their Ukrainian nationality,  are given to the roving gangs of friends of the people The food prices have sky rocketed and thousands have been made unemployed by the shutting down of two ports, which were also necessary for the importing of foodstuffs as well as of other goods Almost nothing is available now without good connections, bribery or a gun. One recent traveller to the Crimea reported this week that, having sold his property in Kiev to consolidate in the Crimea, had to bribe the border guard 5. He was delayed only for four hours, of course because he had to explain his way out of having owned a property in the suspiciously fascist city of Kiev and he had to impress upon them that he was not one of the Maidan activists and was then further alleviated of 1. He could only bring in cash, as the banks there are mostly closed for business at the moment ostensibly while the changeover to Russian currency takes place   and this was of course discovered by the border guards on entry to the peninsula at the crossing. A well documented border crossing and kidnapping is here http maidantranslations. The current situation for the rest of the Ukraine up to now has been less intense in most regions, but for some over the last few weeks has been just as immediately threatening. The situation in the three administrative regions in the East, bordering on Russia, is particularly dangerous and has been the scene of government building takeovers, killings and disruption for weeks, now openly perpetrated, orchestrated and financed by the Kremlin and their green men wearing the St. Georges ribbon who are otherwise affectionately known as Colorado Beetles. Their tactics, as used in the Crimea, are well known and well enough documented shooting with rocket grenade launchers and using snipers to pick off Ukrainian law enforcement officers or military, while hiding behind women and children is how it started. Now they come in bus loads of people armed to the teeth and led by war hardened Russian veterans like Bez look him up yourself to small, poorly defended or centrally situated military installations or outposts, mortar bomb them, kill them with sniper fire while they try to escape or get their wounded and then tactically retreat, while firing rockets in the other direction which is filmed by the Russian journalists that they carry with them, to be used as claims that the Ukrainian military are shooting up residential areas. Another tactic is to set up mortars on the roof of schools and other buildings within built up areas, so to avoid fire being returned. You dont need me to tell stories like that, anyone who can read or has any recent military experience knows exactly how it works and what is going on. The interim government in Kiev has a hard time walking the fine line between attempting to maintain international standards of decorum and defending its sovereignty, while fighting with internal corruption of the integrity and loyalty within their own military chain of command and police made even more difficult by sheer massive bribes for inside information and other forms of treason and treachery Only a few days ago, there was an ambush of a military patrol which could only have been initiated by informants from the inside.