by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 24, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – All California gun sales would have to be videotaped under a proposal introduced in the state Legislature.The requirement mirrors an ordinance adopted by San Francisco in November that prompted that city’s last gun store to close.Democratic...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
If you plan on stepping into an Uber-mobile, you may want to arm yourself first. Not that background checks are perfect (and of course universal background checks for guns is a whole different issue, a very bad idea), but Uber could be doing a much better job of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 22, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
A new so-called “study” out of VPC attacks the firearm industry for marketing to children: The study offers a number of examples of how the firearms industry and lobbies target children, including: Creating and marketing guns specifically to children,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
Nearly 60 percent of illegal immigrants identified by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as criminal threats are not deported and are eventually released, the latest example of the Obama administration’s failed immigration policy. Source: Almost 90,000...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
Just the latest of several recent cases of guns “stolen from” or “left on top of car by” law enforcement officers in this City that hates guns and loves gun control so much it just passed an ordinance requiring that guns be locked up in cars...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
The owners say the next time somebody tries to rob them, they will have guns of their own and they won’t be afraid to use them. But note: Family members tell Eyewitness News that they believe this is the same crew that robbed them in November 2015. They hope...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
“He’s a defender, you know, he defends his community. He defends himself, quite naturally,” Lockland resident Dwayne Palmore said. “What would you do if somebody came in your home?” Source: Intruder shot dead during Lockland home invasion |...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
A 71-year-old man said he didn’t have a choice after shooting a man who was breaking into his Hickory home Monday night. Source: Man, 71, shoots home intruder | WSOC-TV If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
Bad rap? WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Ayham Hussein, 15, was arrested by militants after allegedly being caught enjoying pop tunes at his father’s grocery store in the group’s Iraqi capital Mosul. Source: ISIS execute Ayham Hussein after he’s caught...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
They were just finishing their gyro dinners in the front booth at Nazareth Mediterranean Cuisine at about 6 p.m. when Mohamed Barry, 30, walked into the restaurant, raised a machete and began hacking at Mr. Russell. When his wife stood up and screamed at the attacker,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
“Did your French gun control stop a single [expletive] person from dying at the Bataclan?” Hughes said. “And if anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so. I think the only thing that stopped it was some of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
ONTARIO >> A homeowner shot and killed a man who was allegedly burglarizing his Ontario home Sunday, police officials said. Source: Ontario homeowner shoots, kills burglar If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
This happened at a McDonald’s located right across the street from a police station, so you would think the police response time would have been excellent. (Unfortunately it was a drive thru and the line was really long.) SAN FRANCISCO – Police said a man has...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
This video, produced by the French government to prepare the public for terror, is actually one of the best I’ve seen if you ignore the omission of any discussion of armed self-defense. For some reason, France seems to have a lot of experience with these kinds...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
Whether the cops were shot by the Muslim or by friendly fire, they should finally admit that at times they need to issue “hue and cry” for assistance from an armed citizenry. NYPD is notorious for its poor training. Meanwhile, officials said the two cops...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals. The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn’t be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon. But minutes after winning the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Adolf Frederick died on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla stuffed with almond paste and served in a bowl of hot...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
That’s embarrassing: It was then Saturday, and Arius was expecting to assemble with the church on the day following: but divine retribution overtook his daring criminalities. For going out of the imperial palace, attended by a crowd of Eusebian partisans like...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Later in his life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, she was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare her...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Vallandigham died in 1871 in Lebanon, Ohio, at the age of 50, after accidentally shooting himself in the abdomen with a pistol. He was representing a defendant (Thomas McGehan)[citation needed] in a murder case for killing a man in a barroom brawl at the Golden Lamb...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
A banana peel I can understand, but an ORANGE peel? Embarrassing: In 1926, while on a publicity tour in New Zealand, Leach injured his leg when he slipped on an orange peel. The leg became infected, and eventually gangrene necessitated the amputation of the leg....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Bad pill: The Emperor died during one of his tours of Eastern China, on September 10, 210 BC (Julian Calendar) at the palace in Shaqiu prefecture (沙丘平台, Shāqiū Píngtái), about two months away by road from the capital Xianyang.[42][42][72][73] Reportedly, he died due...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
For they have eyes, yet cannot see: The hearing was told his body was found in a ditch just 150 yards from his front door.Coroner David Bowen said: “Either he didn’t see or didn’t want to see the ditch, slipped and drowned. Source: Man who pretended...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 18, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Be careful what you wish for? Otis died suddenly in May 1783 at the age of 58 when, as he stood in the doorway of a friend’s house, he was struck by lightning. He is reported to have said to his sister, Mercy Otis Warren, “My dear sister, I hope, when God...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 17, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
How’s this for red-faced: a 21-year-old aspiring rapper, tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph minutes before dying in a fiery one-car crash that killed the rapper and four others. Source: Ervin McKinness, Aspiring Rapper, Tweets ‘YOLO’ About...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Alcohol and drugs may have had something to do with it, too: On February 25, 1983, Williams was found dead in his suite at the Elysée Hotel in New York at age 71. The medical examiner’s report indicated that he choked to death on the cap from a bottle of eye...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending Twitter messages about his border collie before his fatal car accident. Source: Plastic Surgeon Was Texting Before Fatal Crash – Heidi Montag : People.com If attacked, do you want...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Even Evil Knievel urged him not to do it: A Canadian daredevil, curled up inside a specially designed barrel, plunged from the roof of the Astrodome to his death before 35,000 spectators as the barrel missed a water tank meant to cushion the fall. Source: 35,000 Watch...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Health Planning
Put YOUR words down in your family constitution, before you lose them: A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease although it isn’t robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them. It’s called...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Even lawyers can die embarrassed (but never estate planning lawyers!): Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
Here’s a way to die embarrassed: an American Boeing engineer residing in Gig Harbor, Washington,[3] died from injuries received during anal sex with a stallion at a farm in an unincorporated area in King County, Washington, near the city of Enumclaw. Source:...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
They drowned because their servants were prohibited from touching them. Embarrassing, to say the least. Source: Sunandha Kumariratana – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
A 44-year old Kalispell man is dead after being hit on Highway 93 Sunday night. Troopers say Randy Lee Tenley was wearing an apparently store-bought ghillie suit when two vehicles struck him. Source: Hwy 93 victim dead after alleged Bigfoot stunt | Missoula Local News...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Two masked men carried out an armed robbery at South Coast Plaza late Friday night, police said. Source: Masked men hold up Zara at South Coast Plaza – The Orange County Register If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | News & Commentary
A Muslim immigrant from Africa unleashed a bloody machete attack on patrons at a restaurant owned by a Christian Arab Israeli in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday night and the FBI is now investigating it as a possible act of “lone-wolf” terrorism. CBS News was first to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Good news in the case of a GM subcontractor who briefly lost his job due to violating GM policy by carrying a gun on premises as a concealed carry licensee: An employee at a Michigan General Motors Technical Center said he was fired after he pulled a gun to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 15, 2016 | News & Commentary
If you are in the market for a gun safe, “I know a guy” — actually, several. Be careful out there. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 14, 2016 | News & Commentary
Go figure: If you have a choice to be in a gun-free zone or a legal-to-carry setting, you are less likely to be the victim of a mass shooting where it is legal to carry guns. Source: Mass Shooters Prefer Gun-Free Zones If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim?...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 14, 2016 | News & Commentary
Cosmopolitan here instructs women on how they should interact with those it labels “gunsplainers” — Goebbels would be proud. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 13, 2016 | Archived, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
Uh-oh: Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. Source: Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
“As he breaks up the fight, he takes one kid and then the other jumps [on] him. Now he’s fighting two of them and he’s calling for an assist officer at the same time,” Chitwood said. “There’s a crowd of 40 or 50 kids watching...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
So who’s buying all the guns? While there are, no doubt, current gun owners who are simply stocking up, multiple dealers – Relihan included – pointed to two groups that have stood out of late: women and first-time gun owners. Lee’s Weaponry owner Jeffrey Mathenia said...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
During prohibition in the US, the SS Monte Carlo sat in international waters to allow gamblers, drinkers and revellers to indulge their vices Source: Wreck of notorious gambling and prostitution ship lost at sea in 1936 is revealed by violent El Nino storms –...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
The suspects kicked in the basement door, which awakened the woman’s son, who in turn woke her up and told her he thought someone was in the house. Source: Mother of 2 surprises teen burglars with gunshots – Guns.com If attacked, do you want to be Victor...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
An FBI criminal complaint (view here) alleges an ISIS supporter named Khalil Abu-Rayyan planned to attack a church capable of seating 6000, by shooting and beheading people in a martyrdom attack. Key allegation is that he selected the church based on its status as a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
I always counsel firearm students against purse carry. When I think of purse carry, I think of kids accidentally shooting themselves or others. Tragic cases of this abound. But the modern kid appears to be devolving into something more hideous. Be prepared — you...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Does anyone take this guy seriously? Everyone out there with a phone that uses thumbprint for access knows the technology is not anywhere near perfect, and when you are in a hurry (like in a gun fight) it is far less than perfect. Then you have to remember that damn...