Sentences with phrase «armed citizens»

The verdict on a fearful armed citizen is behind us.
Mireles, a doctor by trade, is the charismatic founder and leader of Grupo de Autodefensa, a group of armed citizens who go from town to town asking residents to help them go literally house to house to evict cartel personnel.
«I think what we're doing more is arming our citizens with information for people that have been known to engage in terrorist - type activity, that may be out of jail and no longer incarcerated,» Gallivan said.
A day after his controversial call to arms set off intense debate over the role of armed citizens in maintaining
And in Michoacán, Dr. Jose «The Doctor» Mireles rousts a popular uprising known at Autodefensas, armed citizens who move from town to town driving out members of the Knights Templar.
Besides, arming citizens leads to more death than protection and doesn't solve the problem that there is an insane gunman out shooting.
Obama is also not popular among armed citizens or the military, so it seems unlikely that he could successfully lead a rebellion.
However, McDowall believes his evidence is strong enough to show that armed citizens do not decrease the number of firearms - related deaths.
Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands... That was America in 1881.
The Posse Comitatus and the Office of Sheriff: Armed Citizens Summoned to the Aid of Law Enforcement.
A day after his controversial call to arms set off intense debate over the role of armed citizens in maintaining public safety, Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum is standing by his statement encouraging all properly licensed handgun owners and off duty police officers to carry weapons.
We are reaching out to lawmakers, educating them about the harmful effects of plastic pollution, and we are arming citizens with valuable information to share with family, friends, and their local lawmakers.
An armed citizen protecting himself / herself / family from Indians and the red coats in the 1700's meant swords and muskets.
Any skilled gunman with a semi-automatic could pump bullets into at least 5 people before an armed citizen could get their gun out and aim.
@Jeff: Yes, and because of this element of surprise, arming citizens will not do anything to solve the problem that there is a crazed gunman out there in the first place.
Arming citizens will not make much difference because the damage will have already been done by the gunman / gunmen.
I've heard more stories like this than stories where an armed citizen saved the day by killing the gunman before he could get a shot out.
By that time, there will be chaos with some people running for it that an armed citizen will probably hesitate so as to not kill an innocent child.
TC writes:»... unless the military joined the revolution, the military could easily take down armed citizens
This once was true but unless the military joined the revolution, the military could easily take down armed citizens.
You will probably argue that armed citizens have no chance against the organized military, but look at what is happening in Syria, and other nations where the citizens are throwing off oppressive regimes.
another interpretation of the well regulated militia preamble would that armed citizens would regulate militias by being able to oppose them.
March 10, 2015 (readMedia)-- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association released this statement in response to dramatic video an armed citizen stopping an assault on a NYC subway train:
We've armed citizens, block clubs and business associations with materials to clean off graffiti themselves.»
The Governor should know better than to suggest that arming citizens will solve anything.
«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.
In an extended scene from the movie, an armed citizen group called the Autodefensas corners two cartel assassins who have murdered their loved ones.
In my new novel, The Wanderer and the New West, a gunslinger goes it alone, fighting injustice in a near - future American West that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground.
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