Well the Grand Jury released its finding of "No Bill" against the officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown in self defense....so after 3 months of preparation for the jury...and this is the end results:
I heard that the LSM, propaganda arm of the Democrats, and of the regime Prime time media cut off the District Attorney explaining how the evidence was collected, and the results where it showed what happened versus what the perception was. They cut him off after the verdict. I was listening to the news radio station WSB Radio 95.5 FM and AM750 and they played the entirety of the District Attorney statement and even played the reporters asking him questions. Kudo's to them for that
Now we have all these various groups that have adopted the Michael Brown shooting as latest cause to support their agenda, we have the Occupy crowd down there, the various race hustlers, the communist party, the environmental groups, the LGBT groups and any body else that has an axe to grind against the system. I have been telling people at work that it will get worse on Friday and Saturday. They ask me "Why?" I reply that the people stirring all the crap up are anti-capitalist and black Friday is a big shopping day, I can see them causing a disturbance to "represent"their cause.
We will be out of town on Thanksgiving and returning Friday evening and we will not be going through Atlanta but around it. We will make a point of avoiding all major cities, something about being stuck on an interstate that is closed due to a "disturbance by Minority Urban Youths" gives me the heebee jeebee's. I also will be carrying more firepower than normal. I would by far rather have the weapons and not need it than wish I had it if the situation requires.
On a different note, I do feel for Officer Wilson, even though he was cleared of all wrong doing, he will undoubtedly have to face the racial bias of the Department of Justice, and of course all the civil lawsuits. This is why I am glad that I am not a police officer, I always wanted to be one, it is fascinating work and that kind of job does appeal to my nature. But being a minority policeman in a majority town has its own set of problems. If I was officer Wilson, I would drop off the face of the planet....Yes it sucks...but that is the life in Obama's America. he will be hunted down by every liberal group and some of them will try to "extract social Justice" from him. I would avoid all contacts with the media...they ain't his friend and will try to look for ways to make him look foolish or worse.
It will be interesting to see how things play out.
I am reading the news and seeing all the demonstrations about the verdict and a thought came to me....(I know heresy,) The people that are protesting are mad because they didn't get what they want. For the past 5+ years they have gotten everything that they wanted facts be dammed. Now a jury of 6 females in Florida said " NO" they listened to the law and the Florida law is on Zimmerman's side. Now the race hucksters and professional black grievance industry cranked up full bore for 16 months aided by a complicit media has injected race into what would have been a straight up justifiable self defense claim. Now they have been told " no" and they are enraged...kinda like a kid that has been getting everything they wanted for 5+ years and all of a sudden being told " NO". The progessive left has lost their religion to use a phrase that we in the south use to describe someone that has gone totally cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Now you have noticed for the past 40 years that there has been a concerted effort to identify people by group dynamics and group think. We are black, white,hispanic,pacific islander, eskimo, indian(feather not dot)and the hyphenated American think became vogue. I remember a phrase that Teddy Roosevelt used to describe hyphenated Americans "“In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.. To expand on this :“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes
here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an
outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” Now for the past 40+ years there has been group think pushed and group rights pushed...not individual rights. This I believe by design. Our rights that are granted by our creator and enshrined in the bill of rights are .....wait for it.....INDIVIDUAL rights....Government can't give them or take them. Our constitution codifies our natural rights and the government's job is to protect them. With group rights, they are granted by governments...look at affirmative action...that is a group right...and what a government givith...the government can taketh. there are no guarantees
.The constant drumbeat of strife is encouraged to keep us divided and at each others throats and the people that are stirring this up...for example was Eric Holders Department of Justice that sent people to organize anti Zimmerman protest to circumvent the rule of law down in Florida. You think this was by accident? this is to follow an agenda, if we are squabbling, people will then look for Big Brother to punish the other people that don't agree with you. If we turn to big brother to resolutions, then we will surrender some of our individual rights and individual sovereignty to the government. This has been a plan of the progressives since Woodrow Wilson who started the modern progressive movement. More government control, let the elitist and other people lead us to this great socialist utopia that is just down the road if we would just do what our "betters" tell us to do since we live in "flyover country" and am not enlighted like they are.
Now this image is used to describe forward thinking....by their ideology. Now the reigning Obama Junta( I use Junta to describe what the current administration is doing. The actions that they use are out of what a 3rd world country would use, like using the organs of the government to attack their political opponents. Like the IRS going after conservative groups, and having found out that after the elections, somebody in the IRS leaked Mitt Romney tax information along with his donor list..I bet they got audited. Using other sections of the government to go after everybody else...like the DOJ...supposed to be neutral....not under Obama. How about the DHS targeting Veterans....You think that was by accident? It is by design. It is called "VEAGLE" a play on veteran and Eagle. This is used to profile vets for possible anti government beliefs. Veterans have the skill set to make things tough on people that try to enslave other people.)
The people behind the scenes will continue to pit Americans against Americans so we don't pay attention to what they are doing. Who is pulling the puppet strings....who would benefit from all this strife? When you know who would benefit..than you will know who is pulling the strings.
I made it home and was able to access my files of photo's. My brother uses an apple laptop and it is a lot different than the Win XP that I use on my computer. So I updated the photo's on this article.
I am traveling out of town, am visiting my brother and his family in Fort Rucker and we watched the live testimony of the "not guilty" verdict. I am relieved that this part of his journey is finished in the judicial system. But I believed that his trials and tribulations are not finished, He will now have to deal with the civil aspects of a trial. The trayvon family ambulance chasing race baiting bottomfeeders lawyers have said that they will pursue a civil litigation against him. They also alluded to the fact that the DOJ will probably pursue "civil rights" violations against Mr. Zimmerman. You know the same DOJ that helped organize anti-Zimmerman protest last year. It is refreshing to see the Department of Justice apply equal protection under the law to this case. I am sure that they would do the same thing if the races were reversed.
The trial should never have gone forth, the totally spineless politicians that pursued this to appease certain segments of the population and the politicians that depend on the continued good graces of said segment of the population to remain in power. We also had the media that shamelessly inflamed tensions in an attempt to push a narrative.
I and my brother went to MSNBC to see how they were trying to spin this as basically that it was a black and white issue. They also commented that the Florida "Stand your ground" law was to blame for this issue. They still were trying to spin the narrative that "Saint Skittles" A.K.A. Trayvon was just headed to the store to buy skittles for his little brother and he was stalked and shot in cold blood by the police wanna-be white racist George Zimmerman. They tried to link him to the tea party and the GOP.
When it came out that he voted for Obama in 08 and tutored minority children and he was Hispanic not white, kinda killed that one. The picture used to described Trayvon was the innocent 12 year old,
they did not use the older Trayvon using gang signs and showing the trappings of a thug lifestyle.
The picture they used to describe Mr. Zimmerman was the picture that was 5 years old in a jail jumpsuit.
I saw a bunch of signs demanding "no Justice and no Peace" also demanding the repeal of the "stand your ground" law. George Zimmerman life will never be the same. He will have to move and go to a different place to avoid the media and there will be people that will try to hunt him down and pursue him and possibly kill him " for Trayvon and Justice". The fury of the mob knows no limitations to its fury.
One of the outcomes of this case is that people will hesitate to shoot even in self defence for fear of being persecuted by the media and the DOJ even in a legitimate case of "Self Defence". I remembered a case several years here in the Atlanta area, the case of the "Red Dog Unit" of the Atlanta police department was being pilloried in the media for targeting minorities and harassing them. It didn't matter that the entire area that they worked was full of "minorities" They were thrown under the bus by their superiors and the politicians that ran the city, Well in Forest park ( suburb of Atlanta) a Forest park officer pulled a car over for a traffic stop around the same time. Well the people in the car came out shooting, according to the eyewitnesses that saw this, the police officer hesitated in pulling his service weapon and got killed. I believe that he hesitated because of all the media attention and for a split second he wondered " If I shoot, will my department back me or will I be screwed along with my family." Well he got killed and his family lost their husband and father.
This issue sucks, the Reverend Al Sharpton, the purveyor of the Tawana Brawley incident, the shootings of 7 people of Freddies fashion mart by the rent a mob instigated by him, the crown market shootings and burnings and many others of racial strife. The MSNBC commentator expressed his outrage at the verdict and that it shows that racism is alive and well in America.
The feeling that I have gotten from a lot of Americans is that they are tired of the constant racial drumbeat being pushed in the social fabric of America and they are no longer willing to be "reasonable and accommodating to the racial claims of the loud minority that screams "racism" at every opportunity. I fear that there will be a blowback and the resulting chaos will either tear this country apart or this will give the Obama Junta the excuse to impose martial law and suspend the constitution and become a dictator by proxy. I wonder if this is by design and cement a wet dream that the progressives have had since Woodrow Wilson started the modern progressive movement.
I got this link from my Dad..I sat down and watched it. It is an interesting perspective in the Trevon Martin shooting and the race pimps that keep it stirred up.
The author makes a valid point. I have a feeling that this summer will burn kinda like 1968 did. With the divisive election with Obungler, the Trayvon Martin shooting, the retaliations by the blacks against the whites, those incidents are being buried by the media because it doesn't support their agenda. This summer will be a powderkeg and I have a feeling that those that are prepared will do alright, and those that are not will be the ones hurt or worse when the cities erupt. I am not trying to sound like an alarmist but the signs are there from the past 3 years of divisive politics, the OWS idiots and this summer will be warmer than normal. This will be a recipe for an explosion of anger. It will take either a verdict of "not guilty" and the urban segment will explode. Or if Obungler loses, the cities will explode. It will be a trying time for us as a nation.
Moral conscience is in dwindling supply in this nation. Our bankers are thieves, stealing TRILLIONS because they are allowed to do so. Nearly all of our politicians are venal, lying parasites who a century and a half ago would have all had their heads lopped off by rage-fueled mobs.
A growing proportion of our citizenry behave like hyenas, jackals and vultures at the slightest opportunity. Our nation has been invaded by twenty million illegal aliens.
Only a fool can’t see that we are headed for a potential showdown.
To those who will listen, it’s time to take a look in the mirror and ask yourself: “What am I going to do as this societal and fiscal decay continues to its logical end?”
You need to evaluate what you can independently do for yourself, quietly on your own, in the coming weeks and months? And I mean for just yourself, not your mate, family, friends, or neighbors. You’ll be of no help to any of them unless you’ve got your own base well covered first.
The most fundamental expansion of your personal power is to acquire the tools, and achieve the skill to have the means and wherewithal to defend against one, several, or even a dozen other human beings. The legally safe term is “self defense”, but when the code red light starts flashing, and your options are coming at you with overwhelming intensity, you will shift into the bone chilling animal presence of your primitive ancestors. But you MUST have the tools and a modicum of skill.
Most of The United States is unique in its stubborn persistence in actually preserving, and even expanding, the individual’s unalienable right to meaningful and justifiable self defense. The Second Amendment does not mean your right to squirt someone with pepper spray. It preserves your right to, under certain life-threatening circumstances, apply emphatic lethal force.
But let’s step away from political theory and extrapolate the situation to everyday life. That stranger you confront in the parking lot late at night.
The group of “youths” you run up against if you stroll a block too far into the “bad” side of town. The guy on the park bench watching you jog past.
The weird driver tailgating you on a desolate stretch of road. The knock on your door and someone you do not recognize standing outside waiting to confront you for one reason or another.I’m asking you to either prove or disprove your sanity here: Would you rather deal with these mundane issues armed, or would you rather simply take your chances? This isn’t “Leave it to Beaver” America anymore, friends.
This is now an America that has lost its way, a nation drifting in “situational morality” and where theft is called “redistribution of wealth”. Pre teens beat innocent people to death, and laugh and giggle as though it were a day at the playground.
Are you going allow yourself to remain defenseless? Are you going to be left staring at your cell phone (if you have time) as your 911 call is ignored because of massive overload?
Are you going to be a survivor, a potential protector of the innocent? Or are you going to be a Darwin Award Candidate, too stupid to even provide for your own survival?
Let’s cut to the chase. In my opinion Barrack Hussein Obama is going to be re-elected. This nation has become addicted to socialism. It will be Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sashaying into the White House when the smoke has settled.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME to wait to see this actually happen to buy a gun or seriously stock up on ammunition. You have to act immediately. You must behave as though you have only a week from the time your read this to get your act together.
The rush is on for handguns. As I write this, Ruger and Smith & Wesson have BOTH suspended taking new orders because of an unprecedented six month backlog. Expect other quality handguns to be fetching record prices. It’s just supply and demand. So let’s turn to the lowly shotgun in the “if you could own only one gun” debate. NOTE: This evaluation leans heavily on keeping within a tight budget.
A reliable pump shotgun is the gun to own if you could own only one gun. This is for home defense or for tossing in the back of your car in the event of social turmoil. Eight rounds of 00 buckshot skipped across the pavement and into the shins of a mob can be a very significant behavior modification device. In my town the price of a Mossberg 500 pump (holding up to eight rounds) is less than $300. A box of five 00 buckshot is $4.50 (see photo) and a 25 round box of standard shot is $4.99. Do the math. Compare the cost to a handgun of significant caliber or a rifle of significant caliber along with ammo.
For less than $400 you can be seriously prepared with a shotgun. Practice with the bird shot and only try out the buckshot to get a feel for any difference in recoil. What’s also important is the reliability of a “thrift” shotgun.
The somber fact is that handguns are generally more difficult to hit something with than a shotgun. The “stopping power” of a 12 gauge round loaded with 00 buckshot is ruthless, and therefore preferable. As mentioned above, a street mob scenario presents no contest. A shotgun is just downright scarier to assailants.
Time for theorizing is over. Act now. Do what you can, for yourself, immediately
Wow it really sucks when you are caught with the hand in the edit cookie jar. maybe this will serve as a warning to other producers that try to edit the news to suit a political agenda......Naaa I doubt it. I wonder if the producer was "encouraged" by his bosses to edit the tape to suit their liberal policy. The conservative bloggers did good on that catch. The establishment media takes another credibility hit.
NBC News reportedly fires producer of edited George Zimmerman tape
Published April 07, 2012
| FoxNews.com
George Zimmerman, seen at left in a prior booking photo, says he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, in self defense.
NBC News has fired a producer who worked on a 'Today' show segment that featured a heavily edited 911 recording in which George Zimmerman appears to racially profile Trayvon Martin before the teen's shooting, according to The New York Times.
The name of the Miami-based producer who was fired was not released, according to the Times report, which does not refer to any disciplinary action that may have been taken against other NBC staffers.
NBC News has been slammed for the report since last week, and had promised an investigation into what has been described as a grossly misleading editing of the tape.
NBC declined to confirm the firing, according to the Times report.
"An internal investigation determined that a "seasoned" producer was to blame for the edit, NBC had said earlier in the week, before news of the firing.
The edited version of the call that aired on Today clearly made Zimmerman appear to say Martin looked dangerous because of his race.
"This guy looks like he's up to no good … he looks black," Zimmerman says in the version of the tape that aired.
In the unedited version of the call, however, Zimmerman answers a question about Martin's race only after being specifically asked by the 911 dispatcher.
"This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or like he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about," Zimmerman said, without referring at all to Martin's race.
Only after the 911 dispatcher asks "black, white or Hispanic?" did Zimmerman reply "He looks black."
The 17-year-old Martin was killed on Feb. 26 by Zimmerman in the city of Sanford, Fla., where Martin was visiting. Zimmerman claims Martin physically attacked him after he questioned why he was in the neighborhood.
Details of what actually happened between the two in the moments before the shooting are not clear, and are currently under investigation
I ran across this from Irish and linked to this site
SOME truth about Trayvon...
Since our entire country is about to tear itself apart over a hispanic/black/jew killing a black boy, I decided to sit down tonight and do a little digging.
What I found didn't really surprise me -- I'm about the world's biggest cynic -- but it IS pretty staggering in a sick sort of way...
First the "concensus narrative":
Poor little Trayvon - choir-boy extraordinaire, and candidate for sainthood - was chased down and murdered by a racist white man for the "crime" of walking to the store to buy a bag of skittles for his beloved little brother.
The police TOLD the racist murderer not to follow Trayvon, but he continued, and wasn't satisfied until he'd MURDERED this innocent little child.
Naturally, they also trot out heart-melting pictures of the innocent child, to be sure nobody misses the fact that he was someone SPECIAL whose life was cut tragically short by the twin horrors of racism and guns.
What's worse, the evil, racist redneck cops in the Florida town where this tragedy happened chose to let the murderer walk free - after all, he was white and the dead "child" was black!
At this point, 99% of the black community is screaming for "Zimmerman"'s head on a platter, thanks in large part to media pandering and the usual bevy of race-hustlers and pimps. Even King Hussein The First, has chosen to fan the flames by claiming "If (he) had a son, he'd look like Trayvon".
You'd THINK that black folks ESPECIALLY - given the long history of "their people" being lynched without benefit of due process - would be against the whole meme - but obviously you'd be WRONG.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've heard all that so many times that it's become TRUE - though it's nearly all a pack of sickening LIES!
Here's what I've learned...
First of all, Trayvon was in this "strange neighborhood" because he'd been sent there by his Momma -- sent to stay with his DADDY for a bit so Daddy could "straighten him out" during a week-long suspension from school.
Though nobody will say what he did to get himself suspended, one thing is sure: It was relatively SERIOUS if it earned him a weeklong suspension... For Mom to call on DAD to "straighten him out" - thus admitting SHE COULDN"T HANDLE THE KID - is also telling!
Then there's Trayvon himself...Here's the kid we've all been told was so brutally murdered:
As it turns out, that picture is about 5 years old!
In reality, THIS is the "Trayvon 'SLIMM' Martin" who was shot on that fateful night:
Gosh! Gold "grille", "saggin' pants", obscene gestures... Not quite the choir-boy we've all been crying over, huh?
Then there's the fact that - in another image from his Facebook page - young Trayvon apparently self-identified as a "MADE NIGGA" - meaning he'd been officially accepted into a "gang."
Which gang? I'm not sure, but clearly it has a "Waters Avenue" "set" - and "Slimm" made a claim to be in it!
Lest you fall for the claims of "That's a DIFFERENT Trayvon Martin" - note that even the pic his family chose for his "funeral handout" had a similar "tough guy" vibe - also delivered in a red font.
Even further, I'd bet a paycheck that the "skull and crossbones" came from the same "graffiti" font-set he used for his "Made..." announcement above! - but I digress...
Do a simple Google Image Search for "Trayvon Martin" and look at what pops up. Scroll on down and look -- you'll find all sorts of *OLD* pictures of him (the bastards even go so far as to break out the photo from his "Kindergarten Graduation") -- but you'll find the only sites showing the pics I found above are places like "StormFront"...
Lastly, note that the Police Report from the night of the shooting - which took its info from his two-year-old ID - listed him as 6-0, but the Trayvon who was shot was was in fact a six-foot-two and 180+ pounds football player - not the innocent little boy being plastered all over!
Zimmerman OTOH is 5-9, and obviously obese. Further, he was - when police arrived at the scene - bleeding from his nose and from the BACK of his head. He also had grass all over the wet-back of his shirt, which corroborates
Ok ....So maybe Trayvon wasn't the choir-boy we've been led to believe - but that doesn't give Zimmerman the right to kill him!After all - Zimmerman continued chasing Trayvon after the police told him to stop!
As it turns out, THAT is a lie too!
If you listen to the whole 911 call, you'll find two things:
(1) The dispatcher didn't tell Zimmerman "Don't do that" (follow Martin) - he said "We don't NEED YOU TO DO THAT"... The former is an order, the latter a simple attempt to limit liability!
(2) Even more importantly - contrary to the ongoing "concensus narrative" - ZIMMERMAN - upon being told he didn't NEED to follow Martin - STOPPED FOLLOWING HIM!!
You can tell this because he stopped wheezing when he was no longer hurrying trying to keep up with a running Martin - but also because he told the dispatcher that Martin had "disappeared", and that he (Zimmerman) was going to return to his truck!!
Listen for yourself:
Now...
I believe we've pretty well established that Trayvon wasn't who we've been told he was.
It's undeniable that they've gone WAAaaay 'round the bend to make poor little Trayvon look like a little boy instead of the LARGE, ATHLETIC *MAN* he really was.
I believe it's undeniable that the "narrative" of the whole thing is also twisted, through selective "editing" of the 911 tape.
What about those racist cops? They STILL should have arrested Zimmerman, right?
Well, as it turns out, that's wrong too!
See, Florida law PROHIBITS police from arresting someone who appears to have been acting in self-defense!
Further, it was *NOT* the cops, but the DISTRICT ATTORNEY who made the decision not to charge Zimmerman -- a decision he made *AFTER* reviewing all the evidence and the testimony of all the witnesses -- which just happens to match what Zimmerman has claimed from the beginning!
Zimmerman says he was returning to his truck when Martin ATTACKED *HIM*!
He says he began screaming for help, and when he was on the ground being beaten to death he finally drew his weapon and fired in self-defense!
This statement matches the story from multiple eyewitnesses, and even a SEPARATE 911 tape where Zimmerman can be heard screaming for help in the background!
But... Wasn't that Trayvon screaming for help?!
NOT ACCORDING TO MARTIN'S OWN FATHER - who told cops (after listening to the tape) "That's not my son." !!
[url=http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf][b][u]Here's a letter from the "City Manager" to the public, trying to calm things down"[/u][/b][/url] - it also has some interesting facts...
In short, EVERYTHING you've been told about this case is a lie.
Every "fact" has been twisted, pictures deliberately altered, and the whole thing deliberately manipulated in order to foment and fan the flames of racial tensions.
The race-pimps and hustlers have done THEIR sickening best to wind up as many as possible, and they've been aided by everyone from the media to the White-House.
The ONE QUESTION WE MOST NEED TO BE ASKING AT THIS POINT IS WHY??!!
The answer to *THAT* question may just tell us what we REALLY need to know!!
If you want to see what a disarmed society looks like, look no further than England.
Thousands of angry, drunk, violent thugs running wild and stealing anything they can carry. Shopkeepers and homeowners crippled with fear, unable to defend their loved ones or their property. Innocent citizens forced to watch helplessly while their life’s dreams — everything they worked so hard to build and acquire — are carried out the door, or smashed to pieces, or burned to the ground.
Men, women and children forced to strip naked in the streets, while packs of criminals laugh and ridicule them before making off with their clothing.
The fact is, when British politicians stripped their citizens of their God-given right to self-defense, they robbed them of their freedom and their dignity.
Sales of baseball bats are up over 5,000% on Amazon.co.uk. This isn’t to mark the beginning of little league season. These are desperate homeowners and shopkeepers purchasing the best - and in reality, only - self-defense tool that the British government will allow them to own . . . at least for now.
If past is prologue, this flood of baseball bats into London will spark cries from government leaders for mandatory bat registration and a wave of new laws on how, when, and under what circumstances British citizens may carry or swing a bat. After all, this is exactly how British citizens lost their gun rights.
First came mandatory gun licensing. Next came a wave of restrictions on firearms ownership. Then came the outright gun bans.
It has been illegal to own a handgun in Britain for nearly 15 years. As a result, Britain’s violent crime rate has soared. In fact, Britain consistently clocks-in with the highest violent crime rate in all of Europe. Last week’s riots notwithstanding, you are six times more likely to be mugged in London than in New York. These are the inconvenient statistics that the gun-ban crowd likes to sweep under the rug.
As if banning handguns didn’t send a strong enough message to criminals that British citizens are ripe for the picking, the British government went even further in 1999.
Recall the tragic story of Tony Martin, the British farmer who was awakened one night to the sound of breaking glass and found two burglars in his home. Martin had been robbed six times before. This time, he went downstairs, retrieved a shotgun, and fired at the intruders.
For this, Martin received life in prison for killing one of the burglars, ten years for wounding the other thug, and one additional year for possession of an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar served just 18 months of a three-year sentence and was given $5,000 in legal assistance from Britain’s Legal Services Commission so he could sue Martin for violating his civil rights.
As the House Homeland Security Committee prepares to hold hearings this week on the issue of radicalization in the Somali community, it is important to note the reach that the al-Shabaab terrorist group has into the United States. Earlier this month I reported exclusively here at PJM on a fresh set of al-Shabaab recruits from Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio that were interviewed on their way to Somalia by award-winning Kenyan journalist Fatuma Noor. And in June, I broke the story about an al-Shabaab suicide bomber from Minneapolis — the second Somali suicide bomber from Minneapolis, and only the third recorded case of an American successfully carrying out a suicide bombing (all three were Somali-Americans).
Undoubtedly one of the issues that the Homeland Security Committee will be looking at is how more than two dozen young Somali-Americans, many of whom were good students coming from middle-class families, were recruited to travel overseas to join the global jihad. What will likely never be mentioned: how that recruitment continues unimpeded today.
Not only is the Minnesota mosque that has served as the “radicalization incubator” for many of these youths still churning out jihadist recruits, but one of al-Shabaab’s top recruiters continues his recruiting efforts openly on Facebook and has targeted hundreds of Somali high school and college students.
So let’s turn to the lowly shotgun in the “if you could own only one gun” debate. NOTE: This evaluation leans heavily on keeping within a tight budget.
In my town the price of a Mossberg 500 pump (holding up to eight rounds) is less than $300. A box of five 00 buckshot is $4.50 (see photo) and a 25 round box of standard shot is $4.99. Do the math. Compare the cost to a handgun of significant caliber or a rifle of significant caliber along with ammo. 
