A Brief History On September 27, 2001, the chilling reality that a mass shooting could happen anywhere, at any time, became apparent when a deranged Swiss citizen walked into the Zug Canton Parliament building and started shooting Swiss legislators. By the time the massacre was over, 15 were dead (including the gunman) and 18 were injured. Digging Deeper Switzerland is a relatively peaceful country that has been neutral on the world stage since the Reformation, jealously guarding their neutrality and independence by armed vigilance. The last major conflicts in Switzerland were the invasion by Napoleon’s French Army and the Civil War…
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A Brief History On September 26, 2017, we look back on the past week and marvel at just how much a jerk a human being can be. Today, we will briefly discuss a few of those people. Who would you nominate? Digging Deeper The biggest jerk of the week is Emanuel Kidega Samson, a 25 year old body builder from the Sudan, who went to his former church, Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee and shot the place up, killing one person and injuring another seven people. A brave usher, Robert Engle age 22, confronted the gunman and…
A Brief History On September 15, 1966, in a reaction to the “Texas Sniper” mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson addressed Congress and asked for the passage of what became the Gun Control Act of 1968, a legislative measure that in no way, shape, or form, could have prevented the Texas Sniper incident, and for that matter, probably any other illegal shooting. Here we list 10 extraordinarily stupid things said or done in the name of “gun control.” (Note: The list of erroneous or downright idiotic things anti-gunners say about guns and…
A Brief History On September 4, 1949, after a concert by African American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson, riots broke out in the Peekskill, New York location of the concert. World famous for singing, acting, and as a Civil Rights and Trade Union activist, Robeson became the target of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacists. Digging Deeper Paul Robeson was a remarkable man, born in New Jersey in 1898, a time of Jim Crow Laws and segregation, in the state of Woodrow Wilson, a man we now know as a racist. Robeson’s mother was…
A Brief History On August 24, 2017, we take this opportunity to remind people that the police are not the enemy of a free people! According to the New York Post and as evidenced by the poster that was posted around Boston prior to the August 19th Free Speech rally, apparently there are some on the radical far left that include the Police in with “fascist” groups such as the Neo-Nazi’s and KKK. Digging Deeper The poster, created by an unknown source, but presumably some far left reactionary group, warns Bostonians to “BEWARE OF FASCISTS COMING TO BOSTON COMMON SAT.…