{"id":2980,"date":"2024-03-16T02:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2024-03-16T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:43:51","slug":"be-afraid-but-more-importantly-be-armed-citizens-will-be-best-first-line-defense-against-terrorists-coming-across-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid, But More Importantly Be Armed: Citizens Will Be Best First-Line Defense Against Terrorists Coming Across Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/247E324600000578-0-Helpless_The_gunmen_move_in_on_the_officer_as_Ahmed_Merabet_who_-a-6_1420708729151.jpg\" data-caption=\"Stills from video footage showing the moment a policeman is shot in the head on a Paris street by terrorists soon after they murdered 12 people at the offices of the publisher Charlie Hebdo in 2015. Terror like this could be coming to American streets thanks to Biden's open border policy.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"444\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/247E324600000578-0-Helpless_The_gunmen_move_in_on_the_officer_as_Ahmed_Merabet_who_-a-6_1420708729151.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/247E324600000578-0-Helpless_The_gunmen_move_in_on_the_officer_as_Ahmed_Merabet_who_-a-6_1420708729151.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/247E324600000578-0-Helpless_The_gunmen_move_in_on_the_officer_as_Ahmed_Merabet_who_-a-6_1420708729151-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/247E324600000578-0-Helpless_The_gunmen_move_in_on_the_officer_as_Ahmed_Merabet_who_-a-6_1420708729151-600x419.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" alt=\"\" title=\"ttt hd paris grab (3).png\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stills from video footage showing the moment a policeman is shot in the head on a Paris street by terrorists soon after they murdered 12 people at the offices of the publisher Charlie Hebdo in 2015. Terror like this could be coming to American streets thanks to Biden&#8217;s open border policy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBI Director Christopher Wray must be frustrated. He issued one of the strongest terrorism warnings earlier this week, but few seemed to notice and even fewer seemed to care. Instead, the legacy media remained fixated on the testimony of former special counsel Robert K. Hur, who concluded that Joe Biden committed multiple federal crimes but was too incompetent to stand trial. While Hur\u2019s findings were certainly newsworthy, they were not news. Most of the country already knew Old Yeller\u2019s best days are behind him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wray\u2019s warning, however, was dire. He told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that known or suspected terrorists were infiltrating the country across the wide-open southern border using counterfeit documents. One of the smuggling networks, he said, has ties to ISIS. Add to this the thousands of unknown border crossers from countries that hate us, and the more than 80,000 military-age males from China, and you have a terrorist hellbroth just waiting to bubble over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe threats from homegrown violent extremists that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations and state-sponsored terrorist organizations all being elevated at one time since October 7, though, that threat has gone to a whole other level,\u201d Wray said. \u201cAnd so, this is a time I think for much greater vigilance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should thank Director Wray for his timely information and for his candor. This is precisely why we have fought so long and so hard to restore our Second Amendment rights, so that law-abiding Americans no longer have to bend a knee and beg the Crown to sell them back their constitutional rights in the form of a permit to carry defensive arms. Constitutional carry levels the playing field, making it easier for the good guys and gals to lawfully carry arms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 29 states that now offer some form of constitutional carry, when a terrorist rears their ugly head \u2013 be they a card-carrying ISIS member or a lone-wolf jihadist \u2013 Americans can take immediate action without waiting for First Responders to arrive, assess the situation, plan and then respond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time and time again, we have seen how judicious marksmanship can end a madman\u2019s murderous plans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, an off-duty police officer shot two home-grown terrorists who were trying to gain entry to an exhibit at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, which featured images of Muhammad. ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) took credit for the attack \u2013 their first upon American soil.<\/li>\n<li>In 2019, 71-year-old Jack Wilson dropped a 43-year-old shotgun-wielding madman, who had fatally shot two parishioners at the West Freeway Church of Christ in a Fort Worth suburb, with a single round to the head.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, Elisha Dicken fired 10 rounds from his Glock at a madman who was shooting people inside an Indiana shopping mall. Eight of Dicken\u2019s rounds struck the bad guy, who was 40-yards away. Dicken was carrying his Glock lawfully because of Indiana\u2019s recently enacted constitutional carry law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite these and many lesser-known examples, the left and the legacy media they control still consider an armed response by a private citizen a fantasy. Instead, they continue to push the laughable <em>Run, Hide, Fight<\/em> response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most important lessons learned after last year\u2019s Hamas attacks is that terrorists are capable of much better planning than most thought possible, especially when paired with a state sponsor such as Iran. There is no reason not to believe a terrorist group would be even more prepared for an attack on American soil. Their target analysis will likely include the possibility of armed opposition. In other words, the terrorists are more likely to focus on a target where concealed carry is heavily regulated if not impossible, and civilians have no option other than to run, hide or fight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite our misgivings about the FBI and how it has been weaponized by the Biden-Harris administration, Wray\u2019s warning should not go unheeded. However, now is not the time for paranoia. The main goal of terrorism is to terrorize. They want us to overreact, change our lifestyle and curtail our own freedoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, use the time Wray has given us to service or upgrade your EDC. Replace batteries. Re-confirm zero. Buy those extra mags you\u2019ve wanted. Most importantly, go to the range and train. Shoot up your old defensive ammo and replace it with new.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545601\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-545601\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-700x507.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-700x507.png 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-150x109.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-696x504.png 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-580x420.png 580w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-324x235.png 324w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo-560x405.png 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Authors-EDC_Lee-Williams-Photo.png 1047w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author\u2019s EDC consists of a Staccato C2 with a Streamlight TRL-7A and a Holosun HE508T, a Benchmade Emerson CQC7, a Streamlight Wedge, spare mag and a C&amp;G holster. Author Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 21 states that do not offer any form of constitutional carry, including several that make it nearly impossible for law-abiding Americans to defend themselves. This will prove to be a deadly mistake and it must change. Once your EDC is prepped, please help make that change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constitutional carry saves lives and it should be the law of the land. Every American should enjoy their God-given right of self-defense, regardless of where they live. It may be the only thing that saves Americans when the next inevitable attack occurs on our soil.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>This story is made available through the Second Amendment Foundation\u2019s Investigative Journalism Project, which wouldn\u2019t be possible without you. 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