Monday FGS
NYPD charges 5 suspects in beating of Brooklyn girl, 15, caught on camera
By Nick Givas
The New York Police Department (NYPD) told Fox News it has charged five suspects with gang assault and robbery for their alleged connection to the beating Thursday of a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn that was captured by a security camera.
An NYPD spokesperson told Fox News that robbery is the likely motive, but that authorities were not ready to confirm any further details at this time.
The five suspects were still in custody as of Saturday evening, police said.
A group of teenage boys descended on the girl in Crown Heights and began to hit her and stomp on her head as she lay helpless on the ground, according to reports.
Her sneakers were stolen off her feet during the chaos, along with her cellphone and debit card.
She was rushed to the hospital, treated for head trauma and later released, officials said. The attack was reportedly made in retaliation for a fight the victim had with another girl earlier in the day.
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Read the rest here: Fox News
Nothing else on the Feel Good Story front, so to the archives we go.
A Rape Survivor — Now She’s An RKBA Activist Who Carries a Gun
Mr. Puckett,
Regarding your recent article “Visiting A Psychiatrist Could Get You Killed”, you’ve hit the nail on the head, Sir…
But I wish to counter-sink it a little with another point. Rape survivors typically suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, an emotional disorder that is treated by psychiatrists. If they do not receive treatment, they can be deeply scarred by the trauma of the rape. In my experience, one of the largest obstacles to healing from this trauma is the near-paralytic fear that the perpetrator of the crime will return to repeat the act, and that the survivor will be unable to defend herself, once again being powerless as she was the first time. In this manner, the trauma keeps repeating over and over in the survivor’s mind, keeping the mental “wound” open and preventing healing.
It is my firm belief that arming a rape victim with a firearm is the single most effective means of breaking this cycle of fear and granting them the means to feel re-empowered, no longer feeling helpless in the face of a terror that can be all-consuming. They can now progress in their therapy, no longer being continually re-injured by the ongoing fear of their assailant. Yes, the firearm is a form of crutch, but not in the unhealthy sense, but in the healthy sense of a crutch given to a person with a broken leg — it gives them support while the damaged limb heals.
Later, their reason for carrying the weapon may change from a “security blanket” to a more logically-arrived at reason, based upon knowledge of the benefits thereof, or they may set it aside as they prefer.
I am not a medical practitioner. I am a rape survivor, and an RKBA activist. I speak not from experience of witnessing others use firearms in this fashion, but from feeling the benefit myself. I no longer carry as a defense against the terror in the night, afraid my attacker may return, but simply because it is the sensible thing to do. It is also my right, a right that I cherish, and wish to protect.
I have worked with my own therapists extensively on my PTSD, and they both know that I am a gun-owner. Neither has ever felt my guns to be a threat to myself or any other person. To the contrary, they have found them to be a healing benefit to my mental state — and one of my therapists is a member of the Million Mom March, so I know it isn’t because they agree with my politics.
Now I work with the Second Amendment Sisters and the Pink Pistols to assist others in securing their rights, and defending themselves. I will fight to the bitter end the attempts of enemies of freedom to rob me, and others like me, of those rights. I have counseled my sisters to fight against efforts to stigmatize those with treatable medical problems from owning firearms. If we don’t fight those efforts, soon anyone who has ever taken so much as a single Prozac or visited a school counselor will be barred forever.
— Gwen P
Posted in its entirity from Keep and Bear Arms
A hand full of jokers, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. A quiet weekend makes for a thin Monday FGS, so I thought to fill it out with Gwen’s story. This format may arise on occasion as needed, or I could add it as a weekly (or some such) feature. I’d ask for your inputs, but with this crew I’ll get them anyway.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: Feel Good Stories
Attacks by a large group of violent thugs, are as old as humanity.
They are also why a sidearm with significant magazine capacity, and at least one reload, are reasonable and prudent.
Most fights are solved in the first round. Some are not. A few are very much not.
I think some folks -like- the idea of mobs being able to bash the right people, and the victims being unable to defend themselves. It was true in the Democrat-segregation areas. It remains true in Democrat-socialist areas.
Odd, that.
I usually carry two spare magazines. That gives me 52 rounds to deal with any ‘problems’ that may arise whether it be of the two legged, four legged, or mechanical variety.
I grew up in a neighborhood where there was such
a thing as a fair fight. It settled a lot of shit
once and for all. Anything other than one on one
was considered cowardice and the offenders were
dealt with seperately.
Then I joined the Army and reality set in.
5K+ comments on the Fox Linky. Very few blaming Trump…yet. We may not know the names or the faces of these pieces of trash, but rest assured, they will show up again. Continuing on the thoughts from the King Saud thread from yesterday, swift, sure, public punishment would go a long way to detering this type of behavior. Have each perp set upon by 5 or 6 hood rats, each in turn. But noooooo….the catch and release program will allow these “good boys” a chance to continue with junior college preparations after choir practice.
Gwen wrote…”It is also my right, a right that I cherish, and wish to protect.” Preach Sister. When it’s all said and done, Ladies, it is up to you to be able to protect and defend yourself. And a lot of the times, that Knight in Shining Armour is really just an ass in tin foil.
Hey Bro, anybody don’t like the format or the way you lay it out? No problem. In your spare time, you can do interviews for assistants. Just make sure you tell them the job comes with a corresponding cut in pay.
“Spare time” and “cut in pay” are in-jokes the Gun Bunny and I use to define additional duties one gets from time to time.
There is no spare time, and working more hours without additional compensation is indeed a pay cut.
This of course supposes one gets pay in the first place.
*grin*
Crown Heights Brooklyn are a mixed race community. Anyone out there know the race of the perps and victim??