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U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- In the early morning hours of 17 August 2020, the residents of a home in Garden City, Alabama woke to the sounds of four home invaders breaking into the house. The invaders did not expect what happened next: armed homeowners confronted them with firearms.

The invaders fled the scene, pursued by the homeowner(s).

In an exchange of gunfire, one of the four suspects was wounded. The wounding greatly aided the Sheriff's office in the investigation of the home invasion. Over the next three days, all four suspects were identified and arrested. Cullman County Sheriff lauded the homeowners. From Cullman County Sheriff's Office:

Sheriff Matt Gentry supports an armed citizenry with more than mere words.

The Cullman County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) offers Women's Self Defense classes for free, throughout the year, because of demand from the citizens.

Sheriff Matt Gentry is pleased to announce that the Cullman County Sheriff's Office is now offering Women's Self-Defense Classes. Our deputies developed these courses in response to the high volume of requests from citizens regarding self-defense classes for the public. Our safety courses are free of charge and will be offered throughout the year.

Deputy Chad Whaley will be instructor for the classes. Deputy Whaley has been with the Cullman County Sheriff's Office for more than ten years. He has helped train police officers and deputies throughout Cullman County and looks forward to assisting the public in safety awareness and women's self-defense.

Citizens' Firearms Classes are held twice a year, at no charge. The classes teach firearms safety and Alabama firearms law. The classes include both classroom and range work. From cullmansheriff.org:

We believe that it is the responsibility of every gun owner to be as educated and as safe as possible. This course is designed for anyone that wants to enhance their knowledge on firearms, their safe handling, and the safe storage of guns, and understanding of Alabama gun laws.

The CCSO has a unique program that could be valuable in all the United States. It is the Citizen's Academy. From cullmansheriff.org:

The Cullman County Sheriff's Office Citizens' Academy offers a different and exciting program unique to our area. Typically, the students attracted to the academy are a culturally diverse group of people including bankers, businessmen and women, housewives, school teachers, retirees, former military, college students, farmers, and citizens from all walks of life.

Participants meet on Tuesday evening once a week for nine weeks. They learn about virtually every aspect of a deputy's job including patrol, administration, dispatch, communications, criminal law, SWAT, crime scene investigations, jail operations, and many other areas.

The Citizen's Academy doesn't limit participants to just classroom training. Students are also given the opportunity to:

Although graduates of the Citizen's Academy are not qualified for daily street duty, they do acquire a better understanding of the Cullman County Sheriff's Office operations and responsibilities.

When sworn officers and the citizenry work together, crime rates are greatly reduced. Cullman County is in rural northern Alabama.

A program like this would be valuable anywhere in the country. Any program that promotes understanding between the police and the residents they serve, is a good idea. Even criminals benefit if they understand the rule of law and the process better.

Many criminals do not know the law, or how it is administered. There cannot be deterrence if the potential perpetrator has no knowledge of the potential punishment.

About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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President Donald Trump addresses a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 at MBS International Airport in Freeland. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

President Donald Trump addresses a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 at MBS International Airport in Freeland. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

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President Donald Trump addresses a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 at MBS International Airport in Freeland. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

President Donald Trump addresses a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 at MBS International Airport in Freeland. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

Rally attendees leave with thoughts on Trump's event

FREELAND Attendees to the Trump campaign rally on Thursday began to leave before the president was done with his 90-minute speech, which ended before 9 p.m.

As they left, they were handed bumper stickers, lawn signs and other supportive gear. Though the event was over, many were still feeling the energy, sending the president off with cheers.

Here's what some of them had to say before they headed home.

"I like a president who is proud of his country and not ashamed of it," said Doug Engwis, of Rhodes, on his way out of the rally. "I like the idea of a president who wants to put this country back on the path of manufacturing leading this world and not getting on plane and apologizing to every country."

Shelly Ross, of Midland, said she wanted to get a couple of assurances at the rally.

"What I really wanted to hear was he was going to continue to make sure the unborn was protected and our jobs were going to be secure here in Michigan and he's still for us as the people and to get that sign that he is still for us, I do."

Clinton Township resident Tara Warner said she attended with her fianc and mother, arriving around 4 p.m. Shes attended many rallies in addition to Trumps inauguration, though she said she usually keeps her political views low key, meaning not many people know her political affiliation.

His rallies are just fun! she said. I feel like Im at Coachella or something.

Lindzy Jackson, Nancy Jo Serna and Ben Serna attended the event together, traveling from Grass Lake. Jackson said it was her first Trump rally but they all left feeling energized. Theyre excited for the election, which they emphasized they will be voting in-person at the polls for.

It was electric, Nancy Jo said about the event.

It honestly felt like family, Jackson said. We all connected in some sort of way.

Jacksons words rang true as two new friends walked out of the event together. Elise Bennett and Christopher Ward said they met inside the rally.

We were happy strangers that found each other, Ward said.

They were both impressed with what Republican senate candidate John James had to say.

I would qualify him as a military cheerleader for the president, Ward said.

Janae Zettle and Connor Robelli of West Branch thought there was a good turnout despite the cloudy, cool weather. Robelli is an employee with the McNally Nimergood Crane, which supplied the crane that hung the American flag on the tarmac.

Trump supports the farming community, Zettle said, adding she works for a dairy farmer and comes from a small family farm. Hes here for the businesses.

Tamera Feldhouse of Elkton and member of America Bikers Aiming Toward Education (ABATE) of Michigan, called the rally uplifting, encouraging. She was particularly moved by the presidents comments about the Edenville Dam and the Soo Locks.

Ive been to the Soo Locks and they need a lot of work. Thankfully, theyre going to get the work they need, Feldhouse said.

She appreciates Trumps stance on schooling, stating her concerns about educating students.

Thankfully, he cares about the future of our young people," she said.

David Langley, of Bad Axe focused, on the presidents comments on the Second Amendment, bringing back jobs to the country and saving Social Security.

It was awesome. I loved it. I wish we couldve gotten more people to come, Langley said. Trumps got the go to push people. I think he can get a lot to swing over to vote for him.

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(The Center Square) A Republican state representative recently scored a legal victory in his fight against a ban on firearms at the Statehouse in Concord.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court sided with Rep. John Burt, R-Goffstown, but stopped short of overturning the ban.

New Hampshire Public Radio reported that Burt filed a lawsuit in response to the ban, calling it an infringement of his Second Amendment rights. In 2018, the majority Democratic New Hampshire House of Representatives enacted a rule forbidding weapons inside Representatives Hall.

While a lower court tossed Burts complaint, the four-member Supreme Court opined that the judicial branch does not have a role to play when internal rules raise constitutional questions.

The case has been remanded to the same lower court.

Burt told WMUR he was excited about the ruling.

It's a huge win for the Second Amendment, in my eyes, the lawmaker told the station.

Dan Hynes, Burt's attorney, said the state Supreme Court did what the lower court refused to do.

They're sending it back to Superior Court, saying, 'You have to hear this case,' Hynes told WMUR. It involves the Constitution, and they said the Legislature does not have the authority to violate the Constitution.

Burt and Hynes feel good about the ruling but are unsure what the lower court has in store.

If we start allowing any state to start dictating what they can do to the Constitution over a 50-year period, a 25-year period, we will start losing the Constitution, Burt told WMUR.

Weapons in the Statehouse has been a much-debated issue for at least half a decade.

The Bangor Daily News reported that depending on which party controlled the House, firearms were either allowed or forbidden.

When Burt and his partymates held the majority, it was legal to walk into Representatives Hall with a firearm.

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Alleged corruption within the National Rife Associationhasnt exactly been a secret.

But thescope ofthe organizations problemsgotnew attentionafter New Yorks Attorney General, LetitiaJames, filed a lawsuit to dissolve the organizationin August 2020.

One of the people the Attorney General namedis Joshua Powell,former NRA senior strategist and CEO WayneLaPierreschief of staff.

Powell was fired from the organization in January. Since then, he published a book:Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia within the Most Powerful Political Group in America.In it, he made some big claims abouthow the organization was run.

He spoke to NPRs Brian Mann about his work there.

The term pour gasoline on the fire is from Waynes lips to Gods ears and was used regularly. If youre pandering to the fringe of the gun movement and you beat it into their head that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are going to jump out of a black helicopter and take their guns and jackbooted thugs are just around the corner, its very easy to raise money off of fear.

What does he make of the groups influence? And what else did he see while he was there?We ask him about that and more.

We reached out to the National Rife Association about this show.

Lets get this straight a self-confessed wrongdoer who was terminated for cause is now glorifying himself, hawking books, and blaming everyone else? The facts are that Mr. Powell was fired for cause after his financial abuse was discovered by the accounting staff at the NRA, says Andrew Arulanandam, managing director, NRA Public Affairs. This is a fictional account of the NRA, period.Arulanandam continued, Mr. Powells words speak for themselves. As recently as last year, he was a full-throated supporter of Mr. LaPierre, the NRA, and its Second Amendment advocacy. Today, he has been outed as someone who abused the NRA for years directing contracts to family members, using NRA money to fly his family to Palm Beach, and other abuses.Arulanandam added, Here are the important points: the NRA is in great financial shape, enjoying record support, and moving on from the cloud of this individual and a handful of other fiduciaries who took advantage of the trust placed in them.

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A new book suggests that President Trump understood the threats of the coronavirus even as he told the nation it was no worse than the seasonal flu. USA TODAY

Opinion: Donald Trump has built his entire political career on sending people into a panic. But ... not when it came to the greatest health threat we have faced in a century.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump explained why he lied to the public in the crucial early days of the pandemic, publicly proclaiming the novelcoronavirus no more dangerous than the flu while privately warning that it was deadly stuff.

I dont want people to be frightened, Trump told reporters on Wednesday.I dont want to create panic, as you say. And certainly, Im not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy.

This, from the president who on Thursday sent out this tweet:

Trumps entire political career is built on sending people into a frenzy, if not a full-blown panic

Whether its Mexicans who illegally cross the border (The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc. drug dealers, criminals, rapists, etc)

... Central American caravans. (Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy [sic]. Must change laws!") ...

...The Supreme Court, if he's not re-elected.(Radical justices will erase the Second Amendment, silence political speech and require taxpayers to fund extreme late-term abortion. They will give unelected bureaucrats the power to destroy millions of American jobs. They will remove the words under God from the Pledge of Allegiance. They will unilaterally declare the death penalty unconstitutional, even for the most depraved mass murderers. They will erase national borders, cripple police departments and grant new protections to anarchists, rioters, violent criminals and terrorists.) ...

...Or the Democrats. (Joe Biden and the radical, socialist Democrats would immediately collapse the economy. If they got in, they would collapse it. Youll have a crash the likes of which youve never seen before. Your stocks, your 401(k)s.).

Trump is a walking, talking, tweetingklaxon, forever blaring out a warning that the boogeyman is at the gate. FDR said there was nothing to fear but fear itself. Trump, meanwhile, warns us daily of the many dangers confronting the average American, from terrorists amassing at the bordertoanarchists invading our suburbs.

But not, apparently, from the greatest health threat we have faced in a century: a global pandemic that has killed more than190,000 Americans and counting.

One that for months our president publicly downplayed as it took hold across America.

We dont want to instill panic, he explained on Wednesday. We dont want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem, scare everybody.

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com.

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