‘The blood bank showed us the eight units of O-negative blood that are left. Only three of the units are designated for trauma patients, though. Any more outbreaks of violence on the streets pose a threat here.’

“Tonight we may be in a very tough situation,” Dr. Dennis said. “Because we’re that short on O-negative blood.”

“There are, of course, many reasons that have nothing to do with violence that could contribute to a blood shortage.  This being Chicago, though, we can mostly rule those out.”

‘Dr. Dennis says the reason for the shortage is the high numbers of victims of shootings and other violent crimes who come to Stroger Hospital for life-saving treatment.

“We see probably an average of between 10 and 15 people who get shot or stabbed every night,” Dr. Dennis said.’

Ten to fifteen shootings and stabbings every night, at one hospital? Baghdad might be safer than that.

This is the city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.  All guns must be registered–and re-registered annually–with the Chicago Police Department … And yet the city is bleeding to death.”

Kurt Hofmann, St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Gun-free-Chicago-is-bleeding-out

Video here:

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/blood.shortage.stroger.2.1057069.html

http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Mayor-Daley-Guns-is-not-the-answer

Mayor Daley: “I understand the situation and I understand. What I’m saying is all of us have to understand that guns is not the answer to problems we see in homes and on the streets of America. It’s just has simple as that.”

The armed intruder, Anthony Nelson, had a 13-page rap sheet -- a number of drug and weapons convictions dating to 1998.

“For a guy who uses the word “understand” three times in two sentences, Daley seems to be the one whose understanding is a bit foggy.

Perhaps he was confused about the question, but when asked “with what can 80-year-old man who walks with a cane best protect himself and his family from a young, fit, armed home invader (and career criminal), who has already illustrated his ruthlessness by firing twice?” a gun most certainly is the answer.”

“Mayor Richard Daley refused to say today whether an 80-year-old Army veteran who shot and killed an intruder will be charged under the city’s handgun ban.”

http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Mayor-Daley-Guns-is-not-the-answer

“As an 80-year-old Army veteran, his wife and great-grandson slept in their Humboldt Park … [Anthony Nelson] busted a basement window … and made his way up winding stairs to an enclosed porch.

“…as the man got off a second round, the homeowner, who had a handgun of his own, fired a single shot, killing the intruder, a police source said. ‘He missed, (but) my daddy didn’t,’ said the 80-year-old’s son, Butch Gant.”

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/05/would-be-burglar-shot-to-death-by-west-side-resident.html

The body of Anthony Nelson is taken away from a home in the 600 block of North Sawyer in Chicago this morning.

Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West

An Arizona Sheriff has told citizens to arm themselves, that the police cannot protect them from Mexican drug traffickers illegally crossing the border.

Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West: “You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125737965

“New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a notorious anti-gunner — doesn’t want you armed, but uses special favors to keep his guards armed.

The billionaire founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns keeps a vacation mansion on the sun soaked island of Bermuda. According to the New York Times, when Bloomberg visits the island he is escorted by at least two taxpayer paid New York City police officers.

Bloomberg has made special arrangements with the Bermudan Government to permit his protective detail to remain armed, despite the strict gun control laws which don’t even permit police in Bermuda to carry guns.”

http://www.nationalgunrights.org/

“President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.

Obama will also request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement activities, they said.”

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/25/4354786-obama-set-to-send-1200-troops-to-us-mexico-border

“How Do You Keep 2 Squads (24 Marines) Pinned Down? With One 70 Year Old Rifle…the 5.56 isn’t cutting it over there and they know it. The enemy has figured out how to take advantage of this as well.

The M4 and its standard issue 55gr 5.56 works well on PAPER out to 300 yards, but in the field it’s a whole different story. A little bit of wind can change everything with a light pissant bullet like that.”

–Yankeeprepper