Romans 8:31 (KJV)
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”

In these days of trying times when Christians are being attacked from every side, we must always remember that God has everything in HIS control. I felt the need to share with you a story of faith, proving once again that Jesus is very much alive. He not only rose, but he LIVES, and will protect us if we call on his name.

A masked armed robber got more than he bargained for when he entered into Jackie Hagler’s home in Lake City, Florida intending to rob her and her friends at gun point. The 15 women ordered him out of the home through the power of Jesus’ name and lo and behold he ran out as fast as he could.

Here’s the story as reported by

Lake City, FL A masked gunman who attempted to rob a group of women inside a Lake City home Friday night may have got more than he bargained for.

Lake City police say Derek Lee, 24, entered a house on Lakeview Avenue where the homeowner had 14 women over for a jewelry party. Police say Lee was wearing a dark ski cap on his head along with a bandana across his face. He allegedly showed a gun and ordered the women to hand over their money and phones.

One woman who thought it was a party gag pushed his hand aside while laughing saying, “It’s only a water gun.” Police say Lee (pictured, right) held the gun to that woman’s head and said, “I’m not joking, I’m going to shoot someone, give me your money.”

Jacquie Hagler, who owns the house, says she then put her faith into action.

“When I realized what was going on, I stood up and said, ‘In the name of Jesus, get out of my house now.’ And he said, ‘I’m going to shoot someone.’ And I said it again, real boldly,” Hagler said. “Everybody started chanting, ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,’ and he did a quick scan of the room, and ran out the door as fast as he could go.”

Can you imagine the unbelievable fear that surged through this career criminals mind? As I am sure he was used to dealing with violence because he is a previous offender according to the full article, he apparently had never seen or felt the power of Jesus Name like he did this day. Maybe this will be what shines the light on this young man making him a believer.

Lee was picked out of a lineup by several of the ladies from the party, police say. He is also being investigated for attempted robbery at a nearby ATM, which happened just prior to the home invasion.

He was held on $200,000 bond in the Columbia County Detention Center.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” –Ephesians 6:12-16 (KJV)

It seems to me that there is no Constitutional authority for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) or commonly referred to as the ATF. Not only has the administration’s ATF been involved in knowingly and willfully walking 2,500 weapons across the Mexican border resulting in hundreds of deaths at the hands of Mexican drug cartels, but they have now been exposed as majorly screwing up in Wisconsin.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports,

A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia.

Those working behind the counter, however, weren’t interested in selling anything.

 

They were undercover agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives running a storefront sting aimed at busting criminal operations in the city by purchasing drugs and guns from felons.

But the effort to date has not snared any major dealers or taken down a gang. Instead, it resulted in a string of mistakes and failures, including an ATF military-style machine gun landing on the streets of Milwaukee and the agency having $35,000 in merchandise stolen from its store, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.

When the 10-month operation was shut down after the burglary, agents and Milwaukee police officers who participated in the sting cleared out the store but left behind a sensitive document that listed names, vehicles and phone numbers of undercover agents.

And the agency remains locked in a battle with the building’s owner, who says he is owed about $15,000 because of utility bills, holes in the walls, broken doors and damage from an overflowing toilet.

The sting resulted in charges being filed against about 30 people, most for low-level drug sales and gun possession counts. But agents had the wrong person in at least three cases. In one, they charged a man who was in prison – as a result of an earlier ATF case – at the time agents said he was selling drugs to them.

Other cases reveal that the agency’s operation was paying such high prices that some defendants bought guns from stores such as Gander Mountain and sold them to the agents for a quick profit. The mistakes by agents are troubling and suggest a lack of planning and oversight, according to veterans of the ATF, who learned about the operation from the Journal Sentinel. The newspaper combed through police reports, court documents, social media and materials left behind by the ATF, all of which provide a rare view inside an undercover federal operation.

Not only has this department, as well as, the Obama Justice Department lost their credibility with Operation Fast and Furious, but they continually display why they should no longer be a part of the Federal government. These are the same people who will be in charge of implementation of the 23 executive orders that Barack Obama put forth. They are the same people who, should any of the House bills be passed or the Feinstein bill be passed, be the enforcers of those. What could possibly go wrong?

Do Americans actually think giving this agency power to conduct universal background checks is a wise thing? If you are one of those, please wake up and smell what the Feds are shoveling.

Well at least one cowboy in the area has his head out of….. the sand. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, despite being criticized by obviously less competent sheriffs and politicians in the Wisconsin area has stood his ground and told residents, “With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You could beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back.” He has encouraged resident to get a firearm, take a safety course and learn how to handle it “so you can defend yourself until we get there.”

“You have a duty to protect yourself and your family,” he said.

With Federal agents screwing up so badly, or maybe on purpose, who knows at this point, Sheriff Clarke has good sense (notice I didn’t use the word “common,” because I’m concluding that common sense is pretty rare) to recognize that people not only need to defend against criminals, but they may just need to defend from their incompetent government.

“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die, that the protected will never know.”
– Inscription on the wall of a prison camp for POWs

Since Obama took his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, he has not only battered the Constitution, but assaulted America’s armed forces who love America and her laws so much that they are willing to lay down their lives to defend her freedoms.

How does Obama repay them? He cuts their funding, does nothing when hundreds of thousands of our veterans are still awaiting medical benefits, ignores the wishes of the military branches who desired to keep Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in place, sues states such as Ohio to block military votes, complains about taking pictures with our soldiers and calls the killing of four Americans in Libya (two of them former Navy SEALs) a “bump in the road.”

To add insult to injury, Barack Hussein Obama has now supplied the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who has declared war on America, with sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks.

Obama and his unlawful bureaucrats continue their bold-faced assaults, using less than 1.7 percent of the population to attack America’s blood-bought freedoms at every turn – and they are using taxpayer money to do so.

How does a country with a population of roughly 312 million correctly respond?

Look to our forefathers:

“That to secure these rights (derived from our Creator), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence, parentheses added

Love or hate him, Abraham Lincoln was spot on when he said, “We the people are the rightful masters … not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

When doing high school assemblies all across the country (http://www.youcanruninternational.com) I will ask the students in the assembly how many know their Constitution. Many begin to laugh in sheer ignorance. I tell them that if they do not know their rights, they don’t have any rights. I then begin to show them the price paid for our freedoms by our founders and veterans who fought, bled and died to magnify the Constitution they previously laughed at not knowing.

I then ask them how many have grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers and sisters who have fought or are currently fighting for our freedom. About 85 percent of them do, and it hits home with the students. The entire room is immediately captivated with a new love and respect for America and the laws of our republic.

Through the knowledge of the Bible and our Constitution, they also begin to see through the destructive, disrespectful and illegal actions of the current administration.

This city has arguably the strictest gun laws in America. Not a single gun shop can be found within its borders, because they are outlawed. For decades, handguns were banned, until the Supreme Court finally ruled in 2010 that the city gun control zealots were going just a bit too far in their agenda. This city resides in a state the remains the only state in America with no provision to allow private citizens to carry a firearm in public, in clear violation of the Second Amendment. It also was the murder capital of the United States last year. Where am I talking about? The land of Barack Obama, Chicago, Illinois.

But hey, Chicago not only has the above in place legislatively but they also have an “assault weapons” ban and a “high capacity magazine” ban as well and yet they cannot stop their gun violence problem. Wait, I thought all those measures were suppose to solve the “problem.” Apparently, they don’t. Chicago is still combating gun violence that led to more than 500 homicides last year and at least 40 in this first month of 2013, with the latest involving 15-year-old victim Hadiya Pendleton, shot on Tuesday, just blocks from Barack Obama’s former home in an upscale neighborhood!

Thankfully, there are some competent people speaking out. Executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association Richard A. Pearson. According to Pearson,

“The gun laws in Chicago only restrict the law-abiding citizens and they’ve essentially made the citizens prey.”

 

Others want to blame areas with less restrictive laws in neighboring in communities and states for the problem. Pastor, and yes I use the term loosely, Ira. J. Acree said, “Chicago is like a house with two parents that may try to have good rules and do what they can, but it’s like you’ve got this single house sitting on a whole block where there’s anarchy.”

Actually, all around Acree are people that should be following the law (ie. the United States Constitution), not anarchy. He has it, as my friends used to say, “bass-ackwards.”

The New York Times reports,

Lately, the police say they are discovering far more guns on the streets of Chicago than in the nation’s two more populous cities, Los Angeles and New York. They seized 7,400 guns here in crimes or unpermitted uses last year (compared with 3,285 in New York City), and have confiscated 574 guns just since Jan. 1 — 124 of them last week alone.

More than a quarter of the firearms seized on the streets here by the Chicago Police Department over the past five years were bought just outside city limits in Cook County suburbs, according to an analysis by the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Others came from stores around Illinois and from other states, like Indiana, less than an hour’s drive away. Since 2008, more than 1,300 of the confiscated guns, the analysis showed, were bought from just one store, Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Ill., within a few miles of Chicago’s city limits.

Efforts to compare the strictness of gun laws and the level of violence across major American cities are fraught with contradiction and complication, not least because of varying degrees of coordination between local and state laws and differing levels of enforcement. In New York City, where homicides and shootings have decreased, the gun laws are generally seen as at least as strict as Chicago’s, and the state laws in New York and many of its neighboring states are viewed as still tougher than those in and around Illinois. Philadelphia, like cities in many states, is limited in writing gun measures that go beyond those set by Pennsylvania law. Some city officials there have chafed under what they see as relatively lax state controls.

Actually, when you deal with the real numbers there is no contradiction. In fact, if the media and the politicians were honest, they know exactly where the problem areas are and why, but they don’t want to deal with that. They want to infringe on the rights of all citizens for the sake of the few.

Others join Acree in wanting to place blame on those outside of Chicago for the failure of their laws.

“The way the laws are structured facilitates the flow of those guns to hit our streets,” Garry F. McCarthy, the Chicago police superintendent, said in an interview, later adding, “Chicago may have comprehensive gun laws, but they are not strict because the sanctions don’t exist.”

Even the Godfather himself, Rahm Emanuel, stated “Our gun strategy is only as strong as it is comprehensive, and it is constantly being undermined by events and occurrences happening outside the city — gun shows in surrounding counties, weak gun laws in neighboring states like Indiana and the inability to track purchasing. This must change.”

Senior advisor to Emanuel David Spielfogel said, “Chicago is not an island. We’re only as strong as the weakest gun law in surrounding states.”

So what you’re saying is, is that your gun control laws don’t work and that you want to blame those around you for your incompetence in enforcing your unenforceable and I might add, unconstitutional laws, right?

Here’s what I want to ask, where do these problems exist Mr. Emanuel? Where do you have the most issues with gun violence Mr. Acree? Can you put your finger on the problem areas of your city Police Superintendent McCarthy? I’ll answer. Better yet, I’ll let the racist Jesse Jackson answer. “Poverty, race, guns and drugs — you’ve got to deal with all these issues, but you’ve got to start somewhere,” Jackson said.

OK, stop blaming those around you that have lesser restrictions on Constitutional rights, which should have no restrictions on them and start dealing with the areas where these things are taking place. I’ll guarantee you, if you actually started dealing with the root problem, you wouldn’t have a “gun problem.” Guns are not the problem. They are a tool to address the root problems, criminals. Strip away your gun control laws, allowing law abiding citizens to own whatever firearms they desire in Chicago. On top of that, send a clear message via radio, TV, and internet that you actually support the Second Amendment, encourage law abiding citizens to purchase firearms, go through training to use them, warn criminals that citizens are armed against them and you will see a drop in your gun violence, at least on the criminal end of things, because law abiding citizens will begin to take care of your criminal element with Constitutional self defense.