Are You Registered to Vote at Your Current Address?

Okay, it’s one month until the national election — probably the most important election in your lifetime. You don’t want to sit on the sidelines watching other people deciding your future, do you?

If you’re not registered to vote at your current address, you need to take care of that immediately! Insider doesn’t want to hear from anybody lamenting the outcome of the races for the White House, Congress, state legislatures and many governors if you didn’t vote.

My longtime pal Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation and chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, was noting in mid-September that, like him or not, Donald Trump has done something almost unimaginable for someone in politics — he’s fulfilled campaign promises. And considering the lawsuits, partisan roadblocks and impeachment efforts that started even before he was inaugurated and the constant haranguing from the establishment media, that’s a monumental accomplishment.

Vote. It’s not just your right; it’s your responsibility. If dead people can vote in Chicago, live people can vote in your neighborhood — and that includes you.

Incidentally, excuses for not voting get no slack. You didn’t really forget. You actually did have a stamp for the mail-in ballot. Your name is already on several lists and the political parties already have your address. Yes, your vote does make a difference. That is, except when you don’t use it.

Got trees around your home? Buy a couple of trail cameras and place them carefully in concealed locations around your house so they can record anyone moving around, front or rear. Check the images every few days and if you see someone who doesn’t belong there, save the image(s) because they might become evidence in an investigation.

I knew a guy who had a short series of steps from one room to an adjacent family room. He created a hatch that pivoted upward from the end of the steps and stored several firearms inside. When the end piece came down, it could be locked in place with a common nail that, to most people, might look like a home improvement project that didn’t quite get finished.

I knew another fellow who hid several valuable hunting rifles inside a wall using the same strategy. This wall was downstairs in his workshop and consisted of a piece of bare plywood with concealed hinges. There was a national forest map pinned to the plywood. The nail also looked like a sloppy mistake.

The guy never lost a firearm.

A Big ‘Oops!’

An Oregon teen is facing serious charges, and likely a painful recovery, after taking a bullet in the buttocks during an alleged armed robbery attempt in Gresham.

According to Fox News and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, 18-year-old Josiah Johnson is facing charges of first-degree robbery, fourth-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree, possession of a controlled substance and menacing. They don’t charge you for “dumb in public” in the Beaver State, however, they do still consider people innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, so we’ll get on with the allegations.

Johnson allegedly grabbed a cab ride in Gresham, for which he provided a cell phone as collateral due to what was reportedly “a long drive.” When the cab got to an intersection in the town of Aloha, which is 25 miles away, Johnson allegedly pulled a gun and aimed it at the cabbie’s head, while yelling something the driver reportedly didn’t understand.

The cab driver seized an opportunity and grabbed the gun. There was a “struggle,” during which the gun went “bang!” That’s when the suspect was hit in the left hip, and the bullet “exited out his left buttocks,” Fox reported.

Neighbors heard the yelling and rushed to the cab driver’s aid. The cabbie threw the gun away. After subduing the suspect, the sheriff’s department was called and deputies quickly arrived. They transported Johnson to a local hospital, he was treated and released into custody, and off he went to the Washington County jail, where he probably preferred to stand.

The sheriff’s department released a mug shot of the teen. For some reason, he wasn’t smiling.

https://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2020-09/1128/138083/MR200915_Man_Robs_Taxi_Driver_but_was_Shot_With_His_Own_Gun_During_a_Struggle.pdf

https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-robbery-suspect-taxi-driver-shot-gun

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