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“Here I Am! Don’t Shoot!”

March 14, 2018 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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Originally posted June 12, 2013.

Gun-free zones don’t make you safe – they make those wishing to steal your birthday safe. As Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal notes:

But it’s also worth pointing out that the state of California and city of Los Angeles have among the strictest gun-control laws in the country. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, California’s gun-control laws were the toughest in the country in 2011. Los Angeles’s gun-buyback program has removed more than 11,000 guns from the street during Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s eight-year tenure. The mayor boasted that the city collected 516 handguns, 381 rifles, 226 shotguns and 49 assault weapons just last month.

Load of good all this did on Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI is investigating how the 23-year-old suspect, John Zawahri, came by his firearms. Yet most of the local news coverage has converged on Mr. Zawahri’s troubled home and mental health problems, which neighbors apparently noticed but ignored. Liberals insist that more gun laws can stop these shooting sprees. It would be nice to see some evidence to back up that claim.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West (RIP JB) and Paris.

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