Posted August 18, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Having a gun isn’t enough.

If you own a firearm, you also need to be trained in how to use it. Note, I said how you use it, not just how to operate it. While learning how to operate a firearm is important, actually using a gun goes far beyond that. It also means knowing how and when to deploy a firearm.

Part of that is to learn how to identify actual threats.

In Arkansas, a woman is under fire (no pun intended) for holding four fundraising teens at gunpoint. The fact that she was white and all four were black isn’t helping matters, either.

The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested and charged with assault several days after police say she pulled a gun on four black teenagers who were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team.

Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened Aug. 7. Police responding to reports of “suspicious persons” found the four children on the ground, with Jerri Kelly, who is white, standing over them holding a gun, Memphis TV station WMC reported.

The officer let …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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