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MemTest86+ is especially useful because you can boot to it, so if you suspect a memory problem is making Windows unstable, you can bypass the operating system entirely and test the hardware from the BIOS level.

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The Stand Your Ground law is most widely associated with the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who claimed he was acting in self-defense.

But as a recent Tampa Bay Times investigation indicates, the Martin incident is far from the only example of the laws reach in Florida. The paper identified nearly 200 instances since 2005 where the states Stand Your Ground law has played a factor in prosecutors decisions, jury acquittals or a judges call to throw out the charges. (Not all the cases involved killings. Some involved assaults where the person didnt die.)

The law removes a persons duty to retreat before using deadly force against another in any place he has the legal right to be so long as he reasonably believed he or someone else faced imminent death or great bodily harm. Among the Stand Your Ground cases identified by the paper, defendants went free nearly 70 percent of the time. Although Florida was the first to enact a Stand Your Ground law, 24 other states enforce similar versions. Using the Tampa Bay findings and others, weve highlighted some of the most notable cases where a version of the Stand Your Ground law has led to freedom from criminal prosecution:

In November 2007, a Houston-area man pulled out a shotgun and killed two men whom he suspected of burglarizing his neighbors home. Joe Horn, a 61-year-old retiree, called 911 and urged the operator to 2018Catch these guys, will you? Cause, I aint going to let them go. Despite being warned to remain inside his home, Horn stated he would shoot, telling the operator, 2018I have a right to protect myself too, sir. The laws have been changed in this country since September the first, and you know it.

Two months earlier, the Texas Legislature passed a Stand Your Ground law removing a citizens duty to retreat while in public places before using deadly force. In July 2008, a Harris County grand jury declined to indict Horn of any criminal charges.

In Louisiana early this year, a grand jury cleared 21-year-old Byron Thomas after he fired into an SUV filled with teenagers after an alleged marijuana transaction went sour. One of the bullets struck and killed 15-year-old Jamonta Miles. Although the SUV was allegedly driving away when Thomas opened fire, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said to local media that as far as Thomas knew, someone could have jumped out of the vehicle with a gun. Thomas, said the sheriff, had decided to stand his ground.

Louisianas Stand Your Ground law was enacted just a year after Florida introduced its law.

In March 2012, Bo Morrison was shot and killed by a homeowner in Wisconsin who discovered the unarmed 20-year-old on his porch early one morning. According to friends, Morrison was trying to evade police responding to a noise complaint at a neighboring underage drinking party. The homeowner, thinking Morrison was a burglar, was not charged by the local district attorney.

While Wisconsin doesnt have a Stand Your Ground law that extends to public spaces, Gov. Scott Walker signed an intruders bill in December 2011 that presumes somebody who uses deadly force against a trespasser in their home, business or vehicle acted reasonably, whether or not the intruder was armed. Before the law was enacted, homeowners could only use deadly force if their own lives were at risk.

In April, 22-year-old Cordell Jude shot and killed Daniel Adkins Jr., a pedestrian who walked in front of Judes car just as Jude was pulling up to the window of a Taco Bell drive-thru in Arizona. Jude claimed Adkins had waved his arms in the air, wielding what Judge thought was a metal pipe 2013 it was actually a dog leash. Jude shot the 29-year-old Adkins, who was mentally disabled, once in the chest. As of May, an arrest had not been made in the April 3 shooting. Arizona passed a Stand Your Ground law in 2010.

In January, a judge in Miami tossed out a second-degree murder charge against Greyston Garcia after he chased a suspected burglar for more than a block and stabbed him to death. The judge decided the stabbing was justified because the burglar had swung a bag of stolen car radios at Garcia 2013 an object that a medical examiner at a hearing testified could cause serious harm or death. The judge found Garcia was well within his rights to pursue the victim and demand the return of his property.

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This is the same position our Founding Fathers held; the same position they all supported with their signatures when signing the Declaration of Independence, which says:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

It is crucial to note two things in this portion of the Declaration: 1. Thomas Jefferson sourced our rights in our Creator, not in government or in a majority vote of the population. 2. Jefferson sourced governments power in the people.In other words, governments possess powers, not rights, and the U.S. government only has power because the people lend it a portion of the authority that they possess by birth.

And the authority which the people lend government never communicates permission to infringe on the rights with which the people were endowed. (This is why James Madison used Federalist 46 to stress that ultimate authorityresides in the people alone.)

Enter Marty Daniel of Daniel Defense. Marty told Breitbart News that the Second Amendment must be protected because it is sourced in our Creator. He juxtaposed Second Amendment rights with the gospel and said that he views it as his job to protect both because both flow to us from God.

Marty said, We are in business, we believe, to be a supporter of the gospel. And, therefore, a supporter of the Second Amendment. In other words, not only do we have these Second Amendment rights because God gives them to us but also the gospel. Marty went on to stress his conviction that Daniel Defense [supports] the freedom of the gospel by supporting the Second Amendment.

It is interesting to note that President Donald Trump struck a similar tone when speaking to the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on April 28. Trump said, Freedom is not a gift from government, freedom is a gift from God.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and thehost of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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Chris W. Cox 11:04 p.m. CT April 29, 2017

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After eight long years, we once again have a president who respects and cherishes individual freedom. For Americas law-abiding gun owners, the Trump administration is proving to be among the best in history. So its important to take stock of all he has accomplished on behalf of the Second Amendment in a very short time.

Thanks to President Trump, we are now back to having a 5-4 pro-gun majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. He appointed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, which means the Department of Justice will return to focusing on prosecuting violent criminals instead of targeting law-abiding gun owners. In Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Trump has appointed a man who is firmly committed to protecting hunting and shooting as priority uses on our public lands. In fact, Zinke repealed one of Barack Obamas most egregious anti-gun policies on his very first day on the job.

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Ultimately, politicians are judged on whether they keep their promises. For law-abiding gun owners, Trump has kept his promises, after running as the most pro-Second Amendment candidate in history.

Soon after his inauguration, the president nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Justice Gorsuch believes in interpreting the law as the Framers intended. He will follow the example of Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in the most important Second Amendment decision in modern history, District of Columbic v. Heller. That case reaffirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right of an individual to keep a firearm in their home for self-defense. Neil Gorsuch will protect that right.

Sessions will restore the rule of law to the Justice Department. As our nations chief law enforcement officer, he will work vigorously to respect individual freedoms of American citizens while making our communities safer by cracking down on violent criminals.

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Trump also made good on his promise when he nominated Zinke to lead the Interior Department. Zinke, a former Navy Seal and avid outdoorsman, repealed the Obama administration's ban on lead ammo on federal land on his first day in office. He knows that Americas sportsmen and women are critical to conservation and understands that management decisions must recognize the importance of hunting, shooting, and other traditional uses on public lands.

Trump has also acted to protect the self-defense rights of Social Security beneficiaries, repealing an eleventh-hour Obama rule that banned them.

For all he has accomplished, there is still a lot of work to do. Our fight is not over. But in Trump, we now have a president who truly believes in individual freedom.

Chris W. Cox is executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.

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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant addresses a small crowd at a college leadership event during the National Rifle Associations annual convention in Atlanta on Saturday, April 29, 2017. (Photo: Jared Morgan/Guns.com)

ATLANTAMississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Saturday urged a small group of college students and others to take up arms in defense of the Second Amendment.

If you think the left isnt coming for your guns, look at Australia, he said. The only thing the left is upset about, the only thing they fear is the Second Amendment.

His remarks came at a college leadership forum during the National Rifle Associations annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.

Mississippi has traditionally been a strong gun rights state, but last year Bryant signed a bill allowing permitless carry there. Bryant, a former deputy sheriff, also touted his own gun ownership.

If theres an active shooter at the capitol, Im not going to hide behind my desk, Bryant said. Im going to put some led down range on someone.

Bryant slammed liberals for trying to control gun legislation.

They believe that somewhere they can tell us what to do, Bryant said, adding that liberals want a bureaucracy of control.

That control extends to college campuses, Bryant said, ribbing Greek literature and music appreciation majors he said are the ones most likely to come out to riot.

They wont take away Second Amendment rights, Bryant said. We will not go quietly into the night.

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