Jamie Foxx finally revealed that the mystery illness that led to him being in a coma for more than two weeks in 2023 was “a brain bleed that led to a stroke.” During Foxx’s new Netflix special “What Had Happened Was,” the 56-year-old comedian became emotional at times, as he admitted doctors still “don’t know exactly what happened” to him, but were able to identify that he suffered a stroke a year ago, NPR reported. Foxx said that on the day it happened, he was dealing with a “bad headache,” and then he was “out,” not recalling anything that happened for the next 20 days. He credited his sister, Deidre Dixon, for realizing something was wrong and getting him to the hospital right away. WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS – Midnight tonight on @netflix Thank you all for the love & prayers ? pic.twitter.com/WkY5rbuUQx — Jamie Foxx (@iamjamiefoxx) December 10, 2024 The Award-winning actor said a “cool doctor in a Los Angeles Lakers jersey” told Dixon that her brother was “having a brain bleed that has led to a stroke, and if I don’t go into his head right now, we’re going to lose him.” Foxx said after the doctors performed surgery, they told Dixon that “he may be able to make a full recovery, but it’s going to be the worst year of his life,” after they confirmed the stroke, but were unable to find the source of the bleed. “Your life doesn’t flash before your face,” Foxx told the audience in the special. “It was kind of oddly peaceful. I say this all the time, I saw the tunnel, I didn’t see the light.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “I was fighting for my life, but I’m here in front of you!” the comedian added, while noting that doctors were afraid “we’re going to lose him” because his vitals were bad. He also reflected on his faith and said it felt like a sign that he wasn’t taking his blessings from God seriously enough. At one point, Foxx led the room in a round of “God is good. All the time.” The reveal comes more than a year after the actor was hospitalized in April 2023 for what, at the time, was described as a “medical complication” by his daughter, actress Corrine Foxx, in a post on Instagram. In Corrine’s original post, she wrote, “From the Foxx Family: We wanted to share that, my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday. Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery. We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers. The family asks for privacy during this time. Much love, The Foxx Family.” Since that time, very little information as to what Foxx went through those weeks in the hospital had been released. Related: Jamie Foxx Says He Will Open Up About His ‘Serious Health Scare’ At Stand-Up Show

Former NFL player and ESPN host Jason Kelce has been cleared in a phone-smashing heckler incident at Pennsylvania State University last month. In a statement on Tuesday, Penn State police said it has closed its investigation and Kelce has been cleared of any wrongdoing after he was seen on video throwing a heckler’s phone to the ground after the person called his brother Travis Kelce a “f****t for dating Taylor Swift,” the Daily Mail reported. “The individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified, and no one has come forward to University Police with a related complaint about damage to personal property,” the Penn State statement read.  In the video that surfaced on X, the former Philadelphia Eagles star was attempting to walk into the Ohio State-Penn State college football game when he was surrounded outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, as The Daily Wire previously reported. It happened during Kelce’s attendance at the game for an appearance on ESPN’s College Gameday, People magazine noted. NEWS: Penn State University police have closed their investigation into the incident involving Jason Kelce slamming a fan’s phone to the ground before a football game last month. Details ?https://t.co/2L2siQCWFk — The Athletic (@TheAthletic) December 10, 2024 One of the people who was walking very close to him was a male college student who pointed his phone’s camera in Kelce’s face and began harassing him. In the clip, the person could be heard saying to Kelce, whose brother is dating the superstar singer, “Kelce, how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?” A second video showed a close-up shot of Jason looking directly at the heckler while he made the comments. In response, Kelce grabbed the phone and threw it to the ground. He then bent down to pick it up before walking away. In a third clip, Kelce could be seen bending down to pick up the dropped phone, at which point the heckler put his hand on Kelce and shoved the former NFL player to the ground. Kelce then stood up and lashed out at the heckler, saying “Who’s the f****t now?” before he walked off to attend the game. The former Eagles star later addressed what happened in the video and admitted that he wasn’t happy with any of what had happened. “Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place,” Kelce said on the show. “I’m not proud of it. And in a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate. And I just don’t think that that’s a productive thing.” “I really don’t,” he added. “I don’t think that it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things. In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have. So, bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule. That’s what I’ve always been taught … even though I fell short this week.” Kelce retired from the Eagles in March 2024. He is a host of the “New Heights” podcast with his brother Travis in addition to working for the sports network. Related: Jason Kelce Breaks Silence On Penn State Heckler Incident

Thousands of couples have participated in the viral listening and not judging trend. They’ll sit down and confess some of their deepest secrets to one another under the strict rule that their partner can cast no aspersions on the behavior. Some of the things couples have said are hilarious, and we can’t get enough of watching their videos. One of our favorite couples, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, decided to try the challenge but with a twist. Instead of simply saying, “We listen, and we don’t judge,” Kevin and Kyra set their confessions to music. Kevin strummed the guitar while he and his wife exchanged truths. And guess what? Their video is hilarious, as usual. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Bacon (@kevinbacon) Kevin Bacon And Kyra Sedgwick Kept Some Big Secrets From Each Other Well, not really. However, the pair is just like any other couple whose behavior might drive the other crazy. Kevin confesses first and tells his wife that he’ll yell at her about leaving drawers and cabinets open when she’s not home. He does this so he won’t yell at her when she’s home. Kyra told Kevin that sometimes she would take Kevin’s clothes that she didn’t like and recycle them behind his back. A horrified Kevin looked back and promised not to judge. The pair went back and forth, singing, “We listen and we don’t judge” between each confession. And in the end, they laughed, and Kyra said, “So getting a divorce. It’s over.” Fans loved seeing Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick looking so in love and accepting of the other’s quirks. One wrote, “You guys are great! And omg, Kevin’s laugh is so funny, especially after the green tote bag! Love it!” Another cheered, “Love this relationship. Long-term marriage with laughter and music! Brilliant!!” You can find the source of this story’s image here.  The post Kevin Bacon And Kyra Sedgwick “Listen” And “Don’t Judge”—Or Do They? appeared first on InspireMore.

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If a recent survey is any indication, significant numbers of American voters are shockingly ill-informed about the reality of gun violence. The survey—conducted by RMG Research Inc. on behalf of the Napolitan News Service—asked registered voters whether they believed that school shootings or gang violence led to more gun deaths every year. A staggering one-third (35%) of respondents blamed school shootings for more gun deaths, while an additional 11% were unsure which factor bears more responsibility for fatal gun violence.  That’s a problem. First, it’s clear that gun control groups are leading Americans to both greatly overestimate just how often school shootings occur and underestimate just how safe the nation’s students and teachers are when it comes to gun violence on campus. Despite the enormous and understandable media attention garnered by shootings on school campuses, those events are far too rare to plausibly constitute a leading cause of gun deaths. That’s true even when using the intentionally overbroad definitions of “school shooting” that many gun control groups have pushed in recent years to inflate the number of school shooting deaths. Take, for example, the database of “gunfire on school grounds” compiled by the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety, which includes within its parameters any discharge of a firearm that occurred on property owned by any educational organization, at any time of day, and under any set of circumstances. According to that database, in 2023, 45 people died as a result of a gun being fired on school grounds. While all 45 of those deaths are tragic in their own right, they amount to less than 1/10 of 1% of the more than 46,000 Americans who, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died from gunshot injuries that year. That’s all the more remarkable, given the number of people on a school campus on any given day. Nearly 55 million students attend the nation’s 115,000 private and public K-12 schools, which employ millions more teachers, administrators, and staff members. Combine that with the 19 million students enrolled in more than 3,500 degree-granting colleges and universities (as well as their 3 million employees), and well over 90 million Americans—more than a quarter of the entire population—spend significant portions of their waking hours on or around property owned by an educational facility. Moreover, many of these 45 deaths occurred under circumstances that bear shockingly little resemblance to a “school shooting,” as ordinary Americans commonly understand that phrase. Everytown’s death tally includes suicides, unintentional discharges, and legal interventions, as well as numerous cases in which adult suspects fatally shot adult victims during criminal confrontations that just happened to take place on property owned by a school district, college, or university. Many times, no one involved in the shooting was affiliated with the school, and no one affiliated with the school was ever endangered. A significant number of the fatal shootings happened well outside of classroom hours—overnight, on weekends, or during times when the school otherwise wasn’t in session and no students or staff members were present. Perhaps no incident included as “gun death on school property” could better exemplify how unmoored these numbers are from any true measure of student safety than the lone death on a K-12 campus in Georgia in 2023. A man with a history of domestic violence kidnapped his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend at gunpoint from a restaurant. He led police on a high-speed car chase into a neighboring county before officers used a precision immobilization technique (PIT) maneuver to disable his vehicle, which then stalled at the entrance of a middle school parking lot. The man fatally shot the victim during a subsequent shootout with police. It was 11 p.m., on a Sunday night in July. Was this woman’s death tragic and likely preventable? Yes. But it tells us absolutely nothing about the relative risk of gun violence to students and staff during the school day. And, relevant for purposes of the Napolitan poll in particular, Everytown’s death total also includes at least four gang-related shooting deaths that incidentally occurred at or near a school. Two of those deaths, for example, occurred during a January double homicide outside of an alternative educational program facility in Des Moines, Iowa, that prosecutors say stemmed from “rival gang affiliations.” Several other fatal shootings that weren’t specifically labeled as “gang-related” nonetheless involved suspects with known gang affiliations or extensive criminal histories. Second, it’s clear that many Americans still misunderstand just how significant a role gang violence plays in the nation’s overall gun violence problem, especially compared with school shootings. Major jurisdictions that track homicide motives routinely report that substantial percentages of homicides every year are attributable to gang members and gang violence. In 2023, the city of Los Angeles identified 154 of the year’s 327 homicides as “gang-related” deaths. That same year, the Chicago Police Department reported that of the 411 homicides in the city for which a motive could be discerned, 148 could be categorized as “gang altercations.” Assuming that three-quarters of these gang-related homicides were, as with all homicides, carried out using firearms (likely an underestimation, given that gang-related violence is more likely to involve firearms compared with other types of violent crime), that would mean that those two cities alone suffered from an estimated 226 gang-related gun deaths in 2023. That’s roughly five times the number of all gun deaths on school property recorded by Everytown’s database that year for the entire nation.   Nor is 2023 unique in this regard. Between 2019 and 2022, the Chicago Police Department reported 943 criminal homicides for which “gang altercation” was identified as the underlying motive. The real number is almost certainly higher, as at least some percentage of the additional 880 deaths for which no motive could be established were also likely gang-related. During that same period, Everytown’s database recorded 173 deaths due to gunfire on school grounds across the entire United States. The fact that so many American voters so drastically misunderstand the nature of gun violence in this country is disheartening. When voters don’t understand the reality of a problem, it’s significantly harder to get them—and policymakers—on board with public policy solutions that actually address the real issues and thereby increase public safety. It’s why we as a nation routinely bite hook, line, and sinker into blanket calls to “just do something” after any tragedy involving firearms. If we don’t understand what’s wrong, it’s easy to be persuaded that anything is a “solution.” The post Survey Confirms Americans Still Shockingly Ill-Informed About Gun Deaths appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Monday’s CNN NewsNight (aka the CNN Thunderdome) sunk to a predictable low as, helmed by fill-in host Audie Cornish, the leftists loons argued Daniel Penny was no different than Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Worse yet, they claimed Penny protecting fellow New York subway riders from Jordan Neely a case of “vigilante action” and exacerbated by, of course, racism. Thankfully, CNN’s Scott Jennings took them to school with a hand-drawn chart that Penny is a “good guy” and Mangione the “bad guy.” “[L]et me just help you understand,” Jennings began as he introduced a handy chart to Cornish. “If you’re on the American left tonight, here’s my chart. The good guys today — Daniel Penny. The bad guys — Luigi Mangione.” Cornish clutched her pearls, wondering “what’s the chart for victims” in reference to Neely and Thompson as though the circumstances of their deaths were the same.     Jennings wasn’t having it, declaring he’s “just telling you what I see out in the world today” that “[i]t seems to me everybody on the left...seem to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.” The former NPR host played dumb by insisting she’s wasn’t “actually asking...about people on the left.” “I want to know whether you think that as Congressman [Eli] Crane does, that Daniel Penny should get the Congressional Gold Medal to recognize his heroism,” she asked. Jennings quipped “he ought to get a medal” in addition to “a statue...in New York City.” Far-left Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Solomon Jones injected the race angle to the Neely case, which Jennings promptly ripped apart (click “expand”): JONES: I think that race — and I’m going to say it. I’m going to say it the dreaded R-word. Race place a role in this, right? And so, we see it — JENNINGS: Does it? JONES: — yes, absolutely — VILLALONA: Yes, yes. JONES: — because statistics say that —  JENNINGS: Wasn’t there — wasn’t there a similar case in New York City — JONES: — statistics — wait a minute — JENNINGS: — at the same time that this was going on? JONES: — statistics say that when people kill people who are white, they tend to get harsher sentences  JENNINGS: Do they? JONES: —especially if they’re people of color. JENNINGS: What about the Jordan Williams case? What about the Jordan Williams case? JONES: That always — VILLALONA: Whoa, whoa, whoa — JONES: — okay, that is — VILLALONA: — Scott, Scott, Scott — JONES: — what happens in our criminal justice system.  VILLALONA: — first of all — JONES: No, I’m not going to stop because race absolutely plays a role in this. JENNINGS: I didn’t ask you to stop. I said — VILLALONA: — some of the witnesses — JENNINGS: — I said — what about the Jordan Williams case here in New York? Same situation, African American gets on a subway, ends up killing a guy. Grand jury tosses it out at the exact same time as the Penny case. Longtime Democratic Party strategist Hilary Rosen actually agreed with Jennings and Aidala and described this tragedy as “not a left-right issue” but “the right decision” and the blasted the insinuation of racism because “were multiple witnesses that were people of color” (including someone who  assisted Penny) as well as on the jury. Jones tried to interject, but Rosen pointed out Neely “was still alive when the paramedics got there and they ended up delaying their attention to him because they were afraid he might be dangerous[.]” Rewinding to earlier in the show, Cornish’s tease for the first of two segments on this gross comparison spelled doom: “Plus, some MAGA allies are celebrating the verdict of Daniel Penny, a former Marine acquitted for choking to death a mentally ill homeless man on the subway.” Dr. Jeff Gardere said the Thompson murder was a result of “this last presidential election, where hate is allowed to be an impetus, to support certain people and certain causes,” which led longtime NYC attorney and frequent cable TV guest Arthur Aidala to tee, off saying it’s not “fair” to “be correlating an execution and assassination with the election of President Trump”     “I never said that, Arthur. What I did say is that there has been a lot of hate and there has been divisiveness from this particular presidential election, and we see this happening on both sides where hate separates people,” Gardere replied. Cornish backed him up, disingenuously arguing Trump’s only part of the equation because a reporter asked Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) about the first Trump assassination attempt during a Monday night presser about Mangione’s arrest. Filling in for the devoutly partisan Phillip, Cornish knew when to lob the incendiary rhetoric given her past at NPR by directly tying Penny and Mangione. With Jennings still a segment away, Aidala thankfully stepped in to argue with Cornish. Also in this blow-up, Gardere threw out the word “vigilante” to describe Penny (click “expand”):     CORNISH: I’m going to phrase it slightly differently, and you guys can tell me if I’m completely wrong in saying it this way. You know, later in the night, we’re also going to talk about Penny and the verdict there. There you also have a victim who somebody determined did not deserve to continue living, right? AIDALA: No. No No. No. No. CORNISH: Yes. Tell me. Tell me which vigilante action is okay. AIDALA: One is — one being proactive, right? So, this kid who executed someone, executed a guy walking away from him, shot him in the back, shot him in the — for no reason, whatsoever. Daniel Penny is a hero. You can say anything you want. Talk to people who ride the subway every day, because I do all the time. I do all the time. CORNISH: Okay, so let me bring in — AIDALA: I can’t find anyone who rides the subway who’s unhappy about this verdict. CORNISH: — I’m going to bring — well, that doesn’t sound any more pleasant than what we’re hearing from — but here’s an ICU nurse commenting on Reddit saying, “honestly, I’m not wishing anyone harm, but when you’ve spent so much time and made so much money by increasing the suffering of the humanity around you, it’s hard for me to summon empathy that you died. I’m sure someone somewhere is sad about this. I’m following his lead of indifference.” This is so specific and it’s from someone in the healthcare industry. I don’t know. I’m just trying to make sense of it. GARDERE: And — and it’s — and what’s happening in our society is there is this lack of empathy. And, Arthur, again, it is because we allow this to happen. CORNISH: But she says it doesn’t come from nowhere, right? GARDERE: Right, exactly. CORNISH: She’s making a justification. GARDERE: And — and people feel disaffected. They feel very angry. They feel cheated. They feel that there’s no way that they can participate in the system in a fair way and I think that’s a lot of what’s happening. Now, if we had more empathy with this situation, with this alleged killer of the CEO, we would say, this is a tragedy for the person who died. This is a tragedy for the family of this person who’s the alleged killer because there may be some mental health issues, some other things happening and it’s also a tragedy that that person on the subway was killed. AIDALA: Of course. Of course, no — no — I was with — CORNISH: It didn’t sound like a chorus, Arthur. AIDALA: — I was with Daniel Penny this afternoon. You don’t think he regrets what took place? Absolutely. He took — when they grabbed him right after it happened, he didn’t even know someone was dead, let alone did he mean to kill anybody, and the jury of 12 people who heard all the evidence — CARDERE: — I hear you, Arthur —  AIDALA: — unlike all of us here, found the same thing. GARDERE: — but people should not be celebrating something that appeared to be or may have been a — an action, whether out of defense, whether helping, but seen as vigilante and saying, well, that’s good.  With the v-word having been deployed, Aidala pushed back and tried to turn the temperature down by admitting it was “a failure of society” that Neely wasn’t taken off the streets and given the help he needed, but reminded viewers that one fellow passenger “said she was shaking like a leaf because she thought she was going to die if Daniel Penny didn’t stand up and do something[.]” The second segment of partisan bloviating commenced with Cornish whining that Penny’s 2023 encounter with Neely “shoved a discussion about race, crime, and urban decay onto the front pages” and “turned Penny, a former Marine, into a MAGA hero.” Things became contentious when Jones whined “it’s not reasonable to kill somebody for yelling” and especially because they didn’t “know his criminal record” or his mental state. In other words, in a vast oversimplification of the situation in which Neely’s yelling was both loud and direct in its threats. So, Solomon, what’s some harmless death threats between passerby on the subway! Having waited patiently, this went right into Jennings’s latest schooling. To see the relevant CNN transcript from December 9, click here.

Unlike Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump isn’t afraid to sit down for conversation with his opposition — and he gave his first sit-down interview since winning the 2024 election to NBC’s “Meet the Press.” And of course, picking at Trump’s plan for the immigration crisis was at the top of interviewer Kristen Welker’s mind. “You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?” Welker asked, to which Trump promptly responded, “Yeah, absolutely.” “The 14th Amendment though says that ‘All persons born in the United States are citizens.’ Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?” Welker asked again. “We have to end it. We’re the only country that has it,” Trump said. “You know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot. One foot. You don’t need two, on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America. Yes, we’re going to end that because it's ridiculous.” Welker continued asking if Trump planned to do so through executive action, which he first offered that they would need to “go back to the people.” Finally, he replied again with “if we can.” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” can’t help but point out the flaw in Welker’s use of the 14th Amendment. “It was written for slavery. It was written because all citizens could vote.” “So the Southerners, the Democrats, said, ‘Well, they’re not citizens, they’re from Africa, so they can’t vote,’” he continues. “If you were born here, even if you were born a slave, that’s what that was about. That was not illegal immigration,” Glenn explains. “We are the only one that has it. And the only reason we do have it is because of slavery. It was a way to make sure the Democrats didn’t just cut blacks out of the vote again. That’s what’s so crazy,” he adds. Not only does Welker not seem to understand the history behind the 14th Amendment, Stu Burguiere points out that she doesn’t understand what the amendment itself says. “‘All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the state wherein they reside,’” Burguiere reads from the 14th Amendment. “That phrase, ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ means that illegal immigrants are not included.” “To be subject of that jurisdiction means that you have to have a basis in the country. So it’s not like you just cross the border and, ‘Hey, I’m now a subject of this jurisdiction.’ You’re a visitor,” Burguiere continues. “Or in this case, a criminal crossing the border. So you would not necessarily get those protections of that 14th Amendment,” he adds. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The acquittal of Daniel Penny on Monday in the subway death of Jordan Neely highlights that justice, grounded in facts and fairness, can withstand media distortion and mob outrage. This case was not merely about one man’s actions but about affirming the right to self-defense and preserving the integrity of the justice system.Penny, a former Marine, intervened to protect subway passengers when Neely, described by witnesses as erratic and threatening, caused fear among those present. Penny’s intent was to de-escalate the situation, though tragically, Neely died. Rather than focusing on the evidence, activists and the media rushed to demonize Penny, casting him as an aggressor without supporting facts. However, the jury adhered to the facts. Witnesses testified that Neely’s behavior posed a threat and Penny’s actions were those of a responsible citizen seeking to protect others.The verdict delivers a powerful message: Americans retain the right to defend themselves and others when lives are at risk.This trial extended beyond Penny — it highlighted deeper societal tensions. Increasingly, high-profile cases are politicized, diverting justice to serve narratives rather than truth. Activists immediately labeled Penny’s actions as racially motivated despite the absence of supporting evidence. Prosecutors pursued charges many saw as driven by mob pressure instead of justice. Such cases undermine trust in the legal system, where evidence — not public sentiment — should determine guilt or innocence.Beyond the courtroom, this case exposes a broader urban crisis in cities like New York. Major urban centers increasingly face disorder fueled by lenient crime policies and weak enforcement. Citizens are often compelled to intervene because authorities fail to ensure safety and order. Penny’s case underscores this grim reality: a private citizen acting to protect others when the system falls short. Should we penalize those who step up to ensure public safety in the absence of effective law enforcement?The mob justice surrounding this case highlights how activists and media narratives can distort public perception. Groups like Black Lives Matter framed this incident as a racial issue and even resorted to threats of violence to pressure the courts. These tactics erode the principles of due process, fostering an environment where guilt is presumed before the facts are examined. Justice must remain impartial regardless of public outcry.While Neely’s death is undeniably tragic, it underscores systemic failures that shaped his circumstances. A repeat offender with a long history of mental illness and homelessness, Neely was abandoned by the very systems meant to protect him. His family, absent during his struggles, now fuels a narrative of racial injustice rather than addressing the deeper issues behind his decline. This approach exploits tragedy for opportunism rather than seeking real solutions.For Penny, the trial’s end brings relief — but at tremendous personal cost. Cast into the national spotlight, he became a symbol of the right to self-defense — a fundamental right that should never be in question. His hard-won acquittal represents a victory for those who prioritize fairness and evidence over mob-driven narratives.This case serves as a wake-up call for policymakers to confront the root causes of such tragedies: the mental health crisis, homelessness, and the erosion of public safety. Cities like New York must enforce laws consistently and provide meaningful resources to those in need. Leaders have a responsibility to rebuild trust in institutions and ensure that citizens are not forced to shoulder the burden of public safety alone.The verdict delivers a powerful message: Americans retain the right to defend themselves and others when lives are at risk. This principle transcends political divides and underscores the importance of justice rooted in facts, not ideology. Properly executed, justice upholds fundamental rights and offers hope for fairness in a polarized society.Daniel Penny’s acquittal represents more than just his personal vindication. It stands as a victory for all Americans who value the rule of law, the right to self-defense, and the integrity of due process. Despite the challenges, Penny’s case reaffirms that the courtroom remains a place where truth and evidence prevail. At a time when the justice system is under scrutiny, that’s something worth celebrating.