Finally Some Good News

Deserter's conviction reinstated!

I can't believe this shit is still going on, nice to see resolution happening.

Someones Clearance Needs Revoked

Apparently, Israel's entire battle plan with regards to Iran was leaked from the US.

I remember when leaking classified materials was a crime.

The problem I have about getting too upset about this is how often we used to catch Israel doing espionage here and against our interests.  Look it up!

I generally support their right to exist and I don't think that Iran having the detailed plans will help them much.

It's like Mike Tyson walking up to you and saying, "I am going to hit you in the face with my right fist."

There's fuck all you can do about it unless you are a heavyweight boxer in your own right.

This Is My Shocked Face

 Bergdahl's conviction vacated.

That asswipe should be hanged, not let off.

There's still hope for justice, but it will be informal and unofficial.

He deserves it.

Quote Of The Day

"The last place you want to find yourself in a self-defense situation is one controlled by blue politicians.  Ironically, these are also the places where you're most likely end up in a self-defense situation."

I keep looking at what the cops and district attorneys in places where BLM and Antifa have been destroying things do.

The savages are let to run free and anyone who tries to stop them is arrested and charged.

No savages are charged if they happen to be arrested.

In effect, burn, loot and riot is legal in these areas.

My only worry is containment.

Keeping this in the blue areas.

The problem is the "sensible" people who move out of these areas can't see themselves as part of the reason that these areas have this problem and they (innocently?) attempt to recreate the conditions where it happens.

Actual, Real, Bonafide Treason

I'm a good enough shot that I am sure I could be on the firing squad.

I'll even bring my own ammo.

Before, I thought him incompetent.  Now I see he's a traitor.

A Prediction

If things don't get headed off and calmed down first... and I hope they do.

Someone is going to start shooting at Antifa.

They will probably shoot back.

If they're shooting at Antifa in a place where the cops are protecting Antifa and arresting (and prosecuting) the citizens whom Antifa opposes, the first shots will be on the uniforms.

Mark my Cassandra-like words.

Another prediction is that doxxing works both ways and do-nothing district attorneys will discover that when the citizenry arms up and decides slit throats they do it wholesale.

I am so happy to live in Florida where sanity is still being clung to tenuously.

Sow Division

This Chicago Times article has a telling line.

"I’d like to see open carry in public spaces by civilians of any age banned."

These are your people Mr Gonzalez.

Are you proud to be counted among them?

You might call people idiots for disagreeing with you, but look who you're agreeing with.

Shame is what you should be feeling.

You're Sure Going To Show...

Whom are you going to show by not reporting for duty, Officer?

You're going to not go to work and show us how crime shoots through the roof while you're gone?

While that may, indeed, happen: that's not my take-away.

"Employee was a no show." means you-are-fucking-fired in every real-world job.

Something we keep complaining about is a general attitude from The-Thin-Blue-Lives-Matter crowd is you can do anything you want without repercussions.

I do notice a high-pitched whine, resembling that of a kindergarten playground, whenever anyone suggests removing immunity from such repercussions.

Qualified immunity is barely older than I am, dating from a court decision in 1967.

You act as if there's no possible way you can enforce the laws or keep the peace without such immunity.  How, pray tell, did law get enforced from 1788 to 1966?

I note, from looking up gun statistics, that crime was also generally lower for the first 178 years of America than the last 53.

So, being accountable for their actions didn't make cops worse at their jobs.

Your contracts and unions keep you from being terminated for this blue flue bullshit, but what you're really teaching us is we really don't need you when push comes to shove.

Think about it really hard.  A riotous looter in suburbia is not a neighbor, or a local, so nobody is going to give a fuck if said looter grows large holes in them.

Dead criminals have a 0.000% recidivism rate.

The right to defend self, hearth and property has been too long subverted by the forces who're supposed to be defending us from the lawless.

These rights were delegated, not abdicated, to professional law enforcement.

What you have been doing lately is telling us we need to recall our delegation and force you to seek honest work outside government.

Your constant resistance to reasonable reform tells us all we need to know about "good" cops.

When you leave us to hang out to dry, we don't give a fuck if you come home alive at the end of your shift.

Dante reserved the lowest ring of Hell for those who betrayed the public trust.  That's where you're headed.

Potential Energy Vs Kinetic Energy

"What is the difference between a brick sitting on a shelf 6' above the ground and a brick that's released from 6'?"

The brick on the shelf has potential energy and the falling brick has kinetic energy.

The value will be the same.

But it's not the same, that's why the labels are different.

The anti-gun argument typically boils down to treating the potential to do harm as actual harm done.

It was refreshing, for politics, that the pro-gun side focused on actual benefits and the lack of actual harm done by owning guns and shooting them.

Where we got speculative was in the "what happens in court if you used X to defend yourself" and not the same "what about the children" arguments used by our opponents.

Until lately that is.

Now I'm seeing the "pro-gun" what about the children argument with regards to safe storage.

It's a fucking minefield to talk about.

My guns are locked up because fucking thieves.  They're locked because I want to keep my shit, not because I fear what a thief will do with them if they steal it.

The has the salubrious effect of also keeping small children's hands off the guns.

Where I'm getting upset from the "pro-gun" side is, once again, the insults and name calling towards anyone who doesn't practice safe storage exactly and precisely like they do.

When they're condemning anyone who doesn't lock up as they demand, they're presenting some tells of their other positions.

The theoretical, potential scenario is a pistol in the center console where a kid from another household was left unattended and found the gun and shot someone.  Blame gun owner for leaving the gun.

Why not blame the gun owner for leaving the child unattended?  Why not blame the parents of the kid for not teaching them to keep out of other people's shit?

An analogy to putting a latch on the kitchen cabinets was made.

I asked around, I know lots of parents with grown children.

You know what I found?

Nobody locked up the poisonous cleaning products.  EVERYONE taught their kids to stay out of the cabinet and to not do the "drink bleach challenge".

Hardly anyone of that age locked up their guns either.  Astonishingly, none of their kids shot anyone and none of their kids friends rifled through the house and found a gun to have an accident.

This brings us to another anti-gun parallel with the "pro-gun" argument.  Blame the innocent minority and their potential harm for the actions of a small minority and actual harm.  Citing an event where a child came to harm that affected you personally makes you no different from the anti-gun mouth pieces citing their own personal tragedies to effect political change.  When it's them, you're against this tactic, when it's you...  Oh, it must be different now?

Why aren't I worried about this horrible danger to children?

Because without the "pro-gun" nannies, gun accidents (including those with children) have been steadily declining for decades.

With steadily declining accidents, demanding in insulting terms that everyone change their behavior to suit the "pro-gun" and prevent a very rare event all it does it provide yet another "even the pro-gun people think everyone should do this" talking point for the anti-gun side to make leaving a firearm unlocked and unattended a crime.

There's a huge difference between pointing out the advantages of securing your guns and demanding that everyone adhere to your paradigm.

Doing Some Research

I've yet to find someone outside of California complaining about open-carry who isn't in a state where open carry is allowed.

I've yet to find someone who lives in Florida who thinks that what happened in Miami was a tragic error that will get guns banned forever.  In fact, everyone in Florida who's posted on it seems to support the event.

Why?

Because we noticed what happened in July.

The people who are insultingly and derisively condemning the open carry event in Miami don't seem to note it.

The cops showed up, guns drawn, tasers out, and assaulted a peaceable assembly of people exercising their rights in a legal manner.

People doing nothing wrong.

Lemme say that again for the people who're slow on the uptake.

PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING NOTHING WRONG.

The reply from the most recent event was, indeed, over the top!

Wanna know something else?

Still didn't do anything wrong.  They've a right to do what they were doing and they were in full compliance with the law to do what they did.

Why is that so fucking hard to comprehend?

Lemme lay out a quote, since you clearly don't understand:

"Just cause you don't understand what's going on don't mean it don't make no sense.  And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good."  M. Muir.

The lack of comprehension about how events led to the open carry event on October 20, 2018 cannot be accidental.  It's a deliberate refusal to read the explanations of the people who were on the ground and participating.  It cannot be otherwise because the people who are refusing to understand have shown, repeatedly, that they are smart enough to grasp the explanations.

When your position is farther away from unrestricted gun-rights than The Miami Times, it's time to rethink your position.

The press called it a stunt, and it was.  It appears to have worked.  The cops behaved.  Nobody got injured, arrested or even detained.  The press coverage was minimal.

The only white people scared by this appear to be people who're claiming to be for gun rights.

Not a single face of the anti-gun crowd has been out there talking about it.  Not even attention-whore David Hogg.  I bring him up, again, because he's local to the event and he hasn't been heard from lately.

If you are more frightened by the open display of firearms than the attention seeking anti-gun spokespeople; it's time to reconsider your position.

The over-the-top reply to the Miami PD's July 24 response has garnered no negative response from anyone BUT supposed pro-gun, pro-liberty bloggers and gun writers.

Another moment where comprehension is lacking is these events were conducted exactly as the people condemning October claim they wish things were done.  Nothing provocative in the clothing, holstered pistols and quality retention holsters.  There's video of the cops coming down on the July 24 event.  People doing nothing wrong and obeying the law were assaulted under the color of law.

And a very vocal segment of the "pro-gun" blogosphere is blaming the victim.

Bravo.

Bravo.

RINO Money Tap Drying Up?

Al Hoffman Jr says no more money to Republicans until new AWB is passed.

Well, bye Felicia.

There's no polite way to say, "Go fuck yourself, Al!"

So...

GO FUCK YOURSELF AL!

Boo Fucking Hoo

"Bergdahl has said he was caged, kept in darkness and beaten, and that he tried to escape more than a dozen times before President Barack Obama brought Bergdahl home in 2014 in a swap for five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay."  -- LINK

First, it was a shitty trade.

Second...  Hey Fuckface, if you'd... oh... I dunno STAYED AT YOUR FUCKING POST then you would not have been caged, kept in darkness and beaten.  Also you wouldn't have needed to escape even once, let alone a dozen times.

Eddie Fucking Slovick did less than you and he got executed for it.

For the record: I'd decided that this thing is a traitor long before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy, let alone won the nomination.  To suggest that it is The President coloring our opinions about it is a desperate attempt to save a fellow traitor from justice.

I'm Not Conflicted

Bergdahl's lawyer says that jail time should be taken off the table to insure that the sentencing is fair?

I am OK with that.

I completely agree that soon to be former sergeant Bergdahl does not deserve prison for his actions.

If we can't find a willing volunteer to carry out the appropriate sentence, I will provide my own gun and ammunition.

We don't even need a squad.

We won't even need the conceit of a blank round.

I suspect that getting the firing party down to a division will be a trick if we accept volunteers though.