When you surf, sometimes you trip over a Great White Shark.
Not sure how I got here from there ...not sure WHAT I got here! But if the Great White Shark is to be believed... (GET OFF THE BEACH!)
... there are actual protocols for spanking
Anatomy of a Basic Discipline Correctional Spanking Absolutely NEVER Spank Above the Peek
CONSENTING ADULTS Skin ONLY
Saturday, May 13, 2017
THIS IS: "What the heck is a tyrannifile?"
H/T: The Hobo Brasser (No, don't try to look him up) who actually researched the term:
Apparently, it's an "In Thing" term for "The Neocon Left"
I'm shaking my head.
Not because this is too Au Courant "Leftist" for me ... but because my friend actually looked it up .. and found the answer.
I had always thought better of him.
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Apparently, it's an "In Thing" term for "The Neocon Left"
The faux-left love to label the genuine left as ‘apologists for dictators’ ’Stalinists’ ‘or tyrannophiles’.
But when it comes to apologisingn (sic) for tyrants no one is more guilty than neocons and the faux-left.
I'm shaking my head.
Not because this is too Au Courant "Leftist" for me ... but because my friend actually looked it up .. and found the answer.
I had always thought better of him.
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The thought which frightens me is, that the machines all-too-often ARE smarter than me!
On the other hand, the kids that were smarter than me in Junior high School usually got the crap beat out of the by the "dumb" kids who resented their "Holier Than Thou" attitudes.
(There's an aphorism there, but the best thing I could come up with is "Smarmy Smart Kids Shouldn't Try To Lord It Over Tough Dumb Kids")
Needs a little work, doesn't it?
Friday, May 12, 2017
What the heck is a "Tyrranophile"?
Maloney’s Stupid ‘Smart Gun’ Bill an Unintended Gift to Gun Owners | Oath Keepers:
Maloney's proposition that ALL firearms must be "Retrofitted" to apply "Smart-Gun Technology" is the purest political polyglotism
It is a twice-told tale full full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Because it shows Maloney for the sick tyrranophile that she is. It takes away the arguments that gun owner rights advocates are “paranoid” and that “No one wants to take your guns.”I pride myself on my vocabulary, but when David Codrea calls Maloney a "Tyrranophile" I admit that I'm just guessing:
Tyrannosaurus Rex ["Tyrant Lizard King"?] is the king of cretaceous-era carnivorous monster "Tyrant" lizard, and "Phile" is "one who loves" so I assume that this makes Carolyn Maloney a tyrant lover.Having said all that:
Maloney's proposition that ALL firearms must be "Retrofitted" to apply "Smart-Gun Technology" is the purest political polyglotism
It is a twice-told tale full full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
To Protect Me, I Can't Close My Garage Door
I came home from a day at the range, opened my garage door with the remote in my car, and moved all my gun gear into the garage. When I had everything in the right place, I pushed the inside-the-garage mounted controller to close the garage door. Nothing happened.
So I went to the (exterior) frame-mounted, coded controller on the outside of the garage, entered my four-digit code, and waited. Nothing. Tried it four more times, being VERY careful to ensure that I used the correct code.
Nothing.
So I went back to my car, entered the four-digit code to unlock the car door (it worked), and used the same in-car remote to close the garage door ... you know, the one I had use to OPEN the door.
Nothing.
I got my landlord to come over. He couldn't get it to work with his remote, either.
Finally, we physically disengaged the garage door opener mechanism from the garage door, manually closed the garage door, manually pulled it down. And manually locked it.
That all occurred three weeks ago.
My landlord has been in touch with the GENIE people; this week they gave him instructions how to test the garage door opener. Everything they tried, doesn't work. Finally, they decided that the mother-board was fried. They promised to send a replacement. They're a little bit backed up, so it will take a couple of weeks to get one to him.
So the replacement mother-board for the garage door opener will be here late this month.
My landlord was careful to inform me that it won't actually be REPLACED, let alone tested, that soon.
I told him .. that's okay. I can move my gun gear from the driveway to the garage through the patio doors; it's not convenient, but I can get it 'off the street'. And I'm confident that nobody will be able to get into my garage in the meantime.
That's very comforting. Nobody can get at my stuff.
On the other hand .. neither can I, unless I go through a lot of physical 'stuff' that takes a lot of time and inconvenience.
OH and by the way: I'm a widower.
I live alone. Nobody gets inside my home unless I let them in; my landlord and I have the only keys.
Tell me how it protects the children (there are none here) if I don't lock up my guns where I can't access them quickly. And how does any state mandate firearms maintenance laws when they don't apply to every home situation?
H/T David Codrea
So I went to the (exterior) frame-mounted, coded controller on the outside of the garage, entered my four-digit code, and waited. Nothing. Tried it four more times, being VERY careful to ensure that I used the correct code.
Nothing.
So I went back to my car, entered the four-digit code to unlock the car door (it worked), and used the same in-car remote to close the garage door ... you know, the one I had use to OPEN the door.
Nothing.
I got my landlord to come over. He couldn't get it to work with his remote, either.
Finally, we physically disengaged the garage door opener mechanism from the garage door, manually closed the garage door, manually pulled it down. And manually locked it.
That all occurred three weeks ago.
My landlord has been in touch with the GENIE people; this week they gave him instructions how to test the garage door opener. Everything they tried, doesn't work. Finally, they decided that the mother-board was fried. They promised to send a replacement. They're a little bit backed up, so it will take a couple of weeks to get one to him.
So the replacement mother-board for the garage door opener will be here late this month.
My landlord was careful to inform me that it won't actually be REPLACED, let alone tested, that soon.
I told him .. that's okay. I can move my gun gear from the driveway to the garage through the patio doors; it's not convenient, but I can get it 'off the street'. And I'm confident that nobody will be able to get into my garage in the meantime.
That's very comforting. Nobody can get at my stuff.
On the other hand .. neither can I, unless I go through a lot of physical 'stuff' that takes a lot of time and inconvenience.
Now: please tell me how the same technology that can't get my garage opener to operate in less than six weeks will help me to defend myself and my home if my firearms uses the same technology 'to protect me'?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rep. Maloney Introduces Legislation to Reduce Gun Deaths, Make Guns Safer | Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney: May 8, 2017 Press Release WASHINGTON —In an effort to improve gun safety, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) has reintroduced The Handgun Trigger Safety Act, forward-thinking legislation to use new and emerging technology to prevent gun deaths. The bill would promote the development of new “smart gun” technology that only allows an authorized user to fire a gun. It would also mandate that all newly manufactured handguns use this technology within five years, and that existing handguns be retrofitted with this technology within ten years. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will introduce a companion version in the Senate.
OH and by the way: I'm a widower.
I live alone. Nobody gets inside my home unless I let them in; my landlord and I have the only keys.
Tell me how it protects the children (there are none here) if I don't lock up my guns where I can't access them quickly. And how does any state mandate firearms maintenance laws when they don't apply to every home situation?
H/T David Codrea
Monday, May 08, 2017
'Training Day'
'Training Day' Stunt Costs Florida Sheriff's Deputy His Job - NBC News:
... I've actually seen people doing this sort of shenanigans, during training session. It looks like they're playing "Octopus" and the don't have control of their gun.
I have called their attention to it, and their response is "Huh? What do you mean? I don't do that When do I do that?!"
Usually it's during the "Unload and Show Clear" phase of a stage. I don't know of they are trying to put some "Style" into their routine or they are really that disjointed from reality. They look like a dude, shooting his cuffs to show off his French cuff-links after donning a too-tight Italian-cut suit.
All I want them to do is to remove their magazine, rack the slide to eject any chambered round, the point the gun safely down range and pull the trigger to drop the hammer. That proves that there is no live round left in the chamber.
Then ... holster the damn gun!
Is that too much to ask?
Instead they point their gun toward the sky at shoulder height or higher, shift their grip so their thumb is above the trigger guard, waggle the muzzle a couple of times while they try to find the mag release, push the button and drop the magazine.
In the meantime, their muzzle is pointed about eighty degrees above horizontal. broke the 180!
I honestly don't know where they learned this shit, but I can't break them of their bad habits in the less than a half-hour of personal training which is devoted to them, in a large class.
I suppose I could shame them, but Damn! I've seen GrandMasters point their gun into the sky when loading and unloading. (No, I didn't DQ them, either.)
(sigh) I guess the only thing I can do is to actually go to the next match, get squadded with them, and the next time they pull this shit .. DQ them.
NOT the best solution; other than some bad habits (which I failed to break them of, although I did bring it to their attention); I have long decided that the best thing was NOT to break their spririt; let them go to a match and allow the Range Officer on the first stage where they pull this shit to DQ them.
Then they will say: "Oh, I did the same thing on my INTRO TO USPSA class, and I didn't get DQ'ed.
Upon which opportunity, the RO will say: I'm not trying to keep you in The Sport; I'm trying to run a safe range. You're not safe, and you are SOOOOoooo out of here~!"
I'm not perfect.
Nobody is.
Well, except for the Range Officers during an actually match.
MAY 08 A Florida sheriff's deputy loses his job after he allegedly reenacted a scene from the 2001 movie "Training Day," starring Denzel Washington as a corrupt detective.(Waving his gun, waving his arms, acting erratically ...)
... I've actually seen people doing this sort of shenanigans, during training session. It looks like they're playing "Octopus" and the don't have control of their gun.
I have called their attention to it, and their response is "Huh? What do you mean? I don't do that When do I do that?!"
Usually it's during the "Unload and Show Clear" phase of a stage. I don't know of they are trying to put some "Style" into their routine or they are really that disjointed from reality. They look like a dude, shooting his cuffs to show off his French cuff-links after donning a too-tight Italian-cut suit.
All I want them to do is to remove their magazine, rack the slide to eject any chambered round, the point the gun safely down range and pull the trigger to drop the hammer. That proves that there is no live round left in the chamber.
Then ... holster the damn gun!
Is that too much to ask?
Instead they point their gun toward the sky at shoulder height or higher, shift their grip so their thumb is above the trigger guard, waggle the muzzle a couple of times while they try to find the mag release, push the button and drop the magazine.
In the meantime, their muzzle is pointed about eighty degrees above horizontal.
I honestly don't know where they learned this shit, but I can't break them of their bad habits in the less than a half-hour of personal training which is devoted to them, in a large class.
I suppose I could shame them, but Damn! I've seen GrandMasters point their gun into the sky when loading and unloading. (No, I didn't DQ them, either.)
(sigh) I guess the only thing I can do is to actually go to the next match, get squadded with them, and the next time they pull this shit .. DQ them.
NOT the best solution; other than some bad habits (which I failed to break them of, although I did bring it to their attention); I have long decided that the best thing was NOT to break their spririt; let them go to a match and allow the Range Officer on the first stage where they pull this shit to DQ them.
Then they will say: "Oh, I did the same thing on my INTRO TO USPSA class, and I didn't get DQ'ed.
Upon which opportunity, the RO will say: I'm not trying to keep you in The Sport; I'm trying to run a safe range. You're not safe, and you are SOOOOoooo out of here~!"
I'm not perfect.
Nobody is.
Well, except for the Range Officers during an actually match.
Another Fishing Expedition?
Last week I placed an order with AMMOMAN.COM for a couple of cases of ammunition.
Later, I received a "confirmation email" from someone who purported to be a representative of AMMOGARAND informing me (in an embedded link internal to the email) that my order had been cancelled.
(NOTE: Some of the order was for .30-06 ammunition appropriate for use in an M1 Garand; which made the bogus 'follow-up' seem reasonable.)
Here's the text of the 'error message':
(The underlined link has been deleted and replaced with a 'dummy' text; the link went to a yahoo.com address ..... which seemedsuspicious unprofessional to me.)
Rather than to click on the "CONTACT US" link, I forwarded the email to my original supplier ... Eric at Ammoman ... informing him that I was loath to provide either my Drivers License or Carry Permit information to someone I never heard of, and with whom I had never knowingly done business.
(Eric has has exchanged emails AND ammunition samples to me, and he is a Trusted Contact; I know he would never attempt to do business with me through a 'dubious contact', such as the one I received through the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned media known as EMAIL!)
I told him I still wanted my ammunition order, and that I didn't wanted to deal with them.
"You Deal With It" I told him
Eric responded quickly. He didn't know them either, and strongly suggested that I not respond directly to that link. He confirmed that my order and payment information had been processed, and the full order had already been shipped.
Well, I am old and I'm not that bright, but I had already figured that much out for myself. Kudus for Eric and Ammoman for their concern about my computer security.
Moral: don't be "That Guy". Don't take emails for granted. Only place online orders with people that you trust. If there's a LINK in an email, check it out ... if it doesn't obviously point to a reputable (or at least confirmable) online business address, don't trust it.
PS:
Later, I received a "confirmation email" from someone who purported to be a representative of AMMOGARAND informing me (in an embedded link internal to the email) that my order had been cancelled.
(NOTE: Some of the order was for .30-06 ammunition appropriate for use in an M1 Garand; which made the bogus 'follow-up' seem reasonable.)
Here's the text of the 'error message':
***HOLD*** Status means we don't have your documents***
Tracking information is provided below once order has shipped.
If you have any questions about your order, please Contact Us
*** ID Copy (ie. a Driv Lic, FFL, Carry Permit etc) MUST be on file or sent to process orders! Previous Buyers do NOT have to resend documents unless info has changed.
(The underlined link has been deleted and replaced with a 'dummy' text; the link went to a yahoo.com address ..... which seemed
Rather than to click on the "CONTACT US" link, I forwarded the email to my original supplier ... Eric at Ammoman ... informing him that I was loath to provide either my Drivers License or Carry Permit information to someone I never heard of, and with whom I had never knowingly done business.
(Eric has has exchanged emails AND ammunition samples to me, and he is a Trusted Contact; I know he would never attempt to do business with me through a 'dubious contact', such as the one I received through the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned media known as EMAIL!)
I told him I still wanted my ammunition order, and that I didn't wanted to deal with them.
"You Deal With It" I told him
Eric responded quickly. He didn't know them either, and strongly suggested that I not respond directly to that link. He confirmed that my order and payment information had been processed, and the full order had already been shipped.
Well, I am old and I'm not that bright, but I had already figured that much out for myself. Kudus for Eric and Ammoman for their concern about my computer security.
Moral: don't be "That Guy". Don't take emails for granted. Only place online orders with people that you trust. If there's a LINK in an email, check it out ... if it doesn't obviously point to a reputable (or at least confirmable) online business address, don't trust it.
PS:
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Dirty Harry Fail - YouTube:
(but the smell of feces in the dungarees is not so sweet)
People who don't know how to handle a firearm ought to find some better source of amusement.
(but the smell of feces in the dungarees is not so sweet)
People who don't know how to handle a firearm ought to find some better source of amusement.
Friday, May 05, 2017
Garand
About 20 years ago I bought a Garand at a gun show. I already had a .30-40 Krag and a 1903A3 Springfield rifle (supposedly "Match Quality"), so I thought I ought to bring myself up to World War II in my collection of military rifles.
I ordered a couple of boxes (40 rounds) of 150-grain .30-06 for the Garand. Couldn't find any 165-grain ought-six, so I'll try this stuff out and see how well it functions in the M1.
I'm aware that the Garand really likes what it likes, and poops all over itself if it gets fodder it doesn't like (such as very hot loads, which hammer the whatchamaycallit thingie ... if you know what I mean, you don't care if I use the right terminology. )
(What you DO care about is whether I refer to the M1 as a "gerAND" or a "GARund". I pronounce it as it's spelled; so there!)
SN 3568***
If I'm reading the chart right, the gun was built by Springfield Armory in October of 1944. The gun is older than I am; and that's saying something.
I had originally wanted to buy an M14 (the civilian version, not the select-fire), but the price was out of my league; and the Garand is a by-Gawd real .30-06 instead of that wimpy .308 version. Except that I liked the magazine feed of the M14, and I had trained on them in Basic back in 1968 at Fort Lewis. (And fired a few rounds through the select-fire version in The Land Of Bad Things the following year. CF: the story about The Chief, earlier this month.)
So I need to get some range time in with that rifle, now that I've found some ammo which will probably function reliably and will probably not damage the gun.
Anybody who knows more about Garands than I do, you're invited to let me know if I've made an error in judgement. I really like the Garand; I just haven't fired more than a dozen rounds through it. I have ten clips, which I also bought on the cheap at a gun show.
I even got the oiler kit, the web sling and the canvas gun case that goes with it.
I'm all set for an interesting day at the range. I've not fired a rifle on the Main Range at my gun club for several years, so I've been reading the new 'terms of use' (safety and etiquette). It gets kind of complicated. I like trying new things ... or perhaps better called "old things that are new to me", so I have something to look forward to.
I ordered a couple of boxes (40 rounds) of 150-grain .30-06 for the Garand. Couldn't find any 165-grain ought-six, so I'll try this stuff out and see how well it functions in the M1.
I'm aware that the Garand really likes what it likes, and poops all over itself if it gets fodder it doesn't like (such as very hot loads, which hammer the whatchamaycallit thingie ... if you know what I mean, you don't care if I use the right terminology. )
(What you DO care about is whether I refer to the M1 as a "gerAND" or a "GARund". I pronounce it as it's spelled; so there!)
SN 3568***
If I'm reading the chart right, the gun was built by Springfield Armory in October of 1944. The gun is older than I am; and that's saying something.
I had originally wanted to buy an M14 (the civilian version, not the select-fire), but the price was out of my league; and the Garand is a by-Gawd real .30-06 instead of that wimpy .308 version. Except that I liked the magazine feed of the M14, and I had trained on them in Basic back in 1968 at Fort Lewis. (And fired a few rounds through the select-fire version in The Land Of Bad Things the following year. CF: the story about The Chief, earlier this month.)
So I need to get some range time in with that rifle, now that I've found some ammo which will probably function reliably and will probably not damage the gun.
Anybody who knows more about Garands than I do, you're invited to let me know if I've made an error in judgement. I really like the Garand; I just haven't fired more than a dozen rounds through it. I have ten clips, which I also bought on the cheap at a gun show.
I even got the oiler kit, the web sling and the canvas gun case that goes with it.
I'm all set for an interesting day at the range. I've not fired a rifle on the Main Range at my gun club for several years, so I've been reading the new 'terms of use' (safety and etiquette). It gets kind of complicated. I like trying new things ... or perhaps better called "old things that are new to me", so I have something to look forward to.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
"Practice! Practice! Practice!"
I've elevated my P3AT to my primary EDC because I don't like the difficulty of concealing a big chunk of iron.
Which means, of course, that I need to start practicing with the poodle-shooter.
What to do ... what to do ... what to do?
Bright idea ... I bought a case of .380 from Ammoman (Hi, Eric) and when it comes I'll be spending an extra hour every week working with the "minigun".
It's important that I know the little guy works with the kind of ammunition I expect to run in it. I tried the cheapest practice ammo I could find a couple of years ago, and it fed like a ... well, like a well-oiled machine.
But then I tried some relatively expensive "defensive" ammunition ... and the little mutt didn't like it at all! It acted as if the OAL was wrong (either too long or too short) and I had to manually feed the gun at least once in every magazine. Or it just doesn't like hollow-point ammunition, I don't know.
So forget that!
I'll take the cheap stuff, if it feeds.
I've elevated my P3AT to my primary EDC because I don't like the difficulty of concealing a big chunk of iron.
Which means, of course, that I need to start practicing with the poodle-shooter.
What to do ... what to do ... what to do?
Bright idea ... I bought a case of .380 from Ammoman (Hi, Eric) and when it comes I'll be spending an extra hour every week working with the "minigun".
It's important that I know the little guy works with the kind of ammunition I expect to run in it. I tried the cheapest practice ammo I could find a couple of years ago, and it fed like a ... well, like a well-oiled machine.
But then I tried some relatively expensive "defensive" ammunition ... and the little mutt didn't like it at all! It acted as if the OAL was wrong (either too long or too short) and I had to manually feed the gun at least once in every magazine. Or it just doesn't like hollow-point ammunition, I don't know.
So forget that!
I'll take the cheap stuff, if it feeds.
Into Thin Air .... almost
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Why You Really Should Get A .22lr Handgun
Why You Really Should Get A .22lr Handgun:
But I have other options, and I thought I was cool with it until I decided to invite neighbors out for range days.
Example: I have neighbors who I value (actually, my landlord and his wife) and I have brought them to the range at my local club once ... and I'm in the process of bringing them back again.
SHE is not happy because the ear muffs are too tight and they made her feel uncomfortable> I have no solution other than to provide her with ear spikes ( the inner-ear style of noise reduction technology).
HE doesn't seem to care .. give him a gun, drop a ton of ammo on the counter ... he'll keep shooting until he had no more reloads, and then he'll ask for more. *(my kind of guy.)*
Um ... I could get to like this guy. He has a proper appreciation for the availability of ammunition.
She? I have no idea what I can do to find her fitting earmuffs that won't clamp too tightly around her head. Any suggestions which are not "off the cuff" would be appreciated. I think the problem is that the spring steel binders (for lack of a better word) are generally designed for people who are less sensitive to whatever it is that presses the ear protectors against your head. I'm about to suggest inner-ear plugs, but those are even more uncomfortable for most people.
Anybody have any idea about hearing protection which is .. umm .. "less something that makes you feel like your ears are glued to your head"?
There may be no more pleasing pistol to shoot than a .22 handgun. The shooting is easy and the ammunition is cheap…if you can find any. There may be no better tool in learning or sharpening shooting skill.I agree, and I sincerely regret that I have allowed both of my .22 handguns to go by the way (I sold them for less than they were worth!) because I didn't realize how much I would miss them when they were gone.
But I have other options, and I thought I was cool with it until I decided to invite neighbors out for range days.
Example: I have neighbors who I value (actually, my landlord and his wife) and I have brought them to the range at my local club once ... and I'm in the process of bringing them back again.
SHE is not happy because the ear muffs are too tight and they made her feel uncomfortable> I have no solution other than to provide her with ear spikes ( the inner-ear style of noise reduction technology).
HE doesn't seem to care .. give him a gun, drop a ton of ammo on the counter ... he'll keep shooting until he had no more reloads, and then he'll ask for more. *(my kind of guy.)*
Um ... I could get to like this guy. He has a proper appreciation for the availability of ammunition.
She? I have no idea what I can do to find her fitting earmuffs that won't clamp too tightly around her head. Any suggestions which are not "off the cuff" would be appreciated. I think the problem is that the spring steel binders (for lack of a better word) are generally designed for people who are less sensitive to whatever it is that presses the ear protectors against your head. I'm about to suggest inner-ear plugs, but those are even more uncomfortable for most people.
Anybody have any idea about hearing protection which is .. umm .. "less something that makes you feel like your ears are glued to your head"?
Why do gun control advocates seem like bottom-feeders after mass shootings?
Why do gun purchases spike after mass shootings? - CNN.com:
Don't buy it: Read on.
The Rash.
People keep dying, and gun control advocates keep bottom-feeding on the worst of murders. So why do the anti-gun organizations (all of which are tax-free foundations) keep making the most vocal declarations based on tragedy?
Because this is where the money is.
EVERYBODY denigrates the National Rifle Association (NRA), a self-declared political nosebleed organization which unabashedly survives because of its PACs in support of the right to keep and bear arms .. but nobody talks about the anti-gunner Political Activity Committees which similarly live to provide fodder for it's anti-Second Amendment constituents.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said the association's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
That statement is widely poo-pooed by the Democratic community, but so far nobody has actually found a rhetoric which disproves the polemic.
And the sad fact is ... the Bad Guys With Guns community have nobody who can stop their horrific massacres ... not police, not FBI, not the Army,'
In the ultimate event, nobody stops the Bad Guy With A Gun except for the quiet private citizen who happens to be on the scene, has a gun, and perhaps had the nerve to pull the trigger on the Bad Guy to a well-deserved everlasting hell.
Although that's not always necessary, as we shall see.
We don't see it very often, but we see it often enough to quietly whisper:
"I'm so glad he was there".
Admit it. You said it to yourself, when "The Bad Guy With A Gun" was rampaging his way through a Thursday afternoon shopping mall, and the $6-an-hour mall guards were not to be seen, and the cops couldn't get there in time to stop the shooting, and this one little mouse guy just .... stopped it.
Right there.
It doesn't happen often. Not as often as we would wish. But even once is enough.
Enough to let a mother go home to her kids, and hug them, and tell them "I'm all right".
Enough to let a clerk in an aromatherapy store go home to tell his own kids ... "I'm all right".
Hugs are important, and when you stop to consider that value, think about the clerks and jerks who don't get to go home and tell their children .... "I'm all right"; often it's due to the presence of a Good Guy with A Gun.
..
Clackamas Town Center in December, 2012, Nick Meli pulled his pistol and set his sights on the shooter ... but did not pull the trigger because there were "too many people" in the area, and he was loath to fire downrange, at the risk of hitting an innocent with his fire.
No matter, the shooter saw that he was being aggressively engaged by an armed citizen, and rather than be shot by another he committed suicide by gun ... thus ending the massacre.
After action, Meli declined to exaggerate his role in ending the siege, only saying that he "didn't shoot", but did point his legal concealed carry pistol at the Active Shooter.
That was enough to end the fire. The Bad Guy With A Gun shot himself rather than to face the fire of a Good Guy With A Gun ... whether out of remorse or determination, nobody knows.
No further shots were fired; it was sufficient that the Good Guy with A Gun was present, and actively engaged in the exchange.
So, Silly ass Liberal Commentators ... comment on that.
A good guy with a gun CAN prevail on a bad guy with a gun.
Nick Meli is just one example of what a responsible Concealed Carry person can do to make his community stronger than it was ... yesterday.
You don't even have to scare the children;sometimes you just have to be there, and be bold enough to be willing to do the very difficult job.
"The Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun, Is A Good Guy With a Gun!"
Nicole Hockley lost her 6-year-old son, Dylan, in the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On the day of Dylan's memorial, the National Rifle Association issued a statement about the shooting that left 26 dead, mostly children.
Don't buy it: Read on.
The Rash.
People keep dying, and gun control advocates keep bottom-feeding on the worst of murders. So why do the anti-gun organizations (all of which are tax-free foundations) keep making the most vocal declarations based on tragedy?
Because this is where the money is.
EVERYBODY denigrates the National Rifle Association (NRA), a self-declared political nosebleed organization which unabashedly survives because of its PACs in support of the right to keep and bear arms .. but nobody talks about the anti-gunner Political Activity Committees which similarly live to provide fodder for it's anti-Second Amendment constituents.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said the association's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
That statement is widely poo-pooed by the Democratic community, but so far nobody has actually found a rhetoric which disproves the polemic.
And the sad fact is ... the Bad Guys With Guns community have nobody who can stop their horrific massacres ... not police, not FBI, not the Army,'
In the ultimate event, nobody stops the Bad Guy With A Gun except for the quiet private citizen who happens to be on the scene, has a gun, and perhaps had the nerve to pull the trigger on the Bad Guy to a well-deserved everlasting hell.
Although that's not always necessary, as we shall see.
We don't see it very often, but we see it often enough to quietly whisper:
"I'm so glad he was there".
Admit it. You said it to yourself, when "The Bad Guy With A Gun" was rampaging his way through a Thursday afternoon shopping mall, and the $6-an-hour mall guards were not to be seen, and the cops couldn't get there in time to stop the shooting, and this one little mouse guy just .... stopped it.
Right there.
It doesn't happen often. Not as often as we would wish. But even once is enough.
Enough to let a mother go home to her kids, and hug them, and tell them "I'm all right".
Enough to let a clerk in an aromatherapy store go home to tell his own kids ... "I'm all right".
Hugs are important, and when you stop to consider that value, think about the clerks and jerks who don't get to go home and tell their children .... "I'm all right"; often it's due to the presence of a Good Guy with A Gun.
..
Clackamas Town Center in December, 2012, Nick Meli pulled his pistol and set his sights on the shooter ... but did not pull the trigger because there were "too many people" in the area, and he was loath to fire downrange, at the risk of hitting an innocent with his fire.
No matter, the shooter saw that he was being aggressively engaged by an armed citizen, and rather than be shot by another he committed suicide by gun ... thus ending the massacre.
After action, Meli declined to exaggerate his role in ending the siege, only saying that he "didn't shoot", but did point his legal concealed carry pistol at the Active Shooter.
That was enough to end the fire. The Bad Guy With A Gun shot himself rather than to face the fire of a Good Guy With A Gun ... whether out of remorse or determination, nobody knows.
No further shots were fired; it was sufficient that the Good Guy with A Gun was present, and actively engaged in the exchange.
So, Silly ass Liberal Commentators ... comment on that.
A good guy with a gun CAN prevail on a bad guy with a gun.
Nick Meli is just one example of what a responsible Concealed Carry person can do to make his community stronger than it was ... yesterday.
You don't even have to scare the children;sometimes you just have to be there, and be bold enough to be willing to do the very difficult job.
The good news is that you ARE powerless! (Just so you understand that)
Why do gun purchases spike after mass shootings? - CNN.com:
There is no way to ensure that we have a "safe society".
As long as bad men are bad, and as long as nobody opposes them in their determination to Be Bad ... your people and my people will be victims to their villainy.
You may feel powerless. You have family at risk (and had family at risk) and you never realized that there was nobody ... nobody in the world who could protect your innocent against men who are determined to do evil to your children.
Here's the Bad news; you ARE without power.
The good news is ... oh. There is no "good news". As long as you do not find someone to project power in defense of the people you love, you will never have power.
But I will tell you how to recognize who "the good guys are".
They're the people who not only want to keep your children from being murdered, but they are willing to put THEIR lives on the line to protect them.
Simplistic? Yes.
Does it help you to feel better? No, it does not.
There must be someone, some group of people who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect the people you love.
I don't know how to help you identify these people. I'm sure they 're out there, but you may not be prepared to meet them.''
You will assuredly not find protections from your Liberal friends; they think that your best bet is not to challenge an armed person to help you protect your family.
(CNN)Nicole Hockley lost her 6-year-old son, Dylan, in the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On the day of Dylan's memorial, the National Rifle Association issued a statement about the shooting that left 26 dead, mostly children. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said the association's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.Dear Nicole;
Hockley said LaPierre's comments come from the "false rhetoric" that often follows mass shootings. "How do you recognize who the good guys are?" she asked. "How does arming ourselves with more weaponry make us a safer society?"
There is no way to ensure that we have a "safe society".
As long as bad men are bad, and as long as nobody opposes them in their determination to Be Bad ... your people and my people will be victims to their villainy.
You may feel powerless. You have family at risk (and had family at risk) and you never realized that there was nobody ... nobody in the world who could protect your innocent against men who are determined to do evil to your children.
Here's the Bad news; you ARE without power.
The good news is ... oh. There is no "good news". As long as you do not find someone to project power in defense of the people you love, you will never have power.
But I will tell you how to recognize who "the good guys are".
They're the people who not only want to keep your children from being murdered, but they are willing to put THEIR lives on the line to protect them.
Simplistic? Yes.
Does it help you to feel better? No, it does not.
There must be someone, some group of people who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect the people you love.
I don't know how to help you identify these people. I'm sure they 're out there, but you may not be prepared to meet them.''
You will assuredly not find protections from your Liberal friends; they think that your best bet is not to challenge an armed person to help you protect your family.
Why do gun purchases spike after mass shootings? *What better time?*
Why do gun purchases spike after mass shootings? - CNN.com:
In 1988, my wife and her mother were murdered in my home. The killer was my step-son .. my wife's son by her former husband. After almost 30 years, I still can't get it out of my mind.
He walked into my home while I was at work, pulled a Dan Wesson .44 Magnum Revolver, and shot my wife (his mother) in the head. Her brains were scattered over the cedar panelling wall above the fireplace which we had so lovingly rebuilt.
Her mother, my mother-in-law, was in the kitchen washing dishes at the time. When she heard the shots, she dived for the back door ... but it was locked, so she turned and ran down the stairs to the basement;
dead end.
Literally.
She didn't get halfway down the stairs until her grandson ... "Chad" caught up with her and shot her through the back of her head with his pistol.
She crumpled at the foot of the stairs, quite dead.
I think I can make a case that I have had a family murdered by firearms.
My stepdaughters came home from school, found the bodies there, went to the next door neighbors, and eventually the eldest phoned me at work from my next-door neighbor's house::
So, if I carry a pistol in my pocket at home, when there is no better reason than that "I Should" ... don't call me paranoid. Just because I'm paranoid, that doesn't mean that someone wants to kill me.
He gets out of Prison in a few years, with "good behavior": , and who knows who friends he may have made and who are willing to kill me as the last surviving adult member of the family.
There IS someone out there, who wants to kill me.
I testified at his trial. He probably has "friends". from prison.
I've said this before: I'll say it again, every year..
I'll carry to my dying day, and I don't much care who thinks I'm paranoid.
Oh, yes; there were guns in the home, locked in the closet, and everyone knew where they were, when my wife and her mother were murdered with a Dan Wesson .44 Magnum.
They didn't do any good for the people who didn't know they had to defend themselves against a loved Family Member.
Who can you trust?
Nobody.
Thank you for the invitation. Allow me to introduce myself: I think we need more guns. Because they may possibly stop murderers.
Now a voice for gun violence prevention through her organization, Sandy Hook Promise, Hockley said that the families of mass shooting victims have responded very differently. "I don't think I've ever had a family who's lost someone (in a mass shooting) ... say, 'we need to have more guns available so that we can protect ourselves,' " she said
In 1988, my wife and her mother were murdered in my home. The killer was my step-son .. my wife's son by her former husband. After almost 30 years, I still can't get it out of my mind.
He walked into my home while I was at work, pulled a Dan Wesson .44 Magnum Revolver, and shot my wife (his mother) in the head. Her brains were scattered over the cedar panelling wall above the fireplace which we had so lovingly rebuilt.
Her mother, my mother-in-law, was in the kitchen washing dishes at the time. When she heard the shots, she dived for the back door ... but it was locked, so she turned and ran down the stairs to the basement;
dead end.
Literally.
She didn't get halfway down the stairs until her grandson ... "Chad" caught up with her and shot her through the back of her head with his pistol.
She crumpled at the foot of the stairs, quite dead.
I think I can make a case that I have had a family murdered by firearms.
My stepdaughters came home from school, found the bodies there, went to the next door neighbors, and eventually the eldest phoned me at work from my next-door neighbor's house::
"Daddy, come home ... Mommy is dead!" she said.My wife's SON ... my mother-in law's GRANDSON, murdered them both for no better reason than that he could.
So, if I carry a pistol in my pocket at home, when there is no better reason than that "I Should" ... don't call me paranoid. Just because I'm paranoid, that doesn't mean that someone wants to kill me.
He gets out of Prison in a few years, with "good behavior": , and who knows who friends he may have made and who are willing to kill me as the last surviving adult member of the family.
There IS someone out there, who wants to kill me.
I testified at his trial. He probably has "friends". from prison.
I've said this before: I'll say it again, every year..
I'll carry to my dying day, and I don't much care who thinks I'm paranoid.
Oh, yes; there were guns in the home, locked in the closet, and everyone knew where they were, when my wife and her mother were murdered with a Dan Wesson .44 Magnum.
They didn't do any good for the people who didn't know they had to defend themselves against a loved Family Member.
Who can you trust?
Nobody.
Oregon Senate passes gun-control bill
Oregon Senate passes gun-control bill – KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2: \\SALEM, Ore. – A bill that would prohibit certain individuals from owning “deadly weapons” passed through the Oregon Senate Monday. Senate Bill 719 passed with a 17-11 vote and will head to the House of Representatives for a first reading. Supporters say the law will get guns out of the hands of people who could hurt themselves or others, but pro-gun groups say it violates constitutional rights.Um .. yes. It will definitely allow the State to confiscate guns from otherwise law-abiding owners.
It will also allow disenfranchised family members to wreck their wrath on gun owners that they do not like.
It's difficult to imagine any proposed law which would be more likely to provide a disservice to the public, but the Democratic Senators in Oregon have exceeded all expectations.
This "bill" (soon to become "this law", I have no doubt), serves no purpose but to enfranchise mean people to screw family members that they don't like.
It would/will allow anti-gun politicians to step aside with clean skirts, while they watch families break apart under the guise of law.
The purpose here is to remove firearms from the possession of otherwise law-abiding citizens; it serves the purpose of only those who have no faith in the Second Amendment, to pursue their anti-constitutional agenda while teasing one's own family to act as the agent of The State.
Or at least, unpaid agents provocateur of the politicians who do not like the Second Amendment.
People who love the Constitution will soon discover that this bill, if/when enacted, is the tool for revenge and retribution, serving the purpose only of the disaffected family members with a serious bone to pick.
It does not serve any Constitutional purpose; it does not provide for the Public Safety.
Instead, it enlists the aid of families who feel anger, and gives them a tool by which they can express their ire. They do not need to define the reason why they think their cousin should be denied his/her Constitutional Rights.
In stead, it provides a safe and easy tool to "take down" someone they just ... don't ... like.
In a perfect community we would embrace the various means of expression which the Constitution offers. Instead, in this imperfect community, our own elected representatives have proposed this evil bill which will put one cousin against another, and undermine the rights of one with no need for justification on the part of the other.
We all know sick families; it's no less sick when our elected representatives take advantage of this familial dissatisfaction to further their presonal political agenda.
I had thought that politicians could not possibly sink lower on the scale of humanity.
Well, I guess I was wrong.
Thursday, May 04, 2017
The OTHER "other Reason to Carry a Spare Magazine": Malfunctions
The OTHER Reason to Carry a Spare Magazine | Jerking the Trigger:
I had crappy equipment:
I learned to replace the magazine springs, also the recoil spring, on a regular basis. Mainspring .. not so often.
Why did I do all this stuff? Because I was getting HEAVY usage out of the gun and it's accouterments, and I learned the hard way that if you don't do maintenance, and keep your equipment fresh, a gun that won't function is just a club; and it's too damned short to go you any good.
And I bought a LOT of magazines, and bought magazine springs by the dozens.
Now, you may not be impressed by the way that Competition drove my drive to 100% reliability, but the lessons learned in Competition transfer smoothly to Self Defense.
A gun that doesn't work 100% of the time is a short club.
Ammunition which doesn't feed reliably is suicide.
Magazines with weak springs are suicide.
A gun that jams during a magazine change is suicide.
Your personal inability to perform a magazine change quickly, smoothly and reliably is suicide.
You unwillingness to use your defense gun on a regular basis (at least once a month .. preferably more often) may not be suicide; but if you care enough to consider personal defense a priority, don't you care enough to practice the skills you need?
FIND A TESTING PROTOCOL AND MILK IT:
I just made a date with my neighbor and his wife to go shooting at my local club. They're not "shooters", but they enjoy a trip to the range to shoot my gun and my ammunition. We've done this every couple of years, and it's something which all of us enjoy.
I don't make them pay for the ammunition. I figure, if they can make the guns work every time, all the time, they the guns will probably work for me.
My landlord's wife is a charming lady and very very small. She has a hard time gripping the gun hard enough to make it work. I've got a P3AT which needs to be tested by her, so I can be sure that (weighing 100 pounds more, and 19" taller) it will work for me, too.
The OTHER Reason to Carry a Spare Magazine by Matt on May 3, 2017 in EDC “If you need more than X rounds, you shouldn’t be there in the first place!” “If you can’t solve the problem with X rounds, you shouldn’t be carrying a gun!” “What do you need all that ammunition for?”I started competing in IPSC match in 1983 ... which is perhaps earlier than some readers may have been born.
I had crappy equipment:
- a 1911 army surplus pistol (not a 1911A1 .. it was built in 1918, according to the serial number).
- Army Surplus ammunition'
- Army Surplus holster
- Army Surplus magazines
- Army Surplus ... well, everything was Army Surplus; even the shooter. (ME!)
The first thing I learned was that the way to be competitive was not to be a good shooter, but to have good, reliable equipment.
Good gun, good holster, good magazines, good ammunition.
I bought a good gun ... a brand new Kimber 1911 in.45 ACP for under $300. (I should have bought two of them, but The Beloved Kimber is still my "go to" gun for many applications; I still use in competition even though I've run over 30,000 rounds through it. I had the trigger assembly replaced) last year, because the yoke broke.) I understand that many people consider the Kimber to be no better than "entry level" equipment.
As long as I did the maintenance, and replaced parts as they became worn, it works for me.
When I didn't perform the maintenance, it failed me; with catastrophic (thankfully, only competitively) results
I bought good magazines.
I put a Smith & Alexander arched mainspring housing in the pistol, because I have big hands.
I bought several magazine carriers which I didn't have to "unsnap" to reload.
Holster .. one which was cut-away so the pistol was always presented in a good 'quick draw' profile, but retained the pistol under the worst conditions.
I bought a heavy belt which would support the weight of the loaded magazines
I learned to replace the magazine springs, also the recoil spring, on a regular basis. Mainspring .. not so often.
Why did I do all this stuff? Because I was getting HEAVY usage out of the gun and it's accouterments, and I learned the hard way that if you don't do maintenance, and keep your equipment fresh, a gun that won't function is just a club; and it's too damned short to go you any good.
And I bought a LOT of magazines, and bought magazine springs by the dozens.
Now, you may not be impressed by the way that Competition drove my drive to 100% reliability, but the lessons learned in Competition transfer smoothly to Self Defense.
A gun that doesn't work 100% of the time is a short club.
Ammunition which doesn't feed reliably is suicide.
Magazines with weak springs are suicide.
A gun that jams during a magazine change is suicide.
Your personal inability to perform a magazine change quickly, smoothly and reliably is suicide.
You unwillingness to use your defense gun on a regular basis (at least once a month .. preferably more often) may not be suicide; but if you care enough to consider personal defense a priority, don't you care enough to practice the skills you need?
FIND A TESTING PROTOCOL AND MILK IT:
I just made a date with my neighbor and his wife to go shooting at my local club. They're not "shooters", but they enjoy a trip to the range to shoot my gun and my ammunition. We've done this every couple of years, and it's something which all of us enjoy.
I don't make them pay for the ammunition. I figure, if they can make the guns work every time, all the time, they the guns will probably work for me.
My landlord's wife is a charming lady and very very small. She has a hard time gripping the gun hard enough to make it work. I've got a P3AT which needs to be tested by her, so I can be sure that (weighing 100 pounds more, and 19" taller) it will work for me, too.
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Wall Street Bails On Guns
Investors Target Gun Stocks as Instant Background Checks Drop - TheStreet:
What's good for America isn't always good for Wall Street.
Fewer NICS check indicate a declining market to stock brokers;
Fewer background checks = fewer sales = falling market.
"Call my broker! SELL S&W" they cry
The investors are looking at the numbers, and ignoring the culture. Guns aren't Pork Shares.
The BULLS love it, because that means they can buy stocks while the price is low, and then sell high when the crisis is over
The BEARS love it, because they can buy futures while the price is low and then sell high when the crisis is over.
Oh!
Or is it the other way around?
I admit, I don't understand The Stock Market. But it's either one or the other.
Or ... possibly ... both.
All we can be sure of is that there are people who will make a profit based on a product which may or may not be more highly regulated in the future.
Or ... not.
All we can say is, there's a profit to be made based on the future/conjectural decisions by the President, and whether NICS determines that more people are buying guns ... or less.
Some days, it's more fun to be An American than other days.
This is one of those 'other days'. But I doubt that S&W is going to go out of business this week.
U.S. gun stocks came under fire on Monday after the latest National Instant Criminal Background Check System data from the for handgun background checks showed that almost 400,000 fewer checks run in April than in March.The "Market" likes a stock when it seems volatile; it doesn't like a stock that seems humdrum.
What's good for America isn't always good for Wall Street.
Fewer NICS check indicate a declining market to stock brokers;
Fewer background checks = fewer sales = falling market.
"Call my broker! SELL S&W" they cry
The investors are looking at the numbers, and ignoring the culture. Guns aren't Pork Shares.
The BULLS love it, because that means they can buy stocks while the price is low, and then sell high when the crisis is over
The BEARS love it, because they can buy futures while the price is low and then sell high when the crisis is over.
Oh!
Or is it the other way around?
I admit, I don't understand The Stock Market. But it's either one or the other.
Or ... possibly ... both.
All we can be sure of is that there are people who will make a profit based on a product which may or may not be more highly regulated in the future.
Or ... not.
All we can say is, there's a profit to be made based on the future/conjectural decisions by the President, and whether NICS determines that more people are buying guns ... or less.
Some days, it's more fun to be An American than other days.
This is one of those 'other days'. But I doubt that S&W is going to go out of business this week.
That's why they call them "The Feebs"
Here's why one Federal Employee will never again have to worry about his paycheck.
He won't get another one.
Hope the hooker that kept him up awake until 2am gets a good price for his .380.
Hope she was worth it.
FBI agent loses loaded gun in taxi | New York Post:
He won't get another one.
Hope the hooker that kept him up awake until 2am gets a good price for his .380.
Hope she was worth it.
FBI agent loses loaded gun in taxi | New York Post:
An FBI agent told cops he lost his loaded gun in the back of a livery cab in Brooklyn over the weekend, authorities said Monday. The G-man, 43, said he had his .380 semiautomatic weapon inside his pants holster on his right side when he got into the taxi outside 7509 Third Ave. in Bay Ridge around 2 a.m. Saturday. The address comes back to The Salty Dog sports bar. The FBI agent said he then took the cab home and went to bed, according to cops. When he woke up in the morning, he realized the pistol was gone, he said.
Bottle Control
N.Y. liquor store owner beaten to death with wine bottle in heist - NY Daily News:
It's Violence.
This tragedy didn't have to happen. You have to be desperate, or an idiot (or both) to commit such a heinous crime.
A Rochester liquor store owner was beaten to death with a wine bottle during a heist that occurred inside her shop, police say. Mother-of-three Charlotte Lahr, 46, was found lying unconscious inside South Ave. Wine and Liquor Thursday when a customer called for help to the scene. Authorities’ efforts to revive the woman were unsuccessful. Local parolee Kevin Quander, 59, was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and robbery the next day, thanks to surveillance footage of the crime and fingerprints that investigators were able to retrieve from the scene.The problem isn't Gun Violence.
It's Violence.
This tragedy didn't have to happen. You have to be desperate, or an idiot (or both) to commit such a heinous crime.
The Snake
Why do gun purchases spike after mass shootings? - CNN.com:
Here's another thought: We are potentially importing violence. We are making ourselves more vulnerable, but in our naivete' we refuse to protect our core values.
Peter Pan, Eliot Ness and Superman
We have iconic "defenders" in our culture, We like to think that, when the going gets tough, someone will magically appear from the background to defend us.
The rest of us don't have super powers, we're not bullet-proof, We don't have a pixie sidekick.
But we still have pirates, REAL Pirates. Even "Land Pirates". They use guns, and violent intimidation of their victims is their stock in trade. The potential for violence has been firmly grounded in our American culture since the Revolution of 1776.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?
They don't exist.
Are you going to call the police?
They have no legal obligation to protect you against violence. It's in the book; look it up.
When people are newly awakened (again!) to the fact that Bad People Exist, and they live on your block, people tend to look around for someone to protect them; and they find ... nobody home.
Eventually some folks realize that the person responsible for your own personal protection is...
... yourself.
People are beginning to arm themselves, to learn the techniques of self-defense, and to carry a gun. Because there's nobody out there to rescue you. There's only yourself.
Nobody else.
ON A NATIONAL SCALE:
Now the main-stream media have roused themselves just enough to bemoan the "fact" that the world is becoming a more dangerous place. They haven't figured out that it has always been dangerous, and is becoming more violent .... because of liberals!
In this "Kinder, Gentler" World, we accept into our community people from a much more violent culture; from countries where racial, religious and economic paradigms are much different from our "kinder, gentler" society. (Although, in many ways, Americans are neither "kinder", not "Gentler".)
We expect immigrants to immediately understand that the societal "norms" are different in their new home.
But they don't assimilate; they bring their hatreds and their violence with them.
Germany is learning that lesson today, because in their Gestalt of Guilt the Germans offer themselves as sacrificial lambs; and they are confused when their new neighbors not only refuse to accept their Angst, but take advantage of the naivete they find in their new home. They accept the sanctuary, but they do not accept the culture:
Their new hosts are being nice, they are welcoming their 'new neighbors' with open arms. The German People provide refuge, sustenance, comfort and acceptance to these people who so need a new home.
Bah!
They/we could learn from Al Wilson:
"the world seems to suddenly be a more violent and disturbing place than people thought," said public health expert David Studdert, a professor of law and medicine at Stanford University.Here's a thought: the world has always been a "violent and disturbing place", even in our fantasy literature.
Here's another thought: We are potentially importing violence. We are making ourselves more vulnerable, but in our naivete' we refuse to protect our core values.
Peter Pan, Eliot Ness and Superman
We have iconic "defenders" in our culture, We like to think that, when the going gets tough, someone will magically appear from the background to defend us.
The rest of us don't have super powers, we're not bullet-proof, We don't have a pixie sidekick.
But we still have pirates, REAL Pirates. Even "Land Pirates". They use guns, and violent intimidation of their victims is their stock in trade. The potential for violence has been firmly grounded in our American culture since the Revolution of 1776.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?
They don't exist.
Are you going to call the police?
They have no legal obligation to protect you against violence. It's in the book; look it up.
When people are newly awakened (again!) to the fact that Bad People Exist, and they live on your block, people tend to look around for someone to protect them; and they find ... nobody home.
Eventually some folks realize that the person responsible for your own personal protection is...
... yourself.
People are beginning to arm themselves, to learn the techniques of self-defense, and to carry a gun. Because there's nobody out there to rescue you. There's only yourself.
Nobody else.
ON A NATIONAL SCALE:
Now the main-stream media have roused themselves just enough to bemoan the "fact" that the world is becoming a more dangerous place. They haven't figured out that it has always been dangerous, and is becoming more violent .... because of liberals!
In this "Kinder, Gentler" World, we accept into our community people from a much more violent culture; from countries where racial, religious and economic paradigms are much different from our "kinder, gentler" society. (Although, in many ways, Americans are neither "kinder", not "Gentler".)
We expect immigrants to immediately understand that the societal "norms" are different in their new home.
But they don't assimilate; they bring their hatreds and their violence with them.
Germany is learning that lesson today, because in their Gestalt of Guilt the Germans offer themselves as sacrificial lambs; and they are confused when their new neighbors not only refuse to accept their Angst, but take advantage of the naivete they find in their new home. They accept the sanctuary, but they do not accept the culture:
Sexual violence in Germany has reached epidemic proportions since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.(link above)Obviously, the new citizens in Germany are not willingly "assimilating". And why should they?.
Their new hosts are being nice, they are welcoming their 'new neighbors' with open arms. The German People provide refuge, sustenance, comfort and acceptance to these people who so need a new home.
Bah!
They/we could learn from Al Wilson:
About the Berkeley Riots ..
About the Berkeley Riots ..
You realize, of course, that there is one time-honored practice which has always undermined civil unrest during student riots.
A Sweet young thing standing off to the side with a pony keg tap in her hand, whispering breathlessly:
Trust me, they will hear her. Gravitate to her side, Forgetting all of their anarchist theology, they cleave to their true inner priorities.
Sex. Booze and Rock 'n Roll.
Okay, so you gotta add a Fillopino trio to the mix, playing "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vido (badly).
It's a toss-up, but marginally better than a riot.
(Below: 17 minutes of The Real Thing!)
You realize, of course, that there is one time-honored practice which has always undermined civil unrest during student riots.
A Sweet young thing standing off to the side with a pony keg tap in her hand, whispering breathlessly:
"Free Beer".
Trust me, they will hear her. Gravitate to her side, Forgetting all of their anarchist theology, they cleave to their true inner priorities.
Sex. Booze and Rock 'n Roll.
Okay, so you gotta add a Fillopino trio to the mix, playing "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vido (badly).
It's a toss-up, but marginally better than a riot.
(Below: 17 minutes of The Real Thing!)
Monday, May 01, 2017
England: "Violence Has Been Embedded In Our Culture"; but not for the victims
Violent gangs are now "embedded" in our culture, experts have warned after six people were stabbed to death in the capital in seven days. The comments come after figures released this week show knife crime increased by 14 per cent year on year in 2016 to levels not seen since 2011.What capital?
Sounds like Washington DC, Chicago, Philly, Baltimore ... what's you're guess?
Never mind ... you're wrong.
It's ... LONDON!
Oh, the Brits are so quick to denigrate America (as are all Europeans ... we must provide a service to them by providing them someone to criticize for not being as "civilized" as they are!) that it feeds my personal sense of Schadenfreude to report that ... Gun Violence is not the only source of violence in the world.
The debate surrounding knife crime was thrown again into the spotlight after six people aged between 17 and 48 were killed in London between April 22 and Friday afternoon, with at least one believed to be gang related.
In fact, after the government of Great Britain decreed the GUNS (Evil!) would no longer be allowed to be owned by private citizens, the number of deaths by "Gun Violence" has certainly been reduced (but not yet to "ZERO"), the country continues to reel under the level of violence.
Most of the violence is arrogant propterty damage or theft, or Assault .. which doesn't necessarily end up in murder.
In England, there's little reason for the YOBs not to assault you; they know you cannot defend yourself against two or more of them. And there are always more of them, because the worst they have to fear, if caught in the act, is that they will be assigned an ASBO ... an Anti-Social Behavior Order.
Consider it a traffic ticket; they do.
Well, we have the same problem; but the difference is that America acknowledges that its CITIZENS have he right to defend themselves.
Not so in Jolly Old England.
HOW CAN THIS BE?
Don't the Brits have all these gun laws, meant to eliminate violent gun crime?Doesn't work, does it?
We have had this conversation before; my ASBO opponents have supported the position that ... okay, so they have a lot of violent assaults (because their citizens are essentially disarmed, they can't fight back), but the number of assaults which end up in a death are 'fewer".
That only means that the violent felons can more easily intimidate their victims ... who are powerless to resist an assault by two or more assailants.
Or even a single assailant, who knows that the worst that can happen to HIM, is much less than the worst that can happen to YOU!
And the beat goes on.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
We just called him "Chief"
42 years after the fall of Saigon | laststandonzombieisland: At the National Native American Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the wind still whispers in remembrance.
One of the members of my platoon in Vietnam was a Native American. Everybody just called him "Chief" (we all had nicknames, his was a natural) and I have since lost my list of the real names of all the members of the platoon ... so no disrespect is intended when I call him by his nickname.
About the first thing he did when I joined the platoon was to tell me that he wanted to walk point.
I asked him why.
He said "I'm good at it, better than anyone. I don't follow any man's footsteps."
So I found him an M14, and put him on point.
He was right; he was better than anyone.
We initiated a night ambush right after Christmas that year (I've mentioned it before), and after the Claymores went off and I put a parachute flare in the air with my M79 Grenade Launcher, and after the M60 had swept the area with a couple hundred rounds of 7.62, and after we had completed our Mad Minute, we all but the 'rear guard' got up and did a sweep of the kill zone,
There were a few bodies on the ground, and I thought they were all dead; but as I approached the nearest body it (a woman) started to squirm like a Dying Cockroach.
Before I had a moment to react, I heard this BLAAAAT beside me; Chief was watching my six, from the left side, and when he saw her moving he dumped an entire 20-round magazine, full-auto, from his M14 into her. She turned into a dead cockroach, DRT.
Then he reloaded with a fresh magazine, jacked a first round into the chamber, and caught up with me on the assault line.
There was no time to discuss it, so we moved on. When we were through securing the two remaining survivors, and assuring that all the rest of the bodies were no longer a threat, we searched the bodies. We were looking for documents even while a thin 'security line' was guarding against the return of the platoon we (eight of us) had just decimated.
We found a Makarov pistol on the wench. It was in her hand. She was three feet from me, and if Chief hadn't done his job better than I had done mine, she could easily have shot me.
When things settled down and the adrenaline rush had died away, I said "Thanks, Chief".
He grunted. I interpreted that as meaning :"Sarge, you're such an asshole, do I gotta be watching out for you every day and all night too?"
He was right, and I never thanked him again for saving my life. Nothing personal, he was just doing his job.
A couple of months later, Chief tripped a booby trap.
It was just one of those things; we snagged our boots on Wait-A-Minute Vines a hundred times a day; this time there was a grenade wired to it. We didn't know anything was wrong until we heard that horribly distinctive sound of a grenade going off.
The rest of that story has already been told here. This is the first time I've talked about The Chief.
Chief was in hospital for about two weeks, on reduced duty for a while more, and then came back to the field with us.
I never asked him to walk point again.
He never volunteered.
If it had been up to me, I would have sent him home to his family, right then.
I still owe him, Big Time.
A few months later, the Big Red One was pulled out of Viet Nam, and I was transferred to another Division, Chief had already met his DEROS and was back inThe Land of The Big PX.
That's where I sincerely hope he has found a wonderful woman, fathered fat happy children, made a zillion bucks in the stock market, and is living High, Wide and Handsome with not a care in the world.
Thanks, Chief. I still owe you.
One of the members of my platoon in Vietnam was a Native American. Everybody just called him "Chief" (we all had nicknames, his was a natural) and I have since lost my list of the real names of all the members of the platoon ... so no disrespect is intended when I call him by his nickname.
About the first thing he did when I joined the platoon was to tell me that he wanted to walk point.
I asked him why.
He said "I'm good at it, better than anyone. I don't follow any man's footsteps."
So I found him an M14, and put him on point.
He was right; he was better than anyone.
We initiated a night ambush right after Christmas that year (I've mentioned it before), and after the Claymores went off and I put a parachute flare in the air with my M79 Grenade Launcher, and after the M60 had swept the area with a couple hundred rounds of 7.62, and after we had completed our Mad Minute, we all but the 'rear guard' got up and did a sweep of the kill zone,
There were a few bodies on the ground, and I thought they were all dead; but as I approached the nearest body it (a woman) started to squirm like a Dying Cockroach.
Before I had a moment to react, I heard this BLAAAAT beside me; Chief was watching my six, from the left side, and when he saw her moving he dumped an entire 20-round magazine, full-auto, from his M14 into her. She turned into a dead cockroach, DRT.
Then he reloaded with a fresh magazine, jacked a first round into the chamber, and caught up with me on the assault line.
There was no time to discuss it, so we moved on. When we were through securing the two remaining survivors, and assuring that all the rest of the bodies were no longer a threat, we searched the bodies. We were looking for documents even while a thin 'security line' was guarding against the return of the platoon we (eight of us) had just decimated.
We found a Makarov pistol on the wench. It was in her hand. She was three feet from me, and if Chief hadn't done his job better than I had done mine, she could easily have shot me.
When things settled down and the adrenaline rush had died away, I said "Thanks, Chief".
He grunted. I interpreted that as meaning :"Sarge, you're such an asshole, do I gotta be watching out for you every day and all night too?"
He was right, and I never thanked him again for saving my life. Nothing personal, he was just doing his job.
A couple of months later, Chief tripped a booby trap.
It was just one of those things; we snagged our boots on Wait-A-Minute Vines a hundred times a day; this time there was a grenade wired to it. We didn't know anything was wrong until we heard that horribly distinctive sound of a grenade going off.
The rest of that story has already been told here. This is the first time I've talked about The Chief.
Chief was in hospital for about two weeks, on reduced duty for a while more, and then came back to the field with us.
I never asked him to walk point again.
He never volunteered.
If it had been up to me, I would have sent him home to his family, right then.
I still owe him, Big Time.
A few months later, the Big Red One was pulled out of Viet Nam, and I was transferred to another Division, Chief had already met his DEROS and was back inThe Land of The Big PX.
That's where I sincerely hope he has found a wonderful woman, fathered fat happy children, made a zillion bucks in the stock market, and is living High, Wide and Handsome with not a care in the world.
Thanks, Chief. I still owe you.
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The FBI Knew
The FBI Knew about plans to attack "DRAW MOHAMMED" event in Garland
60 Minutes investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S. and what the FBI knew - CBS News:
(March 26, 2017)
60 Minutes investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S. and what the FBI knew - CBS News:
(March 26, 2017)
The terror attack in Garland, Texas, two years ago was the first claimed by ISIS on U.S. soil.But the FBI had an "agent" (note: probably "paid informer") watching as the two men stormed past the security gate. There was apparently no other FBI presence at the scene.
More than 100 people were gathered inside and the event was ending when two terrorists drove up to a checkpoint manned by a Garland police officer and a school security guard. This grainy image shows both law-enforcement personnel standing next to an unmarked police car seconds before the attack. Bruce Joiner, the security guard, was unarmed.
Bruce Joiner: It’s like they pull up, stop, and the doors open.
Anderson Cooper: Do you remember seeing the weapon?
Bruce Joiner: Oh, yeah. Definitely saw their weapon. And that’s when I locked onto his face ‘cause he’s got this smile.
Anderson Cooper: He was literally smiling?
Bruce Joiner: Yeah, like, “I got ya. I got ya.”
The two terorrists (sic) opened fire with automatic rifles. Joiner dove for cover, but was shot in the leg. Officer Greg Stevens, returned fire with his handgun. Police nearby ran toward the scene.The informer drove away.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Saturday Night Specials
"Most of the firearms involved in crime are cheap Saturday Night Specials, for which no legitimate use or need exists."
I recently ran across this talking-point while following an extended pro-gun/antigun dialogue.
It's an old meme, and so moth-eaten that a lot of people seem to toss it out as if it makes a significant talking-point ... especially from anti-gunners, but sometimes it is entered by people who should know better.
I'mprivileged fortunate: I worked steadily for 50+ years, I have my pension and Social Security, and while I enjoyed a steady (if not impressive) income I was able to acquire firearms which are of hi-quality, reliable, and work all the time; every time.
Not everyone is asfortunate privileged.
Some people need to choose between paying the rent, and buying a home-defense firearm.
For those whose economic situation makes these choices of "questionable" priorities, the answer is often a life-or-death decision.
Enter the "Saturday Night Special".
Enter the "Saturday Night Special".
I recently ran across this talking-point while following an extended pro-gun/antigun dialogue.
It's an old meme, and so moth-eaten that a lot of people seem to toss it out as if it makes a significant talking-point ... especially from anti-gunners, but sometimes it is entered by people who should know better.
I'm
Not everyone is as
Some people need to choose between paying the rent, and buying a home-defense firearm.
Buy a gun? Or pay the rent?
Which is more important? Should your kids be well fed and have a home where being kicked out is not a constant worry? Or should you be able to defend yourself, your family and your home?For those whose economic situation makes these choices of "questionable" priorities, the answer is often a life-or-death decision.
Enter the "Saturday Night Special".
Suppose you live in a high-crime neighborhood; one where hoodlums might consider breaking down the door to your apartment as not much of a challenge ... and that prospect is a constant threat. You're alone, you have no resources except what you can hold in your hand to fend off an intruder.
Enter the "Saturday Night Special".
What's a Saturday Night Special?
Gunbloggers Beyond Excellence
There are a number of (gun) blogs which I try to keep track of, and visit frequently. One of the best of which (and one which I have not mentioned, nor even visited for too long is The Smallest Minority.
He was here long before I started this blog in 2008, and this Arizona blogger continues to provide interesting commentary and helpful philosophy on a near-daily basis. (I say "near-daily" because, as I said, I have not visited for several weeks ... I may have missed something.)
Always interesting, and when he finds himself in a dialogue with someone who disagrees with his opinions, he not only takes them on head-to-head; he publishes the exchange for every one to watch.
Teaser:
Here's a LINK to recent (April 11, 2017) article, interrupted in an ongoing dialogue with someone who doesn't necessarily agree with his opinions on "proportional” response" (to a home invasion)..A sample is provided:
(note: comments in italics are from the British interlocutor)
"... Get that gun from those who shouldn't have it"
Why do police need a CHL to justify carrying concealed carry?
If they find someone "who shouldn't have" (a firearm), don't they have means to determine whether that person "shouldn't have" it? If it was legal to carry a concealed firearm without a license, couldn't the police do a background check in the field.
It seems that the police facing this policy change are upset because it means they will do more work to check whether that person would qualify for a CHL, if it was required. (And that would be a valid reason to oppose the CHL movement .... if it had been cited!)
Police flood Alabama Capitol, ask lawmakers to keep concealed carry permit requirement | WBMA:
(The bill would make it legal to carry a concealed firearms without the requirement of buying a CHL: a"Concealed Handgun License")
I actually agree with Chief Cook. It would be civil to require a CHL to carry concealed. I just don't like the manner in which he stated his case.)
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
If they find someone "who shouldn't have" (a firearm), don't they have means to determine whether that person "shouldn't have" it? If it was legal to carry a concealed firearm without a license, couldn't the police do a background check in the field.
It seems that the police facing this policy change are upset because it means they will do more work to check whether that person would qualify for a CHL, if it was required. (And that would be a valid reason to oppose the CHL movement .... if it had been cited!)
Police flood Alabama Capitol, ask lawmakers to keep concealed carry permit requirement | WBMA:
A debate at the Alabama State House centers on this question: Should people be required to have a concealed carry permit in order to carry concealed firearms? Law enforcement from across the state filled the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee meeting in Montgomery Wednesday. Most were there in opposition to Senate Bill 24.
(The bill would make it legal to carry a concealed firearms without the requirement of buying a CHL: a"Concealed Handgun License")
(Perhaps he should encourage this measure.)"I think it's a vote against the safety of our citizens," Mountain Brook Police Chief Ted Cook told the committee. Cook spoke on behalf of the Police Chief's Association, where he serves as vice president."We can't measure the lives we've saved using this law to get in there and get that gun from those who shouldn't have it," Cook said.The benefit of a CHL is that the carrier has already been vetted to carry. That means the person is not a felon, not wanted, not insane, not an 'alien' and is of legal age.
Chief Cook is obviously worried about using his officers to check backgrounds of people found with a firearm. His statement makes it sound as if there is no other way to vet these folks.
It's easy to sympathize with Chief Cook; he doesn't want his officers to spend 10 minutes (or hours!) running a background check on a citizen when they find a concealed weapon. Unfortunately, the Constitution acknowledges the right of citizens to "... keep and bear arms ..."
If he had simply stated: "It will impose an intolerable burden on my officers to require them to run a background check in the field on everyone we found with a concealed firearm", that would be understandable. Instead, he implied that the lack of a CHL would make it virtually impossible to determine if the person in question is one of "... those who shouldn't have it". That's disingenuous, and misleading.(Disclaimer:
I actually agree with Chief Cook. It would be civil to require a CHL to carry concealed. I just don't like the manner in which he stated his case.)
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Carry a gun? You're a Paranoid!
Quote of the day—Vivek Murthy | The View From North Central Idaho:
-- "Surgeon General", via Joe at joehuffman
well, yeah.
You must understand, there are various gradations of "Public Health", mostly determined by the actions of the the victim!
Minor example: if you don't brush your teeth for years, you're a skuzz and you get a lot of dental issues.
If you don't go for an annual check-up from your doctor, minor infections can become major illness.
And if you don't prepare to defend yourself against violent criminals, you are a a possible victim of homicide.
Oh, Wow! That's a HUGE step beyond Halitosis and Skin disease!
Strangely, many of us are more concerned with relatively 'minor' infections, and completely oblivious to violent attacks. You got to ask yourself ... if the risks of all three threats are roughly similar possibilities, why don't more of us go for semi-annual checkups, brush daily, and carry daily?
The answer is that brushing your teeth is easy to do and socially acceptable; annual medical check-ups are just "a reasonable thing to do: because we're all subject to communicable diseases;
But being attacked by a violent predator?
Gee ... you must be PARANOID!
Considering the consequences of each, I'm still willing to bet Big Money that more Americans brush daily, compared to those who regularly carry means of physical defense against assault.
So, what's it going to be?
Brush every day?
Carry every day?
Why can't you do both?
I got into some trouble for saying gun violence is a public health issue. A little bit of trouble. But you know, I was stating what I think is the obvious, and I think most people in the country understand, which is that far too many people die from gun violence. And in my book, every single death from gun violence is a tragedy because it was preventable. It’s unacceptable.
-- "Surgeon General", via Joe at joehuffman
well, yeah.
You must understand, there are various gradations of "Public Health", mostly determined by the actions of the the victim!
Minor example: if you don't brush your teeth for years, you're a skuzz and you get a lot of dental issues.
If you don't go for an annual check-up from your doctor, minor infections can become major illness.
And if you don't prepare to defend yourself against violent criminals, you are a a possible victim of homicide.
Oh, Wow! That's a HUGE step beyond Halitosis and Skin disease!
Strangely, many of us are more concerned with relatively 'minor' infections, and completely oblivious to violent attacks. You got to ask yourself ... if the risks of all three threats are roughly similar possibilities, why don't more of us go for semi-annual checkups, brush daily, and carry daily?
The answer is that brushing your teeth is easy to do and socially acceptable; annual medical check-ups are just "a reasonable thing to do: because we're all subject to communicable diseases;
But being attacked by a violent predator?
Gee ... you must be PARANOID!
- Here are some highlights from Crime in the United States, 2014:
- There were an estimated 1,165,383 violent crimes (murder and non-negligent homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults) reported by law enforcement.
- Aggravated assaults accounted for 63.6 percent of the violent crimes reported, while robberies accounted for 28.0 percent, rape 7.2 percent, and murders 1.2 percent.
Considering the consequences of each, I'm still willing to bet Big Money that more Americans brush daily, compared to those who regularly carry means of physical defense against assault.
So, what's it going to be?
Brush every day?
Carry every day?
Why can't you do both?
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter - The Washington Post
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter - The Washington Post: Former Vermont governor, presidential primary contender and Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean has been arguing that Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California at Berkeley could be canceled because it’s “hate speech.”
Point One: Howard Dean is an idiot.
Point Two: Howard dean has no idea what Ann Coulter (or any other speaker) might have to say ... to arbitrarily suppose that another speaker would use "Hate Speech" is ludicrous. He just doesn't want to hear anything said by anyone who doesn't agree with him. THAT is 'Hate Speech"!
Point Three: Democrats tend to define "hate speech" as anything they don't want to hear. Yes, it is repeating point Two.
Point Four: Howard dean is an idiot, an ignoramus, and he doesn't have anything to contribute to a political dialogue..
Point Five: Howard the Coward attempts to suppress 'free speech' because he is intellectually incapable of presenting a cogent, logical argument in opposition.
Point Six: Nobody want's to hear what Howard has to say because he is an idiot and he can't even express himself clearly without screaming.
Well, that didn't work out so well, did it?
"Combative" Jaywalker?
I'm not a lawyer, but this doesn't seem ISN'T right!
Black man arrested for jaywalking was beaten in jail, stripped naked and mocked, lawsuit says - The Washington Post:
(See link for video)
The lawyer is filing a civil suit.
Personal: I'm generally supportive of Law Enforcement Officers.
These, though, seem to be acting more like animals that Officers of The Law.
I'm sure there's more to the story than has been presented here, but it's difficult to justify denial of rights of a prisoner, no matter what the circumstances of his arrest.
For JAYWALKING!!!!
Resisting Arrest? Perhaps physical force might be appropriate.
Deliberate shaming? Depriving the accused of civil rights?
Not in the story, at all.
Not "officers of the law", but animals with a bloated sense of Judicial Privilege.
I'm resisting the temptation to use the word "Disgusting" until more information is made available; but based purely on initial reporting, I doubt that will happen.
It's difficult to excuse this kind of abuse of a prisoner; even one who is resisting arrest; especially when the punishment exceeds accepted treatment of a prisoner who has been incarcerated and not, apparently, offering further resistance.
Black man arrested for jaywalking was beaten in jail, stripped naked and mocked, lawsuit says - The Washington Post:
(See link for video)
When Nandi Cain Jr. was seen on video getting slammed to the ground and pummeled repeatedly by a police officer, that was not the end of his ordeal, according to his attorney. A new federal lawsuit states that the 24-year-old was also placed on psychiatric hold and taken to an isolation cell of a county jail, where the officer and other employees beat him repeatedly, stripped his clothes off and made obscene comments. Cain was then left in the cell, where he spent hours without food, medical attention or a chance to make a phone call, the lawsuit says.
The lawyer is filing a civil suit.
In their statement, Sacramento police officials said they have reviewed the video and “determined the officer’s actions appeared to be outside of policy.”Sacramento (California) police shouldn't expect a pay raise in the foreseeable future.
Personal: I'm generally supportive of Law Enforcement Officers.
These, though, seem to be acting more like animals that Officers of The Law.
I'm sure there's more to the story than has been presented here, but it's difficult to justify denial of rights of a prisoner, no matter what the circumstances of his arrest.
For JAYWALKING!!!!
Resisting Arrest? Perhaps physical force might be appropriate.
Deliberate shaming? Depriving the accused of civil rights?
Not in the story, at all.
Not "officers of the law", but animals with a bloated sense of Judicial Privilege.
I'm resisting the temptation to use the word "Disgusting" until more information is made available; but based purely on initial reporting, I doubt that will happen.
It's difficult to excuse this kind of abuse of a prisoner; even one who is resisting arrest; especially when the punishment exceeds accepted treatment of a prisoner who has been incarcerated and not, apparently, offering further resistance.
How to become your own worst nightmare
Getting the Gun | The Huffington Post:
(2013)
She had become a gun owner, she was eminently unqualified to own one, and apparently wrote the article to illustrate how easy it was for an ignorant (not stupid, just not knowledgeable) person to "Get A Gun".
This is what I love about the Huff 'n Puff Post; there is no limit to the extremes to which their contributors will go, to prove their political point. In this case that guns are evil and unqualified people shouldn't own one.
Or two. Or heck, why stop there?
Actually, I agree with Heidi. If you aren't trained, if you are afraid of guns, you probably shouldn't own one .... unless, of course, you make the basic minimum of finding a qualified trainer who will help you decide if 'having a gun' is right for you.
In much of America, it's not difficult to find training.
My local club (Albany Rifle and Pistol Club) provides regular classes for new gun owners. And some classes for experience gun owners, as well; I teach one of them.
In Oregon, gun laws are what Heidi and her Friends would call "Lax". I would call them "Constitutional".
If you're not a convicted felon, or an alien, or legally insane, or under the age of your majority --- you're assumed to be a legal ADULT citizen. Yes, the second Amendment applies to you!
So the experience that Heidi describes is something of her own making.
She hadn't purchased a firearm because she wished to exercise her Constitutional Right to be armed; her goal wasn't hunting, home/self defense, or competition.
She was making a political statement, which the Leftists among us typically describe as: "I have a right not to be frightened because people around me might be carrying guns, and I don't trust them to have the sense to not be a jackass while they are armed!"
Given the details of Heidi's private experiment in exercising her civil rights, there's some justification to that attitude.
(Read: you could sell it to the Huffington Post)
You frightened me, too; you were irresponsible and inexperienced, Those were not what frightened me; you put yourself in that situation deliberately, to provide material for a "Scare Article" in order to undermine the freedoms guaranteed to you by a bunch of privileged white men hundreds of years ago.
I'm pretty sure the Founding Fathers had weak-sister women (and men) in their community, and their fair share of idiots and crack-pots. I'm not sure they had so many as to combine all three in-admirable character flaws in one pamphleteer; on the other hand, in the 18th century it generally required that a pamphleteer pay printing costs, and publishing this article cost you no more than your monthly internet access ... which suggests that you took advantage of both the 2nd Amendment and the 1st Amendment to publish your screed.
Sigh.
It doesn't matter. I happen to support your Second Amendment Right to own a firearm.
I also support your First Amendment right to write and publish an article intended to undermine the Second Amendment under the protection of the First Amendment
I think, Heidi (may I call you Heidi? You may call me Geek!) that you have demonstrated bad judgement in your constitutional experimentation. The fact that you voice discomfort is not proof that American Constitution Law is not sufficiently cognizant of the fact that some people are frightened by Too Much Freedom.
It's proof that you have exceeded your natural good judgement in order to write a publishable article.
That you couldn't get it published in a more responsible venue than The Huffington Post suggests that you either couldn't get adequate readership through your own blog, or that you deliberately chose a venue which you knew would agree with, and publish, your article because it supports their anti-constitutional opinions.
Heidi ... you're such a rebel. I like that.
I don't agree with you, I don't support your political views.
So, you want to go out for a cup of coffee some time?
(You won't have to 'carry'.)
(2013)
Following the Newtown massacre in December the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, told the country, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” I wondered what would it be like to be that good guy with a gun? What would it be like to get that gun, live with that gun, be out and about with that gun and finally, what happens when you don’t want that gun any more? I decided to find out.The author of this article, Heidi Newman, goes on to describe how EASY it was to "get a gun", despite the facts that she had never had a gun, had no idea how to use it, and it scared the pee-wadding out of herself to even hold it in her hand.
She had become a gun owner, she was eminently unqualified to own one, and apparently wrote the article to illustrate how easy it was for an ignorant (not stupid, just not knowledgeable) person to "Get A Gun".
This is what I love about the Huff 'n Puff Post; there is no limit to the extremes to which their contributors will go, to prove their political point. In this case that guns are evil and unqualified people shouldn't own one.
Or two. Or heck, why stop there?
Actually, I agree with Heidi. If you aren't trained, if you are afraid of guns, you probably shouldn't own one .... unless, of course, you make the basic minimum of finding a qualified trainer who will help you decide if 'having a gun' is right for you.
In much of America, it's not difficult to find training.
My local club (Albany Rifle and Pistol Club) provides regular classes for new gun owners. And some classes for experience gun owners, as well; I teach one of them.
In Oregon, gun laws are what Heidi and her Friends would call "Lax". I would call them "Constitutional".
If you're not a convicted felon, or an alien, or legally insane, or under the age of your majority --- you're assumed to be a legal ADULT citizen. Yes, the second Amendment applies to you!
So the experience that Heidi describes is something of her own making.
She hadn't purchased a firearm because she wished to exercise her Constitutional Right to be armed; her goal wasn't hunting, home/self defense, or competition.
She was making a political statement, which the Leftists among us typically describe as: "I have a right not to be frightened because people around me might be carrying guns, and I don't trust them to have the sense to not be a jackass while they are armed!"
Given the details of Heidi's private experiment in exercising her civil rights, there's some justification to that attitude.
Heidi, you're a jackass.
You were sold a gun without training (although I'm quite certain that you had to pass an FBI Background Check proving that you're not legally insane or a felon or an alien) and you frightened yourself. And you did so deliberately, for the SHOCK VALUE of creating a "publishable article".(Read: you could sell it to the Huffington Post)
You frightened me, too; you were irresponsible and inexperienced, Those were not what frightened me; you put yourself in that situation deliberately, to provide material for a "Scare Article" in order to undermine the freedoms guaranteed to you by a bunch of privileged white men hundreds of years ago.
I'm pretty sure the Founding Fathers had weak-sister women (and men) in their community, and their fair share of idiots and crack-pots. I'm not sure they had so many as to combine all three in-admirable character flaws in one pamphleteer; on the other hand, in the 18th century it generally required that a pamphleteer pay printing costs, and publishing this article cost you no more than your monthly internet access ... which suggests that you took advantage of both the 2nd Amendment and the 1st Amendment to publish your screed.
Sigh.
It doesn't matter. I happen to support your Second Amendment Right to own a firearm.
I also support your First Amendment right to write and publish an article intended to undermine the Second Amendment under the protection of the First Amendment
"I do not agree with [or "I disapprove of ... "] what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!"That statement is commonly ascribed to Voltaire, but it was probably penned by Evelyn Beatrice Hall; and the gender of the author is unimportant but noticed.
I think, Heidi (may I call you Heidi? You may call me Geek!) that you have demonstrated bad judgement in your constitutional experimentation. The fact that you voice discomfort is not proof that American Constitution Law is not sufficiently cognizant of the fact that some people are frightened by Too Much Freedom.
It's proof that you have exceeded your natural good judgement in order to write a publishable article.
That you couldn't get it published in a more responsible venue than The Huffington Post suggests that you either couldn't get adequate readership through your own blog, or that you deliberately chose a venue which you knew would agree with, and publish, your article because it supports their anti-constitutional opinions.
Heidi ... you're such a rebel. I like that.
I don't agree with you, I don't support your political views.
So, you want to go out for a cup of coffee some time?
(You won't have to 'carry'.)
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Yes, you were right to vote against her; no, you were not wrong to oppose her!; yes, she was a bitch who would have destroyed America! and yes, you should have voted against her!
New Poll: If Hillary Faced Trump Again Today, She Would Still Lose | Fox News Insider:
" ... many Clinton voters did not feel strongly about her candidacy ... "
Nothing more should, or needs to be said.
" ... many Clinton voters did not feel strongly about her candidacy ... "
Hillary would have destroyed America.
Nothing more should, or needs to be said.
Obama Speaks in Chicago: 'There's a Gap Between Who's Governing Us and What We Believe' | Fox News Insider
Obama Speaks in Chicago: 'There's a Gap Between Who's Governing Us and What We Believe' | Fox News Insider:
He has nothing important to say, but he relishes the opportunity to get some face time on television.
Nothing has changed. He's still irrelevant.
I'm sure glad for term limits!
Former President Barack Obama made his first public remarks since leaving office, speaking to young people at the University of Chicago.
He has nothing important to say, but he relishes the opportunity to get some face time on television.
Nothing has changed. He's still irrelevant.
I'm sure glad for term limits!
Intrusive websites
I've noticed that some of my favorite websites have new features; they want to know more about me than I care to share when I comment on their webpages.
I'm certain that these "updates" are not enforced at the option of the authors; they're something that the software they use has implemented to track readership and provide marketting tools to them ... the software managers.
I'm not aware if BLOGGER (my website server) has imposed these new requirements on this website, but please be aware that ... if so, it hasn't been done with my consideration, let alone with my agreement.
Frankly, if I have to provide a lot of personal data just to comment on a blog post, I'll reserve my comments and choose not to provide opinions which I think will be more helpful to readers. It's not my blog, so screw them.
Okay, that's a bit more radical than I want to sound.
I enjoy reading a lot of different blogs, and when I noticed that their software was requiring personal information from commenters, I was appalled. The worst thing is, I don't know if the bloggers are aware that their readers must provide "tracking" information when they attempt to provide textual comments to their articles.
It astonished me when the guy in the desert ( won't provide a URL ) website accepts comments only when intrusive personal information is provided.
Come on .... a guy in a desert probably isn't a great fan of Big Dot Com!
(Assume "F-word inserted here) me once, your shame; twice? my shame!
I will NOT be commenting on any website which requires that my (verified) website link is autofilled.
And if you have to give up your drivers license number (as at least one social website now requires( in order to comment on anything I have to say here ... I wouldn't encourage you to make comments.
Even though Iam may be full of shit, it's just not worth it.
I'm certain that these "updates" are not enforced at the option of the authors; they're something that the software they use has implemented to track readership and provide marketting tools to them ... the software managers.
I'm not aware if BLOGGER (my website server) has imposed these new requirements on this website, but please be aware that ... if so, it hasn't been done with my consideration, let alone with my agreement.
Frankly, if I have to provide a lot of personal data just to comment on a blog post, I'll reserve my comments and choose not to provide opinions which I think will be more helpful to readers. It's not my blog, so screw them.
Okay, that's a bit more radical than I want to sound.
I enjoy reading a lot of different blogs, and when I noticed that their software was requiring personal information from commenters, I was appalled. The worst thing is, I don't know if the bloggers are aware that their readers must provide "tracking" information when they attempt to provide textual comments to their articles.
It astonished me when the guy in the desert ( won't provide a URL ) website accepts comments only when intrusive personal information is provided.
Come on .... a guy in a desert probably isn't a great fan of Big Dot Com!
(Assume "F-word inserted here) me once, your shame; twice? my shame!
I will NOT be commenting on any website which requires that my (verified) website link is autofilled.
And if you have to give up your drivers license number (as at least one social website now requires( in order to comment on anything I have to say here ... I wouldn't encourage you to make comments.
Even though I
Fuck them, and the white horse they rode in on!
Please don't let the screen door hit you out your way out!
President Trump Just Fired Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy. The NRA And Gun Owners Thank Him. – InvestmentWatch:
Bumping a surgeon general (highest ranking physician in the country) was needful because America doesn't need the Medical Profession declaring that firearms are "a medical problem".
Firearms aren't the problem; they're the solution.
From the article:
Extreme political solutions to Constitutional Issues have no place in America.
When the personal opinion of public employees seem to be supported by the President, the issue becomes more important. Unlike the author of the original article, I do not assume that the Surgeon General had the well-being of citizens as his highest priority.
I believe that his personal agenda was pursued without consideration for the Constitution, and when a federal employee makes decisions based on his personal bias rather than the virtues of the constitution, he has lost legitimacy.
Also, he has lost his job; which is the best outcome for a Maverick Magistrar!
Bumping a surgeon general (highest ranking physician in the country) was needful because America doesn't need the Medical Profession declaring that firearms are "a medical problem".
Firearms aren't the problem; they're the solution.
From the article:
We do not want to lose our Second Amendment Rights, because there are those who actually think guns are the problem.
But even more troubling is the fact that the same (Obama) Administration has been said to have participated in the crime known as gun running.
Extreme political solutions to Constitutional Issues have no place in America.
When the personal opinion of public employees seem to be supported by the President, the issue becomes more important. Unlike the author of the original article, I do not assume that the Surgeon General had the well-being of citizens as his highest priority.
I believe that his personal agenda was pursued without consideration for the Constitution, and when a federal employee makes decisions based on his personal bias rather than the virtues of the constitution, he has lost legitimacy.
Also, he has lost his job; which is the best outcome for a Maverick Magistrar!
Monday, April 24, 2017
Lethargy is Lethal
One of my two best friends in the world died last week.
I wasn't there to ease him though his pain. I didn't even know that he was in danger.
Worse, I was not there to talk him out of the unhealthy habits which lead to his death.\
Ed, I have known for 40 years, passed away quietly in his sleep. He had no noticeable chronic illness, other than that (according to his/my/our children) he "just sat on the sofa and watched television".
I guess it would be reasonable to say that he died from a sedentary life style.
I wasn't aware that he was in ill-health, unto six weeks ago when his family informed me that he was deathly ill, and in the hospital. I drove down to California to check on him, in the hospital. He seemed ... old. He was 'Infirm" in the sense that he found it difficult to walk.
But I accompanied him during one of the (man?) exercise regimines prescribed by his doctors.
He shuffled,and was transported by a wheel-chair .. but he was able to walk, as long as he had a set of parallel bars to hang onto; I got the impression that the served to help him maintain his balance, rather than to carry his weight. He actually seemed stronger than his family and his doctors gave him credit for.
However, he had little energy (then this was in August/September .. it's April now), It was difficult the to determine whether his muscles had atrophied through some sort of disability, or through willful disuse.
He was released from the hospital, and I went home.
Two days ago, I was informed that he had died in his home.
Peacefully.
Well, I guess that's one of the best ways to die. Peacefully.
I remember my paternal grandfather, who died at age 95, in an "old folks home" section of a hospital,, and the last note recorded on his medical chart was that they had to take away his cane because he was beating the crap out of his room-mate.
Nobody knows why he was so aggressive, or why he so detested his 'room-mate' that he deemed it appropriate that he beat the crap out of him.
I didn't know Grampa (He was DECADES older than me!) that well, but I always kind of suspected that his room mate disagreed with Grampa on fine points of politics. Further comments would be opinion only.
The thing is .. I kind of admired my Grampa for maintaining his curmudgeion persona to the last day of his life. I might not agree that he was right to assault a (probably perfectly innocent) room mate
(I won't even try to guess the politics of his room-mate!)
,, but the point is, Grampa went out fighting. I mean ... within minutes of whatever disagreement!
As For Myself:
I spent a year fighting against people who had ... generally ... never done an unkind act toward me, or any of my friends. I didn't like the, or dislike them; they were just target (as were we).
I did some minor harm to a few of them; they did some minor harm to a few of my friends, too.
It never occurred to me that I would ever "go down" in any mode other than fighting..
Hell, I went there not expecting to come back ... other than in a box.
(Most of us had the sane expectation; it apparently was a significant survival factor.)
So, when U came home with no damage other than a major case of Bamboo Poisoning (which took over a year to cure), I figured that my Tour Of Duty was over.
SURPRISE!
My friend, who had never been outside of the Continental United Sates (CONUS) ...
.. died of lethargy.
I know you're thinking that U;n dissing my friend. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Ed was one of the kindest, gentlest men I've ever know.
He didn't hit his dogs; that has to speak well of his restraint!
(His wife//my ex-wife ... well, there was a chili-pepper mutt that I would have strangled, given 2 minutes in a dark room/ I detest incontinent yappers! And the dog was worse!)
But Ed put up with the worst that tiny hairless dogs and their owners can do to the carpet, and the sofa.
(I kind of think Ed might have considered a soft death to be an acceptable alternative to living with a walking/yapping bladder, but I digress.)
I wasn't there to ease him though his pain. I didn't even know that he was in danger.
Worse, I was not there to talk him out of the unhealthy habits which lead to his death.\
Ed, I have known for 40 years, passed away quietly in his sleep. He had no noticeable chronic illness, other than that (according to his/my/our children) he "just sat on the sofa and watched television".
I guess it would be reasonable to say that he died from a sedentary life style.
I wasn't aware that he was in ill-health, unto six weeks ago when his family informed me that he was deathly ill, and in the hospital. I drove down to California to check on him, in the hospital. He seemed ... old. He was 'Infirm" in the sense that he found it difficult to walk.
But I accompanied him during one of the (man?) exercise regimines prescribed by his doctors.
He shuffled,and was transported by a wheel-chair .. but he was able to walk, as long as he had a set of parallel bars to hang onto; I got the impression that the served to help him maintain his balance, rather than to carry his weight. He actually seemed stronger than his family and his doctors gave him credit for.
However, he had little energy (then this was in August/September .. it's April now), It was difficult the to determine whether his muscles had atrophied through some sort of disability, or through willful disuse.
He was released from the hospital, and I went home.
Two days ago, I was informed that he had died in his home.
Peacefully.
Well, I guess that's one of the best ways to die. Peacefully.
I remember my paternal grandfather, who died at age 95, in an "old folks home" section of a hospital,, and the last note recorded on his medical chart was that they had to take away his cane because he was beating the crap out of his room-mate.
Nobody knows why he was so aggressive, or why he so detested his 'room-mate' that he deemed it appropriate that he beat the crap out of him.
I didn't know Grampa (He was DECADES older than me!) that well, but I always kind of suspected that his room mate disagreed with Grampa on fine points of politics. Further comments would be opinion only.
The thing is .. I kind of admired my Grampa for maintaining his curmudgeion persona to the last day of his life. I might not agree that he was right to assault a (probably perfectly innocent) room mate
(I won't even try to guess the politics of his room-mate!)
,, but the point is, Grampa went out fighting. I mean ... within minutes of whatever disagreement!
As For Myself:
I spent a year fighting against people who had ... generally ... never done an unkind act toward me, or any of my friends. I didn't like the, or dislike them; they were just target (as were we).
I did some minor harm to a few of them; they did some minor harm to a few of my friends, too.
It never occurred to me that I would ever "go down" in any mode other than fighting..
Hell, I went there not expecting to come back ... other than in a box.
(Most of us had the sane expectation; it apparently was a significant survival factor.)
So, when U came home with no damage other than a major case of Bamboo Poisoning (which took over a year to cure), I figured that my Tour Of Duty was over.
SURPRISE!
My friend, who had never been outside of the Continental United Sates (CONUS) ...
.. died of lethargy.
I know you're thinking that U;n dissing my friend. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Ed was one of the kindest, gentlest men I've ever know.
He didn't hit his dogs; that has to speak well of his restraint!
(His wife//my ex-wife ... well, there was a chili-pepper mutt that I would have strangled, given 2 minutes in a dark room/ I detest incontinent yappers! And the dog was worse!)
But Ed put up with the worst that tiny hairless dogs and their owners can do to the carpet, and the sofa.
(I kind of think Ed might have considered a soft death to be an acceptable alternative to living with a walking/yapping bladder, but I digress.)
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Trump Jr.’s Montana prairie dog hunt prompts backlash
Trump Jr.’s Montana prairie dog hunt prompts backlash:
And let the weepy tree-huggers cry for the cattle who break their legs in prairie dog holes, and suffer in agony until the rancher finds a lamed heifer and has to put her down .. often leaving a orphan calf ("Dogie") to die because no other heifer will adopt him.
Ranchers ... who grow the hamburgers that the Humane Society probably eats at their fund-raising BBQ's ... have two ways of minimizing the Prairie Dog Menace: Poison, or shooting. Trapping is not an effective means of killing of Prairie Dogs (who are the victims of Coyotes ... who will gleefully take down a calf or a nursing cow).
Poisoning either Prairie Dogs or Coyotes is not a good alternative, because the carcass will end up being eaten by scavenger, such as the Bald Eagle (our national symbol) and they die from the effects of "secondary poisoning".
And then some other scavenger eats their body, and the strychnine moves on.
There is a good reason why Prairie Dogs are also called "Prairie Rats".
Hunting them is the most humane method of keeping the rodent population down to manageable levels. When coyotes find a dead prairie dog, their pack feeds for a day.
And the ecological benefit of the coyote?
They eat lamed cows. If the rancher doesn't find the cow first, coyotes don't bother to kill the cows, they just start on the hind legs and keep eating until they get to the vital parts. They particularly enjoy eating the intestines of cattle before they are dead. I've seen parts of cattle spread over a half-acre when a pack of coyotes finds one that can't keep up with the herd. The cow just drags herself along on three legs while the dogs snarl and bite and rips raw flesh from the living animal. THAT is pitiful, and cruel.
Cattle are a lot easier to catch than Prairie Dogs, and there's enough there for a pack to feed for three days.
If you don't know the ecology of the prairie, you probably aren't qualified to opine about the poor prairie dog.
Let them dig their own darn holes.
The Humane Society of the United States condemned Trump’s hunting plans, saying prairie dogs are an important species for the Great Plains because more than 100 other animals depend on the prairie dog either as food or move into the burrows they dig, said Lindsey Sterling Krank, the organization’s director for its Prairie Dog Coalition.
And let the weepy tree-huggers cry for the cattle who break their legs in prairie dog holes, and suffer in agony until the rancher finds a lamed heifer and has to put her down .. often leaving a orphan calf ("Dogie") to die because no other heifer will adopt him.
Ranchers ... who grow the hamburgers that the Humane Society probably eats at their fund-raising BBQ's ... have two ways of minimizing the Prairie Dog Menace: Poison, or shooting. Trapping is not an effective means of killing of Prairie Dogs (who are the victims of Coyotes ... who will gleefully take down a calf or a nursing cow).
Poisoning either Prairie Dogs or Coyotes is not a good alternative, because the carcass will end up being eaten by scavenger, such as the Bald Eagle (our national symbol) and they die from the effects of "secondary poisoning".
And then some other scavenger eats their body, and the strychnine moves on.
There is a good reason why Prairie Dogs are also called "Prairie Rats".
Hunting them is the most humane method of keeping the rodent population down to manageable levels. When coyotes find a dead prairie dog, their pack feeds for a day.
And the ecological benefit of the coyote?
They eat lamed cows. If the rancher doesn't find the cow first, coyotes don't bother to kill the cows, they just start on the hind legs and keep eating until they get to the vital parts. They particularly enjoy eating the intestines of cattle before they are dead. I've seen parts of cattle spread over a half-acre when a pack of coyotes finds one that can't keep up with the herd. The cow just drags herself along on three legs while the dogs snarl and bite and rips raw flesh from the living animal. THAT is pitiful, and cruel.
Cattle are a lot easier to catch than Prairie Dogs, and there's enough there for a pack to feed for three days.
If you don't know the ecology of the prairie, you probably aren't qualified to opine about the poor prairie dog.
Bill would end requirement to tell police you're carrying a gun | WSYX
Bill would end requirement to tell police you're carrying a gun | WSYX:
I DO have a problem with a poorly written article ... such as this one, which doesn't clearly define under which circumstances you need to notify an officer.
I've already written about my practices if/when I'm pulled over for a traffic offence; even knowing that the officer is aware the owner of a car has a CHL (Concealed Handgun License), I have my drivers license, my insurance card, and my CHL in my hand when he approaches the car ... and my hands are in plain sight, on the steering wheel. He knows I'm the person he expected to see behind the wheel.
CHL owners are the last people who should concern LEOs ... but it never hurts to demonstrate to the cop who pulled you over in the middle of the night that you ARE the owner of the car, and you ARE ... at least potentially ,,, carrying a firearm.
Keep your hands in view, have your ID ready in your hand, and BE POLITE!
I don't carry because I'm afraid of police.
I don't want them to be afraid of me, either.
I'm no threat.
Failure to tell a police officer you have a gun is a misdemeanor. Ohio is one of only 10 states with a law like that on the books.I have no problems with a law like that.
I DO have a problem with a poorly written article ... such as this one, which doesn't clearly define under which circumstances you need to notify an officer.
I've already written about my practices if/when I'm pulled over for a traffic offence; even knowing that the officer is aware the owner of a car has a CHL (Concealed Handgun License), I have my drivers license, my insurance card, and my CHL in my hand when he approaches the car ... and my hands are in plain sight, on the steering wheel. He knows I'm the person he expected to see behind the wheel.
CHL owners are the last people who should concern LEOs ... but it never hurts to demonstrate to the cop who pulled you over in the middle of the night that you ARE the owner of the car, and you ARE ... at least potentially ,,, carrying a firearm.
Keep your hands in view, have your ID ready in your hand, and BE POLITE!
I don't carry because I'm afraid of police.
I don't want them to be afraid of me, either.
I'm no threat.
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