I disagree with J. Kb. and I believe Kasky is trying to do the old  “I am compromising what I believe so now it is your turn and you need to compromise your rights.”

A couple of days ago, I had a lengthy discussion with somebody who was trying to go out of his way to make me believe he understood what we were wanting and recited the proper keywords to back his claim. When I refused to budge, he lamented that my uncompromising attitude was not advancing the cause of peace (and other assorted BS platitudes) and that a simple background check and registration could not hurt anybody. I retorted that we had been compromising steadily since 1934 and it would be a great time for his side to do a real compromise, so I asked him if he would pledge his unconditional support to National Reciprocity.

He immediately started to come up with excuses and possible problems about standards between states. I told him that every state that issues a CWP requires the full information of the person, a photograph, fingerprints and a complete background check, the same things and even more he was just asking me to compromise on guns. Somehow that was not enough for him and recoiled at the idea of supporting National Reciprocity and the reason was obvious: they are not negotiating in good faith and will never do. All his “come to Jesus and understand your Fellow Citizens” was plain political maneuvering  and misdirection and that is the same thing I smell from Kasky. I even offered to really sit down at the table and work gun laws we can all agree if we start from tabula rasa, cleans slate: No gun laws at all that would complicate an even and good-faith negotiation.

He has not replied to me yet.

I wonder why.

We know that nobody has been fired or even given a slap on the wrist for the colossal screw up with Niki Cruz and the Parkland shooting. The Broward School Board, BSO and basically everybody in local government appears to be one big happy political mafia covering each other’s asses.

This is the latest.

Florida’s largest charter school membership organization announced Wednesday that it is partnering with Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s former mental health care provider to render services to schools.
Broward County’s Henderson Behavioral Health will provide mental health assessments, diagnoses, interventions, treatment and recovery services, free of charge, to students in need at member schools of the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools, according to a news release. Training will also be offered to school staff for a $25 fee.

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Henderson has been criticized for its handling of Cruz, who was evaluated at least three times in September and October of 2016 by members of a Henderson crisis team. After a suicide assessment was conducted, Henderson’s team determined committing Cruz under the Baker Act was not warranted.

Remember it was covered in a previous post that the Parkland Shooting Report said Cruz was disturbed enough to start high risk protocols in the school and restrict his access, but that Henderson YES team put the kibosh on sending him to the Baker Act road. Now Henderson gets a juicy morsel paid by the Florida taxpayers.

If the Democrats could have half the collusion shown with this case and apply it to Trump, he’d be right now in Death Row with all his appeals denied.

Found this via Wirecutter.

Tijuana Municipal Police were summoned to colonia Amparo Sanchez last Thursday after citizens observed a pack of street dogs fighting over a severed human head presumably dumped there. Residents reported the incident at approximately 6:30 pm, according to local media.

Police were later able to secure the head and handed the scene over to the forensic medical services team from the state attorney general’s office. No information was available on the identity of the victim, nor were other remains located.

I followed the link to the original Mexican source to find out that the head was not the only event that happened in that neighborhood. A couple of hours earlier, authorities responded to two shootings with three people dead and one wounded. Since all of the dead seem to have their heads attached, it is not far-fetched to deduct there is still a body somewhere playing the Headless Burro-Man.

Don’t forget, Abolish ICE because nothing says we are an open and culturally inviting country accepting everybody’s ways than seeing a pack of dogs playing soccer with a human head in front of your home.

Keep asking who benefits if ICE is abolished and why do you have US Politicians so willing to do their bidding.

I stole the whole thing from McThag.

Those of us whose gun-owning life straddles the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban have an… attitude about normal capacity magazines.

We accumulate them.

Lots of them.

We never ask, “do I need more?” because the answer is burned into our souls now.

YES! Buy them while you can.

Which leads to a situation where, even with a spreadsheet, I cannot honestly say how many magazines I have. Every time I think I’ve gotten a compete inventory, I find another stash.

I was done reading and I looked at what I thought it was a decent stash of magazines and felt… incomplete.

Spirit of JMB! Deliver me from Palmetto State Armory and their sale on D&H 30 round magazines for $6.99!

Damn you McThag!

But don’t worry, it is not like the left will dare to ban such an American classic book like To Kill a Mockingbird, right?

Hat Tip Jay H.

I got asked that yesterday. I did not show the proper level of indignation about President Maduro’s feast in Turkey and one person seemed a bit confused by it. The explanation is simple: Venezuela cannot be fixed without a certain amount of social and infrastructural destruction.

I know, harsh words. I am not advocating a civil war for one simple reason: nobody down there has the guts to take up arms so well they have been indoctrinated with the “Violence does not solve anything” mantra.  Venezuelans also believe in the Fairy Godmother, Cavalry to the rescue and Deus Ex Machina in all or any combinations. They have been anally raped  for 19 years and still think somebody will come and save them from Socialism. They hate the Gringos, but shit how much they would love to see the US Marines wreaking havoc through Caracas and a Predator drone bombing the hell out of the presidential palace. Of course, once the deed is done, they shall rise in vocal opposition to the Yankee Invaders and demand their exit after they dropped several million dollars in aid for the shit they broke.  Venezuelans think that they have strategic value to the US, that their oil is primordial to the interests of the United States. I do have bad news to my fellow ex-countrymen: North Dakota Is Now Pumping as Much Crude as Venezuela. So even at energy-producing level, the country has become irrelevant to US Interests.

I have discussed with Venezuelans here and back home what is needed to stop what’s happening in the country, and as usual, I hear a repetition of the crap that has already been tried over and over and failed: Marches, general strikes, appeals to the UN and OAS, social media campaigns, etc.  When I point out that unfortunately harsher actions will need to be used, they promptly reply that they are unarmed and it is impossible to get a gun in Venezuela (somehow criminals have no problem). I usually tell them the story of WWII’s Liberator pistol and the concept behind it and the mentally shit themselves at the idea. Their indoctrination has been so complete that they are being starved to death by the Government and murdered by the criminals and they still do not see it in themselves to actually stand up for themselves.  They are broke-ass Spanish-Speaking Elois.

The last “outrage” I found out of Venezuela is that they are getting ready to have another Constitutional Congress and change what passes for the Constitution. It is gonna be rather interesting, specially their new approach to what Private Property means:

‎Constituyentista Hermánn Escarrá, President of the Permanent Constitutional Commission of the Assembly national constituent (ANC), said that he will defend private property in all its manifestations: individual, collective, social, public, multilevel (of the) State, national, municipalities, communes…), at the time that will defend economic freedoms, also in its various expressions: industry, trade, joint, joint participation between private entities and the State. ‎

And no, it does not mean that Public Property will become Private Property but just the opposite.  This is just a simple way to legally keep the property they want with a minimal amount of fuzz. “Yes, it is your property and it belongs to you till the day you die, but it is also part of the country, thus the collective and that means we get to dictate what to do with it. We may throw you what we consider appropriate for rental in the form of vouchers that can be redeemed in highly devaluated cash.”

Venezuela cannot be saved. Venezuela its on its way to become the Hispanic Somalia (if they are lucky) and its only use is to be as a distinct example of what Socialism brings to a country. And that if we want to keep our Tree of Liberty, we better be ready to do what is needed.

Political Patty cakes and intonations of Kumbayas are the surest way to be digging in the trash for the day’s meal.