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Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.

My 8-year-old minds never sleeps.

Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated by the excavations at Pompeii. It was a tragic event that has given us an in-depth look at the Roman Culture: from finding that graffiti was also an issue to the health of the average roman at that time.

I saw this picture a couple of days ago and I have to say with a bit of shame that my mind went straight to: “A human? Not  Wile E. Coyote?”

 

The British Example: In knife-free London, motorist is attacked with a huge knife.

No idea what may have led to the guy losing his mind and pulling the knife. The driver was incredibly lucky that the car with the dash camera had backed away enough for him to make an escape  after the “misguided” member of society breached the window on the passenger side.  According to the article in the Daily Mail, the owner was unharmed and recovered his vehicle once the aggressor left the area.

I am sure the perpetrator, after consideration and deep soul search, decided to turn in his knife to the nearest knife amnesty bins located across the Once-Great Britain.

Hat Tip Brad W

Armed Robber gets shot from Drive-Thru window.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A civilian shot a suspected armed robber after witnessing the robbery while in the drive-thru lane at a restaurant.
On Saturday, police said 60-year-old Steve Rodriguez, who was masked, entered the restaurant with a black revolver and demanded money from the employees, CBS Los Angeles reports. Police said a drive-thru customer in a Honda Accord was stopped in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane by the window and witnessed the robbery happening.
Police said someone in the Accord shot the robber twice in the upper torso before he managed to flee from the scene

Video: Restaurant customer shoots armed robber through drive-thru window

This one is a bit eerie for me, allow me to explain. I am trying to constantly run the “What happens if…?” game when I am out of the house.  What if there is an armed robbery when I am buying groceries at this particular Publix? What if there is a man coming in my dentist’s office and starts beating the daylights out of the hygienist? Do I run? Do I hide, Do I intervene? Some will find it paranoid, but it has helped me come up with different tactics and changes of behavior to avoid problems and preplanned responses (as much as you can pre-plan) in case there is no choice but action.

A couple of weeks ago, I went hunting for tacos at my neighborhood Bell and used the drive thru. While waiting for the food to arrive, I looked inside and realized that I had a clear line of sight to the registers and my mind went “What if an armed robber was aiming a gun at the poor 16-year-old working the register and demanding the cash?”  I went through mentally work on the issue: Is the Bad Guy being cool? Is he acting desperate? Is he acting crazy? Do I intervene or do I drive away and call 911? Do I wait nearby and try to get the info on the robber and possible getaway vehicle? If I see that things are going to go bad and somebody most likely will get hurt, Do I really have a shot I can make with the particular firearm of the day?  What are the chances that right before I press the trigger, another kids gets in my line of fire?

And I will admit that sometimes I think the “What If” Game might be a bit silly and without real applications in life. Some would consider it “Gun Nut” Dirty Harry fantasies. But today, I see this video of a real event running along the lines I was thinking not so long ago and I kinda fell validated and reminds me that the Mind is the Weapon that needs to be kept lubricated and trained.

David Hogg, Stoneman Douglas Victims fund and Rev Jesse Jackson.

It was something that have been sparking in the back of my head since the whole Publix thing started, but it just would not come out in full till today and after enough ingestion of caffeine. The not-so-subtle extortion by Hogg has happened before by a well-known political scumbag: Reverend Jesse Jackson.  Some years ago, Rev Jesse Jackson was said to be the ultimate political extortionist. He would denounce a company using the brand new Race card, accuse them of whatever the heck we could up with. The media would focus on the company and repeat Jackson’s talking point till the company made some apologetic statement and the check to Jesse Jackson’s (ahem) charities.

The one that I remember and you will be hard pressed to find was his butting heads with Quaker Oats about Aunt Jemima pancake mix.  Her are a couple of screen caps from the book “Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America”


And the Reverend would have continued to be successful as Mafiosi for Race, but it came out that he had a daughter out-of-wedlock with  a much younger female civil rights worker at the Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition and was shelling thousands of dollars in cash monthly in child support.

It never pays to pay political extortionists like Hogg or Jackson. Their motives are never pure and they are probably corrupt to the core.

“Damned Gun Owners! Why don’t you demand a tank?”

Now that you mention it…

1944 M5A1 Stuart for sale.

 This 1944 M5A1 Stuart is an American-made light tank that was reportedly shipped to Europe late in the Second World War. It was then sold to Portugal, where it was retained in their light tank inventory through the late 1960s.

The tank was returned to the US by the Southeastern Equipment Company (SECO) in the 1980s, and has not been used as a monument tank. The tank was in a private collection through 2016 with one owner. The current owner added it to his collection 2016 and performed a general service shortly after his acquisition, including changing the fluids. This running and driving Stuart is located in Los Angeles, California, and it is now being offered on behalf of the current owner on a bill of sale.

$200,000 sale price.  Like my wife says: “Dear, you have the good taste, just not the budget.”