Where a Redneck Jew, a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
I saw this over Twitter. I know the guy has a 3D printer.
I wonder how many other are doing or have been doing the same thing. I am guessing a crapload. Do you want to bet that right now there are at least 500% more printed guns than there were last week?
Cry havoc and all that.
Safety volunteers escort BART passengers to their cars
A group of Bay Area men says they’re tired of people feeling unsafe on the BART system after a recent increase in crime including the brutal killing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson and two other deadly attacks. The men are taking it upon themselves to provide security for BART passengers.
Where are the police? Security? The overpaid bureaucrats in the Liberal Utopia of San Francisco? Why do a couple of unarmed volunteers have to protect people?
Rodney Alamo Brown is the group’s organizer. “Tuesday we came out with a contingent of brothers who wanted to make sure that the riders were truly safe so. In the wake of Miss Nia, we are definitely doing it on behalf of her,” said Brown.
For two hours a day the men who carry safety escort signs, are willing to walking anyone to their vehicles.
So what about the other 22 hours a day?
Although they’re doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. These men know some people will be reluctant to take them up on this service.
This is a really good point. Who the fuck are these guys? What vetting do they have? What stops somebody from printing out their own sign, escorting a woman to her car, and once she drops her guard thinking that she’s safe with a volunteer, the fake volunteer rapes and robs her?
The men do it for free as their way of giving back. But due to BART’s contract with its police department, the only people currently allowed to provide security at BART stations are officers.
Clearly they are not doing their jobs.
Clearly.
“It’s great hearing that the citizens want to help and stand up and do something to help people feel safe at BART but obviously we want to make sure there’s a partnership in place. So people know that those people are someone you can trust,” said BART Spokeswoman Alicia Trost.
Yep.
I have a better idea. Bear with me now. It’s gonna be a doozie.
Shall issue concealed carry.
Just let people carry guns in California, including on the BART.
That doesn’t require more cops or partnering with private security or volunteers. That just requires signing off on permits and letting people protect themselves.
This currently works in some 38 states. It could work in California too.
I know, I know, they are never going to allow it, but they make the case for it everyday.
Look at this picture I found of a Glock that went BOOM!
The forum that I found this image on says it was a Glock in 40S&W. The chamber dimensions for a Glock 22 and 23 are the same, the recoil lug is different.
Nominal wall thickness at the thinnest part (right were it split) is 0.090 inches.
Glock barrels are made from heat treated S7 tool steel with a ferritic nitrocarburized surface finish. The FNC adds to wear resistance but doesn’t do much for overall strength.
At 37 HRC (core hardness after FNC in steel) tensile strength is roughly 290,000 PSI.
A 40 S&W has a SAAMI peak pressure of 35,000 PSI.
If anything is just a little off, kA BOOM!!!
ABS plastic has a tensile strength of 6,200 PSI.
A 380 ACP has a SAAMI peak pressure of 21,500 PSI.
If I do a simple thick wall pressure calculation using a pressure of 21,500 PSI, and OD of 1.25 inches, and a bore diameter of 0.374 (case diameter of a 380 ACP) I get a surface hoop stress of 4,210 PSI. That is less than a 2,000 PSI margin of safety.
Doing the same calculations on the Glock barrel, I get a hoop stress at the thinnest section of 68,000 PSI in a material with 290,000 PSI tensile strength. A considerable margin of safety.
The internet, celebrities, activists, and politicians can go as nuts as they want about this thing.
I ain’t going to set one off.
I saw this story on Fox News which was originally posted on Campus Reform.
Professor apologizes for calling GOP candidate ‘nice guy’ on Twitter
A journalism professor at the University of Georgia apologized for offending people after calling the Republican candidate for governor a “nice guy” on Twitter.
Charles Davis, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UGA, tweeted-then-deleted a message about the President Trump-endorsed candidate for Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, on the night he won the Republican primary.
“I went to high school with GOP guv candidate @BrianKempGA,” Davis wrote in the now-deleted tweet. “We played YMCA ball from childhood. Politics be damned. He is a nice guy, always was. Kind to a fault. He’s a friend, always has been, and will be when we’re old(er) and grey(er). That’s how all this should work, people.”
So a professor and dean at the University of Georgia said a nice thing about a friend and the Lefty Twitter hate mob decided they needed to destroy him over it.
Many of the Tweets were typical SJW garbage. The evil Republican was somehow a threat to their safety because feelings.
They know they will never be really hurt by Republicans, but by claiming they will be they feel they have justified the use of whatever tactic they want. Be honest, if as many people actually died from policy as the Dems claim, Trump would have outclassed Stalin by now, but of course he hasn’t.
One Tweet stood out in my mind, which is why I decided to write this post.
This is the black woman he is referring to.
Stacey Abrams is vowing to improve Georgia’s economic standing, but she believes her struggles with massive personal debt do not reflect poorly on her fiscal responsibility.
I’d say so. If you have crap credit they won’t let you buy a car. Why should she get to run the budget of an entire state?
Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Stacey Abrams, ended her three-day “Jobs for Georgia” tour Saturday with a stop in the small town of Macon. During a town hall, she offered a few examples of her ambitious economic agenda.
Among many ideas, she told local voters she hopes to create a $10 million investment fund to boost small businesses and another $40 million fund to spur job growth. Abrams also proposed converting abandoned warehouses in the area into advanced hubs for solar panel installations.
Hooray!!! A massively expensive but totally useless green energy project. I can’t want for this to go all Solyndra on her.
Abrams claims such investment is necessary to improve job growth in Georgia. However, her critics argue she supports expensive, big government solutions.
(See: Democrat)
More notably, Abrams has taken flak for her massive accumulation of personal debt. The former state representative has acknowledged that she owes more than $200,000 in student loans, credit card debt and IRS back taxes.
Yikes. Unless she’s an MD, that’s a bit much.
I did not understand that those magical slivers of plastic that I was getting in in college, a $100 purchase was going to cost me like $3,000 over the next seven years,” Abrams statedin an interview with Yahoo Finance. “And that if I didn’t pay the bill every month it was going on some report that was going to follow me even after I had a great job.”
JESUS!!! That is the single most disqualifying statement I can think of for someone who is going to manage a budget.
“I don’t know how money or debt works, let me be responsible for the state coffers” is not a message a lot of people can get behind.
Abrams owes back taxes amounting to $40,201 for 2015 and $13,851 for 2016. She owes $96,512 in student loan debt and another $77,522 in credit card debt spread over nine different accounts. In total, she is about $228,000 in the red. This number is actually higher if you count her $178,500 in real estate debt and her $4,434 car loan.
How does this woman do anything let alone run a campaign?
Abrams, the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, has blamed a misunderstanding in her younger years of how credit card debt works and a temptation as a business owner to spend revenue instead of withholding it for tax collection. She has also cited family obligations as a major reason for debt, having helped pay for her father’s cancer treatment.
She shouldn’t be giving anybody business advice.
Abrams has argued that her financial difficulties make her uniquely qualified to lead Georgia, pointing out that many Americans also struggle with debt. However, her case does appear to be well above the norm. Her $96, 512 in student loan debt is almost three timesthe national average. More notably, her $77,522 in credit card debt is five times the national household average.
For a Democrat, that much debt is a unique qualifier. It shows just how good she is at spending money she doesn’t have. Obama was praised up and down for taking us past $20 Trillion in debt. With her personal record, she can bankrupt Georgia twice.
Abrams — who would become the first black female governor in the country if elected — also appeared to cite prejudice for her financial woes. Defending her weak financial standing in an op-ed for Fortune, the gubernatorial candidate blamed wealth disparities between white, Latin and black households as partially the result of housing, labor and education discrimination. Despite landing a $95,000 salary position soon after graduating from Yale Law school, Abrams also lamented in her column over the gender pay between women and men.
It’s not her fault she “did not understand that those magical slivers of plastic” and owes a couple of hundred thousand dollars, she’s a victim. There is nothing racism and sexism can’t be blamed for.
So she’s gone from “I don’t understand money” to “I’m just a poor black female victim that you can’t expect financial responsibility from.” This is supposed to make people vote for her.
Yes, yes it is.
This is why that Tweet stuck out in my mind. Dean Charles Davis is expected to vote for and support this person who owes an unbelievable amount of money and blames everyone else for her problems because she’s a black woman, and if he doesn’t he’s a racist.
“Your candidate spent more money than she’ll ever be able to pay back because she isn’t responsible with debt. Now she wants to be governor and spend the state’s money like her own – which is to say she’ll blow all of it and more wastefully. How about, no.”
“You’re a racist and a sexist and you should apologize for your violent words.”
This is the identity politics that is destroying American.
