California elites are scared enough to buy their own guns
L.A.’s Arms Race of the Affluent
From Beverly Hills to Santa Monica, the crime-panicked wealthy are banishing bling and buying guns
In Beverly Hills, even the purchase of a firearm comes with certain…expectations. The city’s only gun store, Beverly Hills Guns, is a “concierge service” by appointment only, for a largely affluent clientele. And business is booming.
Since opening in July 2020, the store has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following several high-profile smash-and-grab and violent home invasion robberies. The apparent siege has brought in a daily stream of anxious business owners and prominent actors, real estate moguls and film execs, says owner Russell Stuart. Most are arming themselves for the first time.
“This morning I sold six shotguns in about an hour to people that say, ‘I want a home defense shotgun,’” says Stuart, whose store is discreetly located in a Beverly Hills office building, with no sign on the doors, down the hall from a diamond dealer. “Everyone has a general sense of constant fear, which is very sad. We’re used to this being like Mayberry.”
In Beverly Hills, the craving for additional security dates to the riot that followed an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in May 2020, with unprecedented looting along Rodeo Drive that left broken boutique windows beneath beloved luxury brands: Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Michael Kors, MCM, Ermenegildo Zegna. Last March, a $500,000 Richard Mille watch was stolen at gunpoint from a diner at the Il Pastaio restaurant. The Dec. 1 home-invasion robbery and shooting death of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, 81, in her Trousdale Estates home, only accelerated the arms race among the affluent.
Generally I’m for new gun owners.
In this case it’s tough.
I totally support the right of people to defend themselves and own the tools to do that.
At the same time I know two things to be true:
One: the wealthy elite buying guns in Beverly Hills are the same people to supported the Woke prosevtuors, changes to the law, and defunding of police that made California into the current shithole it is.
Two: these people still support gun control for everyone else, i.e., the poors.
If the elite want guns and concealed carry (which they get the same way they do in NYC, corruption by donating huge sums to the Sheriff who approves the permit) because of this crime wave, that should be available to every citizen, not just the ones who can cut massive checks and go shopping in Beverly Hills.
So while I support new gun ownership, I can’t support hypocrisy, because we all know that the elite don’t get red pulled and change their opinions, they just buy themselves indulgences so to not have to be bound by rules and laws that inconvenience them.
Is this supposed to frighten me?
This came across my feed.
US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”.
“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.
Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”
The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.
A “scholar of violent conflict” for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the “unfolding crisis”.
“A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared. Over the past year we’ve turned our attention inward, distracted by the challenges of Covid-19, reconciliation and the accelerating effects of climate change.
This is the original headline and article from the Globe and Mail, but it’s behind a pay wall.
If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene?
This is little more than Canadian TDS.
They promised us that Trump would round up the guys and put them in camps. Instead we got trans-activists in schools putting out kids on hormone blockers.
Our Right wing dictators are pretty weak.
Honestly, I’d give it up for an American Right wing dictator if he could make gas $1.79 a gallon, get the LGTB activists out of our schools, and commies out of our government. Encourage patriotism, wood chipper pedophiles, and end Woke/CRT for good.
It might actually be an improvement.
Right now the actual future American dictatorship seems more and more like all of America being turned into NYC/LA/San Fran by Imperator of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Not to put to fine a point on it but Justin Trudeau recently said out loud:
“We are going to end this pandemic by proceeding with the vaccination,” said Trudeau in French.
“We all know people who are deciding whether or not they are willing to get vaccinated, and we will do our very best to try to convince them. However, there is still a part of the population (that) is fiercely against it.
“They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist. It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact that they take up some space.
“This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people? Over 80% of the population of Quebec have done their duty by getting the shot. They are obviously not the issue in this situation.”
Of all the fascist language floating around, the Left seems to be the ones really putting it out there, attacking freedom loving people and blaming them for problems they (the Left) caused.
I’ve been wondering if it’s time to liberate Canada.
Having the Canadians invade us to prevent Trump or DeSantis from rolling back the Democrats crushing COVID tyranny is almost humorous.
Maybe this us the opportunity to reorganize Canadian and the US into two different countries.
Crime is attracted to crime…
This video shows what appears to be another robbery at gunpoint outside a marijuana dispensary near Mission/Geneva.
Earlier this year (need to check dates) ppl were sending me stories of robberies at gunpoint outside dispensaries every few days incl. in this area #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/HUcEgZe5Rt
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) December 29, 2021
Let’s be clear, dealing Marijuana is still a federal crime. That means dispensaries exist in a legal gray zone.
As such, Marijuana dispensaries are a cash business.
Marijuana is also highly trafficked contraband for people who don’t have medical Marijuana cards or don’t live in medical Marijuana states.
So criminals know two things, the people coming in and out have lots of cash and expensive narcotics (which they can turn around and resell for a lot of money).
That makes dispensary customers perfect targets for robbery.
Reports that Marijuana dispensary patron robberies are up doesn’t surprise me, crime attracts crime.
New York City is off to a fantastic start
It’s only January 3rd.
@NYCMayor calls 911 to report an assault in progress as he awaits a train from Brooklyn to City Hall. He does not identify himself as the new mayor pic.twitter.com/ebHyPNX7dt
— Julia Marsh (@juliakmarsh) January 1, 2022
New York City will install vending machines that dispense free needles for drug users. The program says it will make street drug injections safer. https://t.co/0kY84ZGnLB
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 2, 2022
A woman and her dog were both shot at a Brooklyn bodega on Sunday night. They were both killed. https://t.co/pwpGmFPWYU
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 3, 2022
I really can’t blame AOC from wanting to vacation in Florida.
Most of her NYC donors are doing the same.
New York City is an utter shithole of violence, crime, and filth.
The problem is that they’d rather escape to Florida and turn Florida into New York than try to turn New York into Florida by emulating Florida’s successes.
I just never want to hear how Florida is sort of Republican run hellscape when it is the top destination of New Yorkers trying to enjoy life.
“It snowed last night”
PaulK sent me this and I had a good laugh. Must share.
8:00 am: I made a snowman.
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8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.
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8:15 – So, I made a snowwoman.
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8:17 – My feminist neighbour complained about the snowwoman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.
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8:20 – The gay couple living nearby threw a fit and moaned it should be two snowmen.
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8:22 – The transgender man..woman..person asked why I didn’t just make one snowperson with detachable parts.
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8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.
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8:28 – I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.
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8:31 – The Muslim gent across the road demanded the snowwoman wear a burqa.
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8:40 – The Police arrived saying someone had been offended
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8:42 – The feminist neighbour complained again that the broomstick of the snowwoman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.
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8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
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8:45 – TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? I replied “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.
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9:00 – I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe, sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.
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9:10 – I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.
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9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding my head…they settled for the snowman’s head but I had to throw in the coal-eyes & the carrot nose!.
Moral: There is no moral to this story.
Real life written by Aldous Huxley
I am old. Is this normal for people under 30?
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) January 3, 2022
It should strike is right in our bones that if everyone needs antidepressants something is seriously wrong with society.
But no… our society elite read dystopian fiction as an instruction manual.