It is Nashville. What do you expect?

One night, after dropping my wife and her sisters off at a concert at Bridgestone, I met a college friend who was in from out of town, who promptly asked, “So why does Nashville allow giant snakes on Broadway?”

I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere about that question equating to the quality of the dating pool in the bars, but the best I could do was offer a confused eyebrow raise.

After giving my friend a walking tour of Broadway’s honky-tonks, there they were. As Instagram-ready as the Elvis statue, stood before me was one snake wrapped around the neck of a woman, and another being hauled around in a wagon.

Though I’m the son of a veterinarian, I’m quite lousy at identifying snakes. Boa constrictor? Python? I had no idea, but I got out my phone to gather some quality material for a few buddies.

But then, I heard the woman holding the snake say, “Twenty dollars to hold the snake.”

I watched as they placed the snake on a man’s shoulders, allowing it to wrap loosely around him. He grinned as his friends took pictures.

My friend, a graduate school classmate of mine, cued up our trained scrutiny and asked, “Do they have a permit to do that?”

Pythons on Lower Broadway business raise safety, permit questions (wsmv.com)

I would not get close to that thing anyway. But I did notice that the first reaction was “Permit?” and not if it was safe as if in “If you buy a government-issued permission, then it is all OK.”

We know better: The driving factor is revenue. Either more coming in or something affecting its flow into their pockets the city coffers.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night about a mile from the Capitol.

His chief of staff confirmed the incident in a statement and said he was not injured.

“As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle. Luckily, he was not harmed and is working with local law enforcement. Thank you to Metro PD and Capitol Police for their swift action and for recovering the Congressman’s vehicle,” the statement said.

Washington Metropolitan Police said an armed carjacking was reported at about 9:32 p.m. in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast Washington. No information about the victim was immediately provided.

Rep. Henry Cuellar victim of armed carjacking in Washington, D.C. (nbcnews.com)

Once I may have felt for the guy regardless of his affiliation. Now I am up to the point where I just have to laugh at the karma bath he got and say he got away cheap.

Let’s hope that the crime element in D.C. continues to target congresscritters so they can leave the rest of us alone.

I haven’t said this in a long while, but now more than ever the country needs to secede from Washington.

Sorry for the lack of posting.

It’s been an exhausting few days.

I’ll give you a hint.

I’ll do a longer writeup when I’m back home.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8MbFH9U/

It’s funny because it’s true…

On September 26, 2023, Governor Newsom signed a bunch of infringing laws into effect.

The Bad News

The bills were:

SB 2

Restricting who gets CCWs. The minimum age to get a CCW of 21. More training and making most of California a “sensitive place”.

SB 452

Require microstamping on all guns sold or transferred by 2028.

AB 28

11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition

AB 455

Prohibit people in “mental health diversion programs” from possessing firearms

AB 725

Requires reporting when chunks of aluminum or plastic or lost or stolen as if they were firearms.

AB 732

Makes it easier for the state to remove firearms from people

• AB 28 by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) – Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.
• AB 92 by Assemblymember Damon Connolly (D-San Rafael) – Body armor: prohibition.
• AB 97 by Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez (D-Pomona) – Firearms: unserialized firearms.
• AB 301 by Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) – Gun violence restraining orders: body armor.
• AB 355 by Assemblymember Juan Alanis (R-Modesto) – Firearms: assault weapons: exception for peace officer training.
• AB 455 by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton) – Firearms: prohibited persons.
• AB 574 by Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr. (D-Los Angeles) – Firearms: dealer records of sale.
• AB 724 by Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) – Firearms: safety certificate instructional materials.
• AB 725 by Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) – Firearms: reporting of lost and stolen firearms.
• AB 732 by Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra) – Crimes: relinquishment of firearms.
• AB 762 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) – California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program.
• AB 818 by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine) – Protective orders.
• AB 1089 by Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson) – Firearms.
• AB 1406 by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) – Firearms: waiting periods.
• AB 1420 by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) – Firearms.
• AB 1483 by Assemblymember Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim) – Firearms: purchases.
• AB 1587 by Assemblymember Philip Ting (D-San Francisco) – Financial transactions: firearms merchants: merchant category code.
• AB 1598 by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) – Gun violence: firearm safety education.
• SB 2 by Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) – Firearms.
• SB 241 by Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) – Firearms: dealer requirements.
• SB 368 by Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) – Firearms: requirements for licensed dealers.
• SB 417 by Senator Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) – Firearms: licensed dealers.
• SB 452 by Senator Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) – Firearms.

The Good News

The Great News

This little form says that Judge Carney grabbed this case. He likely grabbed any others filed in C.D.Cal.

Why is great news?

This is the same judge who recently found for the plaintiffs (good guys) in Lance Boland v. Robert Bonta, 8:22-cv-01421, (C.D. Cal.). He followed Bruen and got it mostly right. This means that he can move rapidly and will likely issue a TRO and preliminary injunction shortly.

This is a case worth watching. Not to see what happens, but to see how rapidly it happens.

The Original

With a swing:

With a more modern dance sequence

And, in some ways, the most impressive. A senior high school marching band:

They do this song while marching parade routes. This just happens to be well mic’ed and on a stage.

This was an interesting conversation.

-Tango Pappa (Not the real name)
GH Hill I’d need to see some actual data on that, not just speculation. Pelvic girdle shots already don’t have an anatomical justification to prioritize them over the CNS targets, be they 10mm or other.

-GH Hill (AKA Mad Ogre)
Trevor Putnam http://madogre.com/?page_id=1172
-GH Hill
Medically Reviewed and US Army Approved.

Tango Pappa
GH Hill I scrolled through it, didn’t see anything that indicated testing of pistol bullets on the human pelvis caused shattering (link below indicates that’s not the case), or that shattered pelvic bones resulted in a faster or more definitive cessesation of hostilies than a CNS hit.

Pelvic Shooting, the Best Worst Option

-GH Hill
Trevor Putnam No one is saying a pelvic hit is a faster incapacitation than CNS. Don’t be thick.

Tango Pappa
GH Hill then I guess I’m confused as to why anyone would prioritize it as a target. A pelvis with a centimeter hole in it isn’t a shattered pelvis, and isn’t a fight stopper, even if it was.

-Miggy Gonzalez
So you volunteer to take a shot in the crotch to prove your point?

Tango Pappa
Miggy Gonzalez it’s a non-question, no one ever volunteers to take a shot anywhere, to prove their point.
The real question is, when faced with someone who means to do you lethal harm as quickly as possible, will you aim for a CNS hit to stop the fight, or the pelvis, to perpetuate a meme about shooting people in the dick? Because all the research points to the first one.

-GH Hill
Miggy Gonzalez Evidently, Trevor here just can’t contemplate someone wearing Body Armor, and that a pelvic point of aim is a lot easier than a headshot.

-Miggy Gonzalez
I am going to shoot at whatever is available to cause pain and lots of bleeding. You yourself admitted that no one volunteers to take a shot and it seems silly to wait to obtain a head shot because you have some sort of dogma about the perfect placement. That only occurs if your opponent is polite and dumb enough to give you a chance.
I shan’t gamble on the kindness of those trying to inflict me harm.

-GH Hill
Miggy Gonzalez That dude is being purposefully argumentative. I blocked him.

This came about after I posted a pic of the Dick Shooters patch. In the middle of the argument, I posted Clint Smith’s now famous video:

Center Mass is defined at the middle of whatever is available to put rounds on the offending party. That is what you aim for because it is available and in real life, with more holes, hypovolemic shock comes faster if the coconut above the head is not easily available, or the chest is covered in protective crap. And let’s not forget pain as a behavioral modificatory.

By the way, the guy dropped me as FB friend. Probably my position was pure heresy.