After something like that, I can only go this way to solve this issue:

Derrick Brown is a knight in a Hawaiian shirt coming to the defense of a pregnant woman.

A teenager’s driving lesson led to an armed confrontation in the parking lot of a Leesburg Wal-Mart— a video of which is going viral on social media.
The incident happened shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wal-Mart on Citrus Boulevard, according to a police report. Felicia Russell, 36, said she was teaching her 15-year-old daughter how to drive. They were backing out of a parking spot when Russell heard several honks.
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The video starts with the pair arguing near Russell’s car. She’s pointing toward the car and saying, “She’s 15, you dummy.” The man walks closer to Russell, confronting her face-to-face. That’s when 60-year-old Derrick Brown approaches to ask what’s happening.
“Why are you walking up on this lady like that?” Brown says before telling the man he needs to back up.
“I need to what?” he says. He takes a step toward Brown, who again tells him to step back. The man says something to Brown that’s not heard clearly in the video.
Brown said the aggressor threatened him, so he pulled out a handgun. For the next minute, they continued arguing, with the man telling Brown to put the gun away.
“You’re not a man,” he tells Brown in the video.

Viral video: Armed man intervenes in argument involving pregnant woman at Leesburg Wal-Mart

Why do I say that planets aligned? Number one:  Because if this had happened some years ago, Mr. Brown right now would be in jail awaiting a bail bondsman. Remember the cries of doom from the Liberals and assorted Gun Controllers when Florida approved the badly named “Warning Shot” Law?

 776.012 Use or threatened use of force in defense of person.—
(1) A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.
(2) A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. A person who uses or threatens to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be.

The statue before read ‘Use of deadly force’ only. If you drew your weapon without the intent to shoot somebody during a forcible felony, you were on your way to jail. It was dumb that if you drew your weapon and had the fight de-escalate without having to shoot anybody, you would become a felon.

Second: Video evidence. Although we live now in a world that has a video camera everywhere and with everybody, the fact that somebody was shooting what happened before Mr. Brown arrived was a godsend. It gives us a background to how the vents unfolded.

Third: Orlando PD or the local Prosecutor did not feel that they needed to make an example of Mr. Brown. We have seen how even when the evidence is there, some less-than appreciative members of the executive will push their power because they can.

My only criticism? I would not have used such a confrontational/foul  language with the asshole. It is my personal belief that it will help you down the road if the evidence shows you seemed to be in control of your emotions and whatever you did was not out of spite or anger but you were forced to take action.  Maybe I am just of a delicate nature, who knows?

At the end, a gun was used in a defensive manner, lives were spared, nobody got injured, a baby is safe and a good law gets its vindication while poking the eye of Michael Bloomberg.

Good job and kudos to all the officers involved.

I am just going to copy/paste the description as it appears in the PoliceActivity YouTube page. And somebody did not have a secured magazine and probably is getting all kinds of hell from his fellow officers. He did transition rapidly.

Cincinnati police released body camera and security camera video footage showing the harrowing moment when officers shot and killed a gunman who opened fire on a downtown bank on Thursday morning. Surveillance video from the Fifth Third Bank headquarters near the city’s Fountain Square shows the gunman, identified by police as 29-year-old Omar Perez from Northbend, Ohio, walking methodically through the building. Perez, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, pants and a shoulder bag, could be seen behind the security turnstile, pointing his gun forward. In one clip, a security officer could seen helping a man off the ground and to safety before Perez walks by moments later. Isaac described the security guard’s actions as “heroic.” The gunman could be seen taking “shots at anyone he sees,” Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said in a press conference Friday. Later, when Perez appears to see the officers approaching, he turns to run away but is propelled forward after he is struck by gunfire. Isaac also played body camera footage from two of the officers who engaged the suspect and 911 calls reporting the shooting. Officers approaching the building could hear multiple gunshots ringing out, which “enabled the officers to pinpoint the shooter’s location,” Isaac said. As the officers ran toward the building, they spotted the gunman “actively firing shots in the first-floor lobby,” the police chief said.

Four officers then engaged the subject, shooting him through the glass window, Isaac said. The officers fired 11 rounds, eight from 9 mm handguns, two rounds from a shotgun and 1 round from a rifle, Isaac said. By the time one officer cracked open the door to the lobby, the gunman was on the ground, the body camera footage shows. The officers then entered the building, subdued the suspect and began to render aid to the victims, Isaac said. In a 911 call, a woman can be heard telling an emergency dispatcher that she’s locked in a bathroom with others. The emergency dispatcher tells her to stay there and wait for officers, who were already on the scene. The 911 center received “hundreds of calls” reporting the shooting, the emergency dispatcher said. Three people were killed and two injured in the shooting. The injured are still being treated in the hospital, Isaac said. Perez arrived at the location in his own vehicle and parked his car on a nearby street, Isaac said. He then entered through the side of the building and opened fire before continuing into the lobby are and firing more shots, Isaac said. About 4 minutes, 28 seconds passed between when Perez fired his first shot and he was stopped by officers, Isaac said. Emergency dispatcher received the first 911 call about 55 seconds after Perez fired the first shot, Isaac said.

Fire personnel determined Perez dead at the scene, the police chief said. Coroners will determine how many times he was struck be police gunfire. Perez was armed with a Taurus 9mm semi-automatic handgun, which was legally purchased from a Cincinnati gun store in August, Isaac said. He fired 35 rounds during the shooting, but while exchanging gunfire with police, his firearm malfunctioned and jammed, according to the police chief. Perez had about 200 rounds of extra ammunition in the briefcase he was carrying, Isaac said. Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting. Police believe he may have been trying to eventually make his way to the federal courthouse. Perez was not a current or former employee of the bank, Isaac said at a press conference Thursday. He had been living in Cincinnati since 2015 at seven different addresses, Isaac said. He had been issued several citations in the area but did not have a local criminal history. Perez also has a “brief criminal history” in South Carolina and Palm Beach, Florida, Isaac said. Court documents show that Perez filed two lawsuits against NBC Universal, Inc. and CNBC Universal Media in the Southern District of Ohio earlier this year, alleging that the oranizations used his cell phone harvest and broadcast his personal information. No such broadcasts appear to have been aired, ABC Cincinnati station WCPO reported.

WASHINGTON — If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.
Mr. Trump made his animus toward the news media clear during the presidential campaign, often expressing his disgust with coverage through Twitter or in diatribes at rallies. So if his campaign is any guide, Mr. Trump seems likely to enthusiastically embrace the aggressive crackdown on journalists and whistle-blowers that is an important yet little understood component of Mr. Obama’s presidential legacy.
Criticism of Mr. Obama’s stance on press freedom, government transparency and secrecy is hotly disputed by the White House, but many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.

If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama

It is a bitch when the opposition plays under the same rules your side played with, right? But you never thought you would see the day when that machete would be used to shave your balls, didn’t you?

The Piper accepts cash, credit cards and PayPal.  Pony up.

Found this morning at my Big Box Wholesale Store.

This is South Florida. We turn off the air conditioning maybe 3 weeks on a cold year.  The only wood to burn you find here are oaks and mesquite chunks for smoking ribs at the Home Depot.

Should I be worried?

The case of Krissy Noble has many in the Gun Culture railing in a righteous uproar. A young mother uses her husband’s gun to successfully defend herself at home from a violent intruder. She is not charged with a crime for it, but she heading to court because she was a felon in possession of a gun.  You see, Ms Noble had caught a 5 year suspended sentence for marijuana possession making her an automatic felon.

Absurd, but it is the law. It is the law that we have ignored for too many years so it is on our heads. Here in Florida, for example, if you are found or plea guilty of a non-violent Felony,  you will also lose your concealed weapons permit.  Some of those crimes are rather silly or are overblown as felonies like Defrauding Inkeeper (Don’t screw with hotels/motels in Florida), writing bad checks, intercept oral communication, keep a gambling house (them poker games with money exchanging hands?) and possession of a still or still apparatus.

And I do believe we have a good chance to change the law both at state and federal level. The Liberal’s movement to restore the Right to Vote for every felon (including killers and child rapists) could be used to put forward and win our fixing to the plight of people like Krissy. Voting right for Felons has always been a contradictory but successful platform, it is basically politicians saying: “I just wanna give you back the rights that can provide me a benefit and screw you with the rest.”

We need to clinch on that now that the marijuana laws are also changing. Many people who had their lives screwed for silly pot possession and have been perfect citizens after that, do not deserve to be branded and unable to defend themselves without consequences for the rest of their lives.

I do not claim to have all the right answers for this thing. I only have the gut feeling this is a very winnable cause if properly presented. The Opposition will have to explain why Suzy Homemaker, mother of three, PTA and member of the Antioch Revival Church of the Region does not have the right to defend herself from the Bubba Jose Dashiki who already has several felony convictions on him and just broke into her house planning to make her a forcible semen rag before killing her but has Liberals championing him do he can get his right to vote restored.

This cause is probably as important of not more important than National Reciprocity. At least, that is my take.

Like Michael Bane is fond to say, we always vote guns. Liberals will vote according to what is in the political weather that election cycle: Gay Rights for Muslim Albinos or against Greenhouse Gases from Field Mice or whatever is the cause du jour. Gun Owners will vote for the candidate that supports the Second Amendment every. single. time.

We are that ornery.