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The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth has removed signs from its parishes warning people not to carry guns on church property. The Diocese hasn’t changed its no-guns policy. But officials worried the signs themselves made the churches a more attractive target. Some churches around Houston are taking similar precautions.

Last year’s attack at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church forced the Houston Area Pastor Council to think about how to balance the need for safety with the need to provide a welcoming environment. The question of posting no-firearms signs was a big one, and ultimately most churches in the network decided against it.
“There was that concern that if these signs were posted, that it would be a signal that, very clearly, that potential shooters would have less resistance there, unless…those particular churches had visible, consistent, armed personnel or uniformed personnel, on-site, which some do but many don’t,” said Dave Welch, the Council’s executive director.

Houston Churches Remove ‘No Guns’ Signs, Citing Safety Concerns

Have they been illuminated by the wisdom of the Holy Ghost? More likely they got a dose of common sense and realized the stupid signs are just a huge red cape being waved at the bull.

Back in 2011, I posted a small article called “Why Concealed Carry helps those who not carry.” Let me repeat it here:

Imagine two identically looking bowls with 100 M&Ms each:

Bowl One has 100 fresh M&Ms reap for picking by anybody.

Bowl 2 has 95 fresh and delicious M&Ms and 5 M&Ms laced with a very fast acting poison but indistinguishable from the rest.

Question: Which bowl will be avoided like the plague?

To those churches in Texas: Welcome to the flock.

Apropos of nothing, we are  living a golden age of Air Rifles, some capable of be used to hunt medium size game in the US. No FFL required and you can even get some at your local Big Box store.

OK, I finally came with a title for these small newspaper article series of yesteryear: Old News. I have a bunch clipped already, but they will be posted with measure.

A bit of background. This was a very violent time in US History with Anarchists, Unions people raising hell and then Prohibition just beginning.

As you can see, Omerta was also followed by people other than the Sicilians.  And frigging creative, too.

This does not need a lengthy explanation. Here is part of the lawsuit which explains damned good why this action is being taken:

No person, regardless of their profession or exercise of free speech
advocating for policies with which others disagree, should be harassed, threatened, and denigrated as a “worthless cunt,” “whore,” and “disgusting bitch,” who should “get to experience a (sic) ammo dildo” and be the victim of “100 bullets between [her] eyes” while receiving unsolicited, graphic photos of gunshot
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As usual, here is a copy of the lawsuit your particular “entertainment” and I will just share some of the things said or  sent to Ms. Hammer:

Even those professing to be dedicated to preaching anti-hate and anti violence resorted to threatening Hammer’s family. During a public hearing in Tallahassee on February 27, 2018, Rev. Joe Parramore leaned over to Hammer and stated:
“The next check you write will be to pay for the funerals of your grandchildren.”

“Dear Twat. You are a vile cunt. I hope you get to experience a (sic) ammo dido (sic). I can’t wait till the day I flip on the news to see you mourning a gunshot victim. You’re disgusting and exactly what’s wrong with people today. I seriously hope karma comes around for you soon. You and that other ammosexual the fairy Wayne LaPierre, what a masculine name to match the fairy he is. I hope to see he died of a gunshot wound that took hours of pain before he succumbed…

Fuck you. You worthless cunt. You’re a whore, not a freedom fighter… I hope you don’t (sic) a moment of peace for the rest of your pitiful lives…”
– Chris Risica (Exhibit 30)

“The consequences that you will… be subjected to when you are killed by those weapons you have hawked for all these years will send you to burn in hell you fucking heartless, greedy bitch. I pray everyday that one of these ‘good’ people puts 100 bullets between your eyes so we can celebrate.”
– Howard Weiss (Exhibit 31)

“You should rot in hell you disgusting bitch!!!! HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE SO YOU CAN GET YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH YOUR FUCKING GUNS!!!

Is it because your (sic) so fucking ugly and you never gotten laid in your life?

Can’t you go be a nun like old hags like you used to do in order to get your jollies off of being sadistic to children? It’s perverse that you would rather watch them get killed… FUCK YOU. I pray someday I run into you so I can scream my head off at your sick face!!!

Your enemy for life.”
– Patrick Sullivan (Exhibit 32)

Here are other samples of “conversationalists.”

“Fuck you, Cunt. That is all.”
– bizarr @ .com (Exhibit 2)
*****
“you are a VILE CUNT… enough said”
– smith @ .com (Exhibit 3)
*****
“I’m horrified at your behavior. Nothing more than a truly ugly from the inside out redneck. Rot in hell you soulless cunt.”
– suzanne. @ .com (Exhibit 4)

Explain to me again why should I behave and be nice to our enemies?

Dear old ACLU doing its best to be irrelevant. They decided to join the Black Lives Matter crowd in the issue of Harith Augustus who got shot by Chicago PD. The initial word was spread that Mr. Augustus was brutally shot by the pigs of CPD while he was on  his way to church and he was not armed, of course. And as it happens, not only Mr. Augustus was armed, but he drew his weapon towards the officers. More at the end of this post.

Back to our friends of the American Civil Liberties (only the ones we like) Union. They decided to publish a Tweet with a damning message against Law Enforcement and a video with the names of Black people shot by police since 2016. Here is a screen capture.

One comment I read was that the ACLU was not making a difference between bad shootings by cops and justifiable shootings. I decided to check out the first 10 names in the list and, what do you know? Nine out if the ten were indeed police having to deal with criminals.

“A second suspect in Martin’s death, 30-year-old Germonta Wallace, was fatally shot by police when they attempted to serve a warrant on him and he reportedly opened fire.”

RAGLEY, LA (KPLC) –
A man killed by Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s deputies was armed when he was shot, according to new information made available Friday by the department.
Eric John Senegal, 27, was killed at a residence on Gene Stanley Road in Ragley Monday evening as Beauregard authorities served a drug search warrant.

During the investigation, Callaway saw Rodney Turner, 22, walking in the complex, and said he matched a suspect description.
According to police, Callaway tried to question Turner, but Turner grabbed Callaway’s rifle and attempted to disarm the officer. Police said Callaway saw that Turner had a gun, drew his sidearm and shot at Turner during the scuffle. Turner fled, but his weapon was found at the scene.

CMPD says patrol went to the neighborhood at about 5 a.m. after they got a call about shots being fired. When they got there, Carlton Antonio Murphy walked out of an apartment on the second floor and started shooting at officers from the balcony, hitting a patrol car.

Rakeem O. Bentley, 24, during a struggle with several members of the FBI’s Southeast Michigan Trafficking and Exploitation Crimes task force, nearly overpowered one of the officers involved in the sting, unholstering his gun and shooting him in the stomach, according to the summary, obtained via Freedom of Information Act request.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police identified the 52-year-old man killed by an officer after a reported fast-food restaurant robbery. Police on Monday named Crayton West was killed during what they said was a Sunday evening armed robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

Louisiana man shot dead by police after hostage standoff that saw him hold his girlfriend in a trailer for three hours before threatening to shoot her
Saint Landry Parish Sheriffs Office SWAT team shot 40 year old Timothy R. Albert who later died upon arriving at hospital
Around 11 a.m. Wednesday, deputies responded to a neighbors call saying that Albert, armed with a rifle, was chasing a woman in the yard.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper chased Eufaula bank robber Cedric Norris north on U.S. 69 for three minutes on Jan. 21 before tapping Norris’ vehicle with his cruiser, causing it to crash, newly released dash-cam video footage shows. Twelve seconds after his SUV ran off Onapa Road, Norris and authorities from three law enforcement agencies — the Eufaula Police Department, the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Office and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol — began to exchange a minute’s worth of gunfire. More than 40 shots can be heard on the audio, but it’s still not clear how many officers fired shots at Norris.

[Jonathan] Bratcher, 32, was killed Jan. 27, 2016, near Mississippi Boulevard and South Parkway East after firing at officers while fleeing from his vehicle to avoid arrest. His car was being pursued by police on traffic charges.

This is the crap that organizations that claim to be serious and upstanding, cannot fall for just because it makes good politics. The ACLU is not well liked by Gun Rights people for a long while now because their stance against the Second Amendment. But they cannot afford to lose credibility playing dumb rhetorical games or simply misguide followers in a day and age that a quick Google search can and will bring the facts of a case.

Let’s go back to the shooting of Harith August which led to protests in Chicago when social media was bombarded with the story he was unarmed and shot like a dog. Chicago PD release both pictures and body cam video of the confrontation and guess what? Mr. Augustus did have a gun and make the stupid mistake of resisting arrest and draw his gun with cops around.

The ACLU instead of pouring more Napalm to the fire should have asked people to remain calm till the evidence is present, the same thing the NRA does and has worked wonderfully. But as the suspicious sucker that I am, I have to reckon if they joined the false narrative knowing that the lie will travel far and joining the chorus will maybe bring them some much-needed donations? Unfortunately, in this day and age we cannot longer assume they are doing stuff wrongly because of ignorance and with innocence in their harts.

Restaurant in Arizona proved that it was not populated by lambs. Armed robber (knife) got a nice lesson in Disparity of Force.

It is Sunday and we should be spare of stupid news, right?

Jet Skis, waverunners and other personal watercraft shooting salt water up at the underside of the MacArthur Causeway have caused extensive corrosion on one end of the bridge, necessitating repairs to beams and columns

Waverunners, Jet Skis, to Blame in Miami Bridge Corrosion

This is a picture of the part of the causeway I am thinking they are talking about.

So, where is the McArthur causeway built that it may encounter corrosion? Lemme check a map really quick:

The Google orange marker shows the causeway on Biscayne Bay and that big field of blue to the right? It is a clue called the Atlantic Ocean.  Since it inception 90 something years ago, the McArthur causeway has been standing over sea water. Now, it may be news to the latest crop of both journalists and engineers, but stuff that is prone to corrosion will do so in the proximity of an ocean shore.

I am sure there are other reasons why there are corrosion issues with the overpass, but jet skis are not it.

I need more coffee.