Like we did not know they were coming.

The White House said that to avoid being accused of capitalizing on the Arizona shootings for political gain, Obama will address the gun issue in a separate speech, likely early next month. He’s also expected to use Arizona as a starting point, but make the case that America’s gun laws have been too loose for much longer than just the past few weeks.

Time to roll up the sleeves again and get working on your congresscritters. Phone calls, emails, faxes and the threat of electing something else are to be used.

He should have tried to pierce his ear using that tool. It would have helped clean the gene pool.

No, it is not about Bloombergtown proposed law to ban texting while being New Yorker or about the idiot who fell in a fountain while texting.

A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.

She must have been a relative the suicide bombers that got confused by Israel’s switch from Daylight Savings to Standard time and got themselves in itsy bitsy tiny pieces for not adjusting the timers of their bombs.

Senator Boxer’s legislation would require all states that allow residents to carry concealed weapons to establish permitting processes that would include meaningful consultation with local law enforcement authorities to determine whether the permit applicant is worthy of the public trust and has shown good cause to carry a concealed firearm.

Rhetorical question: Is Senator Barbara Boxer suffering from some malady that require frequent trips to the local Pot Drugstore? Does she have anybody in her staff to tell her:”Yo Babs, this might not be one of your best ideas, you know? That thing in our history called racism where it was left at the discretion of the local law enforcement authorities to say a nigger wasn’t good enough to own a gun?”

Hippie Please!

Robert at Suburban Sheepdog had a wonderful post titled “I believe.” And of course and as usual I have to come around and do my messed up version of the thing.

• I believe in shooting dreams where the ammo and the targets are plentiful.
• I believe that somebody should come up with a cologne that smells like hickory smoke and grilled steaks.
• I believe that eyes have seduced more men than any other anatomical part of the female body.
• I believe that Bogie’s best movie was The Caine Mutiny and not Casablanca.
• I believe that the best meal in the world is a sharp knife slicing prosciutto, cutting gallego cheese and home made bread.
• I believe that watching a body of water like a flowing river or a lake is better than any anti depressant drug.
• I believe that the Big Bang was nothing more than God snapping his fingers.
• I believe that if you believe that the whole Universe from the complexity of Celestial mechanics to the DNA strand of a single cell organism is just a “coincidence” you are a damn fool.
• I believe that the best romantic movies of all times are “Heaven Knows Mr. Allison” and “Cyrano de Bergerac” (The Jose Ferrer version, not the fat french idiot’s.)
• I believe that the best “escape drug” is reading a good book alone at night.
• I believe that female cats when they die, reincarnate as Southern Belles.
• I believe music affects behavior (and if you don’t think so, come ride in the car with me while I listen to EL&P’s “Brain Salad Surgery” and no, I will not pay for your shrink afterward.)
• I believe this is enough for now.

Pop quiz Hot Shot. If you had to choose between Ice-T and the message of his music

Cop Killer

I got my black shirt on.
I got my black gloves on.
I got my ski mask on.
This shit’s been too long.
I got my twelve gauge sawed off.
I got my headlights turned off.
I’m ’bout to bust some shots off.
I’m ’bout to dust some cops off.

I’m a COP KILLER, better you than me.
COP KILLER, fuck police brutality!
COP KILLER, I know your family’s grieving,
(FUCK ‘EM!)
COP KILLER, but tonight we get even, ha ha.

Or the simple speech of Charlton Heston

Which style do you think will bring more cops to our side?

And before you start blabbering about the First Amendment and your right of to say whatever you want, a reminder that if the Second Amendment goes to hell, the First will be going right behind it. And yes, you can exercise your right to be as stupid as you want, but if you did not notice because you were too busy arguing in a gun forum about how tactical your gun is, the first thing that happened after the Arizona Shooting was a direct attack on BOTH the First and the Second Amendments by those who would like us gone, including many in the media who claim to be defenders of the Freedom of Speech.

I am sitting here typing as the TV is showing the memorial service for Miami Dade Police Officers Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth. At the same time I am keeping my eye on the events in St. Petersburg where Officers Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz also were murdered by a career felon and thinking about the shootings of police officers in Detroit, Indianapolis and Washington State. All of these in less than a week!

Last night at work I was faced with an idiot actually celebrating the death of the two officers and calling the murderer a hero. Young fella deep into the so-called Urban Culture who was babbling about how the cops were killing “his” people wholesale and nobody did a thing and that the cops had it coming. That his “hero” was a career criminal that fed off and killed “his” people did not even crossed his mind. I asked for specific cases where the police had committed this wholesale murder, but he was unable to provide but a few mumbles and assorted “You know what I am talking about.” When I pointed out I did not and I wanted to hear specifics or would have to consider him full of shit, he got angry and started to bluster with big hand movements and chest puffs which, once he remembered I was not your typical easy-to-scare co-worker, he decided to put aside his theatricals and walk away.

Any decent human being would be sick at such twisted mentality. To honor those who destroy your community and kill your people and to curse those who risk their lives for that community? And specially while trying to remove one individual who even after he was dead, neighbors refused to talk on camera about him? I just can wrap my head around it.

And now , the other shoe. We have in our Gun Culture individuals that are not quite bad, but not that far removed either. For a while there is a cadre of idiots that love nothing more than point out every bad cop and or every possible violation by Law Enforcement and make it look like it is the norm. These Keyboard Commandos and Starbucks Anarchists love nothing more than a good internet cop bashing to prop up their fake macho image. I am willing to bet that at the most, their bad interaction with a police officer came in the form of a speeding ticket yet they talk like they were gang raped by a bunch of NYPD officers with their nightsticks and would go as far as accusing Barney Fife of being a Gestapo agent. Those of us who have lived through the experience of really bad police officers in other countries know damn well what a bad cop actually behaves. First, they don’t use the well known and immediate call-to-arms expression “Papers Please.” Oh hell no! You may barely hear the word “Identification now!” while looking at the shitty end of a gun barrel. You pray like a saint while reaching very carefully for your wallet that the cop is in a good mood and is not exercising too many unnecessary pounds of pressure on that trigger.  If you are lucky, you are let go, if you are a bit unlucky, you may have some money and/or personal items redistributed for their sick version of the Police Benevolent Association and if you are unlucky, you’ll be found in a culvert the next day with a mouth full of flies and assorted unnatural orifices on your body.

We in the Gun Culture cannot afford these assholes becoming by default or design, our spoke people. Make no mistake, they are as harmful as ASHA or perhaps even more since they have no ties to Anti-Gun organizations that can be exposed. They will be used by the opposition to paint each and every gun owner as against law and order and wanting to destroy our country. Don’t be afraid to step on their toes and tell them that they do not represent you or any other gun owner.

And don’t be afraid of their mighty and verbose talk. History tell us that they are the first ones to turn yellow and become snitches when the shit hits the fan because as surely as the heavens, they will crap in their pants at the thought of a flash suppressor ready to tattoo their foreheads.