The post WWII trials saw many many of the accused murders claim that they were “just following orders”. There was always somebody higher up that ordered them to murder people.

What isn’t as well known is that the population, when asked “Why didn’t you try and stop these mass murders?”, replied with “We didn’t know.”

The US military has rules that say you should not follow an illegal order.

As usual, we are running under the 48 hour collection of facts before conclusions, but some data appears to be in already.

School security is a deterrent. It’s time to prioritize school security and safeguard our children. pic.twitter.com/LuxfnQ7oxc

— NRA (@NRA) March 27, 2023

Hale fired a number of rounds inside the Covenant Church/School building. She was armed with these 3 guns and significant ammunition. pic.twitter.com/3LYOU2r0sh

— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 28, 2023

Can we at least agree that glass doors are NOT a security measure?

I wonder if we will ever be able to read the Audrey Hale’s manifesto or it will be buried deep to avoid “hurting the feelings” of certain segments of society.

PS: in some Old Media circles, the story was already sent to Winston Smith for proper editing and re-writing. Sure as hell is suddenly getting less time than certain celebrity lawsuit.

We have lost one of our commenters due to violation of The One Rule.

The rule is still in effect even if you were kind enough to support us by purchasing a subscription.

AWA for the GFZ admin team

Shot:

Chaser:

This person is a nursing professor.

Presumably she’s is, or at one time was, a practicing nurse.

If she feels this way about a town, how would she feel about a patient?

If a patient came in, in a MAGA hat, or a conservative theme shirt, or gave some other indication that they were Right Wing, would she treat them?

Would she provide them with adequate medical care?

Or would she leave them to suffer and die?

This shit shows how broken some people are and how you can’t trust our system anymore.

My first one in over 20 years and I was and was not disappointed.

But first, let’s play Gun Show Bingo!

Beef Jerky? Check!
Cheap, crappy nylon holsters? Check!
Free Space
Nazi Memorabilia? Check!
Fantasy Knives’ booth with ninja stuff? Check!
BINGO!

One big difference from the shows back in South Florida was the variety of firearms, especially old classics bolt actions. Most of them were in great shape indicating lots of love and care through the years. AR 15s are the kings of modern rifles, followed by the AK variants in a distant second place. I was amazed to see one SCAR and no Styers. About equal parts of new and used handguns including one booth with several Colt 1903s and a couple of stands with a good variety of revolvers, old and new and all insanely expensive. The prices of all guns are still absurd, including SKS for $650 the cheapest!

Ammo was plentiful but other than a small reduction in 9mm, the prices are still absurd. I refused to pay almost $50 for a box of .357 Magnum and I am happy I still have some from Remington for defensive use bought long ago and plenty of components for reloading. Speaking or reloading, there was next to zero on that area. I think I saw one 8# jug of some old powder, some bullets and cases (I have more in my stash) and ZERO primers. Some used dies in uncommon calibers and one RCBS press made for all Reloading in the show.

The best of show was the people: Friendly and talkative which I enjoyed to interact with, even though I am not gregarious or enjoy crowds at all. Amazingly very little political chat was overheard, but then again, I was not looking for it.

I did try to buy a muzzleloader, but the wife vetoed the idea with fury. I really don’t know why she was so against it, but I know better than contradicting her.

Here is a pic.

DeSantis got re-elected, turned most of Florida a solid Republican red and helped deliver 29 electoral votes for Trump. And I won’t even get into the how DeSantis weathered the COVID bullshit and kept the state into becoming a shithole.

Being better than him seem to be an unforgiving sin for Trump.

But when he insults DeSantis, he also insults those of us who voted for the governor.

As of right now, my next presidential ballot will not be check-marked for Trump if he is the one selected to run for President under the Republican ticket. If he stops behaving like a disgruntled carpetbagger and apologizes, I may reconsider.

Matt is out there fighting for the safety of the people of New Jersey. You know this because Louis tells you so. But it is fun to look some of the fun things he has to say Here in New Jersey, we have the fourth-strongest gun laws in the country. We also have the third-lowest rate of firearm deaths in the country and the lowest rate of firearm ownership with just 8.9% of New Jersey households reporting to own firearms. Id.

Is he proud his state has some of the worse gun right infringements in the country. He is proud of the infringements in the concealed carry permitting. He is proud of the infringements on individuals making firearms. He is proud of the infringements on people right to purchase firearms without permission. He is proud of being a tyrant.

But he is very upset that some people aren’t taking a knee to these infringements. Unfortunately, this was almost instantly challenged by gun-rights groups who claimed the law was unconstitutional because it violated the Second Amendment. id.. Yep, you read that right, they claim it was an infringement, not that it was.

And it just gets worse for him. To add insult to injury, the Supreme Court ruled in June that the Constitution provides a right to carry a gun outside the home Id. How horrible it is that the Supreme Court reaffirmed in Bruen that Heller is still good law and that if it is an arm in common use it is covered by the Second Amendment and if it is even a little infringement it is too much.

So Louis doesn’t get to have Matt go to the courts and whine that his law should make people safer so it should pass constitutional muster.

But let’s take a look at some of Louis’s claims, that New Jersey is somehow special in the reduction of violent crimes. Of course he might be cherry picking to just crimes committed with firearms:

Every statistic tracked in violent crime in the FBI’s UCR shows that crime is decreasing. That might be meaningful.
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