Just saying…

One subject I believe (without any polling) the vast majority of us support is real gun safety. When a child is injured or killed by a gun, it hurts us all. I believe that the best way to keep that from happening is for children to learn from an early age what to do if they find themselves around a gun without adult supervision. To that end, this is a short story about how I helped get a firearms safety course taught in our local elementary school. I cannot take credit for anything much beyond being a catalyst to launch the program, but sometimes just a spark is all it takes.

In 2019, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a very poor law, the Safe Storage Law, Public Act No. 19-5. However, a part of the act did do a very good thing. It changed the language of an existing statute, directing the State Board of Education to develop, “guides to aid local and regional boards of education in developing firearm safety programs for students in grades kindergarten to [eight] twelve, inclusive, in the public schools” from “may” (which they never did) to “shall”. That guide (found here) was finally published in the Spring of 2021 and is actually a useful document.

When CCDL (Connecticut Citizens’ Defense League) notified its membership of the new guide, they encouraged members to contact their local School Boards to support actually teaching a firearm safety course in their local school. I wrote an email about the training to the Chair of the Barkhamsted, CT BOE, and the Chair forwarded my email to Jim Agostine our new Superintendent of Schools. Jim emailed me and initiated a phone conversation. Jim was most receptive to the idea, having used the Eddie the Eagle program for second graders in his previous school system. I offered to do some basic research on the program, including costs, and he took the idea to the School Board.

As with everything involved with government, nothing happens overnight, and in small towns that can be in spades. Nevertheless, Jim’s initial approach to the Board got a favorable response and we continued to develop the information necessary to go forward. However, things did stall a bit and I offered to send a letter to the Board with a formal request to implement the training for one grade in the Elementary School. While I have no real standing in town other than being a resident and taxpayer, apparently it helped. The town got the funding for the Eddie the Eagle program materials, our Resident Trooper volunteered to help deliver the training, and it happened in the Spring of 2022! Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of the event, but the good news is that it will be taught again this Spring to this year’s second grade class. Our hope is to expand it to teach a second course to the fifth grade class each year as well, but that is still in the future.

While this is not a very exciting story, it did show me that we can make changes at the local level if we are just willing to speak up and to provide help and encouragement. It won’t always happen as smoothly as this did for me, but I was extremely lucky to make contact with an official who was already disposed to support my request on the first try. Find that person and your odds of success skyrocket. I want to believe that it also helped that I was willing to do some basic research about programs and help make contact with possible instructors, but the real work was done by Jim and his staff and would not have happened without his enthusiastic support.

It also introduced me to the Eddie the Eagle program. While I had heard of the program, I had never looked into the details. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend visiting the site to see for yourself. The NRA did a great job and spent your money well for once, but I’ll warn you, once you watch the movie you won’t get the jingle out of your head! This is true Gun Safety and the more we can get it out there, the safer our kids will be. Even if your school isn’t willing to teach the program, you could present it within you gun club or other organization. Just do it!

This is almost painful to watch:

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1637267980538068992?s=20

First of all, let this be your daily reminder that they hate you and want to kill you.

Now let’s break down everything wrong here.

In the fantasies where the NRA/MAGA/Right are being mass murdered, these people are never the ones doing it themselves.

It’s always “the military” as though the military is a monolithic block that will uniformly obey orders to drone strike America citizens.

Of course, there are Leftist offices who would, and enlisted who will obey any command for a paycheck, but their is equally a good chance that the SSG in question, flying the drone is an NRA Golden Eagle.

Next, this particular comedy bit only works in his hypothetical situation where the field of battle is some sort of designated arena.

Reality is that such a war in the US would have no battle lines.  The NRA members would be mixed in developments next to houses with “Love is Love” and “Hate has no home here” door mats.

Asymmetric war would be the name of the game, and I guarantee you it would be ugly to a degree that nobody in the west is prepared for.

It’s literally a plausable situation where the brother of the NRA member who just got droned is a contractor at the base where the drone pilot flies from, and their kids play on the same little league team.  Now tell me how that situation ends.

“We will win this war with the push of a button” is the most ignorant possible takeaway from the GWOT.

Lastly, this twig-arm numb-nuts somehow believes that he is untouched in this situation.  That his cheerleading of the murder of American citizens will be given a pass.

It won’t.

So if we’re going to have some annual televised “FAFO trial,” let the military sit it out, because ot will be rendered useless in very short order.

Make it between these sorts of Leftists and the people on the Right they want to murder, and let them discover what the reality of what civil war is actually like.

Sandy Hook Gun Lawsuit to Be Dramatized in Limited Series

A lawsuit brought by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting victims against a gun manufacturer will be the subject of a limited series project.

Echo Lake Entertainment (Hulu’s The Great, The Girl From Plainville) is producing the project from Robin Swicord (When They See Us, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Sarah Koskoff (Hello I Must Be Going) and Echo Lake’s Mary Jane Skalski, with consultation from several families involved in the suit.

The limited series will tell the story of how nine Sandy Hook families sued to hold Remington Arms — at the time of the mass shooting owned by venture capital firm Cerberus Capital Management —accountable for manufacturing and marketing the assault rifle used in the shooting. Josh Koskoff took the case, knowing nothing about guns or gun laws, and despite dire warnings from the legal community that the case was doomed. Remington and the families settled the case in February 2022, with the arms maker agreeing to pay $73 million and releasing thousands of internal documents from the years leading up to the December 2012 mass murder.

“This is a series about accountability,” said Swicord. “As a society, we are used to seeing the largest corporations shield themselves from liability. But these Sandy Hook families found a lawyer who had as much fight in him as they had and who was undaunted by the roadblocks they faced. What [Josh] Koskoff and the families found through research, discovery and industry whistleblowers revealed how Wall Street greed drives big business no matter the human cost.”

The lawsuit was bullshit that a very politically partisan judge should have dismissed, but didn’t, because it was an endrun around the PLCAA.

The settlement was forced by Remington’s insurance carriers, and never should have been allowed to happen.

They arr going to docudrama this up into a David vs Goliath whete Goliath is literally the merchant of death, while there was never any evidence that Adam Lanza ever saw the Bushmaster ad at the heart of the lawsuit or that it was that ad that made him kill his own mother, steal her gun, and murder a bunch of children.

Buy in the world of the anti-gun Left, Remington is worse than Lanza.  Lanza was a victim of an evil gun corporation’s desire for money.

Frankly, I have no desire to be one of the villains in a made for TV anti-gun Erin Brockovichesque series.

Fauci: “[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won’t get vaccinated]. It’s so crazy. They’re not doing it because they say they don’t want to. They’re Republicans. They don’t like being told what to do. We need to break that.
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Fauci: “[Red states] are going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country [because they won’t get vaccinated]. It’s so crazy. They’re not doing it because they say they don’t want to. They’re Republicans. They don’t like being told what to do. We need to break that.” pic.twitter.com/yqV4Il8hBv

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 20, 2023

And this is why buy the tools they hate us to have.

I guess this is a good reminder to buy another couple of boxes of ammo this week.

More videos have been released from inside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX.

Yes, the shooter had an AR.

So did at least half of the responding officers.

At least half of the police had rifle plates as well.

There were 376 of them.

Under no circumstances is 376 police, half with rifles and plate armor out gunned or outmatched by one guy with an AR.

The one officer summed it up the best: “I’m not trying to get clapped out.”

Feckless, fuckless, ductless, chicken-shit cowards, every last one of them.

But the worst part is this video will be used by the anti-gun side to demonstrate just how terrifyingly dangerous ARs are.

They will double down on gun control because police are yellow-bellied cowards.

In 1609 a bunch of settlers were given land taken from the natives. The settlers were of a different culture and more importantly of different religious backgrounds. While both the natives and the settlers claimed to worship the same God they had a different “chain of command” to get to God.

This lead to conflicts.

The conflicts continued at a sort of low level until 1798 when the natives rose up in rebellion. The settlers called on the home state for help and the home state sent the military to put down the up rising. The military of the settlers as reinforced by the home state squashed the insurrection but did nothing to stop the on going conflicts.

The natives continued to agitate to remove the settlers with violence erupting with regularity.

In 1912 the natives had made significant headway back in the home state and it was looking as if they might regain control of their own lands. In response the settlers formed paramilitary groups to fight against the natives taking control. They were prepared to do battle over their holdings, some of which went back 300 years to that 1609 date.

WWI interrupted the situation but after the war the country split, the northern part going to the settlers and the southern part to the natives. This created even more conflict.

There was another uprising and the native survivors of that uprising fumed over their loss with growing resentment.

In the meantime Communism was making its way as if a disease throughout the world. The losing natives, in their resentment, adopted a Socialist viewpoint.

Tensions continued to mount breaking out in the late 1960s to open gorilla warfare. Assisted by Muammar Gaddafi and other nasty groups they received arms and explosives.

For over 30 years this war went on. At the end of the war the natives disarmed turning in the following:

• 1,000 rifles
• 2 tons of Semtex plastic explosive
• 20-30 heavy machine guns
• 7 surface-to-air missiles
• 7 flamethrowers
• 1,200 detonators
• 11 rocket-propelled grenade launchers
• 90 handguns
• 100+ hand grenades

Wikipedia

During this war the natives had somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 people actively involved. The settlers estimated that at the start of war the natives had around 500 full time volunteers with natives claiming around 1,200.

At the end of the conflict the were around 600-700 active members of the native fighting group.

Support of the native terrorists was high through out the world. Many felt a cultural connection back to their native land and sympathy for the natives as the home state of the settlers wasn’t known for being all that benign.

For us an important piece of information is just how small the active resistance force was and how weekly armed they were. When some politician claims that they could stomp out gun ownership they need only look at these number to realize how wrong they would be. It is estimated that around 40% of the population of that northern state were directly or indirectly adversely affected by the conflict

Of course there were songs created: