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A cure for online bullying and trolling plus Real Life Asshatery: Bring Back Dueling!

From Floridamemory.com

duel darling v smith
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The handwritten part reads:
The above affair has just ended by Darling’s giving Judge Smith a most thorough thrashing – the Judge having first attracted him.

I checked on the Florida Statutes and found nothing forbidding dueling outright. And specially with the upcoming elections, I figure it would make for a very entertaining political season.

Just a thought… I know…we are civilized now.

<sigh> 😀

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is not happy.

Not at all. His comments about Open Carriers have made the rounds down here in Florida and the reactions have been negative.

Mr. Williams,Based on our previous conversation I am not surprised you wrote this completely inaccurate blog piece. This is irresponsible “reporting” at its finest. You did not hesitate to call me previously so why did you not call me to get the facts before spewing this nonsense this time? Sadly, it absolutely mischaracterizes my statement and does a great disservice to all when junk like this is written. The Sarasota Hearld Tribune has stooped new a new low. This is not “reporting.”

Source: Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri attacks the messenger, or at least makes the attempt – The Gun Writer

I understand that you can make statements to a journo and he/she can write them out of context for impact. But if that is the case, take it out on the reporter, not on somebody making an appropriate comment about what was printed.

That alone was stupid and probably confirms that he said what he said in the right context.

 

CSGV Follies

These are some screen captures I did over the week, but they really did not amount too much as to write a full post about them.

CSGV gun locks

The good news is that they are so influential that they could only get 28,000 people to sign the online petition. The bad news is that there are 28,000 people who would rather see kids getting shot accidentally because of their beliefs.

CSGV weaken government“Weak government”… they make it sound like it is a bad thing.

CSGV democracySilly me. I did not know the United States was a democracy.

 

 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the taste of shoe leather.

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Thursday that “If 30,000 people in the United States of America fell sick of flu or Ebola or polio, this nation would be up in arms,” adding that the U.S. is dealing with “an epidemic of gun death and gun disease that is taking lives.”…
…Blumenthal was likely referencing the most recent firearm fatality data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which lists 33,636 firearm-related deaths for 2013.

Source: Blumenthal: If Same Number of Gun Deaths Were Due to Illness, ‘This Nation Would Be Up in Arms’

Senator Blumenthal should have kept on reading that report. The CDC’s numbers for Flu/Pneumonia deaths in 2013 were 56,979.

But then again you read that he was around minions and cohorts of the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence, and you figure stupid is contagious and he got infected with that particular strain of flu.

First Blood

I wanted to make a comment on Miguel’s last post but as I thought about it, the subject became more of a post in and of itself.

Pinellas County is a rather safe county in Florida, home to St. Petersburg and Clearwater.  It’s a tourist and retirement county, below the national average on unemployment and crime rate.

So why would it have such a murder happy sheriff?  I call it the “Rambo theory of Law Enforcement.”  Remember the movie Rambo: First Blood.

What was the plot:  Rambo, an ex-Army special forces vet, is passing through small town in Washington state.  The sheriff (played by Brian Dennehy) doesn’t like the look of Rambo, thinks he’s a drifter, and drives him out of town.  Rambo says he wants to get a meal before moving on and the sheriff arrests him for vagrancy and tortures him.  Rambo escapes and goes on a rampage.

The “Rambo theory of Law Enforcement”  is that you get sheriffs or police chiefs in power in (usually) low crime areas, and they get it into their heads that “this is my sleepy little town and I’m going to keep is that way with an iron fist.”  They become the kings of their little domains.  I’ve experienced this in Florida a number of times.  I grew up in a little town near South Miami called The Village of Pinecrest.  It had one of the lowest crime neighborhoods in Miami-Dada County.  Pinecrest police patrolled in SWAT gear.  Bal Harbor is a tiny town on Miami Beach, known mostly for having some of the most expensive condos and the most high-end shopping in the state.  Bal Harbor police are Nazis.  They will arrest you for doing 5 over the limit.

It’s not that the Sheriff of Pinellas County is oblivious to the insult he done to his officer’s intelligence or the people of the county.  He doesn’t care.  He is the law.  Nobody is make waves in his county.

But this brings me to my next point.

Is Rambo: First Blood the best Second Amendment supporting movie ever?  I know fans of the 2A love Red Dawn, and the idea of American citizens fighting off in invading army.  But our founding fathers put the 2A in place for the people to defend themselves from tyrannical government.

So… if you have a sheriff, who arrests, tortures, and tries to murder an American citizen, was Rambo exercising his 2A rights as envisioned by our founding fathers?

The CSGV likes to make the idea of “gun owners want a rebellion” against the federal government.  What if it’s just against a sheriff that threatens to murder his own constituents?

Keep in mind, this happened twice before in 20th century America, the Battle of Athens (1946) and the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921).