Supposedly the gun is kaput and unrepeareable …but still.

I don’t judge people for having one or more imaginary friends different from mine. I don’t judge them for eating or drinking something I wouldn’t touch. When they listen to strange music, watch TV shows or wear goofy outfits, I don’t judge. Same for having intimacy with one sex or the other or with an abstract idea instead. People can do pretty much anything that doesn’t harm me or mine — it’s not my privilege to judge them.
People who try to rob or rape me or mine get judged. People who advocate robbing or raping me or mine get judged. So do those who try to do it through proxies. With judgment comes the sentencing.

Source: Don’t judge! | VolkStudio Blog

That pretty much sums it up.

Pity they won’t heed the warning,

Ivy League Stupid is the idea that a person, who otherwise might be very well educated on certain academic matters, is entirely ignorant to the point of incompetence, on fundamental realities of everyday (particularly middle class) life.

UC Irvine may not be an Ivy League school, but that didn’t stop UC Irvine Biological Sciences professor Richard Symanski from suffering from a severe case of Ivy League Stupid.

The professor wasted 5 minutes of his students lives, pontificating on the issue of guns and advocating for gun control at the begining of one of his classes following the San Bernardino shooting.

This professor launches into a screed that is filled with every erroneous and idiotic California liberal unfact and opinion about guns.

• The 2A was written when our Founding Fathers only had muzzle loaders, so of course it shouldn’t protect semi-autos.  Amd muzzle loaders take 5 minutes to load.

The normal response to this is: So free speech doesn’t extend to TV/Radio/Internet/Digital Media?  But after reading the demands made by protesting college students and SJWs before the UN I’m convinced the Left doesn’t believe in free speech anymore.

• Beating people up and stabbing them isn’t as bad as shooting them, a/k/a mass killing don’t happen when you don’t have guns.

Tell that to China again and again, or the UK

But the one part that really got to me, truly stood out as the zenith of this professor’s out of touch Ivy League stupidity, was when he was talking about his gun carrying brother-in-law.  His bother-in-law carries a gun “eveywhere.”  He (the brother-in-law) was also a prison guard at Utah State Prison.

I went to college in the same town that executed Timothy McVeigh and served the Blues Brothers some really bad cabbage rolls.  I went to school with the children of some of the guards.  They has a surreal life.  Their dads went to work to guard some of the worst people in the country.  They lived under the ever present threat that some released inmate or inmate’s gang associates would try and take revenge against them or their family.  I can imagine that state prison guards face many of the same threats as federal guards.

Knowing that, carrying all the time seems more than reasonable.

But Dr. Unfact tries to proselytize the gun free life to this retired guard.  What out of touch insanity.  What utter self satisfaction in the conviction that he knows better than this old guard.  Notice how he uses a mocking tone to describe his brother-in-law’s carry habits.  What liberal elite arrogance.

“I know there are ex-cons out there that would probably kill you to look at you, but you really should consider not carrying a gun everywhere because it hurts my feelings.”

Armed with these untruths and hyperbole, this old California hippie professor tries to convince his students to take up the mantle of political action for gun control.

This guy is the physical embodiment of the great quote by Ronald Reagan: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”

Singapore has some of the lowest crime rates in the world. They have the second lowest murder rate in the world; only 16 people were murdered with a population of 5 million. If you are caught with a gun, you will be sentenced to death by hanging. The same for selling drugs. No trial, just death. What a great law.Why can’t the U.S. take some lessons from other countries? Why does the U.S. have to be No. 1 in many categories?

Source: Open carry of guns will take us back to Wild West | Bradenton Herald

I am not amazed that people like Mr. Hunter are walking the Earth and voting. I am amazed that a newspaper would publish a letter to the editor in which the author wants to execute fellow citizens without even the benefit of a kangaroo trial (Singapore does go through a trial, contrary to what Mr. Hunter wrote.)

And that is why we carry.

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
–1 Corinthians 13: 12-13

Our friends from CSGV with an item from RawStory:

And the story from a slightly better reliable source:

Police in Tucson, Arizona, say a man who had stolen two cases of beer from a convenience store was followed out by witnesses and shot to death after he charged at one of them with a log. Spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Bay said police are investigating and that the Pima County Attorney’s Office will determine whether the shooter, a man who has not been identified, faces charges.
The incident unfolded on Sunday afternoon, when police say 46-year-old Gerald Ramon was seen stealing beer from a convenience store. Several witnesses followed him out to a nearby parking lot. Police said that’s when Ramon picked up a large log, held it over his shoulder and moved toward the man who shot him.
The man hasn’t been charged and may have been acting in self-defense, police said. He remained at the scene and cooperated with police

Source: Police: Witness Follows, Shoots Man Who Stole Beer – ABC News

So it was not quite the posse of rednecks chasing down and hanging Jean Valjean after he stole a loaf a bread to feed the hungry kids in Peru. Although I would let the sucker go if I were a bystander (Done it before) one has to wonder if the shooter might have been the store owner (instead of a manager or clerk) who saw sweat and time invested in his store being stolen.

In any case, Gerald Ramon appears to have escalated the situation by picking up a weapon and threaten the shooter. Dumb move, specially if you live in Arizona or any of the Free States of the Union. He played the proverbial Stupid Game, upped the ante and won the Stupid Prize.

And as a reminder:

Your number one philosophy for personal security should be a life long commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

Avoidance: The act of avoiding or keeping away from (Three Stupid Rule.) If you can safely retreat from the encounter, by all means do so. For instance, if you are out for a walk and feel threatened or intimidated by an occupant of a car, you should retreat in the opposite direction that the car is traveling.

Deterrence: The act of discouraging someone from taking hostile action against you by being aware of them and their possible intent.

De-escalation: The act of decreasing in intensity. To not let your ego or emotions get the best of you, to refrain from escalating the problem into more than it already is. As a CCW you may need to back down from non-life threatening, argumentative encounters in order to not allow things to spiral out of control.
When these things do not work, then and only then may you need to show or use the gun. Just because we are carrying does not mean that we need to use the gun. You want to do whatever is reasonably possible to avoid using the gun. But when your well researched, well thought out “line in the sand” has been crossed you need to act without hesitation.

Roger Phillips, Suarez International Specialist Instructor.

I should post this the first of every month.

BAREFOOT BAY — An accused burglar is dead after Brevard County deputies said he hid in a pond while on the run and was killed by an 11-foot-long alligator.
Matthew Riggins, 22, of Palm Bay was reported missing Nov. 13. His body was found 10 days later floating in a pond near Latan Court and Barefoot Circle, in Barefoot Bay. Investigators said it had the makings of a gator attack

Source: Deputies: 11-foot alligator killed accused burglar hiding in pond

And now you know why there are so many pools in Florida.

Hat Tip to Chuck B.