My husband thinks I'm crazy because I refuse to visit or even drive THROUGH a red state because I dont feel safe. Would you drive through Kentucky or Texas with NY State license plates? Am I being obtuse?
Rent Control vs Non-Rent Control. Mountain View Voice
Free market competition has a history of creating jobs, creating new products, new opportunities and wealth. Government control of the market fails.
Thomas Sowell points out in Basic Economics IIRC, that you can’t compare the official government prices in places where the government controls prices. Instead you have to look at the blackmarket price for goods. Since the blackmarket is almost always a free market, it is much more likely to be properly indicating the correct signals.
A signal is how much a person is willing to pay for a good or service.
If somebody is staying in the same job, even though they aren’t “getting paid enough”, then the company is being signaled that they price they are paying for labor is correct. If they can’t hold personal and/or they can’t hire new personal then they are being signaled that they are not paying enough. Paying enough includes all the extras a job includes.
Maryland has a fairly high income tax. The income tax is both a state income tax, a county income tax and a city income tax. Originally there was no limit on what the county and city tax rate could be. The different counties had different rates. People made decisions on where they lived based on those rates.
In order to “help” the people from being ripped off by the county and city taxes legislation was introduced that set the maximum rate that could be charged. With fanfare it passed.
Within a very few years every county and city had exactly the same tax rate. That maximum allowed by law.
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“Shotguns at the right range with the right load will physically remove a chunk of shit off your opponent and throw that shit on the floor. And you have to get someone to come in and clean this shit up with a shovel.”
Today we turn to California on this topic.
In the video it appears that the robber still has his arm, but only God, he, and his trauma surgeon know what condition it’s in.
But at that range (say 25 feet) a load from a 12 gauge would be devastating enough to mostly sever a limb.
Note how the other guys getting put of the SUV with guns reversed course as soon as their compatriot came out scrraming with a shotgun wound.
An 80-year-old liquor store owner in California has called out politicians after his trigger finger helped him fend off armed robbers, claiming ‘I’m not going to let them get the shot off first.’
Craig Cope, 80, said ‘the crime rate is escalating and it’s going to continue to escalate until they start putting the people away that are doing the bad things’ after his harrowing shootout was caught in dramatic surveillance footage.
While he refrained from ‘naming names,’ he said ‘there are a whole lot of them that are creating major problems for business owners,’ and complained ‘a lot’ of criminals are ‘career criminals, (and) they need to be locked up.’
The old man is not wrong.
Cope was behind the counter of Norco Market & Liquor shop in Norco, Calif., when he noticed a gang of men armed with guns creeping up to the door just before 3 a.m.
‘There wasn’t much time to think about’ what to do, Cope said, as a 23-year-old man entered the store with an AR-15 raised and ready to shoot, forcing Cope to immediately fire off his shotgun, hitting the man in the arm and sending the group scrambling.
‘He shot my arm off! He shot my arm off!’ the man can be heard shouting as he frantically runs back to a black BMW SUV that deputies later said was reported stolen.
The store owner described being forced into action in an interview with Fox, saying: ‘When you point that gun at me and you’re that close to me and I see what you’re carrying, I’m not waiting.’
He’s right about his tactics too.
Cope said his shooting skills come from being a young boy in Illinois, where he owned a single-shot rifle and hunted small game. ‘Ammunition was expensive’ he said, so ‘you don’t want to miss.’
Beware the man with just one gun, he probably knows how to use it.
Cope will not face any charges in Riverside County, unlike the New York City bodega worker who was charged with murder for fatally stabbing an attacker in self-defense.
‘In this case, a lawfully armed member of our community prevented a violent crime and ensured their own safety while being confronted with multiple armed suspect,’ the sheriff’s department said in a release referring to Cope’s case.
That’s the best news. Good on the Sheriff for upholding the obvious.
When a thug points an AR at a law abiding citizen and gets a free prison issued prosthetic arm as his stupid prize, all caught on HD security camera, it’s best just to let it go.
I should point out that this shooting also disarms the Left’s position on AR-15s turning criminals who wield them into unstoppable killing machines.
In Greenwood, a criminal with an AR was taken out by a guy with a CCW pistol.
Here, a criminal with an AR was given a Grosskreutz with a pump action scattergun.
It’s not about the gun, it’s about the mindset.
This old man was going to do what needed to be done and did it with one shotshell.
Gilroy Garlic Festival day after shooting
California passed legislation that allows people to sue gun manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for others misusing their products.
In 2019 some asshole shot up the California garlic festival. Now that Bruen has dropped the maggots are coming out to feast on the bodies.
The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief from Century Arms LLC for marketing and selling the WASR-10 military-style assault rifle the shooter used to carry out the horrific act that killed three people and injured 17 others. According to Scarlett Law Group and Brady Legal, the company was “negligent and reckless” for manufacturing and selling “a weapon of war” that can too easily be modified to fire automatically.
— Why Is Century Arms LLC Liable?
The addition off Century Arms to the lawsuit was approved by Santa Clara County Superior Court after California passed laws enabling citizens to individually sue corporations and individuals doing commerce in arms.
In addition to the Scarlett Law Group suit there seems to be others that are suing Century Arms.
This is the second prong on the most recent attack on the Second Amendment. The first being to declare so many sensitive places that it is impossible to carry and the other to use lawfare to drive people and corporations engaging in the legal commerce in arms to be driven out of business via the costs of defending themselves.
A transgender cheerleader was kicked out of a Texas college cheer camp after she allegedly attacked a teammate who called her a ‘man with a penis’.
Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, was booted from the Ranger College cheerleading camp in Texas, and given a criminal assault by physical contact citation last week. She is accused of choking a 17 year-old teammate, only identified by her first name, Karleigh, who she claimed made transphobic remarks toward her.
The girl and other teammates allegedly locked themselves in a locker room to hide from the raging Medlock, who claimed that she was being targeted for her race and gender.
Police were called to the scene, along with Karleigh’s father, Mike Jones, and Medlock was removed from the campus.
Jones’ account of the incident was far different, however, writing in a Facebook post that he was called by his terrified daughter at 1am after she barricaded herself behind a door to hide from Medlock, who had allegedly choked her out. Several teammates corroborated this account of events.
‘I ask you what you would have done when receiving a phone call at 1 o’clock in the morning from your daughter stating they had locked themselves in the room with other girls, after this person said You want to fight, and proceeded to put their hands around my daughters neck,’ he wrote.
Speaking to KTAB and KRBC, Medlock insisted the problems were started by Jones and Karleigh, and that she was being targeted because of her gender.
‘They knew that I was trans. They knew that I was different from all the other girls. It wasn’t a big deal until her dad came up there and made a scene,’ she said.
‘I was kicked off the team for assumptions because of the dad’s assumptions of what happened.’
Here is a picture of Medlock:
That is a big dude. Look at the shoulders on him.
The thing I noticed about these cases is how when these trans individuals get challenged they revert to very aggressive and belligerent male behavior very quickly.
When the mask slips there is an angry dude behind it.
It’s almost as if these people can claim to feel one way or another, but when stressed reveal who and what they really are.
One day I will tell you about the hot sauce I tried and made me quit all that shit. Made in the Venezuelan side of the Amazonian region and one of the components was the heads of the local fire ants. Formic acid brings a new level of pain and suffering to the gourmet experience.
