Gun Free Zone

Where a Redneck Jew, a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.

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“Okay. So, do you think civilians should be allowed to own guns?”

Jan 14, 2022 Miguel.GFZ 12 comments

I lifted this from Facebook. I believe it should be a nice eye-opener for some.

Toxic Masculinity – Beard Care for Badasses
March 6, 2019 
A couple years ago I was working security at a bar in northern Virginia. I overheard a table of college kids arguing about gun rights and gun control and it was getting far too emotional so I did what any sane combat veteran would do and attempted to exfiltrate. I must not have withdrawn as surreptitiously as I intended, because I was stopped in my tracks when a 5-foot-nothing brunette seemingly leapt in front of me and blurted out “excuse me, can you help us?”
I’m sure I must have looked irritated as I cycled through the possible quips and excuses I considered available to me but being uncertain that she wasn’t some Senator’s daughter, I caved: “What’s up?”
She basically leads me to this table of 2 other females (probably both named Karen) and a very soft looking male.
Becky: “So, we were just talking about current events and, you know. So, you look like you’re probably in the military, right? Like the Army?”
(When you accuse someone of being in the military you probably don’t need to give an example)
Me: “Similar.. yea”
Becky: “Right. Okay. So, do you think civilians should be allowed to own guns?”
Me: “Most of us. Yes.”
Becky: (clearly not happy with my answer) “Okay, so, why do you think you need a gun?”
(At this point it’s almost 2am and I’ve just given up on patience. Hold my beer)
(With intentionally overt condescension): “Oh, honey, I don’t. I don’t need a gun.”
Becky stares at me blankly, so I continue, but with a more serious tone:
“I could follow you home, walk up your driveway, and beat you to death with the daily newspaper.
I could choke you to death with that purse.
I could take a credit card, break it in half, and cut your throat open with it.
With enough time and effort I could beat your boyfriend here with a rolled up pair of socks.
I could probably dream up six dozen other ways I could easily end your life if you gave me an hour or so.
If I wanted to, I could wrap my hand around that beer mug and kill all four of you before you could make it to the exit. The worst part is, in your utopian little fantasyland, there ain’t a thing any of you could do about it.
I don’t need a gun.
You need a gun.
You need a gun because of men like me.”
Call me a jerk, but if you want to keep your guns, these are the conversations we all need to start having.

Maybe one in one hundred will understand and act accordingly after a conversation like that. I still submit that till people really live and understand what true violence is, they will believe that kind words and the singing chorus of “Let it Be.” will be enough to cure Humanity from being human.

Hat Tip Greg T

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I love the unintended message here

Jan 13, 2022 J. Kb 7 comments

In case you didn’t know, the US Mint is doing a run on Women’s Quarters.

Authorized by Public Law 116-330, the American Women Quarters Program features coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of trailblazing American women. Beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2025, the Mint will issue five quarters in each of these years. The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts. The additional honorees in 2022 are physicist and first woman astronaut Dr. Sally Ride; Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and an activist for Native American and women’s rights; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, who achieved international success despite racism and discrimination.

What a woke list of women to be put on the currency.

I fundamentally do not understand what the deal is with Maya Angelo, why she is revered as she is.

Sally Ride I know as the first female astronaut.

The rest?  I’ve never heard of them.

What I  sure if is that you won’t see Sandra Day O’Connor on a US quarter.

But here is where this gets tragically funny.

A quarter with a woman on it is only worth 93% as much quarter with just a man on it.

Thanks Biden.

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Thr numbers show that things are going to get worse

Jan 13, 2022 J. Kb 21 comments

That is a 16% drop in less than a year.

The mass media has lost it’s grip on controlling reality.

Jen Psaki and talking heads on CNN and MSNBC can say whatever they want buy people still remember how much they paid for gas abd groceries a year ago and how much they are paying today.

Before the lockdowns it was less than $2 per gallon and I could do a weekly grocery run for a family of four for about $125.  Now it’s almost $4 per gallon and the same groceries cost $175.

People feel it everyday.

This Administration has no idea how to govern positively.  The only know how to govern through fear.

So what happens when Biden dips into the 20s and teens for percent approval?

The more this Administration fails the more it will lash out.

The beatings will intensify until morale improves.

 

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The infernal whining of the Media about Omicron.

Jan 13, 2022 Miguel.GFZ 7 comments

“ZOMG1 ZOMG! We are all gonna die!”

Do you know what kind of attitude people have about OVID in Middle TN? somewhere between Deputy Samuel Gerard “I don’t care” and Gunny Thomas Highway “You’re beginning to bore the hell out of me.”

The greatest difference between Florida and Tennessee is that the Media still controls the “panDammit” Narrative while in Florida, journos are beaten into ridicule regularly by Governor DeSantis and the rest of the staff. TN’s Governor Lee does look a tad soft, but I am still a newcomer so I can’t say if it works for the State or not.

Other than medical facilities demanding masks, you will probably will not see any other location where you are forced/asked sternly to wear a Fauci Face Diaper. Same as back in Florida, you will see elderly people wearing the mask and I don’t think anybody has one negative thought about that since they are a sensitive group for getting the virus bad, God Bless them and hope it works for them keeping them safe. Then you will see the Mask Fashionista, strutting his muzzle device with the pride Vegan Crossfitter chomping on a gluten-free, plant-based protein muffin. Whenever I see an example of that zoological specimen, I seem to develop a strange, fully phlegmy coughing fit. The look of sheer horror in their eyes is just priceless.

Las aguas volveran a su cauce. (The waters will return to their course.)

I do hope so.

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Miami Dade’s Homicide numbers dropped in 2021. And Liberals must be scratching their head.

Jan 13, 2022 Miguel.GFZ 1 comment

Via Bearing Arms:

The year 2021 started out with two mass shootings just outside musical venues that left four people dead and 26 injured — a foreboding start that seemed to continue a troubling violent trend from the year before. Then something unexpected happened. Homicides in Miami-Dade County plummeted. Law enforcement leaders attributed it to stepped-up enforcement, a focused effort to get guns off the street and prosecutions. Others pointed to an array of social factors. Whatever the reason, murders throughout Miami-Dade County, with its 2.7 million residents, declined by more than 15 percent compared to the previous year, bucking a national trend in which more than a dozen cities across the U.S. set all-time high murder rates.
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In 2021, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office recorded 245 homicides. That’s 45 less than the previous year — a year in which law enforcement attributed much of a 15 percent uptick in homicides to the frustrations of being locked down during the pandemic.
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Chicago, with the same population as Miami-Dade, continued its skyrocketing murder trend with more than 800 last year.

Despite string of mass shootings, Miami-Dade bucks national trend of rising murder rate

To be accurate, there is not a single cause for this “drop” in homicides which actually is a return to the usual low numbers we had prior pandemic. There was no “defund the police” from the local and state governments but probably a bit of the opposite. No Gun Control laws were imposed to “reduce gun violence” nor was the ability of Miamians to defend themselves curtailed in any way, no attempts against Stand Your Ground or Castle Doctrine with the sad and stupid notion that the government knows better what to do when criminals attack you.  And there is no doubt that the lack of lockdowns and mandates promoted a life akin to normal with people having almost a regular outlet for their lives.

A simple policy of Freedom has worked wonderfully while Social Liberal paradise of Cook County was almost four time deadlier and probably just about the same violence wise.  Maybe that is the reason why politicians from northern latitudes come have a good time in between bouts of being petty dictators where they come from.