Gun Free Zone

I find myself going over this subject almost every time a mass shotting event happens.

This is somebody I follow in Twitter.  I understand there are  legitimate Law Enforcement and prevention reasons why mentioning the names of Asshole Patrick Crusias and Asshole Connor Betts is no a thing to do, but politically and Constitutionally, it is a very bad strategy.

Nature abhors vacuum and Humans abhor unanswered questions. We cannot expect that a falsely created void will not be filled just because we say/hope so. And if you think Gun Control Advocates are going to be honorable and not play politics with that hole, you are deluded and specially, where have you been?.

I bet that if I mention Nikki Cruz, about half of you will have a vague idea of him, you know you heard the name and since we are talking about mass shooter, he is probably one. You may not remember he is the Parkland shooter who killed 15 of his former school mates and gave us David Hogg as new Gun Control flavor.

The calls for Cruz’s name not to be mentioned went out again and as usual people wanted a responsible entity to lay blame on and although it started with the NRA, soon enough what happened in Parkland was attached to a live human being: Dana Loesch.

I applauded her for being ballsy enough to go into what she had to figure would be a hostile situation. But she is now more hated by the Left than all the real killers out there. The abuse she suffers in Social Media is brutal. The following are screen captures I gathered in under 1o minutes from her timeline and do not include the death threats that get promptly reported and deleted.

Notice the dates. This is not back when parkland but yesterday and the day before. Nice, huh?

This is what the “Don’t Mention Names” creates. It deflects the blame to those who are blameless and makes the whole sad affair a political clown show. I would even bet that if allowed, the Broward county jury in the future trial of Nikki Cruz would rather send Dana Loesch to get lethal injection and have the mass murderer go free.  And don’t forget that to a lesser level, you are also being adjudicated guilt in the mass killings. They will not bat an eye if they could send you to prison or have you taken to some backward alley and get shot in the back of the head.

If you haven’t bought your AR or similar semi rifle, it is time you seriously think about it. Not because legislation (I am sure the Dems are crafting one now) but because you may need it to save your life from the upcoming hate mobs.

A study of the pre-attack behaviors of active shooters in the United States

If you can’t stop them, avoid.

Click here for the video

Got them in Amazon under recommendation of Greg Elifritz for $24.99 each. I am amazed at the stuff this things can do in such a little package. Back in the era of the transistor, you’d need 3 or for units to do what this thing does.

I guess I have to ge the license but even that is not hard as there are plenty resources on line to lean and they even give you practice exams. And there is no Morse Code requirement for any of the licenses.  I did serious CB (not a joke) back in 1979 to 1981. I started with th cheap 23 channel, transformer and car antenna sticking out my bedroom window and ended up with a base radio, big ass antenna and helping others doing installations. I mention this because between that and the basic electronics I took in college for Audio engineering, I have been scoring decently in the practice tests. Where I get nailed is frequencies, radiation and FCC regulations which I know nothing about.

I decided to hit the meager savings on buying the radios and the books (more expensive than the figging radios) for the licenses after watching Cajun Navy and realizing we had nothing communications wise that did not depend of a  company and a system that will go down in a hurricane. IIRC, these babies should push up to 7 miles in perfect conditions of weather and terrain (flat). I am guessing that better antennas and higher locations will improve coverage. I am not gonna start fudging stuff around till I get the license and I know what the heck am I doing.

And for Mr Greg, I need to bill him for planting evil stuff in my head which costs me money that could have gone to a new gun or ammo.

UPDATE: Following friends’ advice, I got myself a P.O. Box to use as address for the license since the FCC publishes it and knowing I may have a hater or two out there, I figured I should be paranoid.

Picking a post office 2 zip codes away paranoid enough?

Man is hacked to death with a samurai sword ‘by his Syrian migrant ex-flatmate’ in a Stuttgart street as hysterical witnesses scream in vain at the attacker to stop

A Kazakh man has been hacked to death in broad daylight in the middle of a German street with a ‘samurai sword’, police said.

The dead man’s Syrian roommate was arrested after the 36-year-old victim was repeatedly stabbed in Stuttgart yesterday in front of horrified onlookers.

Authorities confirmed a man was killed in the road in the German city Fasanenhof district with a ‘sword-like object’ that looked like a samurai weapon.

Screaming witnesses tried in vain to save the man as he was hacked at by his attacker, but he died at the scene.

This is some medieval stuff going on in 21st Century Europe.  When your populace can only scream to see if they can convince an attacker to stop his evil deed, you have failed as a country.

And that is the model they want us to accept. Hell, no.

I have been reading the comments in Miguel’s post Michael Bane: “Dammit, how many times do we have to say this?”

The first bullet point in the post was:

1) Be armed all the time! This isn’t a game played only on Tuesdays and Thursday. ALL THE TIME! The universe doesn’t care whether today is the day you decided to leave the gun at home so you could wear your comfy shorts.

I thought I’d throw in my two cents on this.

I love being a dad.  There are many great things about being a dad.  I fully embrace my dadism.

One advantage of being a dad is nobody gives a shit about my fashion sense outside of some very specific circumstances.

When I am running errands with the family on a Saturday (like I did yesterday) and I have a 5-year-old and an 18-month-old in the shopping cart with a diaper bag, nobody cares that I am in shorts and Crocs.

When it is 90 degrees and humid out, like it was yesterday, I can wear my comfy shorts and gun and medical gear because I am a dad.

How?

Let me introduce you to the Galco Escort Waistpack, aka, the fanny pack holster.  There are many like it, but this one is mine.

This is my regular loadout: Para Ordnance Warthog, 14 round spare mag, Victorinox Super Tinker, Coast HP5 LED flashlight,  EMS shears, small Israeli bandage.

I like my Warthog, my runs just fine and I don’t feel under gunned with 24 rounds of 185 grain 45 ACP JHP.   I like the lighter bullets out of shorter barrel guns.

This is how the gun stores in the fanny pack.

I cut out the retaining strap.  If you have other fannypack holsters, those are generally velcroed in.  I’ve never worried about retention with the pack closed so the extra strap is just something that gets in the way to me.

Everything else is in the outer pocket.

This is the whole thing zipped up.

I added an extra bit of 550 cord to the pull tab to make it easier to get open in a panic.

You can’t tell that I have a gun in there, can you?

I prefer to carry the Israeli bandage in the fanny pack.  This is a 4-inch bandage, there is also a 6-inch one too.  It’s a little more versatile and smaller than a dedicated tourniquet.  It can be used as a tourniquet if you know how to apply it.  They are also cheaper (about half the price) and you can carry multiple if you need to.

I can easily take off the fanny pack to drive, then I put it on in the parking lot before going into the store.

We did our whole round of shopping, including Costco, Wal-Mart, and Kroger, carrying the fanny pack the entire time.

Backhawk and Voodoo Tactical both sell fanny pack holsters, and I have them.  They are good and well made but look just a tad bit more tactical.  The Galco looks a little more low key.

Drawing from a fanny pack is not hard, it just takes a little bit of practice.  For those worried about it, ask yourself is it any harder drawing from the IWB holster with two layers of shirt to get tangled up in?

I love my fanny pack holster, I have everything I need and am comfortable carrying it.

It pairs with my cargo shorts and Crocs, not to mention the stroller and diaper bag.

Laugh all you want, but dad carry is thing.

Meet US Army Specialist Glen Oakley.  He is stationed at Ft. Bliss and was shopping at the Cielo Vista Mall when the shooting happened.

This is how he responded.

As reported by NBC:

Police stopped him because he had a weapon, Oakley said, but they let him go after he proved he had his weapon legitimately.

So for all those anti-gun naysayers who say that letting people carry is a bad idea because when a mass shooting happens it’s going to be a blood bath because the police or good guys with guns can’t tell the other good guys with guns from the bad guys…

They are flat wrong.

Just like they were wrong about concealed carry turning our streets into rivers of blood, or fender benders into shootouts, or college students shooting professors over bad grades or other kids in the classroom over headed discussions with campus carry.

They are batting 0.00 on every negative prediction from the expansion of CCW they’ve ever made.