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The latest from the Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence is a beautiful double whammy.
A felon goes into a Kroger Supermarket, threatens a female employee with deadly force and ends up being shot and killed by the store manager. So far it has not been released if the felon had a gun, but if the victims had a reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm, the use of deadly force in self defense is legal. This is long established law. If the criminal had a real gun, toy gun or a piece of wood has no meaning whatsoever. So the CSGV trying to hint that the felon is somehow less criminal and therefore undeserving of his faith is not honest.

What CSGV considers “illegal” is the fact that the Store Manager had the gun with him in the store against company policy, not Indiana Law. Now, unless I woke up in another world,  company policy is not the law in any state of the Union. One has to wonder what kind of flavor of Idiot juice Ladd had for breakfast this morning when stating such stupidity.

The store manager will probably be fired for violating corporate policy but I pretty much doubt he will be arrested for bringing the gun to work since not such law exists. Even the most twisted District Attorney would have a hell of a time time trying to convict somebody for a crime that does not exist while defending himself an others.

But In Ladd Land, an innocent man (convicted for armed robbery in 2009) died and a criminal with a concealed weapon permit walks free.

I am reading Stephen Hunter’s latest book Soft Target. Just now I caught this passage:

Those in the know can figure I am smiling big time.

I wonder if a letter from a lawyer firm has arrived to Mr. Hunter’s desk. Nah! I don’t think they are that stupid.

Musings Over a Pint found an eye catching sign at a Walgreens.

We get this from the company that fired a pharmacist for using a firearm to defend himself and his fellow workers.

Irony Fail anyone?

Damn…. that is a quarter of a million!

Sometime yesterday afternoon when I was not paying attention, somebody paid the 250,000th visit to this blog for the year. Last year I think I had somewhere around 60,000 so saying I am shocked is understating things.

I used to joke and say I had four readers. I guess I have to double that to eight at least!

Thank to all of you who have found my blog somewhat interesting to read.

Globovision from Venezuela reports that the CICPC Morgue (Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas. Venezuelan Federales police) in Caracas, received 84 bodies this past weekend. That brings the number for the month to 447 so far. If I recall correctly, the City of Miami last year ran a total of 86 homicides.

Caracas’ murder rate is 230 per 100,000 inhabitants making it the second most dangerous city in the world and the country of Venezuela is 65 per 100,000. US Murder rate was right under 5 per 100,000 last year.

No wonder the number one problem as stated by Venezuelans is crime. But the Venezuelan Assembly is working on (drum roll please) more gun control!  It does not matter that they already have laws so tough that they comply 100% with the Small Arms Survey and the rest of the UN clique: we need more!

This kind of stupidity is palpable and measurable because dead bodies tend to pile up one on top of another. But always remember: Gun control is not about guns, it is about control. Venezuela’s economy has been in the tank for over a decade now, unemployment rates about 50% (real numbers) and freedoms have been pretty much erased. But if you keep people defenseless enough and the crime is high enough, they will remain submissive. And in Venezuela it is working like a charm.

Steak was marinated overnight in onions, red peppers, parsley, garlic & cilantro all properly liquified in a blender. The steak was then cubed, wrapped in bacon and shis-kebobbed with section of smoked sausage. Salt and pepper very sparingly.

Charcoal grill medium hot to “damn that’s hot!” 10 to 15 minutes on each side:
Make sure that the sticks are WET, not oiled like I did, I couldn’t remember so I went for the oil and the ends burned to nothing.

And, VOILA! Le Pork Covered Cube Steaks!
Cold potato salad or cold Cole Slaw recommended as side dish. Then again it is Christmas in Miami where the temperature right now is in the 80s with a slight breeze from the NW.

Merry Christmas and I’ll be asleep on the couch for the rest of the afternoon.