Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
CSGV: NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS ON SENATE FLOOR TODAY, WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING
Washington, DC—In anticipation of this afternoon’s Senate vote on gun violence prevention legislation, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is calling on supporters to make one final push to contact their legislators while also noting the fight is not yet over.
Translation: We be flocked. We lost again.
It made my day 😀
Perhaps these left-wing*** violent radicals aren’t on the list because don’t quite fit another narrative – I might better call it a slander – presently so popular in the press. It goes like this: “We should not, must not, cannot speculate,” the sanctimonious pundit always begins. “But it sure seems possible (or reasonable or likely or evident) that this vile act was committed by someone opposed to the current gun control proposals.” Who knew that so many television and radio talking heads were so fit and nimble, so able to leap to far distant conclusions at a single bound? And yet, in the past two days I have heard those words, or similar ones, on NPR, CNN, ABC and NBC with my own ears.
Or watching life thru political lefty colored glasses. And I am not saying that there are no righty colored glasses but the idea was to have NO glasses at all or at least have some with a itsy bitsy correction.
But sadly, the press has been in the propaganda and news business, not in the truth business for a long while now. They haven’t made money in a long time and the propaganda side of the equation is also in decadence.
Somebody said,I forget who, that he did not know how important a free press was to the USA until we lost it.
I assume most of you have seen this since it is already several days old. But It wasn’t until now and a liberal application of Excedrin that I was able to post safely.
Sometimes it is beyond me what kind of people elect morons like this. My elementary school teacher (A brother in the Marists) would have lost all patience and throw one of those old school blackboard erasers to the middle of her forehead.
Yes, we were taught logic the hard way. Stupidity should hurt and was usually marked by chalk powder tattooed in our foreheads.
Or some shit like that…
Regardless of whether casualties are caused by knives, guns or bombs, Americans have had enough. We can no longer be a nation that makes it easy for terrorists, criminals and other dangerous people to get their hands on the deadly tools that enable mass murder.
Good news, apparently they now believe that other forms of violence against people are bad and they may give a care eventually.
Irrelevancy must hurt.
Hat tip Jason K. via Facebook.
A retired football player carried a wounded woman from the Boston Marathon finish line. A father who lost both his sons, one in Iraq and one by suicide, rushed to aid the fallen. A veteran turned the shirt off his back into a bandage. A surgeon from Kansas finished the race and then started removing shrapnel from other runners.
via Amid the chaos and carnage in Boston, heroes emerge – U.S. News.
I was watching the live feed from the BBC right after I found out about the bombing and saw people,from marathon volunteers to cops to soldiers, running toward the blast zones without any regard for their safety. I was amazed and proud of their intensity and no BS attitudes helping people. Anybody that could, lend a hand and I think many lives were saved because they did not wait or had a regard for their own lives.
Damn! I was proud of them and I still am.
God Bless them.
On an earlier post I mentioned that any gun owner worth his salt would make a bill of sale when transferring a firearm to a private seller. Some reacted quite harshly at the idea demanding to know if I was some sort of gun grabber/fascist/etc. My guess is that they don’t like the idea or have not though about it some.
Why a bill of sale? Basically you are looking to have some sort of documentation that proves you are no longer the owner of a firearm that might be involved in a crime later down in the timeline and for one specific reason: I do not want to give investigators a reason to check on me, but to send them down the line with a question answered fast and efficiently. This goes double if the firearm is a handgun bought from a FFL and you filled the dreaded form 4473.
Yes Virginia, sometimes Law Enforcement officers will trace the ownership of a gun from crime to manufacturing. As I heard it from former Taurus USA President Bob Morrison, any LEO organization investigating a crime can contact ATF to trace a firearm. ATF access the manufacturer’s database and in seconds knows where the gun was shipped to and the only thing they need to do is to contact the FFL who will go into the bound book and produce the name of the person who bought the firearm. If the name of the person does not match the name of the suspect or they do not have a name of the suspect, they may go ahead and drop by the address as it appears in the form and have a chat with the resident. If the resident is the person that appears in the 4473, there will be some questions asked until they are satisfied that person has nothing to do with the event or was not a contributing factor or is somebody whose character is less than stalwart or can be charged with a crime if they are really desperate to make progress or show a result.
I am particularly fond of mailing myself any possibly important document that needs to be time-stamped. Some call this “The poor man’s Copyright” as many songwriters have used to establish date of creation of a particular piece without having to go through the expense in time and money of registering the song by the usual means. Some advocate the use of registered mail and even leave it at a safe deposit box or mail it to your lawyer’s address with your name clearly in the envelope and instructions to your lawyer not to open and to be pout away in your file for possible future use. Any which way, it gets hard for any agency to say that the document in question is somehow suspicious if it bears marking of a federal institution. I will admit to certain amount of laziness and say I am satisfied with mailing the well-sealed envelope to myself. By the way, make some sort of notation on the outside of the envelope to know what the contents are inside.
In the unlikely event that you are visited by members of the badge, you can produce the sealed envelope and after demanding a receipt for it, you can turn the contents to the LEOs. And, of course you have a copy of the bill of sale tucked somewhere as back up till they end their investigation and return the document. I this age of digital everything, why not take that extra effort?
So, why give them a chance to screw with your life when a piece of paper can send them down the road in an expeditious matter and leave you alone?
Now, if you find this procedure an egregious assault against your rights as a citizen, just don’t buy a gun from somebody who requests a bill of sale. It is that simple.
I am wondering if it is also an egregious assault against your rights as a citizen to check if the firearm you are buying from private citizen is stolen or not.
Just a thought, you know?
According to AP, at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon was made with a pressure cooker:
We have at least two of those things at El Castillo Gonzalez and I am well versed in their regular use. They are amazing items to use since they exponentially accelerate rate of cooking without compromising flavor. Whatever takes hours in a crock-pot, takes minutes in a pressure cooker.
However, keyword here is pressure. Accidental explosions with pressure cookers are very few and far between, but when they happen they are catastrophic. They usually happen because the user has disable the double security measures that come with the cooker by tampering with them or not checking them and maintaining them. When I was a kid, I remember seeing a report on the news about a small pressure cooker accident that left a 4 foot hole on an outside wall (made of cement blocks,) a destroyed stove, a kitchen that needed total remodeling and fortunately no casualties.
So if the report from AP is accurate, I can see how the horrendous damages inflicted on the victims happen. Beside any shrapnel added to the device itself, the flying pieces of metal coming out of the cooker itself made for very nasty cutting devices.
Here is a DHS Report on Pressure Cooker IEDs if you care for it. BTW, dear DHS, we use ours for cooking mostly beans, chick peas and making beef or pork stews. Mom would have a fit if they were used for any other purposes.
PS: If you feel like give pressure cooking a try, buy PRESTO and I particularly favor the steel ones. I am just not comfy with the ones made of aluminum.