“I wish you guys would … have talked to us/CeaseFire about this before moving forward,” Fascitelli said in an email to King County Executive Dow Constantine and a Mayor’s Office staffer. “The overwhelming research shows that buybacks generally don’t work well and are a waste of resources and are mocked by the NRA.

“We will be lucky to get a few thousand or more guns back, … many of which don’t work too well in a country where there are almost 2 million guns,” Fascitelli continued in an email provided to seattlepi.com following a public records request. He went on to wonder why the buyback supporters “do kneejerk standalone stuff” instead of a coordinated campaign.

Responding to Fascitelli’s email – though not to the CeaseFire president directly – McGinn Chief of Staff Julie McCoy described Fascitelli’s concerns as “ridiculous” in an email to other Mayor’s Office staff.

via McGinn’s office ignored leading gun control group in buyback effort – seattlepi.com.

So you have a Gun Control group admitting that Gun Buybacks are a waste, the chief of staff for Seattle’s mayor calling them ridiculous…. and they actually have no idea how many guns are in this country.

Shall we tell Ceasefire that it is not 2 million guns but some 300+ millions in the hands of civilians in the US? You know, that is a boatload of Gift Cards right there. Make mine from Bownells or MidwayUSA.

We are living in the Brave New World.

Reader Amiee Staggs left a comment on an old post and that bounced on my head to something Kathy (Cornered Cat) Jackson mentioned in a post about being polite in her Facebook page which now I can’t find but went something like this: For Safety’s sake, you can be impolite.

My hometow (OK, homecity) is hyper-violent. It is 103 murders per 100,000 people violent. Ladies and Gents, that is warfare casualties we are talking about. In fact a radio station every Monday morning used to run a section called “Parte de Guerra”  (War News) in which the announcer would give us the number of murders that happened from 6:00 pm Friday to 6:00 am Monday plus the highlights of the most impressive cases…and this was a Rock station, not an all news station.

So it is easy to say I was not the most refined and polite of gentlemen while living there. When I moved to the US, I was shocked and suspicious at the people being so nice and private and I swore they were setting me up for some heinous stuff. Eventually I came to realize that they were indeed nice good people being genuinely polite and I sort of relaxed…a couple of bits. I am still not a gregarious people and I don’t invite people over my house as that privilege is reserved only for those who have passed the test of my trust. And as you can imagine, interlopers are welcome even less than that. On the strange occasions that I open the door for people other than the Postman or UPS (gun goodies or Amazon Goodies? of course I am opening!), I make a quick assessment and I am short and less than friendly with my response followed by a door slamming.

I want the reputation of being the impolite ***hole down the street. I want people to know that the fat bearded bastard that lives in the white house is somebody that may be a good idea to leave alone. If the word spreads far enough, maybe some idiot meth-head will re-think his initial plan about breaking in looking for pawnable stuff in my abode. And maybe the reason that I fly a Gadsden flag on my back porch 24/7 is to scare some Liberal idiot also living in my neighborhood who is gonna believe the lies told about Tea Party members and how violent they are and tells friends and visitors who even after getting stupidly drunk and in the mood for mischief, will re-think hard the idea to break into my property to play some idiotic prank that may end up with a 00 buckshot tattoo in his chest

Will all this image give me 100% protection from bad stuff happening? Nope, but it helps lower the percentages some and in cases, a lot. There is never one single approach, no magic bullet, no secret Aztec herbal medicine that will cure all the nastiness out there. Bad attitude and barbed wired is a better combination than just bad attitude.

And for those moments when nothing seems to work, you can go for the Advil in 9mm.

PS: The one with the real deficit in people skills is SWMBO. You really don’t wanna cross the Southern One.

By now most of the readers of this blog have seen this horrible video:

The attacker was unarmed, right? Then having a gun would have made things worse and made it unfair for the unarmed attacker, right?

But her attack does not count since there was no gun involved. Her suffering is less because there were no bullets flying. Hell, I am a bigger threat to her 1,200 miles away because I own a gun. That is what the idiots supporting Gun Control believe. That is what the Yankee Vulture Bus Tour is trying to sell to those who have never felt not seen up close what real violence feels like.

If you have a loved one, this is what Nanny Bloomberg (Evil Dwarf) will like you to be. That is what people like Japete or Josh Sugarman or Ladd Everitt or Colin Goddard expect us to become.

And that is why we fight. That is why we give them the middle finger and make calls and send emails and faxes and phone calls and raise our voices. Violence is not subcategorized on politically convenient parcels that can be used or ignored at the whim of a politician aiming at a seat somewhere. And in a sense, they are as diabolical as the monster on the video as both use violence to achieve their ignoble purposes: one by inflicting it and the other by using it as a banner in his or her campaign.

WOWK 13 Charleston, Huntington WV News, Weather, Sports

Charlo Greene, on behalf of WOWK and the free press, prepared a petition to intervene for the gag order hearing but before Charlo could present her argument or even deliver her petition to the court clerk, she was thrown out of the Logan County Courthouse, twice, by a bailiff, who said the judge presiding over Jared’s case, Eric O’Briant requested it. Charlo was then threatened with arrest and the same charge that Jared is currently on trial for, obstructing an officer.

via Prosecution Attempts Gag Order in Jared Marcum NRA T-Shirt Case – WOWK 13 Charleston, Huntington WV News, Weather, Sports.

I think it is now official for the Press: You don’t count for squat and you will be thrown under the bus on demand if you do not behave like the subservient serfs you are supposed to be. And the kid will be railroaded comes hell or high water unless he gets a half-assed jury that finds the prosecutor guilty of being a jackass and taken out of town ridding a jackass backwards.

From what I hear, they can be bought for a cheap song. Bad news, the shopping is way over in South Africa so the shipping charges are murder.

Specs:

So it goes top speed of 60 mph, holds 60 gallons of diesel and optional run flat tires?
Oh, and it is 4×4.
Yep… that would be the one.

Ladies: We ain’t that complicated 🙂