This video has been making the rounds in the webs with pretty much the general title of “I’d change my undies.”

Personally I don’t think I’d feel threatened if I was in that situation. And it is not because I like Yogi (I have very healthy respect for bears) but because the bear was showing curiosity instead of aggression. Nothing in its demeanor was saying it was a threat but just trying to figure what was thing up in the tree.

But rest assured, I’d be holding a big caliber handgun just in case it decided I was a good example of lunch.

My sources in the White House say that the administration is ticked off something fierce that somebody let the cat out of the bag. In reality it was an ATF investigation out of Phoenix Office called Operation Ishtar and that sought to prove that private gun transactions between individuals at gun show loopholes were arming the terrorists abroad with machine guns, RPGs, mortars, tanks, bomber planes and espresso machines. Rumors that Vice President Bide was the brains behind the operation in order to force the Senate to pass a Universal Background Check bill are not yet confirmed for obvious reasons.

White House Press Secretary, Jim Carney denied the operation ever existed and if it did, it started under President Bush’s term.

Developing….

The Moms Demand Action (A.K.A Million Mom March, Part Dos) posted this twitter yesterday:

This comes from an article in The Atlantic by Richard Florida who compares Homicide Rates (Or gun death rates or something as he jumps terms with ease) of US Cities against Homicide Rates of other countries. Here is the graphic accompanying the article:

If you don’t think about it, you are bound to go “ZOMG! This is horrible!” but the premise on itself is false as comparing a city against a whole country is basically dishonest. Take Florida and Miami for instance: The murder rate for the whole state is 5.2 per 100,000 and Miami-Dade county is 8.2 per 100K as heavy urban locations will have more violent crime than many small towns and cities dispersed across the land. And if you are wondering “why does the graphic say Miami is 23.7?” I am wondering that too as I could not find nothing close to that number anywhere in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement website.

And Miami was not the only one with suspect numbers. I did a quick check on both the UNODC reports and either local PD or FBI UCR and the stats provided are way off on the plus side for certain cities in the US if located in Gun Friendly states and Countries have reduced murder stats which leads me to think a certain disingenuous “editing” on the author of this hit piece. One example is the Houston/Ecuador pairing: according to the UNDOC, Ecuador’s murder rate is 18.2 but the graphic shows 12.7. Houston is shown to be 12.9 but the latest numbers from Houston PD shows it a 9.0/ South Africa appears to have only 17 per 100K in the graphic when in reality the stat is 31.8 (again by UNODC) and even the number given of Honduras (#1 in murders in the world) is bad enough but not close to reality: 91.6 per 100K versus the published 68.4 to be touted against the also posted 62.1 in New Orleans but that in reality is 53.5 (Bad enough to rank #3 in US murders but inflating it does not help their cause).

But how come they do not pit City versus City? Because they would take a beating so bad it would could be heard in the afterworld. New York (5.6) v. Buenos Aires, Argentina (3.9), Atlanta (17.7) versus Cape Town, South Africa (59.9) and the list goes on. The author of course will not tell you that those cities are in countries with gun control so strict, it would Senators Feinstein & Schummer tingles up their legs and other bodily parts.

Why do they need to lie? We know the answer.

Sources: UNODC Homicide statistics 2012 and Homicides in the most populous city.

Greedy shoe companies making select sneakers needlessly exclusive paired together with consumer exuberance, desperation, and American gun culture on Saturday long enough to cost one would-be alleged robber his life.

via A shooter kills a would-be robber in self-defense while waiting in line to buy LeBron James’ signature shoes | Ball Don’t Lie – Yahoo! Sports.

It is a conspiracy between the Military-Weapons-Shoes-NBA cabals that took the life of a man who just wanted to apply some wealth re-distribution in an expedient manner.

But according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Atlanta police still had not released the name Sunday of an armed citizen who shot a would-be robber in Little Five Points on Saturday morning.

The dead man, who also has not been identified, was killed after allegedly trying to rob a group of people waiting in line to buy the new, $180 LeBron James sneakers.

Or Fox:

WSB-TV reports the shooting happened Saturday morning in the city’s Little Five Points neighborhood, where people lined up outside Wish Clothing to buy new $180 sneakers endorsed by Miami Heat star LeBron James.

Witnesses told police a man armed with a gun tried to rob people standing outside the store. But one of the customers drew his own handgun and shot the robber. Police say the suspect ran just a few yards before he fell dead.

I have not see stupid stuff like this since the 70s when the first new wave of Progressive/Post Hippie-Era idiots go to comment about police using “deadly” ammunition against criminals and literally crap on their pants at the idea of anybody shooting hollow points at violent criminal. You see, NOBODY chooses the be a criminal, it is the capitalistic society who forced people into criminal acts because it failed to provide the minimum needs for somebody to live a decent an honest life. So, a criminal is somebody to be pitied and helped, not shot like a rabid dog by the enforcers of this authoritarian and despicable capitalism…. yes these morons actually believed the press releases from the Soviet Union and Cuba touting themselves as crime-free.

I wonder from what time capsule was the author extracted.

Top Shot’s Gabby Franco. (Stolen without shame from her Facebook page)
She ain’t posing with an AR just because it is a glamour shoot. She can really shoot! I’ve seen her make her Glock sing like an opera soprano and then some.

Bad News: She is engaged.

How quickly do you think your neighbors, your friends, your relatives, will turn on you about the “hoarded” food in your basement, your “hoarded” medical supplies, that “Hoarded” Big Berkey water filter you bought to guarantee your family’s fresh water or the solar panels you’re “hoarding” on your roof?

via The Michael Bane Blog: Michael’s Rant de Jour….

In as little as 24 hours as painfully experienced by yours truly during one of those famous dislocations of Civilized Behavior and the Rule of Law and Common Sense that happen every so often South of Key West. Get used to the idea that you may have to aim your weapon on somebody you considered a friend and treated like a relative you actually liked for decades but now he or she is bound to take your means of survival and even your life.

Seeing people like that behaving like gang bangers during a police strike in Chicago and the fact that I might have to shoot them was a nasty shock to my mindset. It goes against all your sense of right and wrong that Mr. Lopez, the neighbor who taught how to fly a kite or Mrs. Ramirez who always baked you a batch of those delicious homemade pastries for Christmas are now trying to break in your property, ready to tear you to pieces for a chunk of bread or a bottle of booze and you are gonna have to put them down like vicious animals.

If you have not given it a thought……