Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
All Hallows is upon us!
The sugary ritual is about to begin……If I can get some pics, I’ll share later.
In the meantime… my idea of a perfect married couple who are also fitting for this day:
I am happy to say that (sans the money) I think I have that type of marriage. 😀
Sanford officials claim that the ban on people legally carrying firearms will revitalize the image of the program that has reportedly suffered following the trial, but I’m not sure how telling me that I should give up my personal protection and take one for the team is an incentive to participate.
via No More Concealed Carry for Neighborhood Watch | Shall Not Be Questioned.
To me that is the whole issue: Image and actual results be dammed. It is all about political hackery.
Bitter is right. I don’t feel like actually standing watch over a locale where the Bad Guys already know there is nothing bad coming to them and the two idiots patrolling are just a carjacking ripe for the pickings. Do you know what Neighborhood watch is in my little piece of heaven? When we hear something funky, a couple of neighbors open their doors to see what is going on. Beside the hard stares, there is always one hand conspicuously hiding behind the back.
It seems it is Universal Sing Language for “Get the F*** Outta Here” for they seem to understand it.
Anyway, back to Shannon. Another MDA supporter had repeated my assertion that there wasn’t a lot of work with suicide awareness in the campaign, and Mrs. Watts stated that “Few of daily shootings” are the result of mental health issues. 61% of gun deaths are suicides, yet she asserts that “few” of the deaths from guns are a result of mental health issues. I asked for clarification, and she informed me that suicide is not the issue – gun violence is. So, in essence, the founder of Moms Demand Action has clearly stated that they’re not concerned about suicides or helping prevent suicides – they’re just concerned about guns. Even though suicides make up 61% of the gun deaths in the country.
via Three Days in the Shoes of a Gun Activist – Georgia Packing Forum.
Outstanding work…. Go check out the whole post and the screen caps.
It has never been about preventing deaths but plain ole Control.
I haven’t finished yet. It is not that my traditional reading speed has been slowed down by age or other things, but it is because the more I read this book, the more I get really angry and I have to put it down for a while.
The Forsake is the story of a group of Americans that moved to Stalin’s Russia during the Great Depression. Most did it because they were promised a job with good wages in what then was considered the utopia on this planet: The Soviet Union. Some moved because ideological motives as they truly believe in Socialism/Communism and wanted to do their part. Both groups were tragically wrong.
I am still trying to decide who was the bigger prick: Stalin and his apparatchiks who managed to erase more people from this planet even before the Nazis got the numbers they did (and the infamy), the American journalists that not only covered up the wanton massacre of fellow Americans and the Russian populace in general, the State Department and the ambassadors that were too stupid to see what was going on or did not want to see it because they were having too much of a good time (Apparently this tradition still continues.) And FDR was a much bigger idiot and prick than I previously thought.
Just the description of the travels and life in the Gulags is worth the full price of the book. Do yourself a favor and read it.
And if you travel abroad, remember: that big building with the Stars & Stripes waving, may contain people whose job is not to take care of you but make sure they attend parties and try not to be embarrassed by Ugly Americans visiting foreign lands. If they can leave you hanging out to dry, they will.
16. You have a panic attack every time a police car is behind you
Although I disagree 100% with number 16, it is a worthwhile and true list. As with any culture, we have our idiosyncrasies. 🙂
I as not aware of this site, so it goes into my feed.
Via The Examiner, we get this tidbit of non-surprising info:
Officials from the White House Office of Public Engagement, which reports to senior Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, are now carrying the administration’s gun control efforts. OPE officials hold a regular meeting with the major gun control groups known as the Gun Violence Table.
The weekly sessions often include OPE Director Paulette Aniskoff or official Paul Monteiro along with representatives from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action, the Center for American Progress, Organizing for Action and Americans for Responsible Solutions.
The groups are coordinating a November lobbying effort and planning events to commemorate the first anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., massacre last December.
via Joe Biden on sidelines in gun control talks – Reid J. Epstein – POLITICO.com.
Color me unsurprised. Right now they are in PR Control mode big time and in need of propping up. We have Bloomberg dumping a ton of last minute money in the Virginia Governor’s race that has been pretty much declared several months ago for the Democrat Terry McAuliffe with a double-digit shellacking. Why dump all that money on a sure thing? Because McAuliffe is a safe bet anti-gunner that did not run with an anti-gun platform so he will be safe even if there was a recall petition and they desperate need a win in the plus column even if it is by proxy.
Come the anniversary of Sandy Hook, they need to show their followers that they have achieved something. They will whine about how Congress did not materialize the Universal Background Checks but leave out the bills with massive gun bans and assorted accessories that crashed and burned on the taxi way. They will tout renewed gun control laws in NY and Connecticut but that is akin to say they managed to bring water to the Atlantic Ocean. Colorado, initially a success, became a PR nightmare with the recalls and the outburst of Bloomberg pretty much not giving two craps about the legislators removed by popular vote. Even in California, Moonbeam Jerry Brown vetoed the new Assault Weapons Ban for being too over reaching and knowing that it would not survive judicial scrutiny.
My opinion is that the corpse-and-pony show at Newtown will not amount to much but the obligatory 5 minutes on assorted News Organization. People will be tired and looking to try and enjoy a meager Christmas with a bad economy and the prospect of having no Health Insurance, being unable to pay for the mandate and having a slice of their paychecks forcefully removed because they did not get it. The last thing they will want to hear is a bunch of whiners complaining that they lost a game they were sure they have won in January.
And the Bloody Shirt is starting to get a wee bit rank.
PS: Anybody seen the Yankee Vulture Bus anywhere?
PS 2: And they just lost their stage backdrop for December:
Sandy Hook Elementary School razing begins in Newtown, Conn.
So the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence is all freaky about this NBC news report:
About 500 American children and teenagers die in hospitals every year after sustaining gunshot wounds — a rate that climbed by nearly 60 percent in a decade, according to the first-ever accounting of such fatalities, released Sunday
Major impact sought: picture of a cute boy whose life was cut short and the repeated use of the word children to reinforce the message. But if you are one of the few that bother to read through, you will find something interesting in paragraph 7:
Madenci, and his colleague, Dr. Christopher Weldon, a surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, tallied the new statistics by culling a national database of 36 million pediatric hospitalizations from 1997 to 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available.
During that period, hospitalizations of kids and teens aged 20 and younger from gunshot wounds jumped from 4,270 to 7,730. Firearm deaths of children logged by hospitals rose from 317 in 1997 to 503 in 2009, records showed.
Now lets takes those numbers provided by the article. For the sake of the argument we are going to say that in those 12 years, each year there were 503 deaths by firearms. That will give us a total of 6,036 deaths. And in those 12 years, each one had 7,730 hospitalizations which would bring us to a total of 92,760. Both together give us the exaggerated total of 98,760 deaths & hospitalizations.
Now, they were kind enough to provide us with the number of 36 million pediatric hospitalizations for that time frame which means that 98,760 deaths & hospitalizations by firearms represents 0.27% of the total of hospitalizations and my numbers are way over the top.
What really makes me “irritable” is that the same crowd that cry to make our kids safe from the dangers of firearms is the same mob that throws a big tantrum and refuses gun safety programs directed to kids like Eddie Eagle to be taught in schools.
I noticed that CDC considers a child to be between the ages of 1 and 14 as per their reports. We also know that the 15-19 section of victims of firearms are closely related to gang activity and the drug trade thus the higher incidence of wounds and deaths in that age bracket. But they have no problems considering them all children if the political shoe fits and they can make a sizzle.
As with any product, if you make an attractive label and a nice slogan, you will sell. It is up to us to denounce the snake oil vendors and their deceptive practices.