“Hey Chief, we have this great program, a proven program called Eddie Eagle and teaches kids what to do when they see a gun.”

“That is fantastic! Let’s implement it in our schools. Education is primordial.”

“Great. I’ll call the NRA and have them send the materials. We can start in two weeks.”

“WHAT!?!?! THE NRA!?!?! ARE YOU CRAZY?”

“As I said, it is  a proven program and nobody else has something similar.”

“NO! our kids do not need anything from the NRA!”

“So they are better off uneducated and killing themselves?”

“RACIST! And I blame Bush!”

“<sigh>”

Obviously this conversation never actually happened or maybe it did happen in some other form. We know that there is always pressure from the Opposition to implement Eddie Eagle at local schools because it comes from the NRA. They have no solutions but for “Ban all da Gunz!” and in te mean time, the small bodies keep piling up and they send their request for more money from their followers.

Nowhere does the article explain that the reason deadly violence has been on the decline is that emergency medicine is now able to save the lives of a lot more victims of knife- and gunshot-injuries. The so-called Laser Man, for example, shot a number of immigrants in Sweden in the 1990s. Forensic pathologist Jovan Rajs commented, “The Laser Man shot eleven people, and one of them died. In the 1930s eight or nine would have died, in the 1970s about five, and today probably none.”

Ergo, deadly violence remains on an even level thanks to better health care in Sweden, but all other kinds of violent crime (including attempted homicide) has gone off the charts. Violent crime is up 300% and rape is up 1,472% since 1975, the year the Swedish Parliament decided to turn homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country.

Source: The IKEA Murders: Sweden in Crisis

The “Better Emergency medicine” explanation is sometimes used by The Ignoranti in the Gun Control side. The few idiots that have used it in discussions, get shut down rather fast when you point out that the statistics for assault with a deadly weapon have also gone down in the US. And unless they want to claim a vast conspiracy involving police and Emergency Rooms across the nation to under report attacks, they are pretty much full of shinola.

The Swedish are suffering from a huge spike in violent crime and so does most of Europe. None of the official European sources will say anything because it is a monumental black eye for their policy and politics, but I am not the only one with relatives in Europe who are living the raise in violent crime that was unheard of a couple of decades ago. They are not yet at Latin America levels, but they have long passed the US in the stats.

But Europe is an example we are supposed to follow, or so our Opposition keeps telling us.

Fat Valkyrie chance.

Hat Tip to Kevin C. in the book of faces.

From an article in the Mirror UK:

A police source said: “We are finding more and more of these along with drugs and other weapons on raids in cities across the UK.

“Many are one-offs, ordered through the post by misguided people but others are being used by gangsters for robberies or torturing rivals.

Lord West, a respected former security minister in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said: “It does seem extraordinary that such a dangerous item is so readily available.”

…they had become the weapon of choice for organised gangs.

…are being sought and used by organised criminals, it is concerning that these items could easily end up in the hands of children.

“Anyone caught trying to smuggle dangerous weapons into the country will have them confiscated and could face prosecution.”

Is it a machine gun? AK 47s walking in again from mainland Europe? Perhaps a small artillery device? RPGs?

Nope: a cheap stun gun.

Stun gun is on left and iPhone on right. You’d be hard-pressed to figure out which is more harmful. I am going with the real iPhone because of the roaming charges and excess data penalties.

If you are planning on burning down the house, it behooves you not to stay inside or it defeats the purpose.

Saturday night, I was working on my book when I decided to take a break and remembered that the Hugo Awards were on and probably the results in.  I got in Facebook and Twitter to check and found out that the ceremony had not begun yet as they were in the Pacific time zone. I decided to follow the Twitter Feed and commenting over in Facebook with others doing the same.

This might be my third post about the Hugos and the Sad Puppies controversy. I am not a fan of SciFi but I have sided with the SP project because I am a fan of Larry Correia and I wanted to see if the Social Justice Warriors in power would follow the standard script that the extreme Left applies to other aspects of life.

I am sad to report that was the case.

The awards ceremony became a Kick The Puppies fest. Insults veiled and not so veiled being told by the presenters were being reproduced via Twitter with a syrupy glee. And then the asterisk made its presence:

I have no idea how big that thing is, but two things were understated by those “in the know”: 1) It was the unofficial award to be given to the Puppies and 2) It is a representation of the anal orifice.

And then it went into stupid high drive. Five major categories went No Award. Not because the field had no nominees or the works sucked but because they were somehow associated with the Puppies even if they were not part of the nominations as it happened to Baen editor Toni Weisskopf. Let me put it in perspective for those who are not hip in the Hugos: In the sixty plus years of the award, only five times before a category went No Award. That doubled in one swoop on Saturday night.

It gets worse: People in the audience cheered at every No Award that blocked a Puppy.

It hit bottom when the presenters ordered the few who booed the No Awards not to do so and only cheering was allowed. Yes, that petty.

My take: The winner of the 2015 Hugo Awards is (drum roll): Baen Books and any Non-Tor publishing company.

Are you going “huh?” Allow me to explain. The Sad Puppies’ original and still running statement was that SciFi was dominated by a clique of people who were not accepting works others than those that fit a certain stance. That was a charge that was denied by  the SJW/Chorfs (Social Justice Warriors/Cliquish, Holier-than-thou, Obnoxious, Reactionary, Fanatics.) Sad Puppies went on to prove it by getting people to nominate what they liked and not what was recommended by the SJW/Chorfs as accepted works of Sci/Fi and managed to capture several important slots pissing the bejesus out of the Establishment.

Some in the SJW/Chorfs Upper Management decided to ask their fans to vote No Award without even bothering to read the books. Those who had at least half an ounce of brain on their side, thought it was the wrong move. But the issue with those in power is to know when to exercise it and specially to win long-term and not to become abusive with it because people will be repelled by it. But when the SJW/Chorfs yelled “WE ARE ALL INCLUSIVE!” and at the same time excising works because they were on a list of unerwünscht authors, they proved the Puppies point and they underlined it with their behavior at the awards.

In the short-term future, the SJW/Chorfs will be celebrating and collecting a short-lived payday. But will happen (mark my words) is that authors who get their manuscripts rejected will no longer think “Crap, I guess I have to do better” but  “Maybe is it my work or maybe is it my beliefs that these people don’t like.” And if a SJW/Chorfs-rejected author gets picked and published by other companies, the word will spread like fire that no matter how great a writer you could be, you need a level of political purity to even pass the Silver gates of the SJW/Chorf Kingdom much less get published by them.

One last piece of advice to the SJW/Chorfs: You confused politeness with weakness and being an asshole as the equivalent of strength.

Learn from your mistake as fast as you can and apply it in real life.

After yesterday, I needed this 😀

And they take some nice pokes at Tactical Sacred Cows…well done.

In my Facebook newsfeed, I came across a post of the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence congratulating the US Servicemen that thwarted the Jihadist attack on a French Train. I prepared myself for the mindless blabber and I was not disappointed.

My guess is that the Department of Defense can now save a crapload of money by simply not issuing firearms to our troops because they don’t need them to counter terrorists and other enemies of the country.

And this is why I screen cap: You tell anybody with a functioning brain that some people actually think it is better to face an armed terrorist without a weapon of your own, and you would be tagged as crazy and a liar.

Les Luthier has been a part of my humor since I was a little kid. Daniel Rabinovitch was my favorite: he always played lovable but slightly dumb characters on stage and no matter his failings, you forgave him and loved him even more.

Daniel is no longer among the living. Humor died a little today…screw that, it died a lot.

Descansa en paz, Daniel. Un millon the gracias por todas las risas.  Te extrañaremos, che.

See you guys tomorrow.