Just about anybody who has been following the news of the refugee situation has probably heard of the “Crisis in Calais.”  As I understand it, the terminal for the French side of the Eurotunnel, that connects the UK to France, is just outside Calais.  Nearby is a tent city refugee camp.  Many refugees want to make it from mainland Europe through France to the UK, because the UK has the best social welfare system for refugees.  Much of the news I’ve seen has been sympathetic to the refugees.  Vice went all out with a video that was more tear-jerkingly sympathetic than the Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercials.

Then I saw the video below.  It is 15 minutes long.  It is profane.  It is the dashcam of a Hungarian truck driver trying to make it through Calais to the Eurotunnel cargo loading dock.  This is what the refugee crisis in Europe looks like up close without media spin.

I am amazed that it only has 322 views (as of this posting).  It it eye opening.  Hundreds of refugees walking in the middle of the road, throwing rocks at trucks, trying to hop on and ride them.  The driver claims the refugees slash the truck canvas.  The entire time, I saw maybe a dozen French police.  This situation was entirely out of hand.  The closest thing I’ve ever seen to this was video from Israel when Palestinians would gather in the streets to throw rocks at passing cars (note the rock throwing trend).

I’ve written in the past about Europeans buying guns because of the refugee crisis.  Watching that video, I know that sooner or later some of those truckers are going to start packing heat.  I know that if my daily commute had me run a gauntlet where people tried to get into my vehicle and slash it if they couldn’t, I’d be driving with a pistol under my leg – legal or not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, self defense laws in Europe don’t exist.  Whatever.  All it is going to take is for a some refugees near Calais to pull a couple of Reginald Dennys on some Eastern European truck drivers.  The next time they try to do it to a truck from the Czech Republic, the Refugees will be facing down the business end of a CZ-75.  Handguns will pour out of the countries where it will be easier to obtain them.

The French police, for all the success they’ve had in raiding terrorist cells following the the Paris Shootings earlier this month, are hopelessly incapable of stopping this type of uncivil activity.  It’s a matter of numbers, there are just too many refugees and too few police.  The French police acknowledge that an uprising in one of the refugee camps will be “pandemonium.”  They’ve practically lost control of the camps already.

This is what Europe is facing first hand, and it’s bad.  I fear it will only get worse.  Just wait until these hop-ons turn to stabbings.  The Israelis and French Jews known what I mean.

I guess you might have heard that President Obama signed the Defense Spending Bill late night the day before Thanksgiving and that the bill had a provision that allowed for 100,000  surplus M1911 and M1911A1 .45 ACP pistols to be sold via the Civilian Marksmanship Program. There is a great probability that some great collection pieces might be inside that lot and 1911 fans are chomping hard at the idea.

But… Not a peep from the Gun Control groups so far. At time of publication, CSGV, Moms Demand and Everytown are active and posting, but not a single mention that the President is allowing 100,000 high power, assault weapon pistols with assault clips to be sold without Universal Background Checks to  terrorists in the watch-list, insurrectionists, drug dealers and gun nuts that will mow down a school full of kids and nuns. The other groups show no activity so far, I am guessing they are still digesting the turkey.

Maybe they haven’t heard yet. Anyway and since it is Black Friday, there should be a nice sale on Liberal Tears anytime soon, if not going on as I post (10:30 am).

Happy Leftover Day!

“It’s flying something behind it and I can’t quite make it out. It’s a large banner and it says H A P P Y… T H A N K S… giving… from W… K… R… P! What a sight, ladies and gentlemen. What a sight. The ‘copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it’s looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It’s a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air… There’s a third… No parachutes yet… Those can’t be skydivers. I can’t tell just yet what they are but… Oh my God! They’re turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they’re crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone’s running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Folks, I don’t know how much longer…”

This is taking a flamethrower to the Special Snowflakes.

If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.
At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.

Source: This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! – Oklahoma Wesleyan University

You childproof a house for a toddler, not the world for overly sensitive teens that require paramedics for a mosquito bite.

Washington DC Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, was interviewed by CBS News for a segment on Active Shooters.  The whole video is worth a watch, but her segment is what is important and worth 2 minutes of your time.

Three points in her interview stood out at me.

1. She says that people have three options in an active shooter scenario: run, hide, or fight.
2. Most shooters do all their killing inside of 10 minutes.
3. The best police response time is about 5 minutes.

I wanted to double check on the response time she quoted and got a national average of 11 minutes.  The best data I found is from 2007 and tabulated here.

Her three options of run, hide, or fight, come directly from a video put out by the FBI and Ready Houston.

“Fight.  Act with aggression.  Improvise weapons.  *Guy picks up chair*  Commit to taking the shooter down, no matter what.”

A chair?  The FBI and D.C. Chief of Police want me to channel my inner Bobby Knight at an active shooter?  Throw a chair and choke the guy?

The only flying metal object I have any faith in stopping an active shooter is copper jacketed and moving at 950 feet per second.

But of course in D.C., the only option is a chair, since Chief Lanier has authorized on 44 carry permits since concealed carry was mandated in D.C.

To be fair, the FBI, Chief Lanier, they’re starting to get it.  Once upon a time, and still in many places around the country, the advice from law enforcement was “keep your head down, don’t attract attention to yourself, call 911, wait for police, and if you come face to face with the gunman, be complicit with all his demands and do nothing to antagonize him and get yourself killed.”

At face value, this advice may have made sense when it comes to say… a bank robber who is after money.  But in the face of shootings by crazy people like in Tuscon or Sandy Hook, or religious zealots in Ft. Hood or Paris twice this year, that advice is worth the cost of your funeral.  If you can’t get away, fight back, because if you’re trapped in a room with a gunman like that, you’re as good as dead already.

But the FBI, Chief Lanier, and others need to take their thinking to completion.  If you are going to give the advice to fight back, you have to give the people the tools they need to fight back.

In the case of Chief Lanier, I know it’s tough for her to make that jump in logic.  She’s from inside the liberal D.C. Beltway.  I don’t know if she believes it personally, but the culture there is that the average citizen is just too stupid and dangerous to carry a gun and if they have one, they’ll only make things worse.

Fortunately, it’s not a lost cause.  The attitude in Chicago is very much the same, and earlier this year an Uber driver from Chicago stopped a mass shooting before it had the chance to be a mass shooting.  If Chicago can come around, so will D.C. and NYC.

For people like these, even acknowledging that the police won’t get to you in time and you may have to defend yourself is a huge ideological change.  They’re getting there.  I just hope it doesn’t take any more mass shootings for it to finally *click*.

Specifically, the Government’s allegations concentrate on the performance of the Holographic Weapon Sights at temperature extremes as well as in high moisture environments.  The Government also claims that EOTEch failed to disclose testing that demonstrated the inaccuracy issues in those environments.  In addition to naming L-3 and EOTech as defendants in the Government’s suit, they also named EOTech’s president, Paul Mangano which isn’t very common. They are seeking unspecified triple damages plus civil penalties of as much as $11,000 for each fraudulent claim.

What remains, is for L-3 to answer to domestic consumers, state and local governments as well as international customers.

Source: UPDATED – US Government Sues L3 Communications for Fraud Involving EOTech Sights – L3 Settles for $25.6 Million – Soldier Systems Daily

Damn, that is gonna leave a lot of butt hurt across the nation and in the interwebs.

Copy/paste from the lawsuit:

Since at least 2004, EOTech has been paid tens of millions of dollars primarily through its contracts with DoD to supply combat optical sights for use in close quarter urban combat as well as longer range target acquisition. EOTech represented to DoD that its sights performed in temperatures ranging from -40 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and in humid conditions. EOTech also represented that it tested its sights in accordance with military standards to ensure that they met the advertised specifications. Those environmental performance Case 1:15-cv-09262 Document 1 Filed 11/24/15 Page 2 of 40 3 representations were important to the United States because U.S. troops used EOTech’s combat optical sights in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in the jungle, mountains, desert, and other extreme environmental conditions around the world.

Good news: If you live where it is not too cold or too humid, you are bound to get your guns all Red Dotted soon enough and for cheap.

Hat Tip to Randy C.