But instead, our legislators have decided to follow other states into a maelstrom of unintended consequences without due diligence about the results. As of 2015, 10 states are repealing or scaling back their stand your ground laws. They’re daunted by an increase in homicides deemed justifiable in their states while homicides have decreased in states without stand your ground legislation. They’re concerned about the safety of police officers. They’re concerned about studies that have shown that stand your ground often has a racial bias.

Source: Joan Banks: Veto on ‘stand your ground’ should stand | Columns | joplinglobe.com

When this article popped up in my notifications, I was surprised. I consider myself pretty much informed on SYG news and never even had an inkling this was happening. I did a search for articles and legislative works to repeal SYG and found…. bupkis.

The closest thing? Just the opposite in Michigan where the Governor vetoed the SYG law passed by the Legislature and they were trying to reverse the veto, something I was already aware. Then, it came to my caffeine-starved brain that is 10 states were seriously “repealing or reversing” SYG laws, every Gun Control group would be chanting loudly about the reversal of direction in Social Media, something that has not happened. Maybe what Ms. Banks defines as “repealing or reversing” is the bills against SYG that keep getting introduced at states legislatures at every single session and go nowhere every single session. The Michigan bill I mentioned above had only four sponsors and is collecting dust and spider webs, not quite the tsunami of change that the article seems to mention.

Once again: If your cause is righteous, why lie?

Bearing Arms called attention to a news item in which the Saratoga PD stated that the National Sports Shooting Foundation had partnered with Moms Demand to distribute gun locks. Bob Owens contacted the NSSF and they were adamant that in no way, shape or form associated with MDA which is no surprise after the relentless attacks by Shannon and her minions on them.  Bob also asked the Saratoga PD about it on their Facebook page and the answer is surprising.

Moms Demand Action partnered with the Saratoga Springs Police Dept. to distribute these locks at the Saratoga County Fair.

Well, how frigging nice of them! Gun locks provided by the Gun Community and manufacturers which are donated to the local police departments to help citizens secure their guns from kids are used to make political brownie points by Moms Demand with the help of a Taxpayer-funded Saratoga Police Department.

You’s think Moms Demand would have enough money to buy the locks on their own since they are funded by Michael Bloomberg.  But dishonesty covers many facets and stealing is not out of the realm of these creatures.

Scum.

A little while ago, Miguel made a post about a video titled Never Met Her, which illustrated the absurdity of the “Cocks not Glocks” protest and movement.

Emily Keown, a volunteer with Mom’s Demand Action, went straight to the Austin-American Statesman with a OpEd that claimed the Never Met Her video was a direct threat to her.

In the short film, an actress portraying a leader in the fight against guns on campus at UT-Austin is shot and killed by a burglar after she watches someone interviewing gun violence prevention advocates like myself. Then, after the actress is shot point blank, the camera pans to the wall behind her, where a Moms Demand Action sign is splattered with blood…  Since the video came out, I’ve considered my options. I’m a mom of two. And while I want to fight tooth and nail against the men who made this video to intimidate and scare gun violence prevention volunteers like me, I must put my kids’ safety first. It’s a careful balance.

I doubt that a reasonable person watching the video would consider it threat to any member of MDA.  Nobody in MDA was named.  There was no dialog suggesting that a member of Cocks Not Glocks, or any other anti-gun organization, be killed for their political beliefs.

It expressed, in no unclear terms, that advertising your home as a gun free zone and being armed with only a synthetic phallus is an invitation to and not a defense from criminals.  But “reasonable” is not a word one associates with Social Justice types.  This satirical short film is now something Ms. Keown can use for sympathy support and victim credibility.  Even if she is not a victim.

The vast majority of gun owners support common-sense gun laws, and I suspect that most of them would be just as horrified as I am that the people who claim to be their voice in the statehouse are such a radical, threatening group… I hope that any legislators who watch this video will consider the history of threats and violence against gun safety advocates in our state. I hope they ask themselves how they’d feel if it was their mother, wife, sister or daughter portrayed in this misogynistic and menacing film.

I don’t know of what common sense gun laws MDA has ever supported, we seem to have different definitions of common sense.  Cocks Not Glocks is a childish protest that really doesn’t make any sense at all.  Their message is … ? … I’m not sure.  There really is no parallel with guns and dildos, at least to the thinking person.  Not to mention that I am nearly 100% sure that the same caliber of person who supports Cocks Not Glocks is also a protester of campus rape culture, and that if a fraternity whipped out a bunch of dildos at a party, these same people would work to have the fraternity kicked off campus and the students expelled for a Title IX violation.  The video is not misogynist, at least according to the conventional definition of the term, but they will use any chance to throw out a -ism or -ist to signal some “bad think.”  Of course, the film is not menacing either, by any definition.

But crybullies cry, that is what they do.  Never mind that they impugned the character of every person who supports campus concealed carry.  Never mind that they suggested we’d kill our professors over bad grades, we’d kill our professors and fellow students because they discussed something in class we disagreed with,  we’d mass murder LGBT students who demand we use their preferred pronouns, campus carry would make us into rapists, or we’re just murder happy people who are only held at bay because of a paragraph in a student code of conduct.  Never mind all of that, they are the real victims.  One would think that if everything they said about us was true, they’d suffer far worse than a satirical YouTube video… but they are’t going to question that.

Of course, being a crybully, Ms. Keown got what she wanted.   Outrage and the demand for censorship.

MDA: “You people are a bunch of crazy, racist wannabe rapists and killers.”

CCW: “But I passed a background check and can carry most places in TX, why is a public college in the middle of a city any different.”

MDA: “Here’s a giant rubber penis to make you understand why you are so terrible.”

CCW: “I don’t get it.  Besides, your point is stupid, here’s why (video).”

MDA: “You threatened to kill me.  You should be banned.”

CCW: “Wha…..”

MDA: “We scored a victory for common sense.”

And yet the crybullies say that we will be the death of civil discourse.   They are truly awful people.

Never Forget.

Irredeemable:

not able to be saved, helped, or made better.

Hillary classified one-quarter of the American population as such. Apparently the infamous Clinton list of enemies has not only expanded exponentially but has become a triage guide. We have been marked with a black tag.

Bring it on.

An amazing story.

Medal of Honor Citation

He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave’s mouth, where he dressed his comrades’ wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers’ return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.