The FBI released the  2015 stats and as predicted, the number of murders are up and by a significant percentage, 10.8%.  I went to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’ website to get their report and the Gunshine state had also an uptick from 5.0 per 100K to 5.2 per 100K: A whole 0.2!

Except for three years, Florida has kept the murder rate under 5.5 per 100K in the 21st Century. The average (if my math has not failed) is holding at 5.44 while the population went up by 3,483,444 souls. Aggravated Assaults went up from 298.7 per 100K in 2014 to 305.5 per 100K in 2015 but it is the third lowest number in the last 15 years with 2014 and 2014 occupying first and second place.

Sex offenses went up from 52.5 per 100K to 54.2 per 100K. By the report, you may want to take it that we have experienced a big drop during this century, but since the FBI implement the new definition for rape and instituted it in 2013, I am not sure how that affected the numbers, so I won’t guess. Anyway, they are still too many and I do believe rapist should be dropped off in the middle of the Everglades… from at least 1,000 feet up from a helicopter.

Let’s hope the numbers keep or even descend in the Gunshine State.

• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
• Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
• I’d tell you a chemistry joke but I know I wouldn’t get a reaction.
• I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.
• Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It’s very time consuming.
• It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
• He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
• I couldn’t quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
• I’m glad I know sign language, it’s pretty handy.
• Claustrophobic people are more productive thinking outside the box.
• I once heard a joke about amnesia, but I forgot how it goes.
• There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn’t control his pupils.
• I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it.

OK, you can stop groaning now… hehehehe

According to the OP in Reddit, this is how they sell music in Mexico:

Call me paranoid, but inserting a thumb drive from unknown origin into my computer is not a very smart thing to do. I am not saying that they do just more than piracy and go for hacking, but I rather not take my chances. Way too many pricks out there.

The way Social Media is acting right now, we need detox.
Enjoy!

From Historic Photographs: “Ukrainian immigrants in USA offer free borsht to celebrate Stalin’s death (1953)”

Today, they would be shamed in Social Media by the SJW, Obama would apologize from the golf course and would send Joe Biden with a delegation of Democrat senators for his funeral.

An emerging industry that offers instructions to members for responding to police after they shoot someone, liability coverage and legal advice fuels a shoot-first mentality. With names like U.S. Concealed Carry and Second Call Defense, these membership groups provide advice like this nugget for calling 911 after a shooting: “I was attacked and was forced to defend myself. Please send the police and an ambulance.” Then there is: “Call the USCCA to initiate your Self-Defense Shield.”Translation: Don’t worry about reaching for your gun because if you follow our instructions we will help you get away with killing someone.

Source: Editorial: Florida’s land of fun, sun and guns | Tampa Bay Times

Don’t you get it! It means premeditation! Only people who have premeditation at heart, have legal advice and lawyers on speed dial.

I do love when newspaper editorials are this hypocrite, specially from a newspaper that got sued for libel and had to settle out of court. But that does not mean they have an expensive law firm in retainer, right? On a document related to the libel lawsuit, we find the firm of Rahdert, Steele, Reynolds & Driscoll representing the Tampa Bay Times and specifically George K. Rahdert & Alison M. Steele.

See? You as a gun owner should not be ready to defend yourself with guns or lawyers, that is heresy, that does not happen in civilized states up North or in civilized European countries.  However, Tampa Bay Tribune as your Better has the right to have legal advice (and I bet not for free) 24/7.

And the editorial board does not see the cognitive dissonance anywhere.

The BLM/All Cops Sucks chapter keeps growing everyday. And they are accepting them because posts that are not up to their code of conduct (no pro-2A comments) get deleted faster than Hillary’s Emails.

Dear Elisabeth: We are not going to hell. The Devil is afraid we’ll take over.
And he is right.