Hat Tip Mark W.

Via Guns.com we find out De La Portilla will get a substantial cash contribution:

“Senator Diaz de la Portilla has worked to promote public safety for the past two years,” reads a statement issued by Everytown on Tuesday, announcing an $85,000 ad campaign to support their man in Tallahassee.“Using his position as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he declined to hear a bill that would have allowed guns on Florida’s many college campuses and another that would have allowed people to openly carry handguns in public,” says the statement. “Prior to reaching these decisions, Senator Diaz de la Portilla listened closely to concerned stakeholders – like campus security, professors and university presidents – from around the state. After careful consideration, he agreed that guns on campus would only heighten the risks already found in colleges and universities, and stopped this dangerous proposal two years in a row.”

Source: Florida Republican who killed pro-gun bills to get Bloomberg cash

If you are in this jackass’ district, vote for the Democrat as he won’t be named chairman of the Judiciary if he wins.  If De La Portilla is so eager to sniff Bloomberg’s crotch, he can go a head and move to NY.

Hat tip Mark C.

There is an old joke:

God contacts a reporter from the New York Time to tell him that God is going to bring about the apocalypse and to spread the word using the newspaper of record.  The next day, the NYT publishes the headline “World to End, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.”

Moms Demand Action posted this over at their Facebook Page.

First, never mind that according to the FBI, 77.4% of homicide victims are men.

According to Paula Mays Gap, it’s women who the NRA are sacrificing for their cause… which doesn’t make any sense.  The NRA has been trying to engage more women in shooting sports for years, and has created a number of programs to attract women to shooting.  Women are the fastest growing demographic of new shooters and are gaining ground in CCW with more and more ranges offering women’s only CCW courses.

So exactly what cause does the NRA have the requires sacrificing women?  This is an insane proposition.

And speaking of insane… when it comes our “peer nations” their stats don’t impress me much.  Our peer nations in Europe are facing a rape epidemic that boggles the mind.  European women are experiencing rape at a rate higher than the South Side of Chicago is experiencing shootings.  Yes, it’s that bad.  When Europe women defend themselves with aerosol hot-sauce, they get arrested for it.

Of course domestic violence is terrible.  Of course domestic abusers should be prohibited persons.  The Lautenberg Amendment makes convicted abusers prohibited persons.  I don’t want to come across as victim blaming, but perhaps the first step to saving more lives is to convince battered intimate partners to press charges and carry through with prosecution.  It is shown that up to 85% of abused women return to their abuser for financial reasons.  Perhaps the issue isn’t so much gun control as the need for other social programs so abused women can walk away and press charges, making these men prohibited persons.

But when it comes to comparing us to our peer nations, at least America doesn’t have an ongoing rape epidemic… yet.

Orangy has become my favorite suburban “wildlifer.” She’s been there chilling for hours and I could swear she was asking for a Mojito.

HOUSTON – A Houston couple says they were victims of a former Houston Emergency Center 911 operator who has allegedly confessed to hanging up on callers seeking emergency help because “she did not want to talk to anyone at that time. ”The former emergency operator, Crenshanda Williams, 43, is charged with two counts of interference with an emergency telephone call, a class A misdemeanor that carries a punishment of up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine for each count upon conviction.
Pendley says Williams hung up on him in the early morning hours of March 1 when his wife collapsed and lost consciousness after a blood clot moved to her lungs.

Source: 911 operator faces charges after admitting to hanging up on…

And with more people coming to the workforce with a supreme attitude that they are not to render a service to others but just to garner a paycheck, we will be seeing more of this sooner rather than later.

This is why you have been warned you are the First Responder. Paramedics, cops, etc are second unless you are untrained and decide to pass the baton of your safety to people who may or may not show up on time, or not at all.

Learn to defend yourself and others, learn to save yourself and others. There is a reason we not only focus on guns but on First Responder kits and training on how to use both.

But the NRA’s marketing is based on a false narrative that most sexual predators are strangers jumping out of the bushes and attacking women. In fact, most victims of sexual violence (three out of four) are attacked by someone they know, according to RAINN. Forty-three percent of rapes are perpetrated by a friend or acquaintance, and 27 percent are perpetrated by a current or former spouse or significant other, according to RAINN.
The idea that women are going to be armed to the teeth to fend off people they know is absurd, and places the onus on the victim to be “at the ready” at all times. That’s not the way American women want to live our lives, and it actually increases the likelihood we’ll be shot. One recent study found that if someone is in possession of a firearm when attacked, they are four times more likely to be shot during the assault.

Source: Note To Trump: Like Gun Violence, Misogyny Is Deadly | Huffington Post

Next to my “He should be executed by letting worms infest his flesh while alive” list of offenders, rapist and women beaters come second only to child molesters. It infuriates me just to start writing this post, but I have to do it because it is people like Shannon Watts and the rest of the Gun Control community who are direct accomplices in the systematic abuse and death of women in bad relationships.

Yes, they are accomplices. Harsh? Not one bit if you see that never give a real helpful solution and only talk about about the restraining orders and women having to dismantle their lives going into hiding for the rest of their lives…if they survive. Shannon Watts should be forced to stop the fist of a drunken husband with a printed form for restraining order so she can taste in her own mouth the futility of such imbecility.

And she is also accomplice in the second round of abuse that an abused women is to face still in many states if she chooses to defend herself by any means: Prosecution and in all probability a prison sentence. In case after case of a woman defending herself from an abusive husband or boyfriend (or exes) women will be treated as if they were some sort of black widows who need to be put away the soonest instead of the victims of a monster they had the bad luck to enter in a relationship. If she is lucky, she will survive but be investigated for months and months, her life at the mercy of the police and the district attorney until they make a decision. Only very few cases ended up where a woman is found not guilty and still goes to prison because gun laws in her state did not allow her to have the tool she used to defend herself or perhaps just loses years behind bars before she is finally found not guilty. It is unfortunate, but in this aspect, some jurisdictions in the US are no better than Sharia law countries like Iran. And Gun Control activists like Shannon Watts are right there casting the stones to the “whore” because a woman successfully defending herself is less cash coming into her coffers and less fame she can bask on. Shannon Watts states that:

The idea that women are going to be armed to the teeth to fend off people they know is absurd…

Except when it happens. She won’t tell you of cases like Mary Robinson’s who saved her life from imminent death because she happened to be armed and used her gun to stop her husband. But there is a bit of good news, more police departments are not charging women who righteously defend themselves, but they are mostly in “dumb redneck states” like Alabama where a boyfriend found the hard way it does not pay to attack an armed woman or in Texas where a woman took affront of her ex-boyfriend kicking the door in before sunrise and uninvited.

In sophisticated places like New York (Home to Everytown for Gun Safety, AKA Mom Demand’s Pimp HQ), the story is different:

A 31-year-old woman stabbed her longtime boyfriend to death early Saturday after years of abuse, officials and stunned family members said. Christina Quinones slammed a knife into the chest of Ruben Jimenez, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, during a fight in her apartment at the Todt Hill Houses on Westwood Ave. in Castleton Corners, Staten Island…

…Quinones told police they were arguing over the Friday night phone call from another woman when Jimenez tried to choke her. She pulled a knife and stabbed him in self defense, she said.Quinones was charged with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, officials said. Her arraignment was pending Saturday night.
This is Quinones’ first arrest. Jimenez had been arrested 14 times before — twice for brutalizing the mother of his children.

Source: S.I. woman stabs, kills boyfriend after fight – NY Daily News

I rather be uncouth.