A Castle Rock roofing company is offering ARs as signing bonus for those who get hired to fill four sales positions. Our friends from the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence, lose their minds and go stupid:

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence sounded off about the controversial campaign on Tuesday.
“The only thing roofers should be armed with is a nail gun,” spokesman Andrew Patrick said. “The addition of guns to an already hazardous work environment only increases the likelihood of an accident or altercation. The gun lobby’s ‘guns everywhere’ mentality has reached a new low when employers feel the need to offer firearms as part of their benefits package.”

Source: Castle Rock roofing company offers gun to attract employees | FOX31 Denver

The roof of our house was damaged during Hurricane Wilma, so I got to meet several sales people from different roof companies and amazingly, the only thing they did was to try to sell me their services, I never saw them working on a roof anywhere in the county. I don’t know, maybe that is what they do in D.C. or maybe Andrew Patrick does not know how a business is run, specially one that uses nail guns. Maybe he thinks roofing nails are made out of foam? or that nail guns do not have the capability to inflict serious injury or death?  

I see Ladd left the group in very capable hands.

Dear So-Called Conservatives,

I know it is difficult to say anything good about Obama, but on Monday, Obama singed into law the BABIES Act which mandates that baby changing tables be installed in men’s rooms in publicly accessible Federal buildings.  These are buildings like courthouses, national museums, visitors centers at National Parks, etc.

This is good law.  Stop complaining about it.  When I go to a conservative leaning website that covered the news and the comments are filled with people bashing this law, it is infuriating.

For get about the trans issue.  Forget about mandating LGBT this or that.  This law helps responsible dads be responsible.  As a dad, it is frustrating when I go somewhere with my son and there is no place to change him in a men’s room.

For all the whining about “nanny state” that I see, this is completely within the purview of Federal authority.  The Federal Government has the power to control building codes (which is what this is) in Federal buildings.  They do all the time for things like security.  This act does not affect private enterprise.

At a personal level, I do thing that changing tables should be mandatory in men’s and women’s rooms in businesses that have restrooms available to the public, e.g. restaurants, movie theaters, etc.   It should be part of building codes.  Florida mandates, for instance, how much bathroom space you have to have for your occupancy.  There is nothing worse than going into a restaurant to find out it has one bathroom and people have to wait in line.  Illinois was like that.  That is bad building codes.

Even if it is not mandatory by code, it is just good customer service.  If you have highchairs and a kids menu and no place for me to change a baby, I’m gonna get pissed fast.  Yes, I have changed my son on the table in a Starbucks because it didn’t have a changing table in the men’s room.  That was a fun argument with the manager.

If you watch a bill be signed into law that makes it just a tad easier for dads to take care of their children, and your first instinct is to attack it because “liberal nanny state trans-lovers can’t leave our bathrooms alone,”  you really need to STFU and deal with your daddy issues.  And if you own a restaurant and have high chairs and kids menu, and no changing tables in the men’s room, I hope some dad like me changes a poopy diaper on your table because you’re a pig headed asshole.

J.Kb. out!

Update:  The first comment to this post brought up nanny states.  Let’s discuss.  I am a conservative, not an anarchist.  I believe there are good laws and bad laws.  Much of what separates a good law from a bad law is a cost benefit analysis.  Let’s take building codes.  Yes, it can be expensive to build to code.  But many codes exist for the safety of the public.  How to wire a building to prevent electrical fires.  Good law.

Mandating how big a soda a restaurant can sell is bad law.  High cost in loss of revenue, low benefit as limiting a patron to only a 20 oz Coke is not going to change his risk of a heart attack.  Mandating the temperature at which a restaurant keeps its refrigerators and freezers, and what cleaners it has to use is good law.  Low relative cost to do maintenance on restaurant equipment, vs. the high cost of causing an e coli outbreak.  Restroom size and baby changing space is a matter of hygiene.  The cost of a changing table is not much, a few hundred at the most.  The benefit is preventing disease to the baby or to other patrons by having an over flowing diaper leak onto places were food is placed.  Good law.

My family owns a restaurant, I am familiar with building and health codes.  Some are expensive and seem to have little value.  Others are important.  I want my tables wiped down with bleach water changed regularly.  Keeps it clean.  A damp rag used for an entire shift is just a vector for infection.

I’m not telling individuals how much TP that have to use, that is stupid.  I am saying that a business, open to the public, should make reasonable accommodations to the needs of families, which includes changing tables in men’s and women’s restrooms.  That is an ordinance that passes the cost benefit analysis sniff test.

There is a huge reasonable area between nanny state and anarchy.  Don’t fall for the false dichotomy.

The story of lumpia in pictures.

Source: Lumpia! In pictures – In Jennifer’s Head

For those who do not know, lumpias are the Filipino version of egg rolls. If you are from Venezuela, these lumpias are the Filipino version of what we know as lumpias (Chinese egg rolls.) Jennifer makes it look easy, but probably ain’t. Anyway, Gun Bloggers must one day come together and threaten her with ammo shortage unless she sponsors a blog meet where the lumpias are available for massive consumption.

I can’t get my body to stop demanding sleep or my brain to function beyond “feed me. Now go bathroom. Now back to couch. Now go bathroom…again.”

One for competition shooters:

Stolen from Michael Bane.

And one for everybody:

According to IMDB:

After losing his wife in a theater shooting, Hopper ends up living on the streets of Denver, where he meets a grifter named Ella. Together they fight a corrupt policeman and Hopper’s resurfacing demons, as his wife’s killer goes to trial.

Does the background of the plot sound familiar? I knew it would.

The film’s central character, Hopper, loses his wife in the theater shooting and his life quickly spins out of control. He eventually finds himself living on the streets of Denver. Told from the perspective of the homeless community that Hopper surrounds himself with, this fictional tale explores some of today’s most volatile issues: homelessness, police brutality, gun control, gay rights, the death penalty, and the abuse of power. Gabriel Dohrn, Writer and Director states, “While many films about social issues take a side or make a statement, I just want to start conversations. With much of the media polarizing various social issues, I want to humanize them. In this film we experience the homeless characters’ lives and their struggles, and suddenly it seems we have much more in common with them than we thought.”
Source: American Bystander Makes its World Premier at Oaxaca FilmFest – Press Release – Digital Journal

I have no idea why would the director include all that on a fantasy reproduction of the Aurora Theater massacre, but it is his movie and he can do what he pleases with it. But we know where he stands:

The film’s Director and Producer aim to support local Denver charities by donating 100% of the proceeds from American Bystander to Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

I think I am gonna pass on this one. Pass the word, no monies for the enemy.

There are plenty of assholes in the world. I’m one of them, I should know. You might be one also. I’m not going to have a beer with Trump. He’s not coming over for Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t care. People have written literally dozens of books on the Clintons. Guess what? They’re assholes too.Donald Trump is an asshole. He has hurt some people’s feelings. In contrast, the Clintons have blood on their hands and have left a trail of dead bodies in their wake a mile long. And look what happens when you choose a president that is hip and cool. You get 8 years of Barack Obama hanging out with Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Source: No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money: “Donald Trump Is An Asshole”

One of your “Go Read” for this week.

I have been asked if I do not get tired of having the same argument/fights/discussions about the Second Amendment over and over. The short answer is yes, I do sometimes. I confess that there are moments I get so saturated of it all, I  just turn it off and dedicate myself to a good book or some other activity. But I always come back because I know there is somebody out there that has not seen our side of the story,has been told lies and perchance he/she may land on this blog or the Facebook page or the Twitter feed.

I don’t mean to say that a hardcore Gun Control fascist will suddenly see the light because of my posts. Those are set in concrete and they will rather see you dead than admit they are wrong. My aim goes to the undecided/uninformed who maybe will change his vote or at least will not vote against guns. But the hardcore gun control fascists is where my aimed fire goes because it is them who will inadvertently help you with their fanaticism, lies and inflexible mind.

I engaged this lady yesterday after this obviously lying/misleading post of hers:

She was quoting from USA Today where President Obama cites a percentage given by Chicago PD. The later in the discussion we had, she uses the New York Times and Taco Stand as back up for her claims:

The graphic above is telling on how the authors of the article (Gregor Aisch and Josh Keller) use two facts to infer the lie (yes, a lie) that Indiana is supplying the bulk of guns used in Chicago. I made the point that the ATF numbers tell us that most guns recovered in Illinois come from Illinois itself and beat Indiana by a margin of 3 to 1:

Even though the numbers quoted in the NYT link she provided come from that specific 2014 ATF report, she decided to move the goalposts and declare that report null:

Which turned out to be worse for her since the ratio of guns from Illinois went up 4 to 1 in 2015 and told her so:

After that, she moved goalposts again, went ultra specific, reiterated the Chicago numbers ONLY. Again remember that we are talking about Indiana being specifically the supplier of illegal guns to Chicago. The same 2015 ATF report tell us that the truth is far from what she stated:

Remember that Libs can’t math. If there were 5,804 recovered weapons in Chicago and the total of Indiana-traced guns is 1,158, the logical and mathematical result is that the Hoosier State is not the supplier of the Chicago guns, not even a big or small majority but a paltry 19.9% (if we consider all Indiana guns going to the Windy City.) She promptly moved the goalposts again and “specifically” suddenly becomes vacuous.

So I did a bit of math, got the 60% that Chicago PD claims out of the total ATF numbers of recovered weapons from Chicago and compared it to the numbers of the top 15 states provided by the ATF.

She went silent after that. It is hard to argue math when your only fuel is emotion. Will she change her position after this beatdown? No. I am almost sure she already sublimed it of forgot it or even feels that she actually won. My hope is that a third undecided or barely decided party sees this exchange or this posts and figures that the side that has no shame lying, the side that ignores the numbers and moves goalposts when politically convenient is not the side they want to support.

And then that party tells friends and so on. And that is why we stay in the fight even if it gets tiresome. We have come a long way against well-funded and well=publicized foes, we must be doing something right.