Now Carrie Fisher has gone over too. This is more hard evidence that Abe Vigoda was some sort of Gate Keeper of Death and that is passing has accelerated celebrities’ deaths all over. Some are making jokes that Keith Richards is still alive after his hard-lived life. I laughed with them and then a scary thought hit me like a five-pound sledgehammer: What is there is another Grim Reaper Safety Valve out there, what if there is another Gate Keeper of Death? All science points out that not only Keith but most of the Rolling Stones should have been dead long ago. How come they are alive? Who is protecting them? And it came to me in a flash:

Yes, Betty White may very well be the other Gate Keeper of Death. Nobody has an unkind word about her and she is cruising through life as if magical spells surround her. I have no doubt she is the Other One.

I can’t imagine what will happen to the Entertainment and Music Business if she dies.

I’m on vacation.  I’ll get back to longer posts here soon.  In the mean time…

My sister showed me this video.  It is of some of the BuzzFeed twerps using knives.

It is an orgy of evidence reinforcing every negative stereotypes about Liberals.

Two of them look like they majored in Precolonial Trans-Gender Cave Paintings, and neither of them can wield a knife like they have ever used a tool in their lives.  One fully admits that she (looking like she would get mad at me if I assumed her gender and pronoun) “don’t use knives very often.”

These are hands used to doing nothing more than tweeting about microagressions from an iPhone.

Whatever tool using genes our Homo Habilis ancestors put into us, liberals have effectively bred out of themselves.

I’m actually embarrassed for them.

Pretty well summarized by this meme:

You wonder if Chicago is beyond help by now. Although the rest of Illinois is not under the brutal urban warfare, I wonder how long will it take to spread. In fact I am wondering how come it is not already going though other cities like Genghis Khan and Company.

I did a couple of collages from Moms and Brady to show that perhaps the problem is not only the gangs that are running selected parts of the cities, but the mindset of certain part of the populations that is over-represented in the halls of power of the city of Chicago. The stupidity of contradictions and misconceptions is killing people wholesale, but as long as the emotional investment in politics is not threatened, the lives of those in the rally bad areas of the Windy City can be allowed to be wasted.

No more police/security contract classes for Active Response Training. I’ve decided not to conduct any more contract police/security classes in the future. To be honest, many of the cop classes I’ve taught over the last 18 years have been complete disappointments. Even though the cops I’m teaching have the potential to use the skills I am imparting on a daily basis, few take the class work seriously. The majority of officers are grumpy, they don’t want to work, and aren’t excited about learning the material. Security guards are even worse.

Source: Training AnnouncementActive Response Training | Active Response Training

This ticks me off. Putting aside the judiciary responsibility that public employees have about any kind of misused tax money, the fact that cops would not care for life-saving training is maddening. I guess the stupid notion of  “I have a badge know. I am at the pinnacle of gunfighting.” is unfortunately alive and well.

And I heard all the damned excuses: They don’t have the time, they have a hard job, they don’t see the family enough, etc. All bullshit, specially the family part since I am sure they would not be happier if you get killed because you could not outshoot a criminal because you wanted to sleep late the weekend you were supposed to take the training and did not.

Not saying that all cops are like this. If anything I am seeing more officers going outside their department and taking classes on their own dime.  But it is disappointing that so many still remain nonchalant about it. I am sure the readers of this blog would go “Free training with Greg Ellifritz? Yes please! Where the hell do I sign? What do you mean it is the weekend of our wedding anniversary? It is FREE TRAINING!”

We never stop learning, we cannot afford to do so since lives are at stake, mainly ours.

Don’t be this guy:

If I wasn’t dead from the confrontation. Before you bitch loudly, wait for the end of the video, the explanation is there. ..and damn!

Since J.Kb. is rather busy, I have to step up and go bang-bang Mazel Tov in his name 🙂

“Come for the fear Panic, stay for the Freedom.”
Erin Palette. Sean Sorrentino.

A lot of people in our side are welcoming the new influx of gun owners from the Liberal side. I am a bit more wary about it because I do not see yet the “software” part of the gun culture properly added to the new mixture. And I do not mean knowing the meaning of the Second Amendment or having memorized quotes from Federalists or to explain all the amicus curiae briefs from McDonald’s, but something much simpler: The basic tenets Self-Defense laws.

It is that a new group of people are becoming Gun Owners without knowledge about Self Defense Laws, the problem resides id that what they know about Self Defense laws was obtained by the Media they watched.

We have our share of dumb-asses that have interpreted laws to what they think is more beneficial to them only to end up in prison and their cases used as examples of “Don’t do this, stupid!” And again, for the most part, our newbies have smartly discarded what the Media says and turned to places where good info might be found such as (I can’t believe I am gonna say this) Gun Forums (shudder) and even Gun Blogs like this. Although we know they are not the perfect source of information, they are also places where a content is challenged, brutally peer-reviewed and alternative answers presented. If anything, we are not Global Warmer Cultists but accept argument….hell, we might embrace it a bit too much!

I know some are just shaking their head at what they consider an exaggeration on my part. Allow me to remind you that the Liberal Instructional on Self Defense comes from sources like the New York Times, New York Daily News and closer to home the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald. Now remember all the insidious lies and purposefully misinformation about laws like Stand Your ground and Castle Doctrine we have covered here and realize that has been the only source the new Liberal Gun Owners had and trust. How many times these titans of the public trust have told their readers they could be their own Nazi Einsatzgruppen, kill people without fear of legal punishment by just saying the words “Stand Your Ground!” Remember arguments you had with some anti gunner about the Zimmerman case? OK, he or she is packing heat now. Did I get your attention?

The solution? Spread the word, the true legal word about when and where to use guns for self-defense. It starts lowly and small, but we address those Liberal friends we know by simply gifting them with the best books in the subject. Yes, gifts, don’t be a cheap ass****. And don’t consider them gifts but investments in safety and the well-being of families that will not be subjected to the ordeal of having to fight in court (and the media) a bad shooting. I will go to my two defaults Authors: Massad Ayoob and Andrew Branca perennial recommendations and since both have the books on Kindle format, yours will be an almost instant gift.

Don’t be pushy about them learning the law. Just present them with the material, ask them to take 30 minutes of their time as a favor to you reading to books. Then, leave them to their own devices as you have more than fulfilled your due diligence on a new gun owner.  If they choose to learn more and come back to you, great! You do want to take that responsibility of at least guide them into the right path and avoid politics as they are not what needs to be addressed at this time. If they get the gifts but discard them because they “feel” it is BS or propaganda? Don’t get mad, they are adults and just send me the news link if they fuck up so I can use them as example NOT to do.

And, of course, our own “software update” never ends. Laws keep changing and we need to discard the old code and learn the new one.

Have fun and be safe.