I shared this meme with the wife in Facebook for Valentines:

She saw it, laughed hard and long, looked at me and with her sweet eyes said:

“Yeah right, you wish!”

Romance is dead at my domicile

TALLAHASSEE Concealed guns at Miami Dolphins games, local bars and even voting booths could be commonplace under a sweeping measure introduced this week in the Florida Legislature.With the recent, tragic history of the Pulse nightclub massacre last June in Orlando and the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting last month, two conservative Republican lawmakers want to do away with all of Florida’s “gun-free zones” — 15 locations in state law where concealed weapons are currently prohibited.

Source: Lawmakers want to eliminate Florida’s ‘gun-free zones’ | Miami Herald

This senate bill and its House companion is giving fits to the Gun Control Crowd. It is more extensive that Steube’s versions which might be the reason it was introduced: It makes it more palatable and easier to get them approved and voted favorably. And before the chest-thumping starts, remember not to let Perfect be the enemy of Good: The idea is to get good gun bills moving and sent to the Governor’s office for signature and not to show off in your favorite gun forum how tough you are because you “NO COMPROMISE. FUCK YEAH!”

I am brushing up on my Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

George Orwell’s 1984 is a must  read.  It is mandatory reading in mos high schools.  It is a scary book, of course, but because it is fiction, I think some people don’t take it seriously.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the Soviet Union’s George Orwell.  He actually spent eight years doing labor in a Gulag because of a private letter he wrote to a friend.  He lived what Orwell only saw from afar.  Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opera are One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.

Both are excellent, and should be mandatory reading by all Americans once per election cycle.  If I could ever get the funding I would make The Gulag Archipelago into a movie or maybe a mini series.

There is a passage from The Gulag Archipelago that should be branded onto the soul of every gun owner and patriot in America:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

That quote has always been my answer to the question “Do you believe that if the Jews in Germany had been armed, could the Holocaust been averted.”

Solzhenitsyn knew and in that passage explained that every tyrannical law handed down from above has to be carried out by boots on the ground.  If you can make the boots on the ground fear carrying out the law more than they fear punishment from higher ups (who are just another layer of boots) tyranny breaks down.  But you HAVE TO BE WILLING TO FIGHT.

The negative corollary of this is the Ferguson Effect.  Rather than violence, the boots on the ground feared public humiliation of lawsuits and so walked away, allowing chaos to reign.

But this was not the passage that prompted this post.

This is from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:

But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride. But no sooner does it become strong, firmly established, than it senses the rarefaction of the air around it and it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies, clothing them in sweet talk. It does not always, not necessarily, openly throttle the throat, more often it demands from its subjects only an oath of allegiance to falsehood, only complicity in falsehood.

The shorter version of this is:

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.  Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

In this sentiment, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put his finger on Antifa.  It is a movement built on lies and distortions to justify the desire for violence.

These people would fit right in with the NKDV, they just don’t have a Stalin to lead them.

“Two is one and one is none” and “Always have a back up and a back up for the back up. “

These and other similar sayings and maxims keep getting repeated in our culture and even go to “pollute” other aspects of our lives. And you know what? It is damned good advice.

Earlier this afternoon I got back from doing some errands and proceeded to unload my Every Day Carry gear on the usual location. When i  retrieved the first of the two mags I carry on a double pouch, something felt weird. Actually the magazine sounded weird… it should have made no sound at all. but instead it sounded like a maraca.

The rounds came off the magazine without an effort. The spring was not pushing the follower all the way up for some reason. I took apart the magazine and the usual parts came out plus some extra stuff that I eventually identified as broken parts of the follower.

No idea why it broke and I guess the follower tilted enough that held the spring but did not put tension on the rounds…or something like that. Only thing for sure is that I had a useless container of ammunition that would not do what was supposed to do if SHTF. My only saving grace is that I had another mag even though my round count would be decreased by a third from the original number.

Shit will break and if you are truly unlucky, it will be when Mr. Murphy decides. Have Plan A and have a back up plan for Plan B.

PS: Two followers have been ordered. Why two? Back up! Weren’t you paying attention?

For whatever reason, this week seems to be dragging… so Funnies!

Congress on Wednesday approved the first pro-gun bill of the new GOP-controlled Washington, voting to erase an Obama administration regulation that would have forced Social Security to scour its lists and report some of its beneficiaries to the firearms no-buy list.The Senate approved the bill on a 57-43 vote, after it cleared the House earlier this month.

Source: Senate votes to undo Obama administration Social Security gun rule – Washington Times

The wails of despair were soon all over Social Media:

We cannot allow retirees to endanger the lives of thousands of people by allowing them access to guns. Blood will be spilled on restaurants with Early Bird specials and discussions on shuffleboard courts will now end up solved with bullets.

DO IT FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN!

[end sarcasm]

2/14/17 Washington Post:

Flynn resigned Monday night, days after The Washington Post reported that intelligence officials had recorded Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. before Trump took office. Those recordings, The Post reported, appeared to contradict Flynn’s own claims that he had not discussed easing U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Think about this section for a second:
“that intelligence officials had recorded Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.”

It is not the recording itself, but that people in our intelligence services decided to illegally release intelligence data and all the info that comes with it to a journalist for political purposes. This is straight KGB/Stasi/DGI, straight political assassination. What kind of banana republic intelligence services did the Obama Administration leave behind?

And with a still compromised Secret Service thanks to hookers, coke and uncontrolled alcoholism, I expect that attacks on the Presidency itself will be forthcoming.

Some people are playing a very fucking dangerous game for the only goal of obtaining/keeping power.  It is Alisnsky Strategies on Steroids and  has been applied with enormous success in South America and always ended up with the country in ruins.

If this shit does not get under control the soonest, there will be an awful amount of killing in our future.

Pray for the Republic but load up.