Moms Demand Action posted two articles about Stand Your Ground in Florida.  In typical unable-to-get-anything-about-guns-right MDA fashion, the two articles were in near direct contradiction to each other, and one of the articles is in contradiction to established MDA dogma.

First up, we have MDA commenting on this article from the New York Times.

Oh, shit!  What is Florida going to do now?

Republican legislators in Florida are planning to compound the deadly mischief of the state’s Stand Your Ground law by allowing accused killers even greater leeway to claim self-defense and immunity from prosecution in violent confrontations.

Dear God, no!  How much more leeway are “accused killers” going to get?

Under current law, homicide defendants must prove at a pretrial hearing that they “reasonably believed” they were threatened with grave bodily harm, and therefore are entitled to make a claim of self-defense at trial. But a bill moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature would turn the hearing process on its head, by shifting the burden to prosecutors to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that a defendant’s claim to self-defense was not valid. 

Oh.  So Florida is going to apply the legal standard that is at the core of American jurisprudence, placing the burden of proof in a criminal trial on the prosecution.  That doesn’t actually sound so bad.

Of course, MDA isn’t going to stand for this.  They don’t care about civil liberties or the rights of the accused  when it comes to gun laws.

A few clicks of the scroll wheel down the page and MDA posted about this article from CNN on a movie theater shooting in Tampa.

Seems that a judge tossed the defendants defense of Stand Your Ground.  I find this odd as MDA has told me countless times that a claim of SYG cannot be questioned and is a get-out-of-jail-free card.

“Because the defendant’s testimony was significantly at odds with the physical evidence and other witness testimony, this court has considerable doubts about his credibility, and is not willing to come to the conclusion that these circumstances are those envisioned by the Legislature when the ‘stand your ground’ law was enacted,” Barthle ruled.

Turns out that the shooter LIED about the incident.  Wittiness and evidence contradict his statement to the police.  As it turns out, the shooter was in a lot less danger than he claimed to be in at the time off the shooting.

Oulson threw a bag of popcorn at Reeves, according to a criminal complaint, and Reeves then took out his handgun and fired at Oulson, killing him.

As cholesterol laden as movie theater popcorn soaked in artificial-butter-flavored-grease may be, it is not cause for an immediate threat of death or grave bodily harm.

The proposed Florida law, if it passes, would not change the facts of the case.  It would only mean that the jury has to decide on the SYG claim rather than the judge toss it at pre-trial.  This is EXACTLY the type of evidence that would be presented to a jury during a criminal trial.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury.  I love the movie The Untouchables.  One of my favorite quotes from that movie is “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.”  Somehow it is less memorable as “They pull a bag of Orville Redenbacher, you pull a gun. He sends stains one of your shirts, you send him to the morgue.”  Because that is what happened in this case.  I think even Al Capone would let this one slide with just a warning.

Here’s the kicker too.  Reeves, the shooter, was a RETIRED TAMPA POLICE CAPTAIN.  Yep.  Those cops who are the only people professional enough for MDA to be allowed to carry a gun in public.  One of them had a bad shoot and lied about it.

A cop lying at trial?  This is my shocked face.

Between these two posts what I learned is that a CCWer who was a member of the elite, endowed by government authority with the superior nature to carry a gun in public, shot someone in an argument unjustifiably.  He claimed SYG, and the prosecutor reviewed the evidence and decided there was enough to show that he was lying and SYG was not a reasonable defense and had the judge toss SYG.  But if Florida makes it a requirement for prosecutors to do just that to a jury, Florida will become a murder free for all?

It’s like these people don’t even read the things they post.  They sure as hell don’t understand what they are talking about.

I was scrolling through the comments on these posts and found this.

THAT’ THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT!!!

My God.  Yes, an armed society is a polite society.  Apparently the spokesperson at Messaging Matters is a psycho who would get into crazy road rage incidents and shopping mall parking lot fights if it weren’t for the fear of getting shot.  Only someone completely unhinged (and I checked, this person is not a troll) would bemoan not being able to pick fights in public because of CCW.  CCW works.  This nut job proves it.

Leave it to these people to be so wrong that they actually prove us to be right.

The ACLU has started a movement called People Power to encourage people to “Join the Resistance” against Trump.  They have rebranded Sanctuary Cities  as  “Freedom Cities,” probably due to the news that most people are not supportive of Sanctuary Cities.  But the “Freedom Cities” initiative also includes refugee advocacy.

According to the ACLU’s Mintrue “Freedom is disobeying Federal law.”

The ACLU launched their People Power program on Twitter with this:

I have seen this before, especially in relation to the issue of Syrian refugees.

In The Huffington Post: Give Us Your “Huddled Masses,” but “Syrians Need Not Apply!”

The Independent: Keep your tired, poor, huddled masses away – Donald Trump’s message, shamefully endorsed by Theresa May

Time: ‘Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor’: The Story Behind the Statue of Liberty’s Famous Immigration Poem

Medium: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses: Unless You Are Syrian

What these Liberals leave off is telling.  The poem they quote, from the base of the Statue of Liberty and written by the Jewish poet Emma Lazarus, is called The New Colossus.

It is the second stanza that gets the most attention, and it goes:

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Let’s take a look again:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,”

Again:

“yearning to breathe free”

One more time, see if you can catch it:

“YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE”

Notice how Liberal after Liberal leaves off the part about “yearning to breathe free?”

That is the point of the American experiment.  People from all over the world coming here to be part of America.  To cast off the provincial infighting of the Old World and unite under a common belief in the the Constitution, an American identity, and the Flag of the United States.

That idea of American unity and a common belief in freedom is downright toxic to Liberals.  This is how you get the student government of UC Irvine to ban the American Flag from the school lobby because:

[T]he American flag has been flown in times of“colonialism and imperialism” and could symbolize American “exceptionalism and superiority.” The resolution says “freedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible, can be interpreted as hate speech.”

Or a high school in Iowa condemn its students for wearing “patriotic” American Flag theme clothes to a basketball game, because the American Flag is “offensive” to students  to minority students or refugees.

There is another reason Liberals leave off the part about “yearning to breathe free?”  The reality of the situation is quite different.

For many illegal immigrants it is “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, drug and human traffickers, yearning for welfare benefits, access to taxpayer funded public services, and free healthcare”  

For many Middle Eastern refugees, it is “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to establish Shaira law ‘no-go zones,’ Welfare, and attack Jews.”

Some Muslim clerics say Muslims are entitled to welfare because it is a form of Jizya which is why terrorists and ISIS are being funded by the European welfare state.

The idea of “yearning to breath free” is diametrically opposed to contraband smuggling, living off the welfare state, imposing Sharia, terrorism, and gang crime.  By leaving off the “yearning to breathe free” Liberals use a linguistic slight of hand to make people overlook that in favor of the “give me your huddled masses” part.

We have no duty to accept those into this nation that want to harm this nation.

The Left is deliberately misquoting The New Colossus to obfuscate that fact.

“[The convoy commander] was also aware of the rules precluding Department of Defense (DoD) endorsement of political candidates during an election,” the documents stated. “However, he believed that flying the flag was not inappropriate since the election was over and since the candidate was now the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.”…

…About 30 minutes into the drive on I-65, the convoy commander noticed that the flag was getting a good deal of attention from civilian drivers, “some of which was negative attention.”

“At this point, he felt like the correct course of action would have been to take the flag down,” the documents stated. “However, he was concerned that it would be unsafe for the convoy and its members to pull over while on the highway.”

Source: DoD Report Reveals Details About SEALs Punished For Flying Trump Flag

Seems legit to me. But they were still penalized for the transgression:

“The Navy Seals formally punished the unit on Feb. 28 but none of the details were released, said Lt. Jacqui Maxwell of the Naval Special Warfare Group 2 in Virginia Beach, Va. According to the documents, the commanding Seals officer directed a teamwide remedial training on safe convoy operations and partisan political activity. That remedial training was completed by Feb. 9.”

Or as my buddy Joshua stated: “They were condemned to Death by PowerPoint.” That was just cruel and goes above and beyond what punishment should be. Even Navy Seals have rights and their fragile minds should not have been treated to such inhumanity. The ACLU would have raised shit and death if Terrorists at Guantanamo were subjected to endless slides like this:

Or this one:

And if this one was forcibly shown to a child rapist, the Supreme  Court would have sent the briefer to life in prison without parole for extremely cruel  and unusual punishment.

I am glad I was able to get that off my chest.

/sarcasm.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Wednesday that he is effectively ending plainclothes policing in Baltimore after the federal indictments of seven officers last week.

Known on the streets as “knockers” or “jump-out boys,” the officers were most often seen wearing tactical vests, jeans and backwards hats as they prowled the city for guns and drugs.

Davis said they have also been the officers most likely to be the subject of complaints, and he had become increasingly concerned that their style “accelerated a cutting-corners mindset.”

Source Commissioner Davis says plainclothes policing in Baltimore is over

Somebody emailed me this story, I accidentally deleted it but managed to remember what was about and found it. So, my apologies for not giving the proper Hat Tip.

Plainclothes policing is not the issue: Bad cops are. And it is not policing in general but specific aspects of police job and not the standard patrol duties. Many jurisdictions do not allow officers to do simple stuff like traffic stops unless the officers are in full uniform and in a marked patrol car because of the jackwagons that pass themselves as cops to rob victims; this I support wholeheartedly.  But very specific situations like Apprehension teams for Violent Offenders can benefit from officers not being encumbered by all the gear a regular patrolman carries.

I grew up in Miami, one of the most diverse cities in the country.  The city is so steeped in Caribbean Hispanic culture, that it is in the very air that you breathe.  It is how you end up with a someone like me, a Jew of German and Russian heritage that thinks nothing of sitting down for lunch with a Reuben sandwich and a side of Congri and Yuca Frita.  To this day, i’m about a likely to have “ay dios mio” roll of my tongue as “oy vey.”

So believe me when I say, I don’t consider myself racist against Hispanic people.  I’m pretty sure I count as one – at least partially – by way of osmosis.

I like life this way, it makes everything more interesting.  Also the food is better (next time you have a Cubano or Media Noche, skip the yellow mustard and try it with some hot German mustard, it really kicks it up a notch).

There are some people who don’t see it this way.  They want to harden the battle lines.  The problem is, that is going to push me into being a white supremacists, which I don’t want to be.

A Latina/o/x student at Pitzer College sent out this email:

Shorter:

I hate this $65K a year school I have the privilege of attending, and I hate all the white people who are at the school with me.  Here is a bunch of White Guilt I know you Liberals will fall for so give me some money so I can go on vacation.  Fuck you.  

Sincerely, Self Aggrandized Victim

This is not the first time in the last week that a Latina/o/x student from Pitzer has made the news for going all SJW victim at white people.  Another student sent out an all campus email telling white girls not to wear hoop earnings because of cultural appropriation.

I’m not a liberal.  I don’t accept guilt for what was done by people I never met, who died generations before me, who I have no relationship to, because I have the same color skin that they do.  That shit just bounces off me.

I believe in Deuteronomy 24:16 and Ezekiel 18:20, the sins of the father shall not be visited unto the son.  Especially when the sins were not committed by my actual father.

For the most part, I really couldn’t care less about what some students in the Land of Fruits and Nuts do to their liberal classmates, but soon enough these students are going to enter the real world.

Try this with me an I will add the INS tip line to my cellphone speed dial.

I don’t want to be that guy.  Don’t make be become him.

I got this today in the mail.

And if you can imagine, I am still slightly irate for the POS State Republican Senators and this “poll” did little to improve my humor. There was only one mention about guns and it was this:

That did not make me feel warm/fuzzy. I am done assuming that when the GOP mentions Gun Control is to get rid of it after what happened in the Florida Senate. There was a similar-worded question with also another “Other____” in which I penciled in “Rescue the Second Amendment.”

And the last section, of course, is when they ask for your donation. This was mine:

I am not paying for product that will not be delivered.

Dear GOP, let me give you an easy task: Get National Reciprocity and the repeal of the Hughes Amendment on President Trump’s desk within three months and I’ll make a donation and push my readers to do the same. But until we see concrete action taken, you can smooch my less-than rotund yet woolly ass.

Yes, you can quote Clairee Belcher and say “You have the handwritin’ of a serial killer.”