There were a few comments to my post It’s just stuff, including a few emailed to me that I can summarize as: “My stuff is valuable and I’m going to defend it.”

I’m not a lawyer so I’m not going to give you legal advice.  I’m not going to even tell you what you should and should not do.

I can only give you my opinion.

The Progressive Left is on the warpath.  They’ve been losing politically so are engaging in their own Operation Luttich on the social front.  It is taking the form of protests, marches, hashtag campaigns, doxing, public shaming, a judge wearing a pussy hat while seated on the bench in court, etc.

Nothing happens in a vacuum.

So… I’m in Bob’s spot.  I’m blocked in.  Some unhinged black SJW is taking out all her learned helplessness and victimhood on the most prized possession I have, parked on a trailer behind my pickup.

I come out guns a’blazing.

I can see the headlines now:

“White man kills black woman in the street for vandalizing his property.”

“Vandalism has a death sentence if you are black.”

“White man shoots #BlackLivesMatter acitvist for protesting his white privilege.”

It will be a Travyon Martin times 1,000,Three Ring Shit Show Bonfire of the Vanities.

Is it right?  Is it fair?  Is it just?

No, but it will happen.

Stay in the car and dial 911.

Throw the car into low and drive out the there.  Hop the curb and leave the trailer behind if I have to.

If I absolutely have to shoot, it better be above reproach.  That hammer is going be coming for my head when my bullet makes impact.

My goal is not just to survive.  It’s to survive, not go to prison, and hopefully not get crucified by the media, or sentenced to death in the court of public opinion.

That is some declining:

That is over 3.5 million guns. In three months enough weapons were sold to equip all active military and LEOs in the USA. Please tell me again how a police force from a city not buying unless gun companies will subject themselves to Gun Control whims are gonna change the face of the industry and bring gun owners to heel.

Stolen from No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money

Gun people are already butt clenching. Why? Because we know physics.
It is in the design stages, not in production yet. I wonder if they will find beta Testers.

Kinetic energy appears not to be a consideration to the designer. Here is a bit of video that shows how a vest behaves when it catches bullets:

A wee bit of impact, ain’t it? Drop by Robert Kaiser’s Blog where he takes the time to explain with more detail about Blunt Force Trauma on a body protected by a vest and  being shot by a 9mm. The photo alone is a teachable moment for anybody with more than three working neurons. A couple of layers of Kevlar in a scarf? The bullet will go through and through plus take a trip inside the head.

Depending on the material, a vest may have as little as 12 layers to start stopping “low powered” handgun bullets. And that brings me to another important point: Unless the user insert ballistic plates made of very hard  and very heavy materials, the vest is useless against rifle rounds.

Bet you dollars to donuts the “designer” is trying to get a five or six figure funding and then come back and say “Oops! It did not work. Sorry and thank you for your support.”

Hat tip Sal F.

The Devil A white man had the audacity to drive from Florida to his home in Massachusetts, with his wife.

He was driving a Porsche and hauling a boat.  The news didn’t say what kind of Porsche, but I’m going to guess a Cayenne, I don’t think anybody is going to haul a boat with a 911.

He stopped for gas in Caroline County, Virginia, where a presumed Bernie/#BLM supporter decided to opine on his materialistic white privilege… with a hammer.

“This lady was a couple pumps over and talking to me and yelling at somebody about having a message for her. I had no idea what she was talking about,” Bob said. “I was coming around the side of the car and next thing I know a car blocks me in. She comes out of her car gets in my face and yelling at me about some sort of message I got for her.”

He said he attempted to ignore her, but she eventually threatened to put a hole in his “fancy boat.” That’s when, Bob said, the woman grabbed a hammer.  “She actually took a hammer and she hit his vehicle and the boat,” Sheriff Lippa said.

“There were some racial slurs directed at her [Bob’s wife], at which time the accused spit in [Bob’s wife’s] face,” Sheriff Lippa said. “According to the victim, there were racial slurs that were yelled at [Bob’s wife] before [Jones] spit at her and that’s what we’re looking into as far as it being a hate crime.”

During the attack, the couple said the woman said she was “sick of fancy white people.”  

Bad situation.  I get that.

Here is where it gets worse.

“She actually clawed him. He took her down to the ground to prevent her from doing any more damage.”

“I let her go and she grabbed the hammer again and hit the boat again,” Bob said. “[The hammer] broke. That’s when she figured out she better get out of there because she didn’t have a weapon anymore.”

Crazy woman is beating up the guy’s SUV and boat with a hammer, and he decides he’s going to protect his stuff by wrestling her.

NO!  It’s just stuff.  She has a hammer.

I don’t know if it was dumb luck or God’s will, but what that woman picked the hammer back up, she went back to hitting the boat instead of hitting Bob in the skull.

Bob was risking death over some, probably well insured, stuff.

He didn’t come out looking to good from his wrestling match, either.

Bob is on his way to the hospital.

I have a $500 deductible on my car insurance and a $2500 deductible on my health insurance.

If I sat in my car and let a crazy woman wail on it with a hammer, I’m out $500.  If I get out of my car and take a whack to the face that requires an ER visit, I’m out at least $2500.  If I get out of my car and take a whack to the head with that hammer, my family is using my life insurance to bury me.

I’m gonna stay put in my car and call 911.

Actually, I drive a Chevy truck, so I’m going to ram the shit out of her car and make a getaway, but let’s assume that I’m blocked in.

If Crazy Woman tries to come through the window at me, that’s a different situation.  Now it’s $500 for the car and $25 for another box of Golden Saber.

Remember, if you get out and shoot her for only smashing your tail lights, it’s not a good shoot.  I don’t want to begin to do the math on how much a murder trial will cost.

Bob here didn’t do the math and took a risk to protect his stuff and paid a price in blood.  He’s lucky he’s not dead.  Of course, being from Massachusetts, he is guaranteed to be unarmed, making his options even more limited.  More reason to get back in his car and call 911 or try to flee.

Remember, it’s just stuff.  If can be replaced.  It’s not worth fighting an armed, violent person over something Geico will make whole again.  It’s cheaper and easier to fix a tail light than a skull.

Because we don’t want Redneck “Vigilantes” stopping stuff like this:

We need to respect the local interactions between Thugs and the Elderly. It may look like a strong arm robbery to the uninitiated tourist from Down South, but in NYC is just a routine dance in which the superior male collects its government-allowed tribute from inhabitants of the city.

The Mayor of New York City cannot allow that somebody with a concealed weapons permit from outside the state would place two slugs inside the head of that “Fee Collector” and allowing the elderly gent to keep his property.

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Hat tip Michael M.

I am as surprised as when I found out about Liberace and Freddy Mercury also being gay.

And yes, this is as good as I seem to get today. My brain is taking a day off, apparently.

I read Miguel’s post about the families of the victims of the Pulse shooting trying to sue Google, Facebook, and Twitter over ISIS recruitment.

Personally, I’d like nothing more than watching those liberal putz get sued, because while Facebook vows to fight Islamophobia, they are somewhat more tolerant of Antisemitism.  Progressivism is a hotbed of old fashion Jew hatred, even when the progressives are “Jewish” themselves.

But… Miguel does make a good point.  With these people safety is the justification for control.

“As we know by now, Gun Control is not about guns but about control. And people like Ms Leinonen have contempt not only for the Second Amendment but for the whole Bill of Rights.”

It reminded me of this article that I read in The Independent: People who read the news more likely to be Islamophobic, study finds.

Research from the incredibly tolerant state of New Zealand discovered that, regardless of political affiliation, the more news a person reads, the more they are likely to harbor negative feelings about Islam.

File that one in the “no shit” category.

Maybe it has something to do all the terrorist attacks, rapes, beheadings, stonings, gays thrown off rooftops, captured sex slaves, attempts at genocide, and other atrocities committed by Muslims in their homelands AND in the Western World.

The conclusion that the Kiwi researchers came to is, unsurprisingly, censor the news.

Though un-making prejudice is difficult, we hope these results challenge the media to present fairer representations of Muslims.

I already covered how a bunch of progressive comic book authors, published a piece of  propaganda that would make Viktor Deni proud, rewriting the pulse shooting to be more of an act by a Dylann Roof copycat than a “Allah Akbar” screaming acolyte of ISIS.

It is quite obvious that Progressives read Orwell’s 1984 as a how to manual.  I am afraid the next step in the War on Terrorism Islamophobia is to make the victims of terrorism in the West, Soviet Style unpersons.  Western victims of terrorism will just be disappeared.  Causes of death will not be mentioned.  Families will not be allowed to talk about lost loved ones.  Memorials will be banned.

It will be like a less funny, more Kafkaesque, Men In Black cover up.  If these people weren’t killed by Islamic terrorists, then there is no reason for Islamophobia.

I know that sounds like an episode of The Twilight Zone, but nothing going on in Europe or Liberal America makes any sense to a rational person right now.