Have you ever considered taking martial arts classes for self-defense purposes? If you did any research on the subject you quickly realized that there are many martial arts disciplines from which to choose. If you want to narrow your list of options then consider what the best martial arts for self-defense are according to a Navy SEAL. Jocko Willink‘s first recommendation is a gun and a concealed carry permit. If that isn’t possible then he also has a few other recommendations.
MIAMI (WSVN) – A Miami homeowner turned the tables on a man who, police said, was trying to break into his house, fatally shooting him, Wednesday.According to Miami Police, the homeowner opened fire on the subject who had entered the home, located in the area of Northwest 71st Street and Fifth Place, just after noon.A woman who said she lives in the home said the homeowner was inside the home with their 3-year-old son at the time of the attempted burglary. She said the child alerted his father there was someone else in the house, and it was at that point that the homeowner encountered the perpetrator and discharged his firearm, killing him…
…According to the woman who lives at the residence, the homeowner was taken to the police station for further questioning. He was later released.
This is the Brownsville/Little Haiti Area. Very humble and unfortunately some criminals make it dangerous, but you can’t escape the fact that there is good people living by the way you see property being taken care. There might not be much on fancy landscaping, but it is not overgrown either and it is hard to find a house that does not sport a decent coat of paint.
The unnamed gentleman homeowner did more for the recovery of the area than 20 years worth of politicians’ promises.
This is a face (not necessarily the face of the Antifas): BAMN By Any Means Necessary.
I do believe they are setting themselves for a major disappointment and possible deaths with criminal charges, maybe even a RICO beef or Terrorism.
If there is something we have learned the hard way in the Gun Culture is that both actions and words will come back to haunt us during a criminal investigation and judicial procedures. Prosecutors (and the Media) will scour your life in search for words that might be construed (or twisted) as you having a mean and violent streak. Notes from a gun class you might have taken and a stand-alone notation that says “Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out” which was intended as a joke will now be used to demonstrate you are nothing but a blood-thirsty hatemonger who always wanted to massacre people.
By Any Means Necessary are fighting words on themselves. Accompanied by violent actions are just nails in their legal coffin but they are not even registering that in their radar. They are young, invincible, bulletproof and above the law…in their minds which is a feeble pedestal that will be knocked down with a slight application of harsh reality.
It is going to happen that one of these idiotic BAMN/Antifas are going to use some implement that will be considered a deadly weapon against a person they don’t like and this person will happen to be armed and defend him/herself. And eve though the heads of the organizations were praying for a martyr for fundraising and advertising purpose, they will be utterly shocked when the shooter is sent home after the event is classified as legitimate self-defense.
And if the State’s District attorney has any lead in his or her pencil, a charge of first degree murder may be brought to the organizers of that particular Antifa event since their actions contributed directly with the death of their buddy. At least that is what I think but IANAL.
Them Smart People are predicting more violent confrontations so be ready and act like the Good Guy & Gal that you are. I do hope you never get in trouble, but that does not mean you are supposed to get a crowbar across your head.
And the repetitive reminder to check your state laws regarding self-defense and to check with people who really know about it, not some guy in an internet forum.
I love good science-fiction and political satire. The over-the-top nature of of sci-fi and satire highlights and magnifies issues in real life.
In the world of literature, George Orwell is the king of political satire with Animal Farm and 1984. Animal Farm was modeled on the Soviet Revolution and 1984 on the worst aspects of Stalinism.
A close second to Orwell is the story of Harrison Bergeron in Kurt Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House. It is impossible to read Harrison Bergeron and not think about affirmative action and its ugly cousin of checking one’s privilege. It is a world in which the attractive, the strong, and the smart, are forced to be hobbled so that they are no more capable than the lowest common denominator.
On screen, the champion of science-fiction and political satire is Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. To this day, The Masks is one of the most eerily disturbing episodes of a TV show to tackle the weakness of the human soul.
I am a huge fan of old radio sci-fi like Lights Outand Dimension X, especially the works of Arch Oboler.
As a passionate lover of sci-fi and satire, I have come to the conclusion that Liberals/Progressives cannot write sci-fi or satire. When they try, it falls flat on its face. The more they try to us it to highlight what they believe is the absurdity on the right, the more they focus the mirror on their own failure.
Case in point, the movie Elysium. In a nutshell, it is supposed to be a movie critical of America’s immigration policy. However, on earth in 2154, America has open borders and Los Angeles has turned into a crime ridden, third world, desert shit-hole where Matt Damon is the last white guy who speaks English. Why should I be in favor of a policy that clearly destroyed southern California so badly that people had to flee off world to get away from the hellscape?
EconPop does a great breakdown of why Elysium sucks.
That is a very long winded intro to the main point of this post.
Today I was dealt a one-two punch combo of truly shitty sci-fi satire.
First, it is free Cinemax week on my TV. I took the opportunity to DVR some movies, and finally got a change to watch them.
The movie was supposed to be a dead on prediction for the 2016 election and beyond. Eight minutes in, the Senator who is obviously supposed to be a sexy version of Hillary Clinton (don’t think about that too much) says that the annual purge puts money “into the pockets of the NRA and super rich.”
Seriously. To the writers of The Purge: Election Year, the NRA, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is a group the profits off genocide. It is clearly stated in the movie that the purpose of the purge is to save money for the rich by killing off the poor so they don’t need welfare, healthcare, public housing, etc. However, by the time we get to Election Year, it is the working class that are getting purged, and so a senator for “the people” is campaigning on ending the purge.
This of course begs two questions:
Why would a clearly homicidal, tyrannical, goverment (the New Founding Fathers/NFFF) allow the people to have free elections in which they (the NFFF) could lose?
Do the rich not want mechanics, construction workers, pool cleaners, garbage men, and the myriad of other working class jobs that make society function? What is the point of being super rich in a nation if you can’t get a service tech to chance the oil in your Mercedes because the service tech was purged?
None of this was thought through though. It didn’t need to be. The rich white men of the NFFF, clearly modeled on Trump, hire a bunch of tattooed neo-Nazi/white supremacists, clearly alt-right Trump supporters, to kill Sexy Hillary and her supporters. And the NRA profits from it.
Except…
In 2017, the masked militia committing random acts of political violence goes by the name Antifa. They are far from being clearly Trump supporters. In fact, the people they target for violence are… Trump supporters.
Following the beating that they took at the hands of some on the [alt-] right who fought back, it seems that Antifa is looking to get their hands on some real ordnance with the intent of inflicting casualties on those who don’t hold fast to Far Left ideology.
The Purge may be coming true, but not by the people against the people the movie claimed. It is the mirror opposite.
The second bit of hysterically bad sci-fi prognostication for the day was the adulation of Hulu’s adaption of The Handmaid’s Tail.
Harper’s Bazar said of the series “‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ IS THE FEMINIST HORROR STORY 2017 NEEDS.”
Good Magazine said “New Hulu Series The Handmaid’s Tale Is Must-Watch TV For This Moment.”
The New Yorker said “WE LIVE IN THE REPRODUCTIVE DYSTOPIA OF “THE HANDMAID’S TALE.”
To the deep thinkers on the left THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RICH MEN BEING ALLOWED TO BUY SEX SLAVES FOR IMPREGNATION. Yes, they said that.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, gays are executed. The New Yorker calls that a “Pence Prequel” and the AV Club says it’s “Pence’s dream.”
Tell me exactly when Pence called for the execution of gays?
The Left is so unhinged on this issue when Senator Marco Rubio condemns the torture and execution of gays in Chechnya, Towleroad shits all over Rubio because he is a Republican. When you are so far Left that you attack a Republican for condemning the torture of your people (it’s a gay magazine), you’ve lost your fucking mind.
There is a place where women are sold as sex slaves, forced to cover their bodies, forced to undergo genital mutilation, and gays are executed. It is called the Middle East and it occurs under fundamentalist Islamic regimes like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
NOT IN THE UNITED STATES OR THE WESTERN/CHRISTIAN WORLD.
The Handmaid’s Tale is the 1984 of America under Islamic control.
Fuck if feminists didn’t march on DC, led by Linda Sarsour, who is an advocate for Sharia Law, which is the Islamic legal system that empowers ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Iran to oppress women as much as they do.
The Left is all but worshiping a Hulu sci-fi series that projects what they think the Right wants while defending the religious ideology that actually wants to impose this dystonia lifestyle.
Trying to wrap my head around this is going to give me a stroke.
These people are the worst parody of themselves. The targets of their attacks are themselves and they don’t realize it.
The Right Wing of The Purge is Antifa. The Right Wing of The Handmaid’s Tale is Islam. These people take aim at their enemies and then shoot themselves.
The sad part is that the Leftists who watch this shit from inside their echo chambers are too ideologically blind and stupid to understand that.
I have been wearing the NRA cap pretty much in every outing I do. I was planning on give it a break and wear my new Kahr cap, but mysteriously has disappeared (My mother has found an attraction for caps in her later years, I may have to go check her closet).
I have found that people’s reaction come in three flavors: Positive, Negative and None. Let me start with None: it was the majority and that includes people who had no idea/made the connection and people who recognized the cap but had no positive or negative reaction. On the last group, I was just a polite and friendly person, humor where applicable and Spanish spoken when needed. You wear the hat, you are an ambassador and your duty is to show the Media and the Opposition has been lying: “That fat Latino guy is an NRA member? But I was told only Rednecks and Crackers were members! Was I lied to?” Short answer, yes.
Negative reactions: Much easier to detect. Nothing as in verbal attacks so far, but they can give you the Death Stare like nobody else. When you interact, their replies have been curt and almost impolite. Sometimes I forget I am wearing the cap and wonder what have I done to piss that person off by just saying hello. Then I usually catch them stealing glances at the cap, the mystery is solved and I turn on the charm, specially if others are present. Again, the point being to contradict the BS told about us by the Press and the Gun Control groups which Negative Nelly’s eyefuck to me in public is a representation and it would be hard to understand to others present. If the enemy does it best to be assholes in public, who am I to correct them?
Positives? They run the gamut from a friendly smile and wink to loud expressions of camaraderie. In some cases you see people relax as you would when that find out new person you just met is a gunnie like you and understand the difference between Magazine and Clip.
I understand that many in my generation of the Old Gun Culture are wary about coming out of the Tactical Closet and display the colors proud. It is still fresh in all our minds when a simple NRA sticker pasted in the bumper of our vehicles was enough to be pulled over, harassed and even arrested in certain jurisdiction. It was the times when politicians were ready to extract the list of NRA members so they could be individually sued to “Pay the medical costs of gun violence” and other crap like that. We were accused from everything that happened in our Country including the blowing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
But we are living in different times, not perfect times but certainly better than 20 years ago. Get your cap out of the closet and take it out for a spin, if anything to get it a bit of sun in this beautiful spring.
Via Bayou Renaissance Man we find out that the NYPD was ordered to snuff and bury a study on Homegrown terrorism because it may affect the spirits of Radicalized Muslims and their protectors from CAIR.
“Under the city’s unusual settlement agreement, the NYPD as well as New York state agencies were forced to remove its 90-page anti-terror study — described by plaintiffs as “deeply flawed” and “inflammatory” — from databases and no longer rely on it “to open or extend investigations” into terrorist activities”
