“Love Trumps Hate.”  That’s what we keep hearing from the Left.

Well in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, some loving, tolerant individuals decided to celebrate their annual procession around our sun by bludgeoning a pinata in the likeness of Republican Senator Pat Toomey.

Once the effigy had been knocked to the ground, it was stomped on to the cheers and celebration of the onlookers.

To add insult to injury, the pinata was filled with condoms and lube.

I find myself suddenly reminded of the Two Minute Hate from Orwell’s magnum opus, 1984.

“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”

This is a sickness.

I have never been to a birthday party or NRA meeting that had a Pinata of Diane Feinstein or Chuck Schumer filled with ammo.

It doesn’t take much to go from smashing in the face of a pinata to smashing in the face of a person when consumed by this much hate.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

Missus: “Why is it taking you so long to come up with the list of materials?”
Me: “I have the list of materials, I am just trying to digest the price.”
Missus: (looking over the list) “That sounds about right.”
Me: “I know, it just irritates me to hell that a small roof repair costs as much as a brand new Daniel Defense AR Carbine.”
Missus: “Wait till you factor in the labor. That is gonna come up for about the same as an Aimpoint, a dozen magazines and a couple thousand rounds of ammo.”
Me: (See pic below).

I caught this video online of some private security fending off some Somali pirates from a container ship.

Not bad, needs more 50 cal.  A think a Barrett M82 throwing some API hate at those boats would be a really good deterrent.

Also, starting at 25 seconds in, the guy behind the camera starts bouncing some rounds off the railing he’s hiding behind.

Lesson: cover is important but watch your muzzle.

Two videos have emerged from the Antifa protests of Antifa using bike l9ks on the end of chains as impact weapons like a medieval mace.   They are easy to conceal, hit hard, and don’t attract as much attention as a stick.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGBathFnjMc

And

That whack to the head sounded hard.  The guy was bleeding badly within seconds.   I wouldn’t have been surprised if he had a skull fracture.  That is potentially lethal.

I don’t go to protests. 

If you do, think about wearing a helmet.   A good DOT approved three-quarter motorcycle helmet would be my recommendation.

Helmeted or not, protest or parking lot confrontation over a door ding, DISTANCE IS YOUR FRIEND.   Don’t let someone that angry at you close enough to you.  The more distance they have to close before touching you, the more time you have to react.

Also, if somebody ever tried to hit me with s bike lock, I’m going to shoot them in the liver.  This is why I don’t go to protests, you can’t carry at them.

Sometimes I am surprised at the narrow mildness in our own side.

Putting aside the political  blunderbuss shit discharge that would be, specially from a President that at least appears to be friendly to the NRA (and he is coming to the Annual Meeting, first president since Reagan), my question is “Why are you throwing around the word “Ban” like the Opposition? You would actually ban and individual to attend a public event because a law you don’t like? Our business is the opposite!

Holy shit people! We are in a constant fight to get rid of all kinds of bans applied to the Second Amendment and the first thing you want to do is use ban the stuff and/or behavior you don’t like? Where is the effing consistency?

Once again around the block: We are not in the business to ban shit we don’t like, we are in the business of removing bans from Constitutional Rights.

If you can’t process that, please step down and let the adults continue the fight. You just go ahead and ride the coattails.