You were dumb enough to leave a your truck running and with the door open without anybody present to keep an eye on it? And then you go full stupid and try a Hollywood stunt?

Play stupid games…

I have been following the whole DACA thing today.

I think the weirdest outburst came from Cecile Richards who wanted people to know legal status won’t stop Planned Parenthood from providing them service.

What I want Trump to do right now is use his pen and his phone to issue an executive order providing for 100% funding for abortions for DREAMers.

I’d like to watch the outrage tornado spin itself into a singularly over that.

I just realized I have been running on stress non-stop for the last 8 days. First with mom and her trip to the ER to  come out and have Irma approaching Florida.

I understand the hurricane is the biggest on record for the Atlantic Ocean, but I am as prepped as I can be and no amount of watching the Weather Channel and the local news is gonna change that sumbitch’s path… which we still don’t know which will be.

The only thing I know that I am bone tired mentally.

Somewhere under all those “hurricane path prediction” tracks is South Florida and parts of Georgia. No wonder I am ready to pop a fuse with all that crap, even evacuation seems dangerous.

If you saw the movie Wargames, I feel like WOPR at the end of the flick.

So I probably won’t be blogging much tomorrow.  Still as family,  trying to figure out if staying or evacuating.

I will make at least one last post before getting hit and let you know how it goes, and if I go dark, J. Kb. will be here in charge.

Sustained winds of 175 miles per hour . That makes Irma a F3 tornado the size of almost the whole state of Florida.

Since I lived in Florida, this is the first time I am seriously considering evacuation. The question is to where?

Not gonna lie folks. I am a tad scared. Prepping only takes you so far unless you are a billionaire and even then the best choice might be to GTFO.

I’ll keep you posted.

Lost in all the news about Houston is some good news in Texas.  As of September 1st, Texas will allow the open carry of larger knives.

The bipedal sphincters at CNN, having no personal or journalistic integrity what-so-ever, wrote about this back in July with the headline Soon you’ll be able to openly carry a sword in Texas.

The issue was that the carry of knives with blades larger than 4 inches was Illegal.  The new statute “as a compromise, the measure passed by changing the wording describing the blades from ‘illegal’ to ‘location-restricted.'”

Meaning that if you are out an about in a place where you might benefit from say, a 6 inch fixed blade, it’s perfectly reasonable to have one.

Working odd hours in rural Indiana and South Dakota, it was normal during certain times of the year to see guys come into the gas station or Wal Mart with hunting knives on their belts… because they were on their way out to the deer stand.

That is now legal in Texas.

I support the reduction on restrictions on knives.  They, like guns, are tools and the best tool for the job should be decided by the user not a bureaucracy.

In general, the places that are most restrictive to guns are also the most restrictive to knives, like in NYC where the city prides itself on arresting construction workers and electricians for carrying useful tools.

But, because people are stupid and the media is filled with assholes, rather than frame the new law as being situational dependent, to prevent people from being punished unnecessarily (the fisherman who stops for a burger with a filet knife on his hip) it goes straight to “there will be sword fights in the streets.”

Catching up on some old stuff, from a few days ago, Moms Demand Action posted a link to this article from The Trace Private Insurance Pays a Tiny Fraction of Gunshot-Victim Health Costs.

The article starts with this sentence:

“More than two thirds of gunshot victims admitted to American hospitals are covered by Medicaid, or don’t have health insurance at all. And the price of that care is staggering: The average annual cost per admission for a firearm assault injury is $20,989, more than twice that of a typical hospital stay.”

Being a cynical SOB, I thought back to the news I heard last night: 4 Dead, 30 Wounded In Labor Day Weekend Shootings In Chicago.  Checking in with Hey Jackass and several other sources, it seems that 100% of this weekend’s shootings were gang related.

So if I do the math: most gunshot victims are on Medicaid + nearly (if not) all the weekend violence in places like Chicago is gang/drug related = no shit!

Poor criminals and gang members are shooting each other and we’re picking up the tab.  Great…

“The total annual cost for gunshot patients reliant on Medicaid alone amounted to $205 million.

It’s important to recognize that this is a public cost,” said Corinne Peek-Asa, the study’s lead author and director of the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center. “Being admitted for a firearm injury is very expensive, and we see so much of that cost is from uninsured or Medicaid sources. Which, for hospitals that see a high volume of firearm injuries, is going to be a challenge.”

I’d say so.  Maybe we should do something about that.

What does MDA say.

A tax and make the NRA pay for it.

It’s unfair to call gun control groups one trick ponies.  They are generally Left Wing and the Left knows two tricks: ban it and tax it.

I was in Chicago when Cook County passed their gun tax.  Cook County tried to pay for the cost of gang shootings by charging a $25 per gun tax on all guns sold in Cook County.  Amazingly it failed.  The tax is still in place but nobody buys guns in Cook County.  The gun counter at the Cabela’s in Hoffman Estates is one of the saddest sights I’ve ever seen.

Beyond besides not bringing in the expected level of revenue, it was an insult to law abiding gun owners.  Why should the deer hunter from Schaumburg pay extra to treat some Gangster Disciple who got shot in a drug war in Franklin Park.

By the time you factor in sales tax and the gun tax, everybody goes to the Bass Pro in Bollingbrook.

Personally, this is a job for Civil Asset Forfeiture.  Take everything from the gang members to pay for cost of the gang shootings.

Nope.

The attitude of the The Trace – which makes no mention of the gang or crime connection with shootings – is that these poor people are just innocent victims.  Anti-gun groups want law abiding gun owners to foot the bill.

I can’t think of a worse situation that making the criminals who get shot not have to pay for the cost of their own shooting.

But when has an anti-gun group ever proposed anything actually useful.