I’ve seen this bit of data before.

There are more gun shops in the US than Starbucks, McDonald's, and supermarkets put together. https://t.co/Qr3ftJ9ga4 pic.twitter.com/IzqHikxSxg

— Emily Buder (@elbuder) February 23, 2018

It it’s both accurate and misleading at the same time.

What the people who post this want you to believe is that gun stores are EVERYWHERE and that why people are dying.   Americans are crazy and they love guns more than food.

Or some shit like that.

The way that number was determined was by obtaining the number of active FFLs and claiming they are all gun stores.

That number includes every Walmart in America.  Every DICK’S, (at least when I was a kid) Sport Authority, Scheel’s, Bass Pro, and Academy Sports in America.  Every Runnings Farm and Fleet, Rural King, and a whole bunch of Ace Hardware stores (the franchise allows owners to get an FFL).  Nearly every Pawn Shop in America.  I’ve been in countless bait and tackle shops, even a couple of truck stops (swear to God) that had a small counter for guns and ammo. 

Not to mention the “kitchen table dealers” who only do transfers or online sales.

Hell, I knew some engineering consultants that have them for the purposes of litigation consulting so they can have firearms involved in lawsuits shipped directly to them.

The point is, there are a lot of FFLs that nobody thinks of as “gun stores” except when a liberal wants to scare the crap out of ignorant people.

But as Miguel puts it so well “if thier cause is righteous, why must they lie?”

I have to say it was very nice.

He disarmed a possible church shooter — then the police arrived and shot him https://t.co/DNdHBjRSnk

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 28, 2018

Guy wrestles the gun away from an attempted shooter at a church.  The police come in and shoot the good guy because he’s holding the gun. 

The whole situation was a cluster fuck with the Church’s unarmed security guard running away and the cop perhaps being a little trigger happy.

I’m just reminded of Reagan’s famous quote “the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

But that’s not where this story ends.

From the party that brought you “only the police should have guns” and stood by the Broward Sheriff against the NRA comes this.

"Give teachers guns" – someone who has no idea how trigger happy American police are, especially around POC. https://t.co/8yLB1CcRh6

— King of the Antibodies (@solopolo808) February 28, 2018

Those cops, who are the only people who should have guns, are racists who murder POC.

With that argument, maybe it’s a good thing the BCS waited outside.   Otherwise they would have gone in and started shooting the black students and ignored Cruz because he’s white.

I can’t keep track of these people’s positions anymore.

You csnt can’t have a gun because the police are there to protect you and they are all trigger happy racist murders.  

I’m confused.

Since the Parkland shooting, I’ve been hearing all over the media why it is time to let 16 year olds vote.

The short answer is: they support far left wing anti gun policies.

They hypocrisy has been pointed out that the same people who want to give 16 year olds the right to vote want to make the age for buying a gun 21.  There is far greater national damage to be done by letting immature people have the franchise than letting them have guns.  Most 16 year olds won’t shoot anybody, but most of them would probably pull the trigger for a Sanders/Warren ticket.

Others have mocked the idea that the kids who were eating Tide Pods until February 13 for internet fame are capable of handling the responsibility of the franchise after February 14 – because they marched for a Left Wing cause.

A march in Stockton some five days ago I think blows a hole in this idea, which is why I didn’t hear about it until just last night, and not through any national news outlet.

It seems that many of these kids don’t care about the Left Wing politics, and simply wanted a day off from school.  When adults in law enforcement stood up to them, the kids got violent.

Some Stockton students become violent during anti-gun protest

At least five students were arrested Friday as hundreds of others from several Stockton high schools walked out of classes in protest of gun violence after last week’s deadly shooting at a Florida high school.

Students at Stagg, Edison, Chavez, Lincoln and Village Oak high schools were walking along streets, creating traffic problems in the area as streets were blocked off.

Stockton police said some students threw rocks and damaged both police and citizen vehicles.

During one incident, an officer approached a group of students attempting to leave a school by jumping a fence. When the officer approached the students, police said they fought with the officer and took his baton.

These kids have been empowered by the media the way Occupy Wall Street was, as the “voice of a movement” and just like OWS, all they really did was smash things.

That kind of behavior only makes me want to support their movement more.

No wait, it doesn’t.  Once again it begs the question: “why are anti gun activists so violent?”

I actually liked these kids better when they were just eating Tide Pods.

Anti gun activists love to say: “you don’t need a gun because the police will protect you.”

In the last two weeks we have seen a mountain of evidence from the Broward County Sheriff why that isn’t true.

Fortunately for the LAPD, the massive cluster-fuck of cowardice and incompetence out of the BSO has been all over the news.

Why fortunately?

‘They terrorized them.’ Two LAPD cops plead no contest to raping women while on duty.

WOW!!!  Which is worse, four cops standing around listening to kids get murdered or “two cops were accused of raping women in alleys, apartments – and their unmarked police car.”  I’m really having a hard time answering that rhetorical question.

James Christopher Nichols, 46, and Luis Gustavo Valenzuela, 45, former Los Angeles Police Department partners in the Hollywood Division, pleaded no contest Monday to two counts each of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, reported the Los Angeles Daily News. They received 25-year prison sentences and must register as sex offenders in a plea deal to avoid the possibility of serving life in prison.

Nichols and Valenzuela were accused of attacking four women between 2008 and 2011, reported KABC. The women, ages 19 to 34, were involved in narcotics investigations, and the LAPD officers forced the women to have sex with them to avoid jail time or being exposed as police informants, court documents say.

At least one fellow LAPD officer called them out on this publicly.

“How dare they. They wore a badge to protect people and instead they terrorized them,” Detective Carla Zuniga, one of the lead investigators in the case, told the Los Angeles Times. “They tarnished the public trust. People trust the police. Every time something like this happens, we have to walk into the community and say, ‘No, that’s not us.’ ”

Between the BSO and LAPD we have a group of people who will watch a massacre happen then rape the survivors.

I know there are good cops who run towards the danger with the intention of helping people.  But that does not negate the need for self reliance and personal responsibility.

This is just now being celebrated over the Gun Control Tweeter accounts. If you look closely, you can almost see the champagne popping.

How few do remember that Dick’s already had pulled semi auto rifles from their stock after Sandy Hook:

(TheBlaze/AP) — One of the country’s largest sporting goods chains says it’s suspending sales of “sporting rifles” nationwide because of the recent school shooting in Connecticut.
Dick’s Sporting Goods also says it’s also removing all guns from display at its store closest to Newtown, where the massacre took place.

“We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week in Newtown, CT, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families, and to the entire community.
Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide.
We continue to extend our deepest sympathies to those affected by this terrible tragedy.”

Dick’s Sporting Goods Suspends Sale of Certain Rifles After Sandy Hook Tragedy

I am guessing Dick’s suffered an important loss of revenue back then and quietly returned the rifles to the stores. But since this time the rifle used in the Parkland shooting was bought from them, they felt they needed to Virtue Signal hard and heavy again.

For a company that bought the remnants of Sports Authority (who went K-Mart and stopped selling ammunition with fanfare and all), the lesson of not crossing Gun Owners seem not to have been assimilated.

My guess they will be back again. Quietly again.

This one I am gonna have to watch just for the job that Javier Bardem is doing. Not only he is the spitting image of Escobar, he is talking with the “Paisa” accent fitting for the region of Colombia where Escobar came from.

Escobar was truly Evil. His appetite for killing was so insatiable that the police had to build a chapel to handle only funerals and it was open almost 24-7. While some in this country are bitching about Russians trying to “influence” an election by posting in Twitter, Pablo blew up a plane and had a presidential candidate shot to death to do exactly that.

If you don’t want to wait for this movie, Mark Bowden’s book, “Killing Pablo” is excellent and describes not only the person, but the terror felt by Colombians during his existence as El Jefe.