Month: March 2018

Gun fight

Yesterday I got into a fight with Bitter in the comments on one of my posts.

At the time, I had no idea who she was.

I got mad, some insults were exchanged, and for that I apologize.

In all the rage, I lost control of the message I was trying to send.  So here it is, in a more calm fashion.  I hope Bitter and everybody else will understand what I was trying to say.

I remember shortly after I moved to Illinois that Moore v. Madigan was decided.  The 7th Circuit Court came down with a severe case of Constitutional Principles and decided that Illinois needed to have concealed carry.

There was a kicker, the Court imposed a time frame.  If Illinois didn’t put together a CCW law fast, the state would default to Constitutional Carry.  This was the one ace that the Republicans had up their sleeves.  If they didn’t get Shall Issue, they could hold up the bill long enough to squeeze the Democrats against a concealed carry free-for-all.

Let the legislative games begin!

I followed that with bated breath.  I watched the IL State legislature live stream.

I watched as Democrat State Rep and Democrat State Senator after Democrat State Rep and Democrat State Senator made the same argument over training requirements: if the training was too easy, anybody could get a permit.

It was crystal clear that training had nothing to do with gun safety.  A background check was mandatory, possession of a FOID was mandatory, fingerprints were optional but cut the wait time for a permit from 90 days to 30 days.

But there were a lot of people who could pass background checks.  That alone wasn’t enough of a hurdle.  The Democrats didn’t like the idea of CCW and they were going to make it as onerous as possible to obtain.  What they settled on was 16 hours of training, including classroom time and live fire.

The courses were two full working days of a weekend.  In a time with a down economy, that made if very hard for working class individuals who had to put in some weekend time at work to take the class and get the permit.

I remember driving through the driving snow early in the morning on a Saturday and Sunday to take my CCW class from two Chicago PD officers in Bolingbrook.

I remember the classes.  It was essentially the same four hour course I took to get my FL CCW, repeated three times.  Intermixed was commentary by these two officers, who made it crystal clear that they were not fans of CCW.  They reminded us that we weren’t cops, we weren’t going to be cops, we aren’t ever going to be as good as cops, but the law is the law and they get $500 a head to do the training.

It was also impressed on us what we had to do to avoid getting shot by the Chicago PD because they will shoot first and ask for CCW permits later.

Then we went to the range.

Some 30 days and $700 later (training, ammo, permit fee, fingerprint fee), I got my permit in the mail.

That whole experience taught me a lesson.

Given the change, people who have no respect for gun rights will use any bureaucratic tool they can as an impediment to gun rights.

Most of us out shot the cops doing the shooting demonstration.  What we learned about gun safety was the four basic rules.  The only useful new information was about Illinois Code 430 ILCS 66/1 stickers and not to go into places that have them.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, minatory training is nothing more than a poll tax and a literacy test on gun rights.

The fact is I will NEVER trust a politician that talks about mandatory training when it comes to guns.

I’m all for training.  Training is good.  Mandatory training has nothing to do with gun safety and everything to do with putting hurdles in the way of gun ownership.

I do not trust a politician to set training standards in good faith.

I am not an advocate of Constitutional Carry, I am all for background checks on CCW.  In Alabama, Indiana, and South Dakota, all you have to do is go to the Sheriff’s Office, pay a fee and have your background check run.  Indiana mails you your permit.  Alabama prints it right there and gives it to you like a drivers license.  South Dakota used to just give you a receipt and mail you the final copy.  Now SD has two permits, one good in SD and one that has reciprocity with Minnesota and Nebraska that includes training.

The total list of states I have or had CCW permits in is (in order): Florida, Indiana, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona, Illinois, Nebraska, Alabama.

I have run the gamut from $10 and out the door to $700 and a full weekend of training.

Nothing across all those states made me better or worse at gun safety or gun handling than I already was going into it.  All the differences did was put bigger and bigger hurdles in my way that required me to jump over, from spending hours to days in training and taking off work to get finger prints and sign affidavits in front of notaries.

Want me to prove that I am not a felon before carrying a gun?  Fine.

Want me to take another stupid course and shoot a B-27 at 5, 7, and 10 yards?  Fuck you.

I will if I have to, to comply with existing law.

I will fight the implementation of new training requirements.

Especially if, like in Massachusetts, the training is strictly for gun ownership.

I do not care if it’s a class given by the president of the local NRA chapter, and a life long gun rights advocate.  That the government mandated that I take a class with an approved curriculum to exercise my fundamental  civil liberties is abhorrent.

I will not let politicians put hurdles in front of exercising gun rights any higher than current bans on prohibited persons.

As soon as a politicians makes training necessary, they have the power to make it onerous and inconvenient as they want to gatekeep people from exercising it.

I will not put myself at that mercy.

This is not a point I am wiling to compromise on.

Immanentizing the gun echsaton

You have to give credit where credit is due.  Parkland anti-gun anti gun activism no longer feels like it needs to lie about how they feel or what they want to do.

They absolutely hate us.  The intensity of that hatred is awe inspiring.

They want to disarm us.  Some completely, others just mostly.

They hate the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution.

https://twitter.com/ClydeBoenke/status/974061761820229632

The problem with this, of course, is how will they do it.  I’m not turning mine in.  Nor will any of the people I know.

Either they will have to give up on thier fantasy or be prepared to fill mass graves with bodies.  Knowing what I do about Progressives with a cause, she would probably chose the latter with alacrity.

They think with the student walkout they don’t need to hide thier intentions anymore.  They have enough power on thier side to ram through what they want.

Of all the tweets in this woman’s thread, my favorite of hers is this one.

As a “writer” I don’t know what level of technical skill she has.  She may be right about 3D printing, but I’m sure she’s never Googled the phrase “Khyber pass copy” and realize if that is what a bunch of illiterate Pakistanis can make with old Soviet tools, what can a bunch of American machinists make on CNC equipment.

I called it – BSO edition

I called it.

“2A.  Shoot at that son-of-a-bitch.  Shoot at him a lot.  Most likely, he will kill himself as soon as rounds start coming his way.  A dead shooter is a dead shooter, if the bullet that does it comes from a cop or his own gun, doesn’t matter.  END THE FIGHT.

2B.  If he doesn’t kill himself right away, keep fucking shooting at him.  The more distracted he is being shot at by police, the less focused he will be on killing innocents.  Every second the shooter is taking cover from a cop is a second he is not shooting at kids.  A cop carrying a modern double stack 9mm or 40 S&W has roughly 45 rounds on his body.  ALL OF THEM should be on their way to the shooter as fast as possible.”

Well, this is straight from the Broward  County Sheriff’s Office training on active shooter response.

God, the BSO is a bunch of fuck ups.  Sheriff Israel really earned his $187,000 salary this year, didn’t he.

My State Senator responds…finally.

Un-freaking-believable

Dear Mr. Gonzalez,

Thank you very much for contacting my office regarding law abiding gun owners. You are correct to point out that an investigation is needed by all the agencies involved to see where the failures occurred. It is my hope that the agencies will or are already conducting investigations.

Having them share their findings with the legislature will allow us to come up with meaningful legislation that will protect all Florida residents equally and fairly. Please do not hesitate to contact my office if I can be of further assistance. Thank you.

Best,
State Senator Rene Garcia
District 36
(305) 364-3100
1490 W 68 St.
Suite 201
Hialeah, FL 33014

 

This is why we are fucked up in Florida. It is all is just a huge Drunken Clown show. The agencies that fucked up by the numbers are going to investigate themselves which will ensure a fair report of “not our fault” and “Oops! We promise to do better.”

And this idiot was allied with Senator Anitere Flores (R- Moms Demand) in screwing us last year. He does not give a shit because he Terms Out, so good riddance and glad he cannot not do more damage.

Why one gets to hate the news.

Pedestrian bridge collapses over SW 8th Street next to Florida International University, possibly the busiest road in Miami. So far several deaths have been reported. Two badly injured people sent to local hospitals.

I am flipping local channels back and forth, but NBC 6 had to tie this accident with the Parkland Shooting not once but several times because there were casualties, there might be one university student killed (maybe) and some other heart-tugging horsehit. Two different events happening 40 miles away on two different counties, but why the fuck don’t we keep milking the corpses of teenagers while we get the fresh corpses from under the rubble.

Even Channel 7, our local Yellow Journalism TV station has not dared pull that crap. Hell, Channel 4 is showing NCAA basketball.

Journalists: Giving Nigerian Barristers a good name.

 

School Walkout Against Gun Violence: The Irony.

All over the webs I keep seeing comments about how smart are the kids who participated in the marionette show. Unfortunately, pictures keep popping up with idiocy all over them and this one takes the first prize so far.

Hat Tip Benton V.

Stay in school kids

I checked out a few of the pictures from #NationalWalkoutDay.

It it evident from the get-go that this really had nothing to do with Parkland or ending gun violence as it was a straight up anti-gun march to push Democrat talking points.

There were lots of kids holding lots of signs that were so bad it made my head hurt.  None of these kids were challenged to think critically about what they wrote on their signs, but were celebrated by the media and Left Wing politicians as the moral leaders of the age.

I’ve seen this sign before, at the Women’s March.  Since the Student Walkout was backed by the Women’s March, it makes sense that they are going to recycle the signs.  This is just as stupid now as it was the first time.  Guns don’t have rights, people do, and name me one restriction placed on your vagina that isn’t placed on a gun.  I’ll wait.

This is just like the feminists bitching that The Handmaid’s Tale is poignant in America with Pence as VP, even through it nearly perfectly represents Iran under Islam.  The only places in the world where vaginas are more oppressed than guns is in backwards, totalitarian, Islamic hellholes.  Which the feminists won’t criticize.

https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/974052336896131073

This is the same sign as above but instead of claiming victim status for being female, he’s claiming victim status for being black.  It still makes no sense.  In fact, it may make less sense.

The same Constitution that protects my right to own guns, explicitly bans my right to own black people.  I’m pretty sure banning black people from entering private businesses is illegal.  So I’m not sure where he’s going with this.

WTF?

If the 2A isn’t for protecting citizens, what is it there for?  Has anybody taught this girl history or civics?

I agree that there is over militarization of police, but I’m not sure what that has to do with this.  When I read about a SWAT team with surplus M-16 kicking in a paralyzed man’s door because he has too many refills of his pain meds, that’s over militarization.  When some nut job goes into a school with a gun and starts shooting students, sending in some cops with M-16’s after him is a good idea.

Nikolas Cruz shot up Parkland because his great-great-great grandparents were slaves?  What?  What does reparations have to do with school shootings?  Nothing, but some teacher stuck this victim mentality in your head and now you are at a protest.

Nice drawing kid.  Is that a spear?

https://twitter.com/KaniJJackson/status/974059758612336640

I doubt that she has ever bought a gun.  Also, political donations are protected free speech.  Lastly, I wonder what she thinks about Planned Parenthood donations.  It’s only “buying” a politician when the other side does it.

https://twitter.com/BasedMonitored/status/974081127722962944

So the NRA = USA = KKK.  That sort of insulting factual inaccuracy is sure to win hearts and minds.  The only cowards in the Parkland situation were the deputies of the BSO.

“Fuck you guns” is a really in depth analysis of the issue of gun rights and gun violence prevention.

Ah yes, the “the NRA banned the study of gun deaths” bullshit again.  The CDC was being used to push gun control legislation.  Where as other risk assessments are used to make products safer – e.g., mandating seat belts, air bags, anti-lock brakes – this was intended only to bolster a politically driven ban.

This, again, has nothing to do with school shootings.

What I want to know is which teacher told that kid to make that sign, because I was 5 in 1988.  I’m not sure how a high school kid would know about the Reagan AIDS controversy.

https://twitter.com/EduSamani/status/974107569190068224

No they are not toys, no one is playing with guns in classrooms.  This is non nonsensical.  Fire extinguishers are not toys, do they not belong in classrooms either?

https://twitter.com/Africanboy__/status/974116260479840256

Of all the pictures I saw, this one was by far the most honest.  The kid had an excuse to go home and drink soda so he did.  He didn’t give a shit about anything other than not being in class.

At lest he was honest about his truancy.