Race Bannon was using a Hi Point carbine.
That is a kick in the tactical nuts. LOL.

I don’t see anything scheduled in the house and only an amendment brought forward by Senator Steube over in Appropriations, which means it can be bad.

Now, if you feel like it, why don’t we do another round of emails but this time we politely demand “The Good Amendments”?

Dear Representative:
I watched yesterday that all the Gun Controls amendments were defeated or withdrawn and I appreciate it greatly. But sadly, what I have not seen are amendments that support the rights of the Citizens of Florida. Some of what I will ask you will say that they have no chance to be passed, but we need you on the record advancing gun rights for Floridians and plant a flag saying that the State of Florida supports the Bill Of Rights in its totality, not what is politically convenient at the time.

Here are some ideas.

– Restitution of all rights, including Gun Rights, to non-violent felons that have completed their sentences.
– In SB 7026, delete from line 678 to 688 (dealing with raising the age for firearm purchase). Correct the rest of the bill accordingly.
– In Florida Statutes 790.053 (Open carrying of weapons) substitute text with “The Open carrying of weapons will be allowed in the same locations where Concealed Carry is allowed.”
– No Background Check required to purchase a firearm if the purchaser shows his or her valid concealed weapons permit.
– (add your own)

Ok that last one is for you readers to give me ideas and we all can add to the mix, so go ahead and post them in the comments and I will update the post accordingly. It is 10:20 am so I figure we can do this and email around 3:00 PM so they can craft the amendments and file them before they go home. Or they can do it from home, I reckon they have a way to do that via email or some other cyber connection.

And thanks to RJK, here you have the corresponding email addresses separated by semi-colons as some needed them.
Much appreciated, RJK!

larry.ahern@myfloridahouse.gov;
ben.albritton@myfloridahouse.gov;
Thad.Altman@myfloridahouse.gov
Bryan.Avila@myfloridahouse.gov;
Halsey.Beshears@myfloridahouse.gov;
michael.bileca@myfloridahouse.gov;
jim.boyd@myfloridahouse.gov;
jason.brodeur@myfloridahouse.gov;
danny.burgess@myfloridahouse.gov;
Colleen.Burton@myfloridahouse.gov;
cord.byrd@myfloridahouse.gov;
matt.caldwell@myfloridahouse.gov;
Chuck.Clemons@myfloridahouse.gov;
neil.combee@myfloridahouse.gov;
richard.corcoran@myfloridahouse.gov;
Bob.Cortes@myfloridahouse.gov;
travis.cummings@myfloridahouse.gov;
jose.diaz@myfloridahouse.gov;
Manny.Diaz@myfloridahouse.gov;
Byron.Donalds@myfloridahouse.gov;
brad.drake@myfloridahouse.gov;
Dane.Eagle@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jay.Fant@myfloridahouse.gov;
Randy.Fine@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jason.Fischer@myfloridahouse.gov;
Heather.Fitzenhagen@myfloridahouse.gov;
Julio.Gonzalez@myfloridahouse.gov;
tom.goodson@myfloridahouse.gov;
Erin.Grall@myfloridahouse.gov;
james.grant@myfloridahouse.gov;
Michael.Grant@myfloridahouse.gov;
Joe.Gruters@myfloridahouse.gov;
bill.hager@myfloridahouse.gov;
Don.Hahnfeldt@myfloridahouse.gov;
gayle.harrell@myfloridahouse.gov;
shawn.harrison@myfloridahouse.gov;
Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridahouse.gov;
clay.ingram@myfloridahouse.gov;
Sam.Killebrew@myfloridahouse.gov;
Mike.LaRosa@myfloridahouse.gov;
Chris.Latvala@myfloridahouse.gov;
Tom.Leek@myfloridahouse.gov;
MaryLynn.Magar@myfloridahouse.gov;
Amber.Mariano@myfloridahouse.gov;
Ralph.Massullo@myfloridahouse.gov;
Stan.McClain@myfloridahouse.gov;
Lawrence.McClure@myfloridahouse.gov;
larry.metz@myfloridahouse.gov;
Alex.Miller@myfloridahouse.gov;
Mike.Miller@myfloridahouse.gov;
george.moraitis@myfloridahouse.gov;
jeanette.nunez@myfloridahouse.gov;
jose.oliva@myfloridahouse.gov;
Bobby.Olszewski@myfloridahouse.gov;
Daniel.Perez@myfloridahouse.gov;
bobby.payne@myfloridahouse.gov;
Kathleen.Peters@myfloridahouse.gov;
Cary.Pigman@myfloridahouse.gov;
Scott.Plakon@myfloridahouse.gov;
Rene.Plasencia@myfloridahouse.gov;
mel.ponder@myfloridahouse.gov;
elizabeth.porter@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jake.Raburn@myfloridahouse.gov;
Holly.Raschein@myfloridahouse.gov;
dan.raulerson@myfloridahouse.gov;
Paul.Renner@myfloridahouse.gov;
Ray.Rodrigues@myfloridahouse.gov;
Bob.Rommel@myfloridahouse.gov;
Rick.Roth@myfloridahouse.gov;
david.santiago@myfloridahouse.gov;
ross.spano@myfloridahouse.gov;
Chris.Sprowls@myfloridahouse.gov;
cyndi.stevenson@myfloridahouse.gov;
Charlie.Stone@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jennifer.Sullivan@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jackie.Toledo@myfloridahouse.gov;
carlos.trujillo@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jay.Trumbull@myfloridahouse.gov;
frank.white@myfloridahouse.gov;
jayer.williamson@myfloridahouse.gov;
clay.yarborough@myfloridahouse.gov

I have dear old Rick muted in Twitter since the option was available. I think he is the only non-spammer that has been muted and/or blocked by me.
Anyway, apparently I am never too far away from his thoughts; in fact it seems I live rent free in his cranial housing.

It is a legitimate question brought out because as intellectual as these idiots are purported to be, they are woefully ignorant of how the real world works. If a handful of barely armed and barely trained individuals in countries without any constitutional rights, had dedicated armies chasing after them could not be controlled, imagine only one million NRA members armed only with scoped bolt-action rifles and the capability to place a “boolit” without any effort at a man-sized target 500 yards away.

So, in honor of Rick shitting his delicate panties again, I give you the link to his favorite GFZ post of all times: “What I saw at the coup”. by Matthew Bracken

Screen cap courtesy of George from The Universal Spectator.

Yesterday I covered Shannon Watts’ attack on Bethany Mandel for being a white women who owns a gun.

It seems that Bethany Mandel has become another lightning rod for anti gun hatred.

Ms. Mandel explained on Fox News why she owns a gun.  She grew up in a trailer park where the police response time was 20 minutes.

Gun-owning mother of three: What gun critics don’t understand is that a lot of us own guns because we have children | @bethanyshondark pic.twitter.com/lWhI43MLjH

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) March 6, 2018

Oliver Willis is a writer.  The tagline of his website is “like Kryptonite to stupid.”  He decided to attack Ms. Mandel’s quality of motherhood.  He then went on to compare law abiding gun owners to crack addicts.

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/971116889836605440

I understand Ms. Mandel’s position.  I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Miami.  When I moved to South Dakota I was broke and lived in a shitty neighborhood.  Half the residents (the maximum allowed by Section 8) were on housing assistance  and were right off Rosebud or Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.  Arrests in the neighborhood were almost nightly occurrences.  People would move out in the middle of the night and steal the AC unit out of the wall.

I had people knock on my door and try to push their way into my apartment because I had heat and power and they had their utilities limited for lack of payment and “they were cold.”  I had people steal my groceries out of the back of my truck if I took more than one trip to get them inside.  Some kid destroyed my wife’s car because she was a teacher at one of the local high schools and he had gotten suspended fro the school.

So for me in that neighborhood, a gun was always near me.  This is something Mr. Willis will never understand.

When Ms. Mandel challenged him, he dismissed her statement because she “make friends with Nazis.”  A conservative Jew doxed by Stormfront is a Nazi sympathizer?  Only in the mind of a lunatic.

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/971129886017499136

Dana Loesch continues to attract insane hatred from the Left.

Rosie O’Donnell went after her again on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/TBirdusThoracis/status/970870793054900229

Because putting up billboards that say “The NRA is a terrorist organization” (paid for by a former Clinton staffer) is played out, the media select kids of Parkland made a video saying the NRA is like ISIS.

"To every spokeswoman with an hourglass who uses free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents…Your Time is running out. The clock starts now."
–@sarahchad_ #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/k29FB2vHPI

— Sarah Chadwick (@Sarahchadwickk) March 6, 2018

Really?  Because I have never heard of an NRA member cutting off anybody’s head, throwing them off a building to their death, or burning people alive.

Just to prove what kind of media attention whore she is, Emma Gonzales had to remind everybody that she was involved in this logical disaster of a video too.

https://twitter.com/Emma4Change/status/971169749995573249

Washed up actress Alyssa Milano decided to try and get Amazon to censor Dana Loesch’s video.

Hey, @amazon! Flagging this for you. Seems important that you watch the kind of programming you’re making accessible to your customers. I guess you find these kinds of threats against those in the media industry to be acceptable?! https://t.co/CKOk8V9ADo

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) March 5, 2018

Apparently telling the media that their time for telling lies is up is a threat.

A billboard that says “kill the NRA” isn’t a threat and is something something statement about political influence bullshit.

Then Dana Loesch’s motherhood was called into question.

https://twitter.com/CrazyScaryWorld/status/971095978433331200

David Hogg proudly claimed that he hung on the White House when they called him about the CNN town hall.

Parkland student Cameron Kasky called NRA donations “blood money” to Senator Marco Rubio’s face and called Dana Loesch “that NRA lady” in an absolutely stunning display of condescending rudeness.

Baltimore is sending 3,000 students to DC to protest for gun control.  Which makes perfect sense following Parkland.  These kids have become famous, not for their knowledge or insight but for their vulgar outrage.  Why stay in school when and learn something when you can be vulgar and outrageous?  It is a faster path to fame and fortune.

This is the Kim Kardashianing of politics.  If you can become a millionaire celebrity by showing your ass and banging people with talent, why can’t you become a famous policy expert by cursing ignorantly into every camera around.

So here is the question I have?

Where does this end.

There is no middle ground with people who call you a crack whore and an unfit mother because you own a gun to protect herself.

I wonder what they would say to the woman who killed a man who tried to break into her home with a knife a few days after her husband’s funeral?

There is no middle ground with people who call the NRA terrorists or say we are like ISIS.  Especially if they downplay the Pulse Shooting as an anti-gay hate crime and not an act of actual ISIS inspired terrorism.  Or accepted Obama calling the San Bernardino shooting or Ft. Hood shooting “workplace violence.”

These people may be a loud minority but they are driving the pop culture.  We saw with Dick’s, REI, Detla, WalMart, etc, that they are willing to put politics over profits.  Which should come as no surprise as the NFL and Hollywood has been doing that for over a year.  Hitting them in the wallet won’t shift them anymore.

We shouldn’t have to negotiate for our rights from a bunch of people who see us as less than them.  That’s the very reason the Bill of Rights exists, to protect our rights from angry mob rule.

Will this blow over or with this drag on into an intractable situation.  If it does, just how much more of it can America take?

Bertrand Russel said “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid.”

There is a similar quote by Charles Darwin “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

Almost a year ago I wrote about how Moms Demand Action were pushing a stupid idea called gunsplaining.

Well, the Washington Post jumped into this with their even dumber article The NRA and its allies use jargon to bully gun-control supporters.

It is a defense of ignorance.  The entire premise of it is “we may not know anything about guns but that shouldn’t stop us from making laws about them.”

Actually, it does.

The phenomenon isn’t new, but in the weeks since the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a lot of gun-skeptical liberals are getting a taste of it for the first time: While debating the merits of various gun control proposals, Second Amendment enthusiasts often diminish, or outright dismiss their views if they use imprecise firearms terminology. Perhaps someone tweets about “assault-style” weapons, only to be told that there’s no such thing. Maybe they’re reprimanded that an AR-15 is neither an assault rifle nor “high-powered.” Or they say something about “machine guns” when they really mean semiautomatic rifles. Or they get sucked into an hours-long Facebook exchange over the difference between the terms clip and magazine.

Has this happened to you? If so, you’ve been gunsplained: harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner, admonished that your inferior knowledge of guns and their nomenclature puts an asterisk next to your opinion on gun control.

We don’t want to listen to you when you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.

I wound’t trust some fuckwit from a DC think tank to make farm policy if the closest he’s ever gotten to a cow was aged beef at a Morton’s Steakhouse.  When a bunch of worthless environmentalists came up with California’s water use regulations, they dried up the farms of the Central Valley.  

Ignorant people make bad policy.

It can feel infuriating, being forced to sweat the finest taxonomic distinctions between our nation’s unlimited variety of lethal weapons. I know this feeling acutely, having covered gun violence critically for the better part of a decade and having just buried an old mentor, killed in the Parkland massacre.

The author had his feelings hurt.  Good, fuck him and his feelings.

The author is one Adam Weinstein.  According to his biography:

I’ve been in the Navy, worked for peace in Iraq, taught lefties to shoot, won on a game show, and watched my country find ever deeper crevasses to slide down.

I’ve written or edited for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Guardian, Village Voice, Mother Jones, and Gawker, among others. Maybe you’re next.

It takes a lot of balls to put writing for Gawker, that shit rag, on a resume.  Also, that discredits his moral compass in every way.

If only these adversaries were a little more honest, I’ve often thought, and more precise in their language on the subject, we could have a serious debate on the finer points of a gun violence policy, instead of a bad-faith propaganda race.

We’re the one’s not being honest and argue in bad faith.  I’d assume that the people calling the NRA “a terrorist organization” and say that NRA political contributions are “blood money” are the ones arguing in bad faith.

Gunsplaining, though, is always done in bad faith. Like mansplaining, it’s less about adding to the discourse than smothering it — with self-appointed authority, and often the thinnest of connection to any real fact. (If gunsplaining had a motto, it might be Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher’s macabre old saw: “Your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights.”)

 For fuck’s sake, mansplaining?  That is something used by lefties to end conversations they are losing, it’s the feminist equivalent of pulling the race card.

Also, Joe the Plumber was right.  Forget the Second Amendment for a second.  Just look at the Fifth Amendment.  Some nut job shoots up a school and some asshole in the legislature wants me to have to turn in my 30 round mags.  I have just been deprived of my property without due process because of a crime some other person did.  Dead kids don’t trump my rights.

There, the mother of a teacher who died protecting his students from gunfire asked Loesch: How could she possibly believe the Founding Fathers, who ratified the Second Amendment in 1791, anticipated legal AR-15s?

“At the time,” Loesch replied, “there were fully automatic weapons that were available — the Belton gun and Puckle gun.”

Focus on her word choice, not her misremembered history. (I’m writing a book on the Belton gun and can safely say her argument was bunk.) Here was the NRA’s top voice in a time of tragedy, defending AR-15 ownership as a bedrock constitutional right by name-checking two 18th-century manually operated flintlocks — quite incorrectly — as “fully automatic weapons.”

The point is, out Constitution didn’t freeze time.  If it did, the police wouldn’t need a warrant to search through your computer files.  The principles enshrined in the Constitution are not dependent on technology.

I also severely doubt this guy is writing a book on the Belton Flintlock.  I don’t think there is a whole book worth of information on the (I think) one in existence.

More recently, Tomi Lahren, a Fox News personality with no obvious qualifications, preemptively tweet-lectured “Lefties” that the “AR” in AR-15 doesn’t stand for “assault rifle” but for the name of the gun’s original manufacturer, Armalite. She failed to note that the family of Eugene Stoner, Armalite’s onetime chief engineer and the brains behind the AR-15, insisted in 2016 that he would be “horrified and sickened” to see his military rifle pattern become so common in civilian households and school shootings.

So what that Eugene Stoner’s family don’t want civilians to own AR-15’s .  The great John Moses Browning designed the BAR when anybody could order a machine gun out of the Sears catalog.  I’d be unhappy if any of my designs were used in a mass shooting.  That doesn’t mean I believe civilians shouldn’t be able to buy them.

In this kind of war over words, both sides probably need to give a little. But the pro-gun side needs to give a lot more — not just because it’s been disingenuously gunsplaining to shut down discussions and close minds for years — but because the onus should be on those citizens who own the weapons technology, and purport to understand it, to share that understanding with the skeptical and less-informed. That’s a responsibility that goes along with the right to bear arms.

Fuck you sideways with a railroad spike.  The Left has brought up Australia more times than I can count yet side steps the mandatory buy back (confiscation by any other name) when pressed on it.  Yet you want me to give more?  Bullshit.

What bothers me is that there are some really meaningful gun-terminology discussions we could be having in the mainstream right now. Civil libertarians who worry about excessive force and police-involved shootings, for example, have a huge stake in understanding how seemingly technical options in police handguns — single action vs. double action, or hammer- vs. striker-fired — affect gun-discharge rates.

Bad police training means that I can’t own an AR?  Is that what you are saying.

And yes, a growing number of American gun owners, including me, find “assault weapons” easier to define, and harder to defend, with time. I know that an AR-15 is not a machine gun or an assault rifle, that its rounds are not high-powered, that it accepts magazines, not clips — any law that seeks to ban them should be written with precision.

Yep, which is why stupid people who know nothing shouldn’t write the laws.  They lack “precision”

But before any of that can happen, we need to take away the incentives for gunsplaining, for spurning conversation in favor of condescension. Can that happen anytime soon? I’m not optimistic — not as long as the pro-gun camp continues to suppress debate with heavy rhetorical firepower, instead of just shooting straight.

The Left spews condescension with every breath it takes.

But if you want us to shoot straight, here I go.  I’m not giving up a fucking thing.  No gun ban from the 1994 AWB to any state or local AWB or mag capacity ban has done a damn bit of difference to reduce crime.  The Left hates guns, gun owners, and gun culture.  They use every tragedy to push an agenda that won’t do fuck all to stop crime, but will stab gun culture in the heart.  We know it, and we won’t roll over and let you do it to us.  Fuck you.

Most people have it basically right, that it is illegal to turn a semi auto into a machine gun.  What they don’t know is what the ATF considers a machine gun.

Here is a fun fact, and something that is completely true.  If you have a legal semi auto AR-15, and you drill a single hole in the receiver in the location  where the full auto sear pin goes, congratulations, you just won yourself a trip to prison.

Why?  Well what defines a receiver is actually not much more than making certain locating holes for machining.  You don’t need to fully machine an 80% lower to make it a receiver, you just need to drill a few pilot holes for the trigger group.  Take the next step and drill the locating hole for the full auto sear pin and you made a machine gun.

If you don’t understand what I just said, you shouldn’t be lecturing me on gun bans.  Your ignorance is the kind of stuff that turns millions of law abiding people into criminals overnight.  Some of us believe that is the point.  To turn unsuspecting gun owners into criminals through bans of rhetorical complexity.

We won’t let you do that to us.  Just leave us the fuck alone.

I asked a dear friend of mine who is a great shooter, IDPA competitor and a teacher for decades, how was it possible that there was such a resistance to arm their fellow practicing pedagogues * among Liberals. His answer was illuminating: “Because the dumb assholes don’t want to be armed!” or words to that effect.

And from what I have seen from other sources, it appears to be true. I have seen the testimony of teachers to the effect of they cannot manipulate a weapon safely, or aim or select a proper target or even to keep a sidearm holstered. It seems that somehow obtaining a teaching certificate affects something in the body, probably in the brain and makes them physically and mentally unable to properly handle a gun.

Now, the State of Florida prohibits anybody who has been adjudicated mentally defective from owning firearms. And in the concealed carry part of the law, it states that anybody who “Develops or sustains a physical infirmity which prevents the safe handling of a weapon or firearm” cannot carry a gun for self-defense. That sounds very close to what the teachers are admitting happens to them

So here is my proposal: If you are a teacher in Florida, you are a Prohibited Person. That means you cannot carry, own, posses, etc. a firearm anywhere in the state and you are subject to the same conditions and penalties as if you were a felon or somebody convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence.

Sounds fair to me and we are doing this to keep the Children Safe, right? I mean, there are children outside the school and if you are a danger to them with a gun inside the school, you are certainly the same danger out there in the world and we need to keep you from harming those you are supposed to teach only.

But don’t worry: if something happens, you can always call the cops.

Yesterday, I got an email from Rick at 305guns.com announcing the arrival of my “Freedom Seed” AKA Palmetto Armory stripped lower. Not 30 minutes later, the Brown Truck of Ballistic Happiness dropped a box with the upper and the rest of the goodies that go with the lower. In the afternoon, I dropped over Ricks, had a swell time while processing the paperwork and, BANG! I was an AR owner.

Why now and not before? I am contrary and I don’t follow trends because that is the way I click. J. Kb. was amazed and suspect when he found out I don’t own anything that shoots .45 ACP. I own revolvers, but not Glocks or 1911s. I can’t figure out myself.
The point is that this time I had a bad feeling in my prominent gut. But the stars aligned and Palmetto State Armory had a sale on a stripped lower, another sale on a full upper and the stuff to properly dress the lower with all coming under $400.

Think about that: $400 and a bit of sweat gets you a good quality AR-15.

I spoke with the wife, checked our credit, rummaged the closet for sellable stuff and went for it. Thanks to a donation and an AK part already sold, I have repaid 1/4 of the AR and the wife was slightly happy.

So, why the picture when by nature I am reluctant to show my guns? First is because it turned out good. Second is because it is my “artistic” way to say Eff and U to the Skin Head Pod Eater, her Nazi Mate in Propaganda and assorted Antis that tried (and failed) to embarrass and frighten me because I am a gun owner and an NRA member.

And like me, I am sure there are several tens of thousands who are also holding a brand new AR-15 or similar. And that will be your legacy: You pissed off a bunch of ornery and contrary people of all sexes and races and they went and bought the gun you wanted banned.

You failed.