Gun Free Zone

Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.

Month: April 2018

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Going off the anti-gun plantation

Apr 23, 2018 J. Kb 4 comments

According to The Left, groups of “victims” are only allowed to think one way.

Blacks are victims of slavery, Jim Crow, red lining, and segregation.  The only acceptable way for blacks to think is that they are victims, living in a oppressive and racist society.  They are held back by white people.  The only way for blacks to get anything is from white Liberals in the form of goverment assistance and eventually reparations for slavery.

Hispanics are ALL related to illegal migrants.  Regardless of personal history and ancestry, they all support sanctuary cites, hate the INS, and every migrant fruit picker is one of their relatives.  They need the white Liberals to block building “the wall” and stop deportations and let DREAMers get free tuition at every college.

God forbid someone is black or Hispanic and thinks something differently, they will be roundly trashed as house negro, Uncle Tom, Coconut, or something equally vile.

Well, add “mass shooting victim” to that list.  If you survive a shooting, the only acceptable opinion is that guns are evil and they should all be banned and everyone who has one is a terrorist and should die so their guns can be taken from their cold, dead hands.

So when Kyle Kashuv, the MSD Student who actually met with legislators to do something useful, tweeted this:

The backlash was immediate.

The only way he couldn’t be anti-gun is because he’s not a real “victim.”

A kid goes to a legal range and shoots a legal gun under supervision AFTER pushing for legislation to protect students from mass shooters and he’s the problem.  Because guns.

He’s a victim, he can only believe one thing.

This is why he will never be on the cover of Newsweek or a Time 100, he went off the victim reservation and that is not allowed.

 

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Remember, they are doing this to save lives

Apr 23, 2018 J. Kb 6 comments

Parkland, Texas.

Parkland Middle School student hit, killed on Loop 375 after leaving campus during walkout.

A Parkland Middle School sixth-grader who left campus during the National Student Walkout was killed when he was struck by a vehicle Friday morning on Loop 375 in Northeast El Paso, school district officials said.

The boy, who was 11 years old, was hit by a Ford F-150, which was traveling north on the loop, at 10:27 a.m., police and school district officials said.

He was taken to an area hospital, where he died at about 11:30 a.m., officials said.

This is where this turns heartbreakingly tragic.

However, a news release from University Medical Center of El Paso identified him as Jonathan Benko and said a memorial fund has been set up by the UMC Foundation for his family.

The news release states, “Jonathan was struck by a car this morning outside of his school, was transported to University Medical Center of El Paso and did not survive. Jonathan’s mother, Ashley, works as a Registered Nurse in UMC’s Emergency Department. His uncle, Michael Benko, is also an employee at UMC, where he works as a Respiratory Therapist.”

So a sixth grader was involved in a March for our Lives walkout, tried to cross a highway and was killed by a car.

According to the CDC “unintentional injury” is the leading cause of death for children age 10-14, at a rate of almost six times as much as homicide.  Car accidents, which included being passenger in a car crash and being struck by a car, was the leading cause of death for children.  Meaning it is far more likely that a child will be killed by being hit by a car than getting shot in school.

Honestly, I’m surprised something like this didn’t happen sooner.

Apparently the student did what you would expect kids to do.

The boy, Jonathan Benko, and a group of about 12 to 15 other students from Parkland Middle School in El Paso decided not to participate in the walkout, and instead left the campus to visit a park on the other side of Loop 375, a busy highway that surrounds parts of the city, officials said.

Jonathan, a sixth grader and the last one to try to cross, was struck by a Ford F-150 pickup truck, Officer Darrel Petry, a spokesman for the El Paso Police Department, said on Saturday. He was transported to the University Medical Center of El Paso, where he died.

None of the other children were injured, Officer Petry said. The driver of the truck, who stayed on the scene, was uninjured. He was not charged, the police said.

So the school endorses a walkout, several students see it as a free day off from school (we’ve see that before), the school loses control of the situation as the kids run off, and one gets killed.

I hope the school district and everyone else involved gets their asses sued off.

Of course, there is no mention of this on the March for our Lives twitter account.

Because it’s not about keeping kids safe, it’s about gun control.

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Yeti management wants to tank the company

Apr 23, 2018 J. Kb 5 comments

Yeti the maker of unreasonably expensive coolers decided to cut ties with the NRA.

“Suddenly, without prior notice, YETI has declined to do business with The NRA Foundation saying they no longer wish to be an NRA vendor, and refused to say why. They will only say they will no longer sell products to The NRA Foundation. That certainly isn’t sportsmanlike. In fact, YETI should be ashamed. They have declined to continue helping America’s young people enjoy outdoor recreational activities. These activities enable them to appreciate America and enjoy our natural resources with wholesome and healthy outdoor recreational and educational programs.”

This seems shocking as the short history of the Yeti company really focused on hunting, fishing, and outdoor sports.

Clearly, this is not your grandmother’s ice chest.

“Yeti reinvented a major part of this category and treated the cooler as more than a disposable product,” said Corey Maynard, VP-marketing for Yeti, which was founded in 2006. The company cast the cooler “as a thing that was meant to last, meant to be used, and was built as tough as it possibly could be. The price didn’t really matter.”

The brand grew by going after niche markets like the hunting and fishing communities. In 2013, Yeti’s sales were up more than 50% from the previous year, reaching $100 million – a milestone for the young brand. “It’s been an absolute rocket ship,” said Mr. Maynard.

The biggest challenge for Yeti in conquering new markets is convincing consumers to pay hundreds of dollars for a cooler. The brand pushes performance and relies heavily on professional endorsements from the hunting, fishing and barbeque communities. It also uses endemic marketing for magazines and TV to take Yeti’s message directly to the markets it wants to reach.

Yeti’s coolers are “grizzly proof,” which is an actual certification by Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, not just marketing jargon. And they’re designed to keep ice cold for long periods of time, sometimes days, depending on the temperature and preparation. But Yeti says most of its consumers will never actually use those benefits.

I can’t walk into Cabela’s without running into a Yeti display.

The company had been doing quite well with this business model too.

The cup was one of the best-selling items at outdoor and sports retailers during the holidays. It appealed to shoppers because it keeps drinks cold or hot for long stretches and offers a way for consumers to grab some of the Yeti prestige without spending big bucks, retailers said.

Last year, Yeti’s earnings rose to $74.2 million from $14.2 million the year before, and its sales increased to $468.9 million from $147.7 million. The company said its products are sold by about 6,000 independent retailers and online. They also partner with retailers that include Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods.

That’s $500 million in sales for a cooler for your venison that costs as more than the rifle you bagged the deer with.

Even Forbes focused on the hunting and outdoors aspects of the Yeti product line when they reviewed them.

As you can imagine, the buzz on social media against Yeti by hunters and the pro-gun community has been pretty intense.  The consensus is that they will no longer buy Yeti products.

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/988121295891156993

Adding insult to injury, this announcement caused Shannon Watts to jump for joy.

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/987711660902133767

I don’t know what the management of Yeti were thinking but this company just fucked itself to death.

I just don’t see a bunch of soccer moms buying $250 pink coolers or $35 pink insulated cups.

Sure, there are some people on Shannon’s twitter feed that sound like they are going to boost Yeti sales, but I just don’t believe them.

https://twitter.com/smstyles/status/987720235406020608

The cheapest “cooler” that Yeti sells is still $200, which means this woman has spent at a minimum $800 on coolers and wants to spend upwards of $1,400.  Really?

Or maybe she’s just taking about the cups, which makes her like this shrew.

Now, I’m cheap.  I don’t feel compelled to buy $300 worth of drink cups.  If I have to spend $35 dollars on cup, it better come pre loaded with a single malt that is at least old enough to buy a gun.

I think a lot of this “I’m going to run out and buy a Yeti” is going to end at the cash register.

If the anti-gun crowed really bought more than the loss of revenue from a pro gun boycott, well.  Tweets like this:

Wouldn’t result in earnings losses.  But they do.

The death knell for Yeti will be if Cabela’s/Bass Pro Shops can’t move their products and have to reduce their inventory or even drop the product line.  Especially since the Cabela’s brand cooler is less expensive and just as highly rated – and it doesn’t hate the NRA.

It’s an amazing thing to see a company’s management offend and reject the their core customer base and the demographic that built their brand.

Personally, I don’t get why after watching Delta, Dick’s, Field and Stream, and other companies lose money this way, a company like Yeti which entered the mainstream BECAUSE of hunters would do this.

But in this day and age, I guess being management is more about being Woke on social media than making money.

 

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Feeding the Crazy Machine.

Apr 23, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 1 comment

I do believe that the worse thing we have ever allowed to do regarding Mass Shooters was the not mentioning of his name so other deranged individuals would not follow his example. I read somewhere that 30% percent of the shooters mentioned previous shooters as reason (partially or whole) why they decide to commit their sprees. That means 70% of them did not give a crap about past shooters.

Here is a test: How many of you can mention the names of Mass Shooters without looking them up? I bet that even the Parkland Shooter will take you a few moments of effort to remember. and I also bet most of you don’t remember the Sandy West shooter or many others from the past 20 years. Now imagine the average Joe and Jane and what do they hear in the news about being responsible? The NRA, its members and Gun Owners and general.  That is one strategy the Opposition has played so beautifully that nine weeks after the Parkland shooting, most people will not even remember the name of County Law Enforcement Agency that dropped the ball so miserably and so many times or that even the School Board was accomplice.

In allowing ourselves to be blamed, we have allowed to make the crazed shooters understand that no matter how heinous their crime, the will not be blamed for it and that even a smidgen of pity will be addressed their way. We are reaping the results of “It is not your fault” culture and we are getting screwed by it.

Bouche said he grew up surrounded by violence and mental illness, neglected but not physically abused, and felt the shooting was “pretty much” his only way out of the situation.
“My first memory is violence and conflict,” he said. “That’s my first memory. And no one will believe me. That’s one of the reasons people don’t think I’m serious.”
On Friday morning, Bouche said he woke up, chambered a round in his sawed-off shotgun and then put it away. At that point, Bouche said, all he could feel was “this adrenaline rush.”
“It’s not anger, it’s not hatred, it’s an adrenaline rush that, you know, I’m about to do something. I spend most of my time in a room alone so I’m getting this rush, so that’s what I was feeling,” he said.
He stopped because a girl was there and she didn’t run from him and she was crying.
That made him throw down the gun, he said, “I could’ve shot her, but I just, I don’t know, I just couldn’t do it.”
After that, he surrendered to a teacher.

Forest High shooter: ‘My first memory is violence and conflict’

Have you seen anywhere in Regular or Social Media anything that comes close to the level of hate that the NRA and Gun Owners get for the actions of theses deranged assholes?

No. And we are at fault for playing the No-Naming Game. They want us dead and we allowing them to write our obituary.

 

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“We don’t want to take your guns, we just want to take your guns that we don’t like.”

Apr 23, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 5 comments

So Fidelista Emma does advocate confiscation after all.  And you want to know something? I am sure she is not including her family’s semi automatic weapons in the mix. Cuban family without a machete and a pistol hidden around the house is sent back to Cuba by its peers.

She was addressing the Waffle House shooting in Nashville where a man killed 4 people and had his rifle wrestled away by a patron. This tweet from Emma was just too funny.

Given that the shooter, one Travis Reinking, (who believed singer Taylor Swift was stalking him) was only wearing a green jacket and nothing else at the time of the shooting either makes him crazy or a Hippy.  And Emma wrong…again.

PS: Waffle House has a No Gun policy and IIRC, in Tennessee the signs do carry the weight of the law unlike Florida.

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David Hogg speaks with forked tongue.

Apr 23, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 7 comments

The Waffle House Shooting in Nashville. This time from David “Junior Goebbels” Hogg:

So he is celebration that an unarmed man (with surely a bigger testicular set than his) wrestled the gun away from the shooter.  And it is cause for celebration indeed, first because we must congratulate people with real valor, and second because dear Hogg contradicted himself from a previous statement he made about people facing a shooter with an AR 15:

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg came to the defense of the armed resource officer who never entered the Parkland, Florida school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting, asking, “Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a Glock?”
In an interview Saturday on MSNBC, Mr. Hogg insisted that the officer, Scot Peterson, “just like every other police officer out there at heart — is a good person.”

David Hogg defends officer Scot Peterson: ‘Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15?’

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Freedom Canisters

Apr 22, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 3 comments

I forgot to share the small lot of S&H mags AKA Freedom Containers. They are still available at Palmetto State Armory, but if they are suddenly out of stock, just wait, they will bring them back. At $8.99 they are selling like crazy.

Now, improve the ammo quantity till it is enough to send the Brits demanding help from NATO.  OK, the Brits do freak out for basically any amount of ammunition found in the wild, so perhaps a minimum of two rifle classes?

OK, a couple of thousands… geez.