So they are taking “action.”

 Parkland’s city manager is asking the Broward Sheriff’s Office to replace the commander who led the agency’s response to a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
In a statement, Bob Payton said he asked Sheriff Scott Israel to provide three recommendations to fill the position of Capt. Jan Jordan. The city would like for the replacement to hold the rank of major.

In case you have forgotten, Capitan Jan Jordan was the officer in charge during the shooting and the one that ordered the 4 BSO Deputies and paramedics not to enter the school. She was only removed yesterday from her position and only because the city of Parkland asked for it. Great, ain’t it?

A news release says Parkland has hired a private firm to evaluate its contract with the sheriff’s office for law enforcement services, as well as issues that include how 911 calls are handled.
The 911 system complicated the response to the shooting because calls from inside the school were routed to nearby Coral Springs, instead of the sheriff’s office.

And it makes you wonder why 911 calls in Parkland were routed to Coral Springs PD rather than BSO,? The standard is that 911 gets routed to the closest responding department, right?

OK, that clears stuff up.

Some years back, BSO marketed itself (and still does) as the premier Law Enforcement and Rescue agency for Broward County. For many small towns, it was cheaper to hire BSO rather than have the expense to create and maintain their own PD and Fire departments. But BSO marketing apparently included some stats on crime reduction that were not quite “adjusted to reality” and it has led to issues when reality strikes, but none as brutal as the school shooting.

There is a cesspool under Broward County services that is bubbling. There are also a lot of people sitting on the lid trying to keep it from blowing up.  I know that eventually enough pressure will build up and crap is gonna be spread all over, but I wonder how many more lives will it take to reach that point.

You cannot win the “good guy with a gun” argument.

It’s not that the facts are on your side (they are), it’s that the other side does not argue in good faith.

Remember when two armed civilians stopped and killed a man who shot three people in Louie’s Grill & Bar in Oklahoma City?

The police credited the men with potentially saving more lives.  You’d think that this was evidence for the “good guy with a gun” theory.

Not according to Think Progress.

The truth about the Oklahoma shooting that conservatives and the NRA can’t stop talking about.  The reality is much more complicated.

There was a little bit of confusion when the police first arrived on the scene.  The armed “good guys” were not shot and the police praised them.  But there could have been a problem that might have made the police shoot the good guys thinking they were the bad guys.

Besides, the “good guys” were a National Guardsman and ex-cop so they had the fairy dust of goverment sprinkled on them so they were more than just “good guys with guns,” they were goverenment Ubermensch.

So much for your “god guy with a gun” theory.

Then there was the Waffle House shooting in which an unarmed customer tackled the shooter.

Well, according to Think Progress NRA finally speaks on Waffle House shooting, says man who stopped it should have used a gun.

That guy was lucky as hell that he managed to disarm a guy with a rifle bare handed.  But that proves you don’t need a gun because the good guy doesn’t need a gun.

So once again, so much for your “god guy with a gun” theory.

Then there was the FBI agent who did a drunken backflip, dropped his gun, and had an AD when, like an idiot, he tried to cover his embarrassing fumble and pulled the trigger.

Well according to Think Progress It was a bad weekend for the NRA’s ‘good guy with a gun’ myth.

So when an Federal LEO – you know, the only kind of person who they think should have guns – acts like an idiot, he’s downgraded form govenment Ubermensch to “good guy with a gun.”

Also, there was a shooting in Texas at a stadium in which no good guy was present to stop it.

Again, so much for your “god guy with a gun” theory.

This is the dishonesty of the argument:

1. Armed civilians stop a shooter, but there could have been a problem, so no “good guy with a gun.”
2. Armed civilians stop a shooter, but they were actually off duty military and/or ex-police, so no “good guy with a gun.”
3. Unarmed good guy manages to survive an armed encounter and emerge victorious, so no “good guy with a gun.”
4. Law Enforcement Officer is irresponsible and accidently shoots someone, so no “good guy with a gun.”
5.  A bad guy shoots up a gun free zone where there is no armed civilians, so no “good guy with a gun.”

Every scenario is twisted into proof why we can’t be allowed to carry.

There is no scenario that they will accept as evidence of a “good guy with a gun.”

ORLANDO, Fla. — Almost two years after a massacre at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured, some of the surviving victims were filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying the city and police didn’t do enough to try to stop the shooter.
More than 35 victims have signed on as plaintiffs, accusing the city and its officers violated the Constitutional rights of those who were injured and killed on June 12, 2016, when Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse. Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a three-hour standoff before he was killed in a shootout with police.

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Plaintiffs contend that officers should have more aggressively confronted Mateen to prevent mass casualties. The lawsuit names Orlando Police Department Officer Adam Gruler, who worked an extra-duty shift at the nightclub that evening. The lawsuit says that Gruler “abandoned his post” and, during that time, Mateen walked in, looked around, walked out to retrieve weapons and returned to the club.

Pulse nightclub shooting survivors sue Orlando, its police.

I have to believe some lawyers are very ignorant with the SCOTUS decisions regarding No Duty to Protect. Either that or are behaving like true ambulance chasers and don’t give a damn about how much money and disappointment this lawsuit is going to cost to the clients.

Unfortunately I think the victims and relatives have been misguided or have unfortunate expectations brought about an erroneous idea of what Law Enforcement is supposed to do.

“I believe victims of the Pulse shooting deserve better. We deserved better,” victim Keinon Carter said during the news conference Thursday. “We deserved to be rescued sooner by law enforcement.”

And from the legal standpoint we know the answer: The Police has no duty to protect.

You are on your own.

Add this lawsuit to the lawsuit against Broward Sheriff’s Office and it is going to be interesting for Florida Law Enforcement in its legal future.

We are getting closer to the magic 2 million!

Apparently, trying to “shame” people and keep them away from guns simply is not working. If I am reading this right, so far this year 198,134 new licenses have been issued.

And according to the profile report, women had a one percent uptick and are now 26% of the CWP population or 504,059 Ladies from Florida with a Concealed Weapons Permit.

[engage happy dance mode]

Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson.  Johnson, 63, was serving a life sentence for a non-violent, first offense drug crime.

Here’s the thing.

The Right is happy because Trump commuted the sentence of a black woman for a non-violent drug offense, proving that is he not a racist.

The Left, which wants leniency for non-violent drug offenders, especially those who are minorities are mad because TRUMP!!!

So something that they would normally celebrate, they have to shit on, reflexively.

Trump wants to execute drug dealers. But he granted commutation to one because Kim Kardashian asked. https://t.co/ToeDNcSesP

— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 6, 2018

So what did Johnson do?

Johnson, 63, was arrested in 1993 and convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering in 1996, according to a Mic profile. She became involved with cocaine dealers after she lost her job, her son was killed, she and her husband divorced and her home was foreclosed on, Mic reported.

Johnson has said she did not sell drugs or make deals, though she did admit to acting as an intermediary for those involved, passing along messages. She was given life in prison without parole.

Here are my feelings on this: Fuck everyone, everyone is wrong and this is bullshit.

Johnson fell on hard times and got into drug trafficking for the money.  She went Breaking Bad before that was a popular TV show.

So the fuck what.  I have no sympathy for her.  If one person overdosed because of her actions, that death is on her hands.  If one kid was shot in the cross fire of a drug deal, that death is on her hands.

Why do we separate drug dealing and drug using from all the violence and death that is part the “sphere of drugs.”  When people overdose and die, when gangs shoot each other (and bystanders) over turf, when people are robbed to feed a habit, that is fallout from drug dealing.

The majority of homicides in America are gang related, and the primary financial endeavor of gangs is drug trafficking or dealing.

So yes, a substantial percentage of homicides in this country are the eventual result of drug dealing.  We could reduce homicides in major cities by as much as 50% by ended drug trafficking.

Call me a monster, I don’t give a fuck.  I think the Saudis get this one right, they execute drug dealers.

This is a real news headline:

118 pounds of fentanyl — enough to kill more than 26 million people — among drug bust records this year for Nebraska State Patrol

That is one truck containing enough fentanyl to kill the entire population of Texas.  How many people would have died in overdoses because of that one shipment?

The son of former Fox News host Eric Bolling died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.

“It ended up being an accidental opioid overdose,” he said. “He bought Xanax from someone. It was a street Xanax. Turns out it was laced with Fentanyl.”

My heart breaks for that man.  I can’t imagine getting a call late at night telling me my kid, who should be studying in his dorm, died of an overdose.

I believe we should systematically track down every single person, involved in that shipment, convict them, and send them to the United States Penitentiary, in Terre Haute, Indiana, and fill their veins with fentanyl and potassium chloride until their hearts stop.

Every.  Single.  One.

You want to stop this shit?  Yes, execute the gang members and street criminals.  But send SWAT to kick down the office door of the white collar money launderers and people letting a prescription drug out of pharmacies and warehouses too.

The opioid crisis is killing people.  Maybe we should start killing the people responsible for it.

It’s time to do away with the idea of a “non violent drug offender.”

“I knowingly sold that guy poison, it’s not my fault he died injecting it into his arm.”

That’s not a defense.

This was a bad act by Trump.  I have zero sympathy for a woman who said “I went bankrupt so I facilitated drug trafficking.”  I’d be more sympathetic to her if she committed credit card fraud, at leas nobody overdoses when you charge stuff to their account.

Maybe we need to get Eric Bolling to go to the White House and get his picture taken with Trump.

Then we can really start dealing with drug crime.

Stolen from Jonathan A.

Sorry for the Picture & meme Day. Dealing with some family stuff and I have not really had time or brain power to do something in-depth… not that I have done that before.

He thought it was an HK.