Mom shoots New Zealand man who flew to US to confront teen he met online

A mother in Richmond, Virginia has shot a man who flew from New Zealand to the US to confront her 14-year-old daughter whom he had met online.

Troy George Skinner, 25, arrived at the girl’s home in Richmond, Virginia last Friday, while armed with a knife, pepper spray and duct tape, according to Goochland County police.

He had smashed the glass door and was reaching inside to unlock it when the girl’s mother fired her handgun, striking him in the neck. He survived.

A grown man travels half way around the world to (seemingly) abduct and rape a 14 year old girl, forgetting that Americans have the right to keep and bear arms.

Fourteen hours in a plane to get shot in the neck must be a hell of a let down.

Welcome to the United States, we have guns and will use them.

I am still trying to digest this one. I am not sure how to weaponize a Constitutional amendment. Does Ms. Mason Pieklo ( a law professor by the way) mean that strengthening the individual’s choice to support a political who or a political view  or movement is somehow evil? Kind of like the  Soviets did and other like Saddam Hussein did: You can vote, but you only have one way to support and vote.

Remember what we have been saying all these decades: If they have no respect for the Second Amendment, you can rest assured they have the same lack of consideration for the rest of the Bill of Rights.

UPDATE: I just found out that the “weaponizes the First Amendment” was used by Justice Kagan in her dissent .

My conclusion still applies.

I’m going to double down on Miguel’s post Since the Left likes to burn stuff (you included)..

Sometimes, when I have a moment of doubt, I ask myself the question “What would Clint Smith do?”

Fortunately for me, there is a Clint Smith YouTube video for everything.

This is great advice.

I remember when I was a Boy Scout, back when they were still Boy Scouts and could do dangerous shit like use knives and axes and build fires, we went to the Coral Gables Fire Department and the firefighters set a small fire and each of us in turn got to use a fire extinguisher and put it out.

There are two things I remember most about that:

Using a fire extinguisher in real life is not like the movies

1. The fire is harder to put out than you think, it takes more than a quick blast.
2. The fire extinguisher runs empty fast.

The take away with fire extinguishers is just like rifle mags, get the biggest, highest capacity one that you can pick up and run with, get as many as possible.

In Alabama every year, we have a week in which there is no sales tax on emergency preparedness items.  The hardware stores then run a sale on those items, and then I get 5% off with my Lowes card.

I bought four of THE BIG ONES.

One in my kitchen pantry, which also covers the living room.  One next to my night stand in my bed room.  One by the door to the garage above my utility sink.  One on the other end of my garage near my ammo storage.

I also have two of the little ones, one next to the stove and the other on the mantle above the fireplace.

When the boy is old enough, I’ll spend the $20 on a fire extinguisher and we’ll make some s’mores in the fire pit, then he’ll put it out with the fire extinguisher.

I figure it is time to do a Fire Extinguisher P.A.S.S. reminder.

You do have fire extinguishers at home, right?  Home Depot has some nice prices starting at $15 a piece if you go with doubles.

And smoke alarms? If you don’t have them or have very old ones, go ahead and get the new ones with carbon monoxide detection, specially if you may run a generator because of power losses due to natural (and non-natural) causes. Do learn where to place them.

UPDATE:  One thing I forgot to mention. There is a good chance that you will use the extinguisher not to stop a house fire but to provide you with a way to extricate yourself from it and escape a safe place. The Fire Department does not send a guy in a scooter with a commercial fire extinguisher but a couple of trucks with hoses, pumps and several firefighters.  In gun terms: you get home and see the door kicked in, you do not go ninja and do a house clearing with your baby Glock, you call the cops so they come in numbers with rifles and ballistic shields. Same principle, get away from danger.

The Supreme Court ruled in another case yesterday regarding the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act – also known as the Reproductive FACT Act.

The law, passed in 2015, imposes two different sets of requirements on the centers, depending on whether they are licensed to provide medical services. The centers that have licenses must post notices that inform their patients that they may obtain free or low-cost abortions and that include the number of the state agency that can connect the women with abortion providers. The centers that are not licensed must include disclaimers in their advertisements – in up to 13 languages – to make clear that their services do not include medical help.

Again my non-lawyer understanding of the case is this:

There are religious “crisis pregnancy” centers that try to help women who are in the demographic prone to abortion through pregnancy and possibly adoption without having an abortion.  California mandated that they advertise state funded abortion to the women that they are serving.

This was decided to be a violation of Free Speech because free speech includes prohibiting forcing people to say things they don’t want to say.

You can’t make a law that requires a Catholic Priest to wish people “eid mubarak” at the same time as performing Eucharist to be inclusive.

This is similar to the Colorado gay wedding cake case in which part of the argument was you can’t force an artist to say something that goes against his convictions.

SCOTUS is setting precedent that free speech means the government can’t say “you can’t say that” and it also can’t say “you must say this too.”

There are some very important for issues where this is going to vital.  Like preferred pronouns with trans people.  If you don’t want to call a man a woman because that is his preferred pronoun, the government can’t make you say “she” or “her.”

Of course the Left is going to twist the facts on this case as badly as they can.

Enter anti-gun nut job Kevin “Ghost Gun” de Leon.

Today, Justice Gorsuch and 4 other #SCOTUS justices decided that women don't deserve the truth when they visit fake women's health centers.

This isn't over. We're going to get back up and keep fighting to #EndTheLies

— Kevin de Leόn (@kdeleon) June 26, 2018

You’d think that a lawyer would understand that making a bunch of religious people say “we don’t provide abortion here, but abortion is an alternative and if you go across the street, the state will give you one for free” is kind of tyrannical.  Especially since CA doesn’t make Planned Parenthood say “adoption is also an option and if you go across the street, there are some nice people who will help you with that.”

That is because abortion has become a sacrament for the radical Left and the Reproductive FACT Act is government mandated prostelyzation.

Instead, de Leon blames “Gorsuch and 4 other” justices.

Again this is dangerous as fuck.

It sends the message to the radicals “if we just get rid of Gorsuch, SCOUTS will be ours again.”

Judd Legum, editor and founder of Thinkprogress, gives us a list.

If they are putting babies in cages, don’t be civil.
Do not mention that the babies were caged under Obama.

If they are banning religious minorities, don’t be civil.
No minority has been banned, but makes good ruckus.

If they are purging the voter rolls, don’t be civil.
The Democrats cannot win without those Dead Voters.

If they selling out the poor and paying off the rich, don’t be civil.
I am rich, but I am not the rich you need to go after. I’ll tell you who.

Don’t be civil. Be determined.
Wear a pussy hat and scream a lot at Republicans in restaurants. Burn animals.

I think that covers it.

This is the most true and funny thing I’ve seen this week:

When you so woke, you asleep. ? pic.twitter.com/USEgKWPExM

— BBC Comedy (@bbccomedy) June 22, 2018

She is kicking ass