I will admit that I do not pay much attention to the Garden State’s Gun Control initiatives because it is like trying to swim in a mental cesspool. Perhaps is why I might have missed S798 which proposed the following:

This bill revises the definition of “large capacity ammunition magazine” to reduce the number of rounds of ammunition a legal magazine may hold in this State.
Under current law, it is unlawful to own or possess an ammunition magazine that is capable of holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition.
This bill would reduce the maximum capacity of a legal ammunition magazine in New Jersey to five rounds.

And now that New Jersey got the blessing by a Federal Court to ban anything above 15 rounds, I would expect this bill to come back in 2019 and pass. Of course that would mean that they would have to do something about revolvers in 2020 because you cannot have one type of gun with no magazine, have  more rounds than the ones with magazines.

I have the feeling that Bond Arms will be selling a lot to New Jersey in the future.

Hat Tip to Fran Fiamingo.

Leonardo DiCaprio loves mega yachts.  He is known for throwing lavish, celebrity filled parties on mega yachts in the Mediterranean.  He spends his summers on chartered mega yachts cruising around the south of France.

The Obamas too, enjoy lavish mega yacht vacations.

A 71 meter super yacht burns about 500 liters or 130 gallons of diesel an hour.

The yacht the Obamas love to party is on 138 meters, and DiCaprio’s favorite yacht is 141 meters.

Employing basic scaling factors, DiCaprio is easily burning close to 1,000 liters or 260 gallons per hour of diesel during one of his parties.

I drive a Ram 2500 with a 6.4 Hemi.  I’m averaging 11.3 mpg according to my dash display.  I drive about two miles to work each day, and 6 miles to the gym.  I’ve had my truck for about 10 months and have a hair over 4,800 miles on it.

My last truck was 15 years old and I just broke 100,000 miles when I gave her up.  Did I mention I hate long commutes?

So I was doing about 7,500 miles per year, in my old truck and 5,000 miles per year in my new truck.

At 11.3 mpg I’m going to burn roughly 440 gallons of gas this year.

That means I will burn in one year as much fuel volume as Leonardo DiCaprio burns in one hour and 45 minutes.  He burns more fuel over the course of a champagne brunch in the summer than I do in a year.

But, I’m the asshole who is causing global warming and have to be forced into compliance.

This is why so many people on the right don’t take well to the climate change “debate.”  DiCaprio can spend his summer on a mega yacht but has the audacity to tell working and middle class Americans that they have to cut back or the world will end in 10 years.

Yeah… no, and fuck you too.

Just like with the gun control debate, this isn’t about the actual topic at hand, it is just another way to impose control.

They can have armed guards because they can afford them, or they can bribe the officials or donate to the politicians to get their permits, we poor schmucks can’t.

They can fill their swilling pools during a drought because they can afford the water use fines, but working and middle class people have to shower every other day and wear our clothes a couple of times before washing them, we poor schmucks can’t.

They can enjoy super cars, mega yachts, and private planes, because they can afford them, but we will be taxed into poverty to fill up our F-150s.

What else are they trying to do?  Take away our meat.

How far will you go to reduce your beef intake?

In October, a landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, or we will face devastating consequences.

The target is feasible, it says, but only with “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” This includes a global dietary shift away from greenhouse-gas-intensive foods such as beef and toward healthier and more sustainable diets.

What does that mean?

But changing a diet isn’t easy. That’s why we’ve come up with a guide to reducing your beef consumption, for all varying degrees of commitment.

Now that they have tried to take away my dream truck, they are going after my burger?  Oh, hell no.

Leave it to the Germans to take this oppressive political ideology of climate change totalitarianism and turn it into a crime against humanity.

Hu….?

From Bug Foundation, the makers of this evil:

Probably you have already heard about me, as lately I was on television and in the newspaper quite often. I am Germany’s first insect burger and very glad getting to know you today. Wanna know what is within me?
I am made of Buffaloworms, a very nutritious and sustainable kind of cultivated insects, as well as selected vegetarian ingredients. I am rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids and I am up to 100% free from artificial additives.

Without wanting to sound arrogant, I am proud, that many people say I am extremely attractive and incredibly well tasting…
but it’s the best to simply convince yourself.

Germany’s first insectburger contains the following ingredients: 45% rehydrated buffaloworm-soyprotein (60% buffalo worms Alphitobius Diaperinus, 40% soy protein concentrate), water, rape oil, onions, egg white* (dried), tomato concentrate (tomatoes, salt), soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), mustard (water, mustard seeds, vinegar, salt, sugar, spices), potato starch, spices, salt, lemon juice, parsley

No no no no fuck no.  I refuse.

A burger patty should contain exactly two ingredients: cow, salt.

You know DiCaprio and Obama aren’t going to give up their gourmet steaks cooked by Michelin star celebrity chefs.

The French burned down Paris over a carbon tax on their gasoline.

You go right ahead and tell people in the BBQ belt that we have to give up burgers and brisket or that it will become prohibitively expensive because of taxes, and we have to eat mealworm meal and soy concentrate instead.

I dare, just fucking dare, the politicians to force this on the United States.

HOUSTON – A rap video helped authorities in Houston identify 20 suspected gang members, all of whom are now facing gun charges after police said they brandished weapons while filming a music video in March.
According to a report from KSAT’s sister station, Click2Houston, rappers Emekwanem Biosah Jr, known as Maxo Kreme, and Warren Brown, known as NFL Cartell Bo, were filming a rap video at Lakewood Park when police responded to the park.

 Rap video leads to charges against 20 suspected of illegally possessing firearms

Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame is now a constant craving of exhibitionism and voyeurism in the era of YouTube. Add to that a low expectation of punishment and you get a bunch of gang members that provided one police department with enough evidence for arrests.

Sincerely I have no issues if the bad guys engage in Lemming conduct and put themselves out of circulation, specially with zero civilian casualties.

Hat Tip Dale G.

Another just happened.

A “lone gunman” remains at large after killing at least four people and seriously injuring several others in the eastern French city of Strasbourg near its famed Christmas market visited by millions.
The authorities are treating the attack as a terrorist act. Anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation.
A manhunt involving police and soldiers is underway with French media saying the gunman was on the loose but had already been “identified” as being on a list of “security threats”.
The gunman was wounded by soldiers on patrol as part of France’s Sentinelle anti-terror operation but managed to flee, said police.

Strasbourg shooting: At least four dead, several seriously injured in attack at Christmas market – latest news

Strasbourg has a very well know Christmas Market and that is where the “previously known to ant-terrorist authorities” killer made his attack.

From the Washington Post:

House Democrats look to roll back little-known rule allowing guns in the Capitol

House Democrats are looking to roll back a little-known, five-decade-old Capitol Hill regulation that allows members of Congress to keep guns in their offices and carry them around the Capitol grounds.

The effort has been spearheaded by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), who has pressed Capitol Hill authorities to revisit the 1967 regulation for months, and he now has the support of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has been nominated by her party to become House speaker early next year.

“I don’t think we can just keep looking the other way or sweep this issue under the rug,” Huffman said in an interview, citing potential threats to public safety and national security from a lost or stolen weapon — or an overheated lawmaker. “Our political climate is too volatile and there are too many warning signs that we need to address things like this.”

Right….. because the Congressman who attacks another Congressman in the Capitol with his legally possessed handgun is going to be one of those angry white male Republicans.

Never mind that the only assault with a weapon by one Congressman on another was when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina beat Massachusetts abolitionist Republican Senator Charles Sumner over insults exchanged in regards to the Kansas-Nebraska act.

It is unclear how common it is for lawmakers to keep guns in their offices. Multiple Republican lawmakers said this week that they are aware of colleagues who keep guns in the Capitol complex but do not know how widespread the practice is. Bringing firearms legally to Capitol Hill involves complying with strict D.C. gun laws, which include a registration requirement.

Then they admitted they all lost their guns in boating accidents.

But any attempt to roll back lawmakers’ ability to keep firearms could become a partisan flash point between the new Democratic House majority — which is likely to pursue new gun control measures — and conservative Republicans who favor gun rights.

A Pelosi spokesman said that, if elected speaker, she would direct authorities to “revisit” the regulations “in the name of ensuring safety and security.”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Second Amendment Caucus, said any change to existing rules would be about “theatrics” rather than public safety and said it would be hypocritical for Pelosi or other House leaders with a security detail to erode the ability of rank-and-file members to protect themselves.

“It’s proposing to solve a problem that doesn’t exist,” he said. “She’s worried that members aren’t responsible enough to handle a firearm?”

Horseshit!

It is clear what this is all about.  The Democrats have already announced that at the very top of their 2019 to do list is to impeach Trump, or at least ramp up the rhetoric about it, and end the investigation in Hillary Clinton’s criminal acts.

These are the kinds of things that are going bring out the #Resistance, the protesters, and the crazies.

The only reason to repeal this 52 old rule is to disarm Republicans to make them more vulnerable to the screeching, cursing, hysterical hate mob the Democrats are so good at whipping up.

I’ve wondered why Cocaine Mitch and Ted Cruz were so calm in the face of some of these protesters harassing them in restaurants.  It’s probably because the Senators from Texas and Kentucky were packing heat.

Take that away from them, and the many members of the House who don’t have nearly the same security detail that Senators do and now a handful of spitting protesters is a much greater threat.

This is purely for the reason of levering the power of the Democrat mob against Republicans in Congress by taking away their ability to defend themselves.

It couldn’t be more transparent if they tried.

See update at the bottom:

A gunman entered a Catholic cathedral near Brazil’s most populous city, São Paulo, killing five people, police say.
A Mass was being held when the attacker, carrying two guns, entered the Metropolitan Cathedral in the city of Campinas and opened fire.
The military police confirmed the death toll was five.

Gunman ‘storms Brazil cathedral killing 5 and wounding 7 before killing himself

This happened in the last hour or so. Stuff still incoming.  There is a picture in Twitter of the alleged killer after popping himself and looks right, but I want to find confirmation first.

Brazil has its shares of mass killings, but most don’t get reported. I posted a massacre on a Rio school where the shooter used revolvers (only one I found) to murder 12 kids and the cops were nearby.

Hat Tip to Ken O.

UDDATE: Click here for a photo of the asshole shooter still unnamed. It seems he literally used the last round on himself.