Miguel pointed this out a little but I really wanted to hammer this home.

Look at the people standing behind the disgraced Scot Israel when he delivered his statement to the press.

Notice who is absent?

Every student who stood beside him at the CNN two-hour hate.

David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Michelle Lapido, they weren’t there.

Parkland fathers Fred Guttenberg and Manuel Oliver weren’t there either.

Fred Guttenberg, who I have criticized before even posted this on Twitter:

I am going to be in the strange position of agreeing with @DLoesch, Sheriff Israels removal had nothing to do with the NRA. He failed!!! But, I do blame the NRA for the fact that our gun laws are so pathetic, that this killer was able to get all of the weapons he wanted.

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 12, 2019

Holy fucking shit.

The students and parents who made their fame and fortune blaming the NRA and marching for gun control all abandoned Scot Israel at the moment of his NRA swan song.

Who are the only people standing beside Scot Israel?

The Broward County bureaucrats.

The Bureaucracy protects itself and never admits to wrong doing.

Every single person who stood behind Scot Israel at his press conference should be fired too, they are all part of the problem.

Miguel posted screen shots of Sheriff Scot Israel’s press conference, but I found the whole video on YouTube.

This is the most incredible display of arrogance I have ever seen on TV.

Let up remember exactly what Governor DeSantis said in his executive order.

Go read the whole thing, it is beyond damning.  However the statement released about the EO sums it up pretty well.

lease see the statement below from Governor DeSantis on the suspension of Sheriff Israel:

“Sheriff Israel has repeatedly failed and has demonstrated a pattern of poor leadership. He failed to protect Floridians and visitors during the tragic Fort Lauderdale International Airport shooting in 2017. He failed in his duties to keep our families and children safe during the devastating shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. These incidents demonstrate Sheriff’s Israel’s repeated incompetence and neglect of duty. The families of the victims deserve accountability. It is my job as Governor to ensure that the safety of our local communities, especially the safety of our children, is paramount. Government officials must be held accountable for their actions, and/or inactions. For these reasons, I am suspending Sheriff Israel from office effective immediately.”

Sheriff Israel bumblefucked the response to the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, then a little more than a year later (January 6, 2017 to February 14, 2018) made exactly the same mistakes in his response to Parkland.

He failed to learn from his first fuck-up which made his second fuck-up a bloodbath.

The Governor also lit into Sheriff Israel’s department for not doing anything to prevent the shooting despite the overwhelming evidence that Nikolas Cruz was  going to be a school shooter.

How did Scot Israel respond?

Indignantly.

“It’s been a wonderful six years” is a disgusting statement.

He can reject the statements made in the EO but the EO reiterated what the Parkland Shooting Commission said, laying out all the evidence against Sheriff Israel.

Scot Israel’s statement here is even more out of touch and grotesque than his “amazing leadership” quote to Jake Tapper on CNN.

He did exactly what I said he was going to do, he made himself a martyr to gun control and he NRA.  He postulates that he was fired for speaking up against gun violence after other mass shootings and that it was an NRA axe to grind which is why he was fired.

That multiple other Sheriffs and LEOs condemned his multiple fuck-ups and incompetencies in a a commission drafted by a bi-partisan act of the Florida legislature is of no consequence to him.

No wonder he was such a fuck-up.  This is a level of arrogance that is beyond measure.

He is a truly disgusting human being.

From the Statesman Journal:

Oregon bill would require permits to buy guns, limit ammunition

A bill set to appear in the Legislature this year would require Oregonians to obtain a permit before buying a gun, limit the amount of ammunition a person could buy, outlaw magazines with a capacity of more than five rounds and create gun locking and storage requirements.

Holy shit.

A five round mag limit is insane. Also, everything else there is terrible too.

The bill came from Students for Change, a group of Lake Oswego teens formed last year after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They lobbied lawmakers and Gov. Kate Brown last year and pledged to come back this year with a legislative proposal.

Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Lake Oswego, and Sen. Rob Wagner, D- Tualatin, submitted Senate Bill 501 on their behalf.

So a bunch of ignorant kids, whipped into self righteous frenzy wrote a bill that would kill sport shooting in the state.

Wagner said that it’s “probably a long shot that something like this passes in whole cloth,” but this is the bill the students wanted to put in front of the Legislature.

I would hope so, but I don’t know what the political balance of Oregon is, i.e., what percent of the legislature is of the pro-Antifa Portland ilk.

“What we told them is that this is your movement, and we want to support you as representatives,” Wagner said.

And this is how the people of Oregon get their rights destroyed, because a bunch of adults let emotional kids write the laws and show them unwavering support because they are emotional kids.

Wagner said the students did all the research for the bill and he hasn’t looked much into its constitutionality.

I’m shocked.

The bill would require a person receive a permit from their county sheriff before purchasing a gun.

To qualify for a permit the person would need to: be at least 21 years old; have no criminal convictions; have not violated a restraining or stalking order; not use illegal controlled substances; and provide proof of completing a firearms safety course.

Within a 30-day period, someone could apply for one handgun permit and one rifle or shotgun permit.

If someone meets all of those requirements, a sheriff could still deny a permit if he or she “has reasonable grounds to believe” that they are likely to be a danger to themselves or others.

Copies of each permit approved would be kept by the sheriff for at least one year.

So the local Sheriff has discretion as to the issuance of a gun permit. There is no way that this could become political and some sheriffs just blanket denying gun permits, like CCW in California. Or, this turning into a cornucopia of corruption were getting sheriff approval requires a hefty donation to the sheriff’s reelection campaign, or just out right NYPD style bribery.

If it were to pass in its current form, the bill would also require all “large-capacity” magazines be altered, given to law enforcement or disposed of within 180 days after passage.

With exceptions for tubular feeding devices on lever-action and 0.22 caliber firearms, the bill defines “large-capacity magazine” as: “an ammunition feeding device, whether fixed or detachable, with the capacity to accept more than five rounds of ammunition.”

Five rounds

The ban wouldn’t apply to law enforcement officers or military members who need larger magazines for official duties.

Good thing that the cops are exempted from such idiocy.

Other restrictions in the bill include:

• Capping at 20 the number of rounds of ammunition a person could receive in a 30-day period, exempting shooting ranges.

And… were done here. There is not a shooting sport that would survive this. I’m shooting a USPSA course today that has a minimum 160 round count. A single trap stage is 25 rounds, sporting clays is 100. Twenty rounds is barely enough to adequately sight in a rifle.

Hell, other than premium JHP, I can’t think of a handgun round that is sold in 20 round boxes, the standard is 50.

The bill can say that ranges are exempted, but how many public ranges are available that don’t have stores associated with them. Where I shoot clays and USPSA, there is no store, just a range on private land, out in the woods. I can’t imagine that many of those private ranges would want to deal with the issues of complying with local ordinances and insurance costs in order to sell ammo.

Between the magazine capacity limits and ammo purchase limits, this bill would totally destroy shooting sports in Oregon.

The thing is, if 51% of the Oregon legislator is Portland in its thinking, this could pass.

It could get shot down in the courts, but there is no guarantee there.

Beaver State gun owners have a fight ahead of them.

I bumped into this pic in another blog:

Before I continue, I want to remind you of a quote from the movie Absence of Malice that old readers know I like to use a lot:

So right out the bat, let me tell you that for the most part, the NRA hate meme is accurate but not the truth.

Back in the early 70s, there was an internal fight inside the NRA. There was a group in charge who believed in staying away from politics and that the organization should just dedicate itself to hunting and the shooting sports of the time. There was another group that saw how gun rights were eroding fast, specially after the Gun Control Act of 1968 and wanted to do something about it. Finally in 1975 during an annual meeting in Cincinnati , the old guard was knocked down and the new NRA was born which went on to form the lobby groups to fight further gun control.  You may want to take the time  and Google bout The Cincinnati Revolt.

So, although the NRA of 1934 supported the NFA and the other one didn’t do shit against GCA 68, to assign those gigantic fails to the NRA of today is and underhanded tactic, worthy of our Gun Control enemies. We have seen Moms Demand and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence use the same lies to erode at the base of the NRA. What I never suspected is that they were going to be so successful attracting Gun Owners to fall for it. And not only fall for it, but defend and spread the lie with a fanatical conviction.

Let’s move to FOPA. Contrary to the meme, the Firearms Owner Protection Act is not a machine gun ban law. If anybody cared to research, it was actually designed to allow gun owners not to be trapped in interstate travelling with firearms when crossing gun hostile states and to correct many fails of GAC 68. Once again, the meme is accurate saying that the NRA supported FOPA because it did many good things.  Some of the stuff FOPA did: “The Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA) addressed the (ATF) abuses noted in the 1982 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee report. Among the reforms intended to loosen restrictions on gun sales were the reopening of interstate sales of long guns on a limited basis, legalization of ammunition shipments through the U.S. Postal Service, removal of the requirement for record keeping on sales of non-armor-piercing ammunition, and federal protection of transportation of firearms through states where possession of those firearms would otherwise be illegal.”

What it is misleading is that the meme does not mention specifically the Hughes Amendment, locking down the sales of new machine guns to civilians (not banning MGs as it says otherwise we would not have the Knob Creek shoot out twice a year, right?) and  which was added sometime after midnight the day they were discussing it and approved it via a very suspicious voice vote. Basically it was an amendment introduced when nobody was watching at the wee hours of the night and nobody noticed until it was too late.

I am just going to stop here because I have no idea about SHUSH or silencers legislation and I already covered bump stocks till I got sick. I urge to seek the information on your own, you don’t have to believe me. Once you get your information, I want you to ask the people who keep repeating this bullshit storyline about the NRA:

“If your cause is righteous, why lie?”

PS: I swear I never expected to have this applied to another gun owner. It is depressing.

PS: And coming back saying “But the NRA fucked this other thing up” is not a valid excuse to allow what I just explained.

Not only he blames all those mentioned above but he announced that he will sue the Governor and run for Sheriff again in 2020.  The same lack of shame he had at the Town Hall blaming the NRA and Dana Loesch for what happened at Parkland when he already knew his deputies had failed miserably is what I saw coming out of him.

And you can tell the Broward Democrat Machine was in full gear. Just look at the rainbow coalition that “come” to support him.

He went to “review” his actions in Broward, how crime dropped, how they feed starving children, etc. All the sacred points of the Liberal playbook. And you have the beautiful representation of Broward people standing behind him and his lawyer in support. Except there is one group of people you don’t see and certainly did not come forward to the mikes to speak in defense of Israel: The parents of the victims of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Where were the parents? With Governor DeSantis.

Holy crap, when you cannot get even one parent to speak up for you at your own press conference, how bad do you screwed up?

And here is the kick in my opinion, unless DeSantis cleans up the Broward County Supervisor of Elections’ office, Israel will likely be “re-elected.”

Former Coral Springs LEO Gregory Tony takes over.

We got so nailed with bills, property taxes, mom’s medical expenses and the fridge dying that the obligatory Finger Flipping Di Fi By Buying Another Gun is frozen. I was thinking a 9mm carbine of sorts, maybe in AR Platform that takes Glock mags or the Ruger PC.

Apparently having a way to preserve foodstuff with cold overrides by wanting a gun. Who knew?