If I see one more Leftist Jew defend Ilhan Omar or say something to the effect “American Jews should support our Muslim brothers and sisters,” I’m going to puke.

I cannot fathom what makes a person so suicidally woke.

Winston Churchill famously said “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

A Left wing, anti-Zionist Jew is one who virtue signals to the Progressive antisemites, hoping he will be shoved into the gas chambers last.

How bad are the chances to pass the legislation that they need to bring The White Privilege Of Harvard and “survivor” David Hogg to lay a line of BS this huge?

I have been musing for the truck gun & Travel Combo for a while.  I had settle for some sort of long gun that could also be taken in trips by air or by land in the same caliber of the weapon I would carry.  For long time, I lusted for a takedown lever-action in .357, but those suckers are mighty expensive.  I looked at survival rifles and every single one I saw are tragically a .22LR with or without a .410 barrel included.  One in a .22 magnum would have changed the game.

I am a 9mm man. All but one semi auto sidearm is in 9mm. I reload 9mm and I can tune rounds to my specifications and the needs of the rifle. If I have to travel, I do not have to worry to make sure I have the different ammo boxes packed, I just throw any box of ammo in the suitcase and I am done.

The it came the pistol caliber carbines. Mostly based in the AR platforms and for the most part you could buy a .223 AR 15 with a bunch of mags and ammo for the price of one AR in 9mm. Suddenly Palmetto State Armory is offering some truly amazing dealings and it gets interesting and affordable to go that way.

But after a lot of thinking, I am going to go with the Ruger PC. Hear me out.

It is a true take-down rifle. I know you can take apart and reassemble an AR, but it is not the same and not as fast. The Ruger PC has been out long enough and subjected to owners’ abuse enough to prove itself a reliable weapon and if the aftermarket toy offerings are any indication, the Ruger PC is not going anywhere.

But what tilts the result in favor of the Ruger PC is that does not look Evil Black Rifle but more like an overgrown version of a 10/22.

Why the “racism”? Simply is because you don’t know what kind of LEO or Airline counter person or many others who you may come across and turn out to be scaredy cats allergic to an AR 15 and will lose their shit at the sight of one. I hope I get to do some weekend travelling around  with the missus and I want to carry just more than a pistol with us in the car if SHTF. Since we will probably remain in the South, it is likely we will find cops that have some sense, but I always worry about the carpetbagger LEO from NYC or New Jersey who is gonna shit a brick and treat us like terrorists.

And I am even trying to figure out a simply looking case to carry it. Something with rad sides but that does not scream tactical. I am looking at some business-looking cases like this:

Interior measurements are 19×12.25×5.50 and if the read the specs right, I have plenty space for the rifle, a sidearm and magazines.  Paint it pink or red, add a bunch of My Little Pony, Care Bear or Sponge Bob stickers and nobody is the wiser. I already look like a grandpa, so they will assume I am taking toys back to my grandkids or I am a very weird old man.

Your thoughts?

Astronaut Mark Kelly, you know the Astronaut, who is married to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who he met after his second shuttle mission as an Astronaut, is running for Senate in Arizona.

Did I mention he was an Astronaut?

My next mission… #FullSpeedAhead #ForArizona pic.twitter.com/5E36z7aztH

— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) February 12, 2019

Even his fucking Twitter handle is @ShuttleCDRKelly (Shuttle Commander).

Yeah, we get it, he was an Astronaut and Commander of the Space Shuttle.

It’s clear from that video that in the aftermath of his wife’s shooting, he became a raging Liberal.

I didn’t know brain damage could be sexually transmitted.*

*Is that too mean?

The reason this put me in such an antagonistic mood is the core of his ad.

“I thought I had the risky job…”

First of all, in terms of life lost on missions per hour of space travel, the mortality rate for astronauts is 7.77 people per 1,000 person-years.  To be honest, the guy doing Kelly’s roof is orders of magnitude more likely do die at work than Shuttle Commander Kelly.  Hell, Commander Kelly is more likely to get killed driving into work at Cape Canaveral than he was piloting the shuttle.

“Turned out you were the one that had the risky job” said while looking at his wife.

There have been 12,343 people who have served in Congress since the founding of this country.  Out of those 12,343 people, 14 were killed and 11 wounded while in office.  Giffords was the first Member of Congress wounded in the 21st Century, and the first one since John C. Stennis in 1973.  With all due respect to her,  being a Congresswoman was not statistically risky.

The Democrats really tried to push the idea that Rep. Giffords was shot for political reasons.  They tried to blame Sarah Palin and the NRA.

Turns out Rep. Giffords was shot by a crazy guy who should have been a prohibited person, but everyone who had the power to report him and stop the shooting dropped the fucking ball.

It seems like in this ad that Astronaut Kelly is continuing to run with this conspiracy and is going to use it as a central part of his campaign.

We see him put a helmet on his wife, her with her arm in the sling, then on the disability recumbent quadracycle.

You can see where this is going.  He is going to run on a strong gun control platform and defend every position with “my wife…”

He was the co-founder of Americans for Responsible Solutions, and anti-gun PAC, which merged with another anti-gun PAC to become the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Keeping in mind that the autopsy of the Giffords shooting read a whole lot like the Parkland Commission Report, with person after person who noticed that something was severely wrong with Jared Lee Loughner coming down with an immediate case of the fuckits.

Then he goes into something other than his wife’s shooting.

“Arizonans are facing incredibly challenging issues… the stagnation of wages, job growth, the economy…”

Except that the economy is booming, we have record job growth, and wages are going up.  Any meddling in that is going to make things worse.

Then the ad ends back with his wife again.

I’m surprised Shuttle Commander Astronaut Kelly is running with his own name and not as Mr. Shuttle Commander Astronaut Giffords, considering how much it seems like he’s going to milk her shooting for victim status for votes.

There is a chance Arizona could have a senator who is backed by his very own gun control PAC, that he co-created.

This is bad.  Especially because I expect Shannon Watts to announce her candidacy for Senate against Cory Gardner any day now.

We are in for a fight in Arizona.

Some good news for our readers.

Published in the Tribune Live.

Despite guns and schools debate, participation on high school rifle teams is increasing

What, what, there are still school rifle teams?

Landon Badac first picked up a gun at around 4 years old.

“My grandpa, who was a big influence in my life in the outdoors, taught me how to shoot very early, gun safety, and how to live in the outdoors, pretty much,” the Armstrong High School senior explained. “He’s a very avid hunter, and I’ve been hunting with him ever since then.”

Badac picked up his grandfather’s habits, becoming a frequent hunter and fisherman himself.

And when he heard his high school was starting a rifle program, he said he “signed up as soon as the first meeting.”

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Rifle is one of five sports the WPIAL oversees during the winter season, with championships dating to 1942.

The annual WPIAL team championships will take place Tuesday, with the individual championships Thursday.

And even in a time of uncertainty regarding guns and schools, the sport has seen growth in recent years in Western Pennsylvania.

Maybe because marksmanship is fun and cool?

A lot of the kids that are joining the program are kids that are hunters, or their parents take them to the ranges, so they’re a little bit familiar with guns and everything,” Penn-Trafford coach Diana Long said. “That has a lot to do with it. A lot of them just hear about the overall program. A lot of the kids who I had for the first four years talked the program up and tried to get a lot of their friends interested.”

More kids involved in coached target shooting is a good thing.

The Armstrong School Board approved its program by unanimous vote in June.

“Basically, it should have been done 40 years ago was the general consensus,” Armstrong coach Chris Robbins said.

Robbins, a corporal for the state police in Kittanning, said the community support was “out of this world.” He secured a grant from the Armstrong County Friends of the NRA organization to buy five .22-caliber rifles, and donations from local people and businesses provided enough money for seven more.

Support your local Friends of the NRA and get them to support more local school shooting teams.

“In today’s political climate, the mere mention of high school and shooting and all of that in the same sentence kind of throws people for a spin,” Robbins said. “Once we explain to everybody what we’re doing — we’re not teaching them combat shooting, we’re not teaching them stock and sniper training.

“We’re teaching them mental discipline and physical concentration, and it just so happens they’re shooting a .22. These aren’t granddad’s squirrel rifles.”

The WPIAL requires all of its rifle programs to follow all safety measures at their ranges. Coaches need certification, and Robbins said members of the team are taught full etiquette before even touching a gun.

“It’s the safest sport there is,” Robbins said. “My son is on the team, my youngest son. He got a concussion in football. He’s not getting a concussion shooting rifle. The worst that can happen is he trips and falls in the parking lot.”

Everything about that is spot on.

That doesn’t mean that everything is hunky-dory.  The school administration still has to exercise their anti-gun prejudice.

That doesn’t mean there’s not push-back. Penn-Trafford keeps rifle as a club program, so Long is an unpaid coach and the students provide their own transportation to practices and competitions.

The school also does not have a team photo on its website because, Long said, three of her competitors are holding rifles.

“We are a rifle team,” she said. “I don’t know exactly how else we would display that. At times it’s a little upsetting and discouraging because out of all the sports in the school, I have no injury report for five years straight.”

Al in all this is good, but it could be better.

It seems at though a lot of the kids at the center of this were shooters prior to being part of the rifle team.  That’s great.  But I also see this as a fantastic opportunity for kids whose parents or grandparents are not hunters or target shooters to get behind a rifle for the first time under safe and controlled circumstances.

That should be the core outreach of this program, in my opinion.  That was one the things, looking back, about Scout Camp.  The number of kids who signed up for the riflery merit badge always maxed out the number of available slots.  A lot of the kids were from Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, where they came from non-shooting parents.  It was their first, and presumably only, experience with a gun.

So many people think kids + guns = bad, but school shooting programs have the ability, at least with the open minded, to change that.

I would love so see more shooting teams in suburban school districts, bring more access to safe, competitive shooting to kids less likely to experience that through other venues.

It’s not kids with guns that cause problems.  It’s kids with emotional issues that cause problems.

But [Senator Dick] Durbin warned that Trump and McConnell are using a dangerous tactic

“Every authoritarian regime of the last century has prefaced their grab for power by saying you’ve got to stop the left. Sometimes they call it socialist, sometimes they call it communist,” he said.

Trump divides Democrats with warning of creeping socialism

A statement so stupid, it begs its own meme.

J. Kb’s post about who benefits from the sex works, is a reminder that there are indeed people benefiting from Prostitution and just because of the basest of needs: Greed. If you look at Europe where Prostitution is either not a crime anymore or the laws are not being enforced (just like with drugs) you would have to buy into the narrative that the women in the Sex Trade are doing it so voluntarily and making a profit for it.

And you would be wrong. But you can’t find much about it because it is not very well reported over there. Part of it because it is a “legal” thing and the press does not want to be seen as coming down on the prostitutes and part is because they do not want to hurt the tourist trade.  It is easier for a tourist to dip his willie in a woman he does not know has been kidnapped and kept under control because she is pumped full of drugs by the pimp and she has not seen a doctor or performed a lab check on STDs since she started working in the trade.

And for politicians is easier to allow underage girls brought from East Europe and Africa to have their asses peddle than admit their platform was not only wrong but it actually created more victims.

I would like to give you firm numbers (I am in a bit of a hurry, taking mom to her doctor’s appointment), but about the only global source I was able to find was the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. What I briefly saw, makes me think they are not taking this thing too seriously plus it is old history about the UN Peacekeepers setting their own Child and Adult prostitution enterprises.