PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE – ADDENDUM: An interesting question came up after this chapter was completed, and this seemed to be the best spot to add it. What if you had a weapon or firearm legally with a CWL, but the location (like Disney) had a “No Weapons” policy? Are you still at a “place where you have a right to be”? My answer is “yes”, on the same basis I spoke about in “trespass” issues. First, you are not committing any criminal conduct. Second, until and unless you are told to leave, you are still an invitee on the premises. However, if you are told to leave, you must. You should still have a “right to be” on the property while you were leaving. Again, my opinion as no case law. However, what if you are now in your vehicle in a post office parking lot, waiting for the wife to come back to the car after picking up stamps, and somebody tries to “jack” you? Well, the Tenth Federal Circuit in Bonidy v. United States Postal Service, 790 F.3d 1121 (10th Cir. 2015), has turned that question on its head, and totally screwed up common sense and the Second Amendment by holding that federal law makes it a crime to have a weapon in a post office parking lot regardless of state law. So, if you are suddenly attacked while sitting in your vehicle at a post office parking lot, with your firearm legally in the vehicle pursuant to Florida law – are you still in a place where you have a right to be? In fact, aren’t you also “engaged in criminal activity”?
There was a prior court decision which made having a firearm in the parking lot an issue only if you were working for the Post office and only if you were parked in the secure area for employees. Now we are all screwed equally and I was not aware of it. Imagine how many people have gone to the post office, left their guns in the cars thinking they were legal but actually a mouse hiccup’s away from being felons?
We are lucky we have people like Jon Gutmacher and Andrew Branca who take their time to explain the laws and the legal cases (not necessarily the same) but it is up to you to stay current.
That thing about being responsible again. Damn it!
PS: Good news. You can do most of the postal stuff online so you have almost no need to be disarmed to use the mail service.
I had a very energetic disagreement with the wife this morning on a topic that drifted from the original complaint.
The point I was trying to make is still in my head so now it’s going down here because it needs to come out, like lancing a boil to drain the pus.
I am really starting to hate the liberalization going on through out Western religion, especially in reference to of sexual mores.
Personally I believe that Pope Francis is the final Pope of the Prophecy of Saint Malachy, and that is Progressive Communism s going to be the end of the Catholic Church.
But it’s not just the Catholic Church, it’s all churches, and synagogues or that matter.
I have no desire to go back to medieval religious practices, I am not Hasidim and I don’t want to be. But at some point we have to ask ourselves “have we gone too far and what is the purpose of religion anyway?”
If you take an anthropological look at religion, the primary purpose is rules. Religions create rules that govern how people behave.
We need rules. People need boundaries. A society cannot function without a common code of conduct.
In the world there is always the tug between the conservatives who believe deeply in doing thing according to the rules because they are the rules, and progressives who want to do new things because times change and the rules are old.
Jonathan Haidt gives a great TED talk on this.
I do not believe that rules are arbitrary created for no reason.
I believe that many religious rules are the product of observation and canonization of what worked for various reasons.
It is literally in Deuteronomy that you shouldn’t shit upstream of where you drink. That’s a good rule.
If you look at what is and what isn’t Kosher, everything that isn’t Kosher is also the foods that have the highest rates of allergies and parasites that can affect humans. Don’t eat the shrimp, it may kill you.
If progressives are more progressive than the Church (I use this for Western Judeo-Christian religion in general) should be the anchor of conservatism that holds society fast to the rules that worked.
Pull up the anchor of the Church and we find ourselves adrift in current of progressivism, and where that is taking us, there be dragons.
The area of liberalization right now that is killing me is sexual liberalization.
For the most part I don’t want to rule what people do in their private lives.
But we are not talking about private anymore, we are talking about public lives. How we function as a society. Like the Communists said “the personal life is dead,” everything is public now.
I work out at a gym in Madison, Alabama. There is a wall of pictures of people in the 500-1000-1500 club. The numbers refer to the total weight a person lifts in bench press, squat, and dead lift. The highest number for a woman on that wall is 675 lbs, and she is pretty beefy looking. There are a lot of guys that don’t look particularly ripped who are over 1,000 lbs and one beefy looking guy at 1,625 lbs. I know this isn’t a scientific sampling by any means, but the differences between males and females in powerlifting is self evident and the more radical wing of the LGBT community is actively denying reality.
I have nothing for sympathy for individual people who may have Gender Identity Disorder, but this isn’t about individual people. This is Progressives using a group with victim status to push their values onto society and into the public. Those are very different things.
I’ve also covered the Progressive attempt to legalize and normalize prostitution as sex work, like it’s another service industry.
Despite what the Left says, tradition rules for sexual behavior are there for a reason.
And where is the Church, or Conservatism in general, on all of this?
Not were it should be.
It should be screaming at the top of its lungs “don’t act like libertine, hedonistic perverts in public. Have some fucking self control. Literally.”
But the liberalization of religion has made that passe. You can’t do that anymore.
So what is the problem?
Push back. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Society does well with a happy middle. When something goes extreme to one side, the push back is usually extreme.
If you want a functioning society, you have to keep your policies moderate, where everyone is treated with a modicum of justice.
Without the anchor of Conservatism holding fast progressivism, we drift into extreme territory, and the push back will suck.
There is a company in Californa making prosthetic sexual organs for children, so that trans children can “pack” or “stuff” to more appear like the opposite gender.
Yes, this is real. No, I am not linking to it. If you want to witness that horror, find it yourself.
A career counselor will tell a high school girl that giving handjobs and blowjobs is just as good a job as waiting tables while working through college and that there is no shame in being a sex worker…
And because nobody nipped this in the bud, some very protective dad is going to commit a hate crime.
And you know what… I’m not sure if I’m going to care all that much.
For exactly the same reason that I really don’t care all that much when some Soldiers of Odin find some gropey migrant harassing Swedish girls and rearrange the bones in his face with a cricket bat.
Maybe if the EU and Swedish police had cracked down on the raping migrants, Swedish men wouldn’t feel the need to defend their women since clearly the police won’t do it.
That pendulum is going to get pushed back hard in the other direction.
And I’m going to be the one saying:
“Look, you fuckers shoved that hard Left. I warned you not to do that. I said you were going to break the camel’s back and you wouldn’t like what happened next. You didn’t listen.”
Consider that in the last week, we have heard about two stories of people in MAGA hats being violently assaulted. Then here was the Covington Catholic kids, and the guy who threw a drink on a kid in a MAGA hat last year.
I am sure that soon, some Left freak will attack someone with a MAGA hat and catch a gut full of JHP because Mr. MAGA hat is a CCW.
Then guess what? Yeah, fuck that guy in the colostomy hole in his side because that’s how they repair a gut shot.
So why do I reject the liberalism of our Conservative social institutions, like the Church , Boy Scouts, etc.?
Because if you don’t want violent push back you need something to tether progressives to the middle. If that tether is gone, eventually some dad is going to not be progressive and curb stomp some freak in a dress who tries to help his 10 year old in a public bathroom with her tampon.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Broward School Board will vote next week on whether to fire Superintendent Robert Runcie amid growing criticism over his handling of the Parkland school shooting.
The move to fire Runcie appears on the school board’s agenda for March 5. The request was made by school board member Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year.
It is the comments that make it hilarious. Fair warning, about two-thirds were celebratory in nature, but I clipped the ones trying to defend him. Waning: heavy use of the Race Card ahead.
I seem to recall a certain Town Hall right after the massacre where there was only one guilty party according to the mob: The NRA.
How things change when the toilet backs up in your house.
Miguel has touched on this Tweet from Bernie Sanders, twice.
The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters.
With all the respect I have for Miguel, I don’t think that is the case.
I have read the comments left by the Bernie fans, and while they are dragging Bernie over the coals for his comment, they have made a the situation in Venezuela crystal clear.
Venezuela is not real socialism. Maduro isn’t actually a socialist. The economic situation in Venezuela is entirely because of the racist, colonialist, capitalist, exploitation of the United States taking Venezuela’s oil and sanctioning the country.
Not to mention that the aid is just cover for America to smuggle weapons into Venezuela to create a civil war that America can further exploit.
It’s true.
Wanting the socialist dictator of Venezuela to step down is racist because the people that oppose him are white.
More aid = guns.
Note, scratch a socialist, find an anti-Semite. What does Israel have to do with Venezuela at all?
Venezuela couldn’t make money on oil when it cleared $100 per barrel.
This argument is literally: “the worlds’ worst dictators all support Maduro and that is why we should support Maduro too.”
When you lose the US Maduro supporters…
What I have learned here is that Bernie is Boxer from Animal Farm. No matter what he did to mainstream socialism in America with his 2016 campaign, it wasn’t enough and they are going to send his old ass out to the glue factory.
Maybe this is why at his Town Hall he responded to Trump’s statement about socialism this way:
He can’t come right out and say he’s a socialist and lose middle America but he can’t deny it either and lose his base.
He’s trying to play both sides.
But if anybody thinks that hanging the failure of Venezuela on him will hurt him, they are mistaken.
Venezuela wasn’t real socialism, in America, it will work.
But remember, the only real threat to journalists is Trump calling them Fake News.
Democrats (at least a portion of the Party) is betting heavily on Socialism and the flavor of the Year for the 2020 elections. The party base has gone fully Antifa /Ultra Left and God forbid any of their candidates even say anything bad about the Chavez miracle in Venezuela. Bernie Sanders found out the hard way about this:
The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters.
Click the links and just read the comments from his own fans. They rake him over Kentucky coal and Detroit debris for this heresy.
I said it last year, Venezuela’s best use is not oil but as an example of what Socialism does to people. It should be kept untouched till at least after the re-election of President Trump. And we would not want to interfere with a democratically elected starvation and violation of Human Rights, do we? Besides, there is always the United Nations, they can help. It is in their mandate.
