Sometimes I bump into some seriously exaggerated articles in the old papers. The Lebel rifle was revolutionary in the sense it was the first rifle adopted my a military sporting the new smokeless powders which did improve the ballistics of the bullets, but there is ballistics and then there is a bit of too much.

How bad ass? It killed the factory where it was being made! Just kidding.

But do enjoy the long article I found.

I do believe the 1911 people stole some of the overblown qualities from the article.

Anyway, it shows that over a century later, journalism still can’t come up with a decent article about a gun.

The Sun Sentinel echoed on it way the usual party line:

Democrats argued that arming teachers will have unintended consequences, such as teachers using excessive force or mishandling their guns.

Educators should be focused on teaching — not having to provide security at schools, said Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Fort Lauderdale. “We should be giving our teachers tools of mass instruction — not arming with tools of mass destruction,” he said.

Senate Democrats lose fight to remove arming-teachers provision from school safety bill

I was watching the livestreaming of the arguments in one of the commissions and I was struck at how easy it come to the mouths of those against the bill the principle that teachers who are allegedly trained professionals, will suddenly become bumbling morons and hyper violent individuals the moment they decide to carry a sidearm in class.  As a teacher, and not matter if I favor or not the Guardian Program, I’d be insulted as hell to be characterized like that. And parents? You call the teachers irresponsible and unsafe, but yet you have no problem ditching the fruit of your loins in schools for half a day under their care? Isn’t that a contradiction?

Democrats succeeded in adding new requirements that districts notify law enforcement and the state’s Office of Safe Schools if a school safety officer fires a weapon or faces disciplinary action. Statistics on incidents involving school safety officers would be required to be published annually.

I spoke of this one before and I do believe five or ten years down the road, they will be sorry they added this to the bill. They added that to the Concealed Weapon License reports and the only thing it has done was to prove every Gun Control activist a liar.

Every Republican in the Senate backed the arming-teachers provision with the exception of Sen. Anitere Flores of Miami who skipped the vote. She voted against it in committee.

I guess faced between having to follow party line or follow the directives of Bloomberg’s  Moms, she chose to hide herself somewhere in the building or develop the vapors or something. I am sure as hell not going to forget her as she gets term-limited next year if I am not mistaken.

Sen. Perry Thurston, D-Fort Lauderdale, said he’ll keep fighting, but he’s not optimistic Republicans will budge.

“They locked down on their position,” he said.

I believe it was the election that was the “come to Jesus” moment for the Republicans. The loss of the Agriculture Department to a pothead with the support of Moms Demand and all the manual recounts, specially for the Senate seat had to be a shocker. I know I was not the only one pissed at them when I made it clear Scott was not getting my vote.

The election went from “It is OK to ignore Broward and their shenanigans” to “Oh crap! Why is this so close? What group of voters did we lose?”

You guys lost the faithful Gun Owning vote. Not all of it, but enough to make you sweat. At least that is my take.

I am not claiming victory yet on this bill. But I may engage in celebratory dancing sometime in the next days.

Earlier I covered one of Congressman Eric Swalwell’s idiotic Tweets about gun confiscation.

There was a reply in that thread that I saw that I really wanted to take apart.

It is from German Lopez, who is a correspondent at Vox who writes about guns.

With respect to Mr. Lopez, no, it is not odd.

We are law abiding citizens because we believe in just and reasonable, good faith laws.

This does not apply just to gun laws, but to all laws.

Good people are not morally obligated to obey evil laws.

Followers of this blog might remember from a few weeks ago a Georgia State Representative that proposed a Testicular Bill of Rights law as a protest to Georgia’s heart beat bill.

If passes – unlikely, but say it happened – it would be a crime for a married man to have consensual sex with his wife without a condom.

I would not obey that law.

A radical feminist a few years ago proposed replacing Fathers’ Day with Castration Day, making castration of men mandatory.

You can say this is extreme and would never happen, but barely two generations ago, when my Grandfather was a young man, Germany was castrating Jews, Gypsies, and the mentally defective against their will.

In the United State, the Supreme Court decided in 1927 in Buck v. Bell that compulsory sterilization of the mentally defective was Constitutional.  Buck v. Bell has never been overturned.

I have covered three news stories, one in England, one in Canada, and one in Texas in which the goverment has engaged in the compulsory chemical castration of children under the guise of gender affirmation.

With the modern Left, every old bad fascist idea is new an great again as long as it’s woke, so the idea of the compulsory sterilization of undesirables being mainstreamed is not that far fetched, as long as the justification is woke.

I will not obey that law.  I will not submit myself or allow my son to subject to that.

The Supreme Court has never overturned Korematsu v. United States, justifying Japanese Internment.

Anybody who follows social media knows that the Left calls NRA members and white males in general terrorists after any shooting.  Sitting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said in her official Twitter that the NRA “are the true enemy!”

If a Progressive were to use Korematsu to justify the internment of NRA members or gun owning white men or any other category of woke undesirables.

I will not obey that law.

Twitter is now enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws on its American users.  This backs up the EU’s court’s support for Sharia blasphemy law enforcement in Europe.

New Zealand is trying for restrict the free speech of Americans, and is jailing its own citizens for having a PDF.

The Left in America hates free speech, loves to deplatform speakers, and believes hate speech should be banned.

If a Progressive judge from the Yale Law School class that protested Kavanaugh overturns the 1st Amendment and prohibits hate speech and defines writing a Conservative blog as a hate speech violation, and orders me to stop blogging.

I will not obey that law.

I will not obey bad and restrictive laws that deprive me of my live, liberty, property, or Constitutional protections.

I obey the law as is today because I want to participate in a free society.

When the law says I have to give up my guns, my right to speak, or my bodily autonomy, I will not obey the law because it is not a law written in good faith.

Understand that the purpose of Swalwell’s idea is to turn tens of millions of people who up until the moment the law goes into effect are both law abiding and have never harmed anyone into felons.

The purpose of Swalwell’s law is the subjection of tens of millions of good people to a loss of liberty and property.

Saying “yesterday you were law abiding, but today, without doing anything different, you are not law abiding and you must give up your rights and your property to be law abiding” is not an argument or a law passed in good faith.

To put it bluntly, I will not agree to walk into a concentration camp just because the law says I must.

That’s not odd.

To think that I, or millions of other Americans, will subjugate ourselves to some petty tyrant because he scribbled his name on a piece of paper.

That’s odd.

I bought a pair so hopefully no more mandolin cuts.

They are indeed slash resistant according to my Kershaw Fatback, but NOT puncture resistant! And yes, I stopped in time.

However, I take exception to the brand name. It is kind of rubbing it in, don’t you think?

OGSR/Concealed Carry License/DACS: Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for certain personal identifying information held by tax collector when individual applies for license to carry concealed weapon or firearm.

Second and Third readings done.

Last Event: Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:20 PM

I don’t see a sudden turn against this bill on the full floor so we have us a small pro concealed carry bill.

Two more to go.

CS/CS/SB 7030 was just discussed and all the bad amendments were once again, kicked to the curb.  The bill as written, eliminated the prohibition now in law for full time teachers in classrooms to volunteer for the Guardian Program. Through the process, amendments were brought forward to keep the prohibition intact and the last (so far) Amendment 649504 and it got voted down some minutes ago by 16 Yeas and 22 Nays with two MIAs. One of the MIAs? Senator Anitere Flores (R-Moms Demand)

The bill was placed for Thir Reading and I finally found a glossary of terms to figure out what that means:

Reading
Each bill or proposed constitutional amendment must receive three readings on three separate days in each legislative house before it can be passed (unless waived by a two-thirds vote of the members for readings on the same day). These readings are:

First Reading
The bill is introduced and its title is published in the journal; sometimes first reading takes place during a chamber session.

Second Reading
After favorable reports by all committees of reference, the bill is available for placement on the calendar. When it is considered on the floor, it is read a second time by title. Amendments may be considered. If amendments are adopted, the bill is engrossed.

Third Reading
The bill is read by title a third time. Debate on final passage occurs and a vote is taken; a two-thirds vote is required to amend at this stage.

So, once again tentative smile

It’s a slow news day, so far, so I’m going to poke fun at Congressman Eric Swalwell again.

This is the sign that an idiot has been in goverment for far too long.

So let’s say for just a second that he does get his law passed.

Everything banned in the State of California is now illegal across the country.  Not just for new sale but everything that exists, some 50 million guns, can no longer be in the hands of US citizens.

The ink is dry on President Swalwell’s buyback law but no more than 0.5% of Americans takes their guns to the police in exchange for a check.

What happens next?

How exactly does this law get enforced?

The guns don’t just go *poof* and blink out of existence.

Police must get warrants to search houses.  They must bring evidence to a judge to get a warrant.  A search must be conducted.  Property seized, and people arrested.

If not, than the “weapons of war” will still continue to exist, buried in yards, hidden in walls, “lost in boating accidents,” etc.

Either this guy knows in his heart of hearts that what he is asking for is the homes of tens of millions of Americans to be raided by SWAT teams and courts being backlogged for years with search warrant applications, but that the American people don’t want to hear the harsh reality of it on the campaign trail…

Or…

He’s a fucking idiot that has no idea how to enforce a massively unpopular law.

Either way, this totally disqualifies him from office.