Eric Swalwell is doubling and tripling down on his desire to impose a mandatory “gun buyback.”

Never mind that the goverment can’t buy back what it never sold to you in the first place, the idea of a buyback is patently offensive to the gun community.  As though our rights can be bought for 30 pieces of silver, or $1,000 a gun.

In his USA Today OpEd from a year ago, he said “Australia got it right.”

He was on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper and pushed his idea to criminalize tens of millions of American citizens and put them in jail.

He thinks he is being gracious allowing us to not to go to prison and to “keep”  our guns, as long as they are locked up in an approved range where we don’t have unauthorized access to them.

That is a page right out of the European playbook.  Australia has similar rules.

Let me make this clear.  I do not own guns like that to shoot at a range.  I own guns like that for defense.  Shooting at a range just keeps me sharp if the day that I hope never comes, comes and I have to use my guns for their intended purpose.

Forcing me to give up my gun, or put it in the hands of some range manager off my property, strips the gun of its primary, essential function, and the very reason I bought it.

Contrast Swalwell’s desire to disarm tens of millions of gun owners who have harmed no one and put them in prison if they do not comply with his edict, with his stance on marijuana.

Swalwell is a proponent of legalizes marijuana.  Marijuana use is not a victimless activity.  Having known people who were habitual users of the drug, and seeing what it does to people, it harms families and communities.

When a pothead can’t hold down a job and becomes a financial burden on their family, that’s not victimless.  When children who smoke because their parents smoke suffer long term developmental issues, that’s not victimless.  When cities cannot recruit more police officers because they can’t find enough people who can pass a drug test, that’s not victimless.

Arguably, marijuana has done far more damage to children in school than all the school shootings combines.

But Swalwell thinks that too many people have gone to prison over this issue so wants to legalize pot.

Law abiding gun owners, who have hurt no one, he wants to turn into criminals and put in prison.

Fortunately, this idiot has neither the personality or the intersectionality to become the Democrat nominee to run against Trump.

However, the Democrats all seem to be sucking up each other’s positions as they are deathly afraid of falling out of lockstep, so we can expect the eventual nominee to push something akin to this in the future.

I just wonder if the Democrats are successful in turning every semi-auto owner into a felon, if they still believe felons should have the right to vote from prison?

Vote Democrats: the party that will give you tax dollars to kill your baby a day before it’s due and then go out and smoke a blunt, but will put you in prison for owning an AR or not referring to a man in a dress by their preferred pronoun, “xer.”

According to the Wikipedia, the famous red-brick-paved switchbacks of Lombard street total 412 feet and the San Francisco board of supervisors want to tag $10 for it.  That comes to an equivalent toll of $128 per mile.

According to Ezfreightfactoring.com, the most expensive toll roads are:

The 11 Most Expensive Toll Roads in America by the Mile
Chesapeake Expressway (Virginia): $1.05
17-Mile Drive (California): 54.4 cents
Ford Bend Parkway (Houston, Texas): 53.3 cents
Chicago Skyway: 51.2 cents
Delaware Turnpike: 36 cents
E-470 (Denver, Colorado): 33 cents
SR-73 (Orange County, California): 25 cents
Texas State Highway 130: 14.6 cents
Triangle Expressway (Raleigh, North Carolina): 14.5 cents
Florida State Road 417: 14.3 cents
New Jersey Turnpike: 11.4 cents

You know? I thought Florida was bad milking tourists, but you have to give it it San Francisco for bold stupidity.

Or formerly known as CS/SB 7030: School Safety and Security. 

I do like the rebranding. “What do you mean the Democrats do not want to implement the recommendations of the commission?”

Implementation of Legislative Recommendations of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission; Requiring a sheriff to establish a school guardian program or contract with another sheriff’s office that has established a program under a certain condition; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to annually provide training for specified personnel; requiring that a school safety specialist be a school administrator employed by the school district or a law enforcement officer employed by the sheriff’s office located in the school district; requiring the Florida Safe Schools Assessment Tool (FSSAT) to be the primary site security assessment tool for school districts; modifying the required use of funds in the safe schools allocation, etc.

So it seems on its way to the full Floor and the bad amendment are once again being proposed: No lifting the ban on volunteer teachers to carry, notify parents what classes have armed teachers, etc. But now they are adding two new ones. The first one is what I call a “Shame Report” which is that the School Board is obligated to provide a yearly report of how many School Guardians are there and how many screw up and how that would require removal from the program. If this sounds familiar to you, it is because it is very similar to what was done to the Concealed Weapons License law when it was being discussed thirty and some years ago. The opponents were saying “We are gonna prove that this gun  permit scheme is dangerous and the state has to provide the statistics so we can shut it down later.” That not only did not come to pass, but we now know it backfired like a mother. It has shown consistently that Concealed Carriers are more Law Abiding than the average Floridian and we get to boast our 2 million licenses in a few months.

The second amendment is possibly the dumbest.

 Any individual serving as a school guardian may not use
a deadly weapon or firearm in the scope of his or her duties.

He represents parts of the Florida keys, apparently not the smart ones.  “There is an active shooter in school! Quick, deploy the condiment in spray!”

Never mind. I’ll try to keep you guys and gals informed. I need coffee.

If having native prehistoric alpha predators walk across your roads is not enough for Floridians, the occasional Florida Man will import one… with expected results.

The original title of this article was:

Florida man attacked and killed by large flightless bird

It has since been updated to:

Florida man attacked and killed by his cassowary, the ‘world’s most dangerous bird’

I like the original title more.

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea attacked and killed its owner on a farm in Florida, according to authorities.

The man, identified by police as 75-year-old Marvin Hajos, raised cassowaries and was injured after falling on a path near their enclosure Friday, according to Alachua County Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Jeff Taylor. Paramedics found Hajos just after 10 a.m. on Friday and transported him to the hospital where he died of his injuries, police said.

Cassowaries are similar to emus and stand up to 6 feet tall and weigh up to 130 pounds, with black body feathers and bright blue heads and necks. The San Diego Zoo’s website calls cassowaries the world’s most dangerous bird with a four-inch, dagger-like claw on each foot.

That isn’t a bird.  That is a fucking velociraptor.

Giant toe claws and bright blue color?

Could be from Australia, could be from Isla Nubar, and Florida Man decided to bring one home as a pet.

I’ve seen Jurassic Park, I know how that movie ends.  Apparently Florida Guy didn’t.

Welcome to the Sunshine State.  Where if the gangs don’t kill you, the dinosaurs will.

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I really do not feel the need to ask him.

Unwritten rule in Florida: Living dinosaurs have the right of way. Never try to screw with something that can bite an axle off your car.

The Trace is Michael Bloomberg’s other news site.  One dedicated entirely to spreading misinformation about guns and gun crime.

The Trace weighed in on Twitter on a shooting in New York, to attack the NRA for supporting women’s self defense.

A NY woman who fatally shot her boyfriend after years of alleged physical abuse—some of it documented—was convicted of murder, highlighting a problem with the NRA’s position that women should shoot their abusers in self-defense. https://t.co/duMku65iRg

— The Trace (@teamtrace) April 15, 2019

So what are the details of this case that would make a woman who defended herself from an abuser be guilty of murder?

Nicole Addimando found guilty of murder in boyfriend’s shooting death

Nicole Addimando said she was acting in self-defense when she shot and killed Christoper Grover, her longtime-boyfriend and the father of her children, in September 2017.

A woman a right to defend herself from violence, even if that violence comes from an intimate partner.

In New York, prosecutors must disprove a self-defense justification of homicide beyond a reasonable doubt.

That burden of proof was a challenge they welcomed, said Chana Krauss of the Putnam County District Attorney’s Office, during her closing statement.

“That wasn’t self-defense,” said Krauss, whose office handled the case as special prosecutor. “Chris Grover was sleeping on the couch. This was intentional murder.”  Chris Grover was killed by a gunshot wound to the head.

It is not self defense to shoot a man in the head while he is sleeping on the couch.

It doesn’t matter if he beat you 10 minutes before he decided to take a nap.

Justification for Defense is covered in New York Penal Law Article 35.

The general justification for defense is:

Such conduct is necessary as an emergency measure to avoid an
imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a
situation occasioned or developed through no fault of the actor, and
which is of such gravity that, according to ordinary standards of
intelligence and morality, the desirability and urgency of avoiding such
injury clearly outweigh the desirability of avoiding the injury sought
to be prevented by the statute defining the offense in issue.

So if the man beats the woman then lays down on the couch, the “imminent public or private injury” has ended.  The violence is done.

That may seem unfair, but it’s the law.  Trust me, there are parts of self defense law I want changed.

But, self defense is just that, defense against an imminent threat.  Shooting a sleeping person for revenge or even to preemptively stop a future beating is not self defense.

When the Left gets so wrapped up in identity politics they fail to understand that.  To them, the issue seems to be powerful vs. powerless and gender politics rather than the imminency of violence.

The NRA is not wrong to encourage women to defend themselves.

The Trace is wrong to imply that a woman shooting a sleeping man because he beat her before and probably will beat her again is self defense.

As a Catholic, apparently I am supposed to be in mourning and wearing all black while sporting a rosary in my hand because of the fire at Notre Dame. Sorry, I just can’t feel it. Notre Dame had long ceased being the house of God and it had become a tourist attraction. It was pure religious Disney than pious Christianity. I have never been to ND but I have been to other cathedrals, including Compostela which is older and I feel the same way for all.

I think what ticked me off the most about the TV coverage is the faux sorrow by the talking heads and the fear about the possibility that the objects d’arte perished in the fire. That is not what  church is about, that is a museum or the guitar collections in the Hard Rock casinos. The true measure of a church is the gathering of souls to praise the Lord and not how many statues of seraphims they have.
A Church or Cathedral or Meeting Place or whatever your particular Christian edifice is about is summed up in Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The rest is just cheap decoration.