I had several readers who sent me this story (much appreciated, guys):

Just last week, a man in Florida had his firearms confiscated simply because he had the same name as a criminal. That’s right. A man was stripped of his Second Amendment right…because the police failed to differentiate a law-abiding citizen with a thug.

Florida Man Lost His 2A Rights, Thanks To Red Flag Laws And Mistaken Identity

As privacy goes, I take pleasure on the fact that my name is very common in South Florida because hiding a needle in a bin full of needles is the perfect camouflage. The last time there was a fill sized White Pages available, I counted over 220 people with my same name in the county.

Of course, there is  disadvantage: A certain number of those with my same name, may be attracted to the wrong side of the law.  Meet one of them:

This particular Gonzalez is the worst of the batch of 42 felons who share my name. But is not the ranking that makes him special, but that he almost cost me a denial when I ws getting a gun from a shop. Apparently FDLE searched my name, a glitch occurred and the gent pop up in their screens. I was saved because even FDLE figured out that if the gentleman was incarcerated, he’d have a difficult time trying to buy a gun. While they ran the background check again, the FFL jokingly asked me if I had been convicted of First Degree murder and you can imagine my surprised face.  The new BG check came back all aces and I was able to get my firearm.

The rest of the characters have felonies of all kinds, violent and otherwise. From Second Degree Murder, all kinds of drug-related offenses to the simpleton absconder who violated parole on a misdemeanor. And here is the kicker: Only three of them are serving time, the rest are out because they finished serving their time, on parole or absconded. That means Law Enforcement has 39 chances to screw me up serving a Red Flag order. And then, it is up to me to fix their mistake by hiring a lawyer and fighting to remove me from their shit list and recovering my guns. Will I recover  the monies I will be forced to spend? Doubtfully.

We had a great system going in Florida before our :Legislature and Governor fell for the WE MUST DO SOMETHING! FOR THE CHILDREN! panic attack. At least you had the chance to face your accusers and have a judge render a decision before having your rights stripped.

PS: I realized I have no way to add to the count  the namesakes with a misdemeanor Domestic Violence.

Via Bearing Arms.

President Donald Trump reportedly privately reassured National Rifle Association boss Wayne LaPierre  that he would not pursue increased background check measures for firearms amid rising mass shooting concerns.

Trump, whose comments to LaPierre were reported by The Atlantic, made the guarantee during a phone call on Tuesday afternoon — a day after he told reporters that the U.S. already has “very strong” background checks and warned that increasing such measures could lead to a “slippery slope” where all guns are taken away. One source told The Atlantic that Trump cemented “his stance that we already have background checks and that he’s not waffling on this anymore” during his chat with the NRA chief.

If Trump’s stance is right and final, then LaPierre scored big for Gun Rights much to the dismay of his absolute haters in the gun community and in the Gun Control side. Say what you want about him, but LaPierre has no issues playing bulldozer and face attackers.

I know that there will be those who will belittle this result. I mean because of BUMPSTOCKS and they still can’t buy machine guns at the local gas station yet, this is another failure of the NRA and we need people who screams NO COMPROMISE! (Incidentally, did you hear about those people and how they convinced the president? Me neither).

We still have many issues to resolve within. And to me, more important than the accusations of frivolous spending by The Trace (readily consumed and regurgitated by Gun Owners) is the fact we still do not know who gave the NRA’s internal information to Bloomberg and his scribes. Has the mole been discovered? Is he/she out? Has he/she been “Hillaried”?  Is this being investigated at all?

I think we are going to see some amazing cliffhangers in the future, specially if all the lawsuits do not get settled and we go to court. If there is something I learned about Wayne and his circle is that they are the most dangerous when they are quiet and let everybody scream and yell first and then they take their sweet time taking all the screaming down.

PS: Yes, I have to like the guy a little. Imagine if the coup had been successful: who would have been an experienced and proven substitute to deal with the flood of crap Gun Owners are facing right now? Wayne’s real biggest fault? A lack of a trained successor.

From Fox 46:

ICE blasts Mecklenburg County sheriff following release of Honduran national accused of rape

The release of a rape suspect has reignited an immigration enforcement debate.

Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, 33, a Honduran national, according to a news release. He was arrested on June 14 charged with first degree rape and indecent liberties with a child. Two days later, on June 16, Pacheco-Leonardo was released from the Mecklenburg County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

McFadden would not take any questions. He said his agency notified ICE, as required, that Pacheco-Leonardo was in their custody.

“When we notified ICE on June 14th, they had the discretion to bring a criminal warrant or a detainer,” he said. “They sent us a detainer.”

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office does not honor ICE detainers, which are voluntary requests to hold an inmate for up to 48 hours after their release date so federal officials can decide whether the person can be deported.

We have gone past the point of insanity in American politics.  The idea of sanctuary cities is ridiculous on its face, local governments deciding that they are just going to ignore Federal law.

But when it comes to something like this, what sort of Sheriff would willingly let a child rapist hit the streets when there was another opportunity to hold him?

“I hate Trump so much I don’t care if another child is raped on my watch” is a hell of a position to take, but he took it anyway.

This is where we are in 2019, we have a Sheriff in North Carolina’s largest county who is going to let children in his jurisdiction get raped just to spite Trump.

This is a cute little video from AOC.

.@AOC: We're coming to you live from the Electoral College – many votes here, as you can see. ??? pic.twitter.com/7FVW2H7fZ5

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 20, 2019

Isn’t that deliciously snarky?

She’s out in farm country, upset that the people who grow food out there have some Constitutional protection from being run over roughshod by the people of the urban jungle she represents.

Those poor country bumpkin don’t deserve a voice in the government.  They are just peons who work the land to feed their betters who work in the city.

This is exactly why our Founding Fathers created the Electoral College because they knew that the low population density areas would have to be empowered against being dominated by the cities.

Our Constitution was never about “fairness.”  It was about protecting the rights of the underdog.

Free speech doesn’t protect popular speech, it protects unpopular speech.

Gun rights protect the weak from the strong.

The Senate protects small states from the big states.

The Electoral College protects the rural from the urban.

It’s bullies like her that want to strip away the Electoral College who also want to strip away gun rights, free speech rights, and the Senate, to weaken the little people they want to dominate.

Perception is a huge part of what we do. I know I am firmly categorized by some as a Fudd because I feel it is idiotic to prance around strapped to an AR15 for no other reason that appear tacticool. But the image feeds the Opposition’s efforts unnecessarily .

You still think optics are not important?

Guess what voting block U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw just lost? He might as well ring the bell.

The 1619 Project is an epic thesis by The New York Times to pretty much flip American history on its head.

One of the things I have repeatedly seen in reference to the 1619 project, and previously as justification for reparations is perfectly encapsulated in this Tweet:

Today is the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans reaching Virginia’s shore. The story of those who built the American economy, creating wealth for all but themselves, is not just African-American history: it is American history. #1619Projecthttps://t.co/LJryeknEt5

— Michael Bennet (@MichaelBennet) August 20, 2019

It’s this part right here: “The story of those who built the American economy, creating wealth for all but themselves.”

I’ve have seen it said other ways like “America was built on their backs” or something similar.

This really gores my ox.

There is a lot we can talk about when it comes to the historical mistreatment of Black Americans.  There are things we can do to help Black America now.

But looking at historical data, Blacks made up about 19% of the population in the 1700s, dropping to 15% by the mid 1800s, and staying at about 12-13% of the population for the last half-century.

The decrease in Black percentage of the population in the mid 1800s corresponds to the first huge wave of Irish immigrants, and the increase in the US population thought waves of European immigrants through the early 1900s.

I’m sorry, but the idea that the American economy was built by only 15-20% of the population is both ridiculously inaccurate and offensive to every immigrant who came here to build a better life for themselves.

My great-grandfather was an ironworker in New York City.  My dad took me to NYC one time and took me on a tour of the skyscrapers, pointing out the ones his grandfather worked on to build the skyline of the city.  It was the tour his grandfather took him on when he was a boy.

I can’t imagine anything more racially divisive than pushing the idea that slavery built America and the only work done by white people was to lift a hand to crack a whip.

Then again, racial divisiveness seems to be the sole purpose of The New York Times and Democrat party.

Yesterday, I posted about the disgusting Pimp Cowgirl of Miami Gardens who posted this inexcusable pandering to Gun Control:

Outside Bearing Arms, I have not seen anybody addressing this ghoulish rhetoric. Google search has ZERO returns and although I understand the Opposition Media not saying a thing, our side should have been screaming bloody murder and demanding to burn all her idiotic hats.

This is not tap dancing over the blood of the innocent, this is rolling round in it like a pig in a mud pit.