I have been reading the comments in Miguel’s post Michael Bane: “Dammit, how many times do we have to say this?”

The first bullet point in the post was:

1) Be armed all the time! This isn’t a game played only on Tuesdays and Thursday. ALL THE TIME! The universe doesn’t care whether today is the day you decided to leave the gun at home so you could wear your comfy shorts.

I thought I’d throw in my two cents on this.

I love being a dad.  There are many great things about being a dad.  I fully embrace my dadism.

One advantage of being a dad is nobody gives a shit about my fashion sense outside of some very specific circumstances.

When I am running errands with the family on a Saturday (like I did yesterday) and I have a 5-year-old and an 18-month-old in the shopping cart with a diaper bag, nobody cares that I am in shorts and Crocs.

When it is 90 degrees and humid out, like it was yesterday, I can wear my comfy shorts and gun and medical gear because I am a dad.

How?

Let me introduce you to the Galco Escort Waistpack, aka, the fanny pack holster.  There are many like it, but this one is mine.

This is my regular loadout: Para Ordnance Warthog, 14 round spare mag, Victorinox Super Tinker, Coast HP5 LED flashlight,  EMS shears, small Israeli bandage.

I like my Warthog, my runs just fine and I don’t feel under gunned with 24 rounds of 185 grain 45 ACP JHP.   I like the lighter bullets out of shorter barrel guns.

This is how the gun stores in the fanny pack.

I cut out the retaining strap.  If you have other fannypack holsters, those are generally velcroed in.  I’ve never worried about retention with the pack closed so the extra strap is just something that gets in the way to me.

Everything else is in the outer pocket.

This is the whole thing zipped up.

I added an extra bit of 550 cord to the pull tab to make it easier to get open in a panic.

You can’t tell that I have a gun in there, can you?

I prefer to carry the Israeli bandage in the fanny pack.  This is a 4-inch bandage, there is also a 6-inch one too.  It’s a little more versatile and smaller than a dedicated tourniquet.  It can be used as a tourniquet if you know how to apply it.  They are also cheaper (about half the price) and you can carry multiple if you need to.

I can easily take off the fanny pack to drive, then I put it on in the parking lot before going into the store.

We did our whole round of shopping, including Costco, Wal-Mart, and Kroger, carrying the fanny pack the entire time.

Backhawk and Voodoo Tactical both sell fanny pack holsters, and I have them.  They are good and well made but look just a tad bit more tactical.  The Galco looks a little more low key.

Drawing from a fanny pack is not hard, it just takes a little bit of practice.  For those worried about it, ask yourself is it any harder drawing from the IWB holster with two layers of shirt to get tangled up in?

I love my fanny pack holster, I have everything I need and am comfortable carrying it.

It pairs with my cargo shorts and Crocs, not to mention the stroller and diaper bag.

Laugh all you want, but dad carry is thing.

Meet US Army Specialist Glen Oakley.  He is stationed at Ft. Bliss and was shopping at the Cielo Vista Mall when the shooting happened.

This is how he responded.

As reported by NBC:

Police stopped him because he had a weapon, Oakley said, but they let him go after he proved he had his weapon legitimately.

So for all those anti-gun naysayers who say that letting people carry is a bad idea because when a mass shooting happens it’s going to be a blood bath because the police or good guys with guns can’t tell the other good guys with guns from the bad guys…

They are flat wrong.

Just like they were wrong about concealed carry turning our streets into rivers of blood, or fender benders into shootouts, or college students shooting professors over bad grades or other kids in the classroom over headed discussions with campus carry.

They are batting 0.00 on every negative prediction from the expansion of CCW they’ve ever made.

This video was clipped from the live stream of the Democratic Socialists of America 2019 National Convention.

It is hilarious.

Meanwhile at the Democratic Socialists of America conference… pic.twitter.com/fT0GfHIFFI

— Educate Freedom (@educatefreedom_) August 4, 2019

These are the people who want to overthrow capitalism, nationalize industry, and turn America into a socialist nation.

And yet, they are brought to their knees by too many people talking and using “gendered language.”

If this is who we are up against, I cannot wait for thee Sociliast Revolution to kick off.

We’ll be able to save ammo, with PsyOps.  Reducing their armes down to crying masses unable to fight by just having our side use bullhorns to say “hey, you guys need to calm down and you chicks need to smile more.”

As reported on by The Telegraph, because the American media is a fucking joke.

Today in good news:

Celebrities, royals and politicians brace themselves as court orders release of explosive Jeffrey Epstein files

In Room 270, the records management unit, on the second floor of an imposing granite and marble courthouse in lower Manhattan, 167 documents totaling more than 2,000 pages are being kept under lock and key.

But they are about to be unsealed and made public – making a host of important people around the world, including celebrities, politicians and royals, very nervous.

The files contain explosive allegations in the case of Giuffre v Maxwell, in which Virginia Giuffre, a woman who claims to have been Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage “sex slave”, sued Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and the billionaire’s former girlfriend, for defamation.

The case was settled in May 2017 on the eve of the trial but the details were not disclosed and the final judgment and supporting documents were sealed, with the court noting the “highly sensitive nature of the underlying allegations.”

According to other court documents that have been published, Ms Giuffre has made allegations of sexual abuse against “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister, and other world leaders.”

But last month the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered their release, ruling that the public’s right to know outweighed the privacy rights of the high-profile individuals named.

Unseal that shit.  Expose it all to the disinfectant of daylight.

It what may be an indication of the fame of those individuals, the judges made a striking plea to the media to “exercise restraint” in reporting the allegations about to come to light. They also allowed parties involved to apply for minor redactions, delaying the release.

This is why legacy media is in the shitter and why I have hope for alternative media.

You know that every small-time reporter running a news blog is going to do their damnedest to get a hold of this and dig their way through it.

Fuck the rich, powerful, and well-connected.

I want to see the names and dates of every one of them who flew to child-rape island for a sexcapade with a little girl.

I want their names broadcast far and wide and I want them shamed on every street corner.

Then I want them prosecuted and sent to prison.

Let the Armageddon commence!

Asshole Shooter Patrick Crusius: “The Democrat party will own America and they know it. They have already begun the transition by pandering heavily to the Hispanic voting bloc in the 1st Democratic Debate. ”

Democrats: “That is totally false! We treat all races equally.”

Headline: “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ powerful campaign arm, has just abruptly purged half a dozen staffers. Why? Because they are white. (Link)

Dear Democrats, stop feeding the monsters, Kthnx!

Hat Tip Old NFO

As melancholic as I dare to post.  Too many assholes floating in RL and the Internet this weekend.

Asshole Patrick Crusius’ manifesto was published by Drudge and I got a copy saved before it gets taken down or gets filed away.

He is not fond of Hispanics, that is fo sure. And the rest of the document is a long rant against Democrats and Republicans and by the language he is more an Anarchist in the traditional sense than anything else. He hates Republican support for Corporations than in turn require immigrants to produce and the Democrats are happy to provide.

He rails against pollution, via farming and oil drilling. Denounces urbanism as a killer of millions of acres of land and the “consumer culture” for producing unnecessary plastic.  And paper towels kills millions of trees.  He ends up condemning all of us because our lifestyles are leading to perdition. Again, he sounds more like an Anarchist than anything else.

He goes on to talk about weaponry: WASR-10 as rifle and 7.62×39 8M3 rounds which he happily comments they “fragment like a pistol hollow point” which makes me think he gets his gun info from video games rather than true sources. I checked a couple of gelatin tests and for a rifle round, it indeed fragments and had just a penetration of 10 inches in ballistic gel.

He goes back railing against Hispanics and Corporations. Suddenly he makes a turn and says that deporting and murdering “all non-Americans” is bad and instead every race should be given a territory.  He promises he will not surrender and won’t be captured alive and if he is, he was subdue somehow. From what little is out there, he did surrendered rather quickly at the presence of overwhelming power.

This is interesting and about the only thing I am gonna quote from the manifesto:

My ideology has not changed for several years. My opinions on automation, immigration, and the rest predate Trump and his campaign for president. I putting this here because some people will blame the President or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case. I know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric. The media is infamous for fake news. Their reaction to this attack will likely just confirm that.

Damn, even a whacked out job like this can predict with accuracy what the Media will do even before the manifesto was released and we got a peek on this asshole’s mind. Of course, I do not expect anything else but the Media Narrative to continue on the same path.

So at the end of the day,  we have another antisocial loner (according to former school mates) who hates people like me and corporations and consumer products and suburbs and God knows what else. A classic Anarchist.