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Dammit, how many times do we have to say this?

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 can assure that right now somebody who was in that Walmart is thinking why the hell wasn’t he/her carrying a gun they have at home. And another one will rethink the smartness of delaying over and over getting a carry permit. Maybe they will think “Shit, I could have done something to stop this guy, but I did not have a gun.”

Carry. All. The. Time.

Please stop saying stupid shit like ALMOST ALL MASS SHOOTERS ARE WHITE! and then use a meme as data to prove your point as you look stupider than usual. I know the latest political fashion is all about “White Is Bad & Must be eliminated” but lets ge a grip on, shall we?

This a capture of the Mother Jones Mass Shooter database showing the first 20 entries in their list. Not the NRA’s, not even the FBI’s but a left wing magazine so you cannot say they are in favor of Gun Owners or the President.

Santino William LeGan: Italian-Iranian
DeWayne Craddock: Black
Gary Martin: Black
Jordan Witmer: White
Zephen A. Xaver: White
Juan Lopez: Latino
Ian David Long: White
Robert D. Bowers: White
Snochia Moseley: Black
Javier Casarez: Latino
Omar Enrique Santa Perez: Latino
Jarrod W. Ramos: White
Dimitrios Pagourtzis: White
Travis Reinking: White
Albert Cheung Wong: Asian
Nikolas J. Cruz: White
Timothy O’Brien Smith: White
Kevin Janson Neal: White
Devin Patrick Kelley: White

So, out of 20 shooters, seven are minorities. That is 35% on that sample. Numbers will go up or down depending, but it is not the “immense majority”  or “Almost All” so stop making shit about the Race and Mass Shooter. Crazy assholes killers come in all color and sizes.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, are back into politics with a new flavor to support fellow Vermont Socialist, Bernie Sanders.

This is just the first in a full line of Bernie flavors. We’re going all the way this time. And when Bernie’s in the White House and I become the Minister of Ice Cream— a pint in every freezer, a sundae in every bowl. https://t.co/4e9duS8JWv #BerniesBack #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/faMH7zxsfn

— Ben Cohen (@YoBenCohen) August 2, 2019

All you have to know about Ben and Jerry shilling for Bernie is that these two socialist fucks sold out to the British-Dutch mega-conglomerate, Unilever for $326 Million dollars.

It’s easy for them to back Three Houses Bernie’s high tax plan when they live off the interest of their multi-million dollar corporate buyout cash.

For the rest of us who work for a living, it sucks.

AK pistols almost double than AR Pistols? We are crawling through the End Of Time. I paid $320 for my AKlon….damn!

Venezuela’s El Nacional is celebrating its 76 birthday with not only no paper in which to print but his website is down, I suspect under attack. Still they managing to tweet and that included a photo of their first issue:

Monty and Patton were doing their racing up Sicily. 10,000 Germans were taken prisoners. Possible sabotage of a Pan-American Clipper that crashed in Brazil and top right “Curacao Attacked By The Nazis. One ship sunk, 23 dead including a Venezuelan”

It is a little known fact, even among people in countries of the Caribbean basin that there was a decent amount of German warfare in that area.   Venezuela was producing oil for the war effort and there were refineries in Curacao and Aruba that refined the oil into much needed POL (Petroleum, Oil, & Lubricants) supplies. As in any war, interdiction of basic war needs was a priority, but the Nazis were at the end of a long ass line of supply and although important work, they could not keep it up enough to make a difference.

If you go to Aruba and take a tour in a glass-bottomed boat, you will probably be taken by the remains of the oiler Pedernales sunk the 16 February 1942 by the German sub U-156. I am sure scuba divers will happen to know about more WWII wreck in area, but I happened to see this one on a vacation with the missus many years ago.

This is why I enjoy going through old newspaper. You get to see  a bit of history as it was made and more likely stuff that never made it to the history books. By now we have historians (possibly very political in their observations) who are basing their work on other historians who checked their stuff from another batch of historians.  Few people want to go to the original sources or check original records anymore.

That’s all. Just a little prance through history almost forgotten.

From Fox News:

Illinois passes bipartisan law to allow hunting education classes in school curriculum

Wedged in among the basics of science, math and English, a new bipartisan measure in Illinois now gives school districts the option to build hunting safety education into the daily curriculum.

The legislation, signed Friday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, and put into immediate effect, aims to bolster hunter and gun safety for students.

The House and Senate in Illinois are under Democrats’ control, and the bill was initially introduced in February by downstate Democratic state Rep. Monica Bristow.

“Hunting in Illinois is still very popular, and students can learn about hunting as a sport. Hunters have respect for guns,” she told Fox News, underscoring that the legislation stirred no opposition. “If people have to do the education course to obtain a hunting license anyway, why not be able to do this in school?”

Yes, absolutely, that makes total sense.  It should be like drivers ed.

Bristow said there is no minimum age for obtaining the license. She said neither guns nor ammo will be allowed in classrooms, but students will have the option to visit shooting ranges on their own time.

I figured as much.

Sen. Jason Plummer – a Republican from Edwardsville and a sponsor on the bill – said “students who are exposed to lessons in hunting safety have a greater chance of respecting firearms and using them properly for the rest of their lives.”

“As the law is shifting to emphasize the importance of safe handling, adopting legislation like this could make for an accessible path for students to learn these methods in-depth, early on in their lives.”

This is also 100% accurate.  This seems like a great way to encourage more youth engagement in shooting sports.

Del Wilber, an Illinois-based hunter, firearms instructor and former police officer, said such courses typically entail teaching about firearms safety, the laws governing ownership and transportation, and ordinances to ensure that students will be in compliance when working with or otherwise involved with hunting.

According to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Safety Education Division, participants also learn responsibility and ethics, first aid, wildlife conservation and bowhunting.

In Wilber’s view, it is also crucial to separate the rural pockets of the state from the high levels of gun violence experienced in the state’s largest city, Chicago.

“Sadly, young people in Chicago and other inner-city areas simply aren’t exposed to guns for anything other than using them in crimes,” he said. “But hunting has been a part of life in rural Illinois. It isn’t about just killing poor animals; it is also an integral part of wildlife control.

Everything about this law seems to be good news, especially that is was bipartisan.

I hope it is implemented up in the Chicagoland area as well as down state.  I know where I lived on the edge of the Chicago bubble in Aurora/Plainfield/Naperville/Oswego there were a number of sportsman clubs that had skeet and trap ranges.  So there are shooters in the area.

Demystifying guns for kids who grow up in the city as something used by law-abiding people for sport, and not just criminals is a good idea.

I don’t know how many more states have similar programs but this is the kind of thing that we gun owners and sportsmen should ask our legislature to do.

Good job, Illinois.