There have been a lot of hand wringing Leftists, writing in their Leftist newspapers and on social media, that the killing of Qasem Soleimani was an act of war against Iran, that we provoked them into greater violence, and we will face the consequences with more deaths of Americans for it.

I must agree with them.

That said, Iran has been trying to goad us into war for years.  They believe that we are the Great Satan (and Israel is the Little Satan) and they want to kill Americans in order to immanentize the Shia Islam eschaton.

That is why, despite the fact that Iran and Iraq fought a war for eight years, Iranians were happy to jump into Iraq to fight Americans.  Any opportunity to kill Americans they will take.

So…

We need to make Iran stop attacking us and arming proxies to attack us.

We also don’t want to start a ground war with Iran and it’s half-million man sized army.

Fortunately for the United States, two Jews figured out a solution to this conundrum back in 1951.

Doctors Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam discovered that the radiation pressure of thermal x-rays generated by the fission of Uranium-235 could be used to compress heavy hydrogen isotopes, in the form of tritium gas and lithium deuteride, into a fusion reaction forming helium.

The current generation of this technology is known as the W-88 with a standard yield of 475 kt.

A current-generation Trident II missile can deliver eight of these on target from a range of 7,500 miles.

We could quite effectively defeat the Iranian military without having to put one pair of American boots on the ground for the Iranians to kill in an act of Jihad.

I know this might not fit the worldview of our national security “experts” in their think tanks and ivory towers, but it’s an option.

Besides the fact that I’m not a rapist or drug addict…

The 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, which recognizes the best in film and television, will serve its A-list guests a 100% plant-based dinner. It’s the first major awards show to go entirely meatless. https://t.co/9QYNKXvS29

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 2, 2020

I would have to have my driver stop by Morton’s Steakhouse and get a Porterhouse and a baked potato to go in a styrofoam container for me for the awards dinner.

Florida Gun Rights 2020 – SB 718 – Domestic Violence – BAD BILL

General Bill by Powell

Lawful Ownership, Possession, and Use of Firearms and Weapons: Prohibiting a person from owning, possessing, and lawfully using firearms and other weapons, ammunition, and supplies while engaging in certain lawful uses if he or she is within a specified distance of the real property of certain locations, etc.

Effective Date: 07/01/2020

Last Event: 11/06/19 S Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Judiciary; Rules on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:40 AM

A lawful activity under this paragraph may not be conducted within 1,500 feet of the real property comprising any school, house of worship, government building, or guarded beach.

Florida Gun Rights 2020 – SB 634 – Restricting Open Carry Even More – BAD BILL

General Bill by Polsky (CO-SPONSORS) Smith, C.

Sale, Transfer, or Storage of Firearms: Revises requirements for storage of firearms; provides criminal penalties if minor access stored firearm & uses it in specified ways; revises definition of “minor”; requires seller or transferor of firearm to provide specified information; provides immunity for certain providers of information; revises standard for adults & minors to be criminally negligent in storage of firearms in certain circumstances.

Effective Date: October 1, 2020

Last Event: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Monday, November 25, 2019 4:09 PM

Florida Gun Rights 2020 – HB 631 – Sale, Transfer, or Storage of Firearms. FFL must sell a safety brochure – BAD BILL.

A buddy of mine sent me this he got off the Zuckerberg privacy invasion network Facebook.

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

I went to an Episcopal school from the 6th through 12th grade.  I was taught all about the Christan duty to help others.  But other people need to want to be helped.  Kinnunen went into that Church in disguise with a shotgun to cause some shit and kill people, not seek shelter and redemption.

This post victim blames the parishioners there for apparently not being Christian enough to offer the gunman sanctuary and salvation.  Considering that Kinnunen shot the first person who talked to him, I can’t blame them.

After Kinnunen shot and killed two people (one was wounded and died later) it was not a safe assumption to make that he was just going to walk away and not harm anybody else.  Saying that “Kinnunen killed everyone he was going to and should just be allowed to mosey on out of the Church” is an insane proposition.

Wilson is not a murderer, he is a hero.  Nothing in the Abrahamic tradition that prohibits self-defense or the defense of others.  There is nothing Christian about watching as a madman guns down a church full of parishioners.

Wilson did not endanger anybody else in the church.  Even the anti-gun media had to begrudgingly admit that Wilson was a hero – even if they had to constantly remind everyone that he had the magic fairy dust of government sprinkled on him for a few years in the 1980s.

To reverse the situation to make Wilson the mad gunman and Kinnunen a victim who was treated poorly by the Church is unmoored from both reality and morality.

This is a level of anti-gun and anti-CCW that I didn’t know it was possible to achieve but apparently someone did.

I just want to know how someone so disconnected from reality is allowed to go around unmedicated.

A buddy of mine sent me some information about Virginia that I wanted to confirm before posting.

From the Washington Examiner:

Virginia governor’s call for 18-person gun ban force comes under fire

If I may say, that sounds like a very predictive headline.

Virginia’s pop-up gun sanctuary movement has turned its attention to fighting the governor’s call for a $4.8 million, 18-officer team to enforce his proposed “assault weapons” ban.

Two key groups issued an alert this week to push gun owners to four budget hearings Thursday around the state, asking them to quiz state legislators if they will vote to ban or confiscate weapons.

“We understand that this is short notice. But it would have a significant impact if many of our members could show up and make a 3-minute statement and ask questions of the legislators in attendance,” said the Virginia Citizens Defense League.

“We see in the governor’s proposed budget that he wants $4 million and 18 new law-enforcement positions to enforce a ban on commonly-owned firearms,” said Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America senior vice president.

I wanted to confirm this allegation.  It is (mostly) true.

From the 2020 Executive Budget Document, Part B: Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security:

By my count, that is 28 people, 18 for direct assault weapon ban enforcers, and 10 for bureaucrats for background checks, and other gun legislation enforcement.

The total cost is around $7.5 million dollars for two years.

Consider this information of the state of Virginia’s gun sanctuary movement:

For starters, the sanctuaries have spread dramatically. They’re up to 93 jurisdictions — covering roughly 40 percent of the population, by my quick spreadsheet tally. That’s huge, though the biggest victory, in Prince William County, is likely to be overturned when the county board flips to the Democrats, and some of these places have passed vague resolutions in support of the Constitution rather than the more aggressive language proposed by the Virginia Citizens Defense League.

Here is a map:

So my first question is: “how will 18 law enforcement officers and 10 bureaucrats police that much ground and 40% of the population?”

My next question is: “does that budget number include the cost of body bags, funerals, and survivor benefits for the widows and orphans?”

There is no way only 18 LEOs are going to be able to avoid serious “resistance” if in some of those rural counties.

My last question is: “who will be the 18 people that apply for the job of being one of the guys who go door to door to enforce an assault weapon ban?”

I can’t answer these questions, but nevertheless, it’s on the budget.