I saw this Tweet from USA Today:

Opinion: Jack Wilson is exactly the type of person you want around with a gun because he's a firearms instructor. But we know nothing about the at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns. And that's terrifying. https://t.co/od0vfGftjU

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 1, 2020

What the fuck is that shit?  Let’s break it down:

Opinion: Jack Wilson is exactly the type of person you want around with a gun because he’s a firearms instructor.

“This guy really did stop the bad guy in six seconds and possibly averted a mass shooting.  We are going to begrudgingly give he credit where credit is due.”

But we know nothing about the at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns. And that’s terrifying.

“We know because it’s been dug into – probably to destroy him by finding evidence of a racist statement or ex-girlfriend that said he got handsy at the soda fountain back in the 70’s – that he was a reserve deputy in the 80s and is a firearms instructor.  So he has the magic fairy dust of government sprinkled on him.  Those other central Texas yokels with guns, we know nothing about, so we’re going to shit on them and assume the worst.”

And here is the article:

Armed, even in church: Texas shooting is about a lot more than Jack Wilson’s heroism
Jack Wilson is a hero. But why were so many other parishioners armed? And how did the shooter get his gun, given his criminal history?

Why were so many other parishioners armed?  For the same reason Wilson was.  They didn’t know something bad was going to happen but they wanted to be prepared.  There wasn’t a centrally coordinated “only this guy will be armed today, so y’all leave your guns at home” meeting.

Jack Wilson is a hero alright. It took him only six seconds to kill a gunman at a Texas church, saving countless lives.

Unfortunately, that kind of split-second heroism has been turned into a PR tool by gun advocates.

Not like you anti-gun fuck-shits haven’t turned every other shooting into a PR tool, you blood-dancing assholes.

The reality of Wilson’s heroism is a lot more complex.

Everything that doesn’t fit their narrative is “complex.”  Maybe they just have simple minds.

He wasn’t just an ordinary parishioner, as gun advocates may want you to believe. The church’s volunteer security team member is a firearms instructor, gun range owner and former reserve deputy with a local sheriff’s department, according to a New York Times detailed account.

The magic fairy dust of government and approved training.

In other words, he’s exactly the kind of man you want around with a firearm. But we know nothing about the at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas.

And that’s terrifying.

Eat my ass.

I know a lot of guys with CCW who are “the kind of man you want around with a firearm.”  Most of them don’t have the magic fairy dust of government sprinkled on them.

One is a buddy of mine who is an A-class USPSA shooter in revolver.  I know a few USPSA Grand Masters and some IDPA Experts.  I’d trust any one of them to be able to draw and make an accurate shot.

I’m not ranked, but I’m no slouch myself.  I shot PPC and 25m Rimfire in high school (I still have my S&W Model 52 and vintage Walther GSP), Smallbore in college, and USPSA for the last three years.

My problems with USPSA are primarily time and money.  To be really good, you have to shoot a lot.  Most Grand Masters I know do at least 600 rounds, and usually closer to 1,000 rounds, a week.  I do about 300-500 rounds a month.  I can’t afford to spend more than two days a month at the range, both the cost of ammo and time away from the wife and kids.  (Don’t talk to me about reloading, I don’t have the time for that or the capital for the initial investment in equipment, my breakeven on reloading is like three years at my current shooting schedule).

Also, growing up shooting PPC so I have a hard time pushing myself for speed.  I don’t like throwing Charlies, so I tend to go slow and shoot all As.  It’ a mental block I need to get over.

I’m not claiming to be a great shooter or a gunfighter, nevertheless, I can get my gun out and a first hit in the A zone inside of six seconds.

But because I don’t have the magic fairy dust, I’d terrify this USA Today asshole too.

Of course, that wouldn’t matter to the churchgoers of that community of roughly 18,000 residents, right? What matters is that Wilson saved them with a single shot and other gun-wielding parishioners were ready just in case Wilson failed.

But have we really reached a point when each of us need to carry a firearm anywhere we go? Gun advocates certainly think so. They point to Wilson and the new Texas law that allows him and others to carry firearms inside the church.

Nobody told them that a nutjob with a shotgun would walk into the church that day.  That’s why they were prepared and the law was important.

Texas has one of the nation’s least restrictive gun laws, including allowing armed security at houses of worship and allowing parishioners to bring their weapons to church. Gun advocates didn’t waste any time after the recent church incident to promote the idea of arming oneself.

Because a lot fewer people were killed by a madman in a church in Texas than a Synagogue in Pittsburg.  Jews, take note of that.

The Second Amendment gives Americans the right to bear arms. And that isn’t going anywhere. But that constitutional amendment doesn’t spell out the types of firearms Americans should bear, nor does it give Americans the right to sell them to anyone to carry anywhere.

Shut your stupid fucking face.  It should and a lot of think it does.

You are going to turn this story of a hero into an anti-gun sales pitch.

The gunman at West Freeway Church of Christ, 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen, apparently had a long criminal history, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Authorities say they’re still investigating the motive of Sunday’s shooting, and there were no immediate details about how he got the firearm he used at the church.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say “not legally.”

We know firearms are readily available to anyone who wants one, really. And that’s part of the problem. Sunday’s shooting isn’t just about Jack Wilson’s heroism. It’s about how Kinnunen got a hold of a weapon in the first place, given his criminal record.

And when that story comes out and demonstrates that every proposed gun law wouldn’t have stopped this either, what will your line of bullshit be?

The truth is evil happens everywhere.  Just ask every person with their face melted with battery acid or drain cleaner in the gun and knife free utopia of London.

In Texas, the law and culture of rugged individualism encouraged churchgoers to be armed in case evil happened.  On that day it did, and evil was stopped as fast as humanly possible.

That’s the real story.

Germany is lit. They know how to party on New Years. pic.twitter.com/BvNmdJG6cD

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 2, 2020

“If we could only be like Europe..”
99% of Gun Control Advocates

And in case the video disappears for Gulag reasons…

General Bill by Berman (CO-SPONSORS) Cruz

Risk Protection Orders: Redefining the term “petitioner” to include an individual who has a biological or legal parent-child relationship with, who is a legal guardian of, or who is a spouse or sibling of a respondent, etc.

In the Senate’s Infrastructure and Security.

” an individual who has a biological or legal parent-child relationship with the respondent, including a stepparent-stepchild relationship and a grandparent-grandchild relationship; an individual who is the legal guardian of a respondent; an individual who is the spouse of a respondent; or a sibling of a respondent”

Risk Protection Orders -Red Flag Expansion – BAD BILL

General Bill by Book (CO-SPONSORS) Stewart; Rodriguez
Transfers of Firearms: Requiring transfers of firearms to be conducted through a licensed dealer; requiring deposit of the firearm with the licensed dealer under certain circumstances; providing for disposition of the firearm if the licensed dealer cannot legally complete the transaction or return the firearm to its owner; requiring law enforcement agencies to report to the Attorney General any violation by licensed dealers, etc.
In the Senate’s Judiciary and Infrastructure and Security committees

Text of the Bill. 

Many of the usual problems suddenly associated with the meaning of the word “transfer” other than an outright sale. It makes loaning of a firearm such a complex exercise, you will not want a risk of ending up in jail because you may have interpreted the law the wrong way. Example: If you loan a gun to a person under 18 for  “for lawful hunting or sporting purposes or for any other lawful recreational activity” you are don’t have to be around as long as the minor is with a responsible adult. But if you loan a gun to a person over 18 for “for lawful hunting or sporting purposes or for any other lawful recreational activity”, you have to be with the recipient of the gun for the “transfer” to be legal.

Here a transfer “exception” that scares me as it is undefined:

The temporary transfer of a firearm if such transfer is to prevent immediate or imminent death or great bodily harm to one’s self or others,

Don’t forget that same as Duty to Retreat, you do not get to decide what constitutes “immediate.” That will be done by people who are not there nor have knowledge of the situation and are hankering for a nice fat gun arrest.

(Update) One more thing: If the transaction fails and the FFL cannot approve the sell and cannot return the weapon to the seller, they have to send it to local LEO within 24 hours for disposal. Knowing that appealing denials take months and months, you can imagine the cluster flock that awaits FFLs and LEO Agencies. Who is gonna pay for the storage of the firearms? Or if the LEO Agency destroys the weapon and the Appeal goes through, are they liable for destruction of private property?

If the licensed dealer cannot legally return the firearm to the seller or other transferor, the licensed dealer must deliver the firearm to the sheriff of the county in which the licensed dealer is located within 24 hours for disposition as provided in s. 790.08(5).

You have the link to the text, have fun and read.

SB 94 – Universal Background Check via FFL – BAD BILL

From the New York Post:

Homeless man turns Manhattan Whole Foods into his personal hot bar

A drooling and pungent homeless man made double-dipping look like child’s play at a Midtown Whole Foods, grabbing from the hot food bar with his bare hands to stuff his bearded face — as employees just chuckled and said they were powerless to stop him.

The unidentified chowhound pounded mac-and-cheese and mixed veggies, at times using serving spoons to pack multiple dishes into a plastic cup he’d brought with him from the outside.

But at other points, he simply dug in with his visibly dirty mitts, grabbing food from the trays and shoving it directly into his mouth, wet with drool and framed by a scraggly beard.

In the closest thing to a display of personal hygiene from the man, he stopped every now and then to lick his fingers clean.

Here’s the video:

All the while, Whole Foods workers looked on, smiling and laughing — while doing nothing to stop the pig-out.

“Oh, he comes here all the time,” said one employee of the freeloader. “We can’t do anything about it, we were told.”

This is the result of company policy, which is becoming ubiquitous, that stops employees from stopping theft because it’s deemed too risky.

Workers on Monday clarified that whenever they see any hot-bar bingeing, they’re supposed to tip off the store’s security guards to step in.

A wet noodle in the back room who calls the cops.

As for the tainted food, workers said that they promptly toss it.

“I just throw out the tray, that’s our routine,” said one store supervisor, who declined to be identified. “We address the situation and throw the tray out and put a fresh one in the bar.”

And you wonder why Whole Foods costs so fucking much.  That’s not coming out of Bezos’ pocket, the cost of that loss gets passed onto you.

But store policy isn’t the only thing that causes this.

A Progressive government that rewards criminal behavior really drives this.

Gift cards, cell phones and Mets tickets: How NYC spends $12M enticing criminals back to court

Mayor de Blasio’s $12 million supervised-release program to entice accused criminals back to court — something they are required by law to do — gifts them with everything from movie tickets to cellphones.

The Post had previously reported Hizzoner was planning to ply defendants with goodies once bail-reform kicks in Jan. 1 including Mets tickets if they hold up their end of the bargain and make their court dates — but the range of bait is much more expansive.

The selection includes basics to help down-on-their luck defendants, like toiletries, socks and coffee, as well as tools intended to make sure they have no excuse to skip court, like cellphones, minutes and single-ride MetroCards.

But they also include little luxuries, including gift cards for $10 to $25 for a dizzying array of eateries and retail spots including Applebee’s, Burger King, McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Subway and Target.

Also up for grabs are movie tickets, as well as ducats to special activities for teen defendants, including a Mets game and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum — jaunts that even include a meal.

Dear New York City residents.  The city can’t fix the shitty subways or potholes in the streets, but it can give criminals gift cards and movie tickets.

How do those record-high taxes feel now?

If it feels like your bank account is a teenage girl caught between Jefferey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew, it’s because that’s what’s happening.

City Hall insists that the goodies aren’t intended to reward alleged bad behavior, as some law-enforcement sources have charged, but rather to serve as a cost-effective carrot to ensure cops and marshals don’t have to come looking for defendants.

Bull-fucking-shit!

In the old bail system, the criminals forks over a shitload of money.  If he goes to his court dates, he gets most of it back.  The law holds his money hostage.

In the new bail system, the taxpayers fork over a shitload of money to bribe the criminals into following the law.

Considering how progressive the NYC DA is, an unscrupulous person could commit a bunch of minor infractions, collect a bunch of goodies and get away with minimal punishment.

De Blasio giving freed NYC inmates MetroCards and gift cards

So sorry we had to lock you up — please accept these parting gifts as an expression of our hope, it won’t happen again!

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest soft-on-crime initiative has workers stationed on Rikers Island presenting newly released jailbirds with free transit passes and two $25 debit cards each, The Post has learned.

Those goodies are intended to serve as incentives so the defendants return to court as ordered, but the new program covers everyone who’s released from Department of Correction custody, the source said.

That includes cons who have finished their jail terms or been sentenced to time served.

Free shit for being arrested or convicted with a slap on the wrist.

How can this go wrong?

Ex-Rikers inmates use city-funded debit cards to buy booze, juul pods

Newly sprung Rikers jailbirds are trying to liquor up on the city’s dime.

The ex-inmates have been flooding area booze shops, ever since the recent launch of a soft-on-crime city initiative that provides them with two $25 gift cards, merchants said Saturday.

Other goodies will include winter coats, Steve Madden shoes and Mets tickets.

Free booze, clothes, and new kicks, why not throw water on a cop or punch a Jew in the head?  The Progressives will excuse your behavior and you get a payday from the city’s taxpayers.

I see this ending only one way.  Every law-abiding taxpayer either leaves for becomes a criminal himself, and the city completes its transformation into an island cesspool full of criminals.

I’d be fine with that if they built a 50 foot high wall around the city and mined the bridges, but I have a feeling that more than just Snake Plissken will be able to escape from New York.

Welcome to New York City.

This is not how normal people outside the NYC bubble live.

 

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I might be going too far, but the new Python looks like a nickle-plated pimp gun or the piece of a minor member of the Sinaloa cartel.

This is what a Python is supposed to look like:

And i I read a comment somewhere that Colt only caters the civilian market when they ran out of government contracts. They need some cash influx or risk bankruptcy so that is why brought back their iconic six-shooter back even though there was a big market for it for decades. I don’t know if there is a market for that new thing.