Rueben Roberts, a representative for the Miami-Dade County NAACP chapter, said the homemade face coverings may be a recipe for racial profiling.

“There is a concern for how people may perceive an African American man wearing a mask,” Roberts said. “They see us as a threat or as they see us just like any normal citizen that may be wearing a hood or wearing a mask for COVID purposes.”

Gary Wright expressed similar fears the masks carry.

“It’s definitely been a concern for me,” he said. “We can’t allow those stigmas to keep us from being able to keep ourselves safe and not worry about someone actually causing harm to you.”

https://wsvn.com/news/local/homemade-mask-orders-causing-concern-among-african-americans/?FBWSVN

I this guy seriously advocating for black people not wearing masks? Or that there won’t be anybody that will take advantage of wearing masks to commit crimes?

I am suspicious person by nature and this mask thing is not helping.  Please look at the forecast for my area:

If you are wearing a mask and a hood with 95 degrees busting the mercury, bet your ass I am going to be rather suspicions of your intentions and prepare accordingly. Just because there is a pandemic does not mean my security measures should be relaxed as to not offend some whinny activist.

Mass burials on Hart Island, NYC have increased fivefold as the COVID19 death toll skyrockets in the city pic.twitter.com/SP0ftsRjU6

— Jack M. Posobiec, IWO (@JackPosobiec) April 10, 2020

Now we are having the full fury of the argument we did not need to shut down the country because we will have the same amount of dead people as last year’s Flu season. That is accurate, but not true. The 2018-2019 season according to the CDC gave us 34,200 deaths and right now we already are halfway through that number with 12,704, but there is a big difference: The Flu season last year lasted from October till February (5 months) or 6, 840 deaths per month without any mitigation or face masks or isolation.  From March 7 to April 7 this year, we have had 12,676 deaths with full counter plague protocols and actions by most everybody.

You do the math.

From an anonymous UPS delivery driver…
5 types of customers since the “rona”:

1) Steve:
He has been waiting for this moment his whole life. He has been drinking boilermakers since 10:00 am in his recliner and his AR is within arms reach. He has 6 months provisions in the basement and a bug out bag due west buried in the woods. Steve demands a handshake as I give him his package. He’s sizing me up as I deliver his ammo.

Steve will survive this, and he will kill you if he needs to.

2) Brad:
He is standing at his window wearing skinny jeans and a Patagonia t-shirt. He is mad because there were no organic tomatoes at Whole Foods today. He points at the ground where he has taped a 6 ft no go zone line from his porch. I leave his case of Fuji water, organic granola bites, and his new “Bernie Bro” hat at the tape.

Brad will not survive.
Steve will probably eat him.

3) Nancy:
She has sprayed everything with Thieves oil. Bought all the Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, meat, and bread from the local grocery chain. She has quarantined her kids and sprays them with a mixture of thieves, lavender, & mint essential oils daily. She has posted every link known to man about “The Rona” on her social media. She will spray you if you break the 6 ft rule. I will leave her yet another case of toilet paper.

She will last longer than Brad, but not Steve.

4) Karen:
She has called everybody and read them the latest news on “The Rona”. She asked for the manager at Food Lion, Walmart, Publix, McDonalds, Chi-Fil-A, and Vons all before noon demanding more toilet paper. Karen’s kids are currently faking “The Rona” to avoid her. I’m delivering “Hello kitchen” to her.

Karen will not survive longer than Brad.

5) Mary:
Is sitting in the swing watching her kids have a water balloon fight in the front yard as she is on her fourth glass of wine. She went to the store and bought 2 cases of pop tarts, 6 boxes of cereal, 8 bags of pizza rolls, And a 6 roll pack of toilet paper. There is a playlist of Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, and Post Malone playing in the background. I’m bringing her second shipment of 15 bottles of wine in 3 days.

Mary will survive and marry Steve.
Together they will repopulate the earth.
May God have mercy on us all.

Sad Alyssa is sad.

Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year. We have to keep each other safe by social distancing and washing our hands and not bringing dangerous firearms into our homes. #StopTheCoronavirusGunSurge #NoRA pic.twitter.com/O5J98QXTFO

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 9, 2020

You figure they would have a new script. But still you have to give her props for keeping with the bull.

I wonder how would they feel if they actually saw the real numbers of firearms populating the country. According to ATF’s 2019 Firearms Commerce In the United States, the year 2017 (last one in the report) a total of 8,327,792 firearms were manufactured in the US. Not all remain in country though but 488,300 went to see other pastures beyond our frontiers or only 5.5% of the production. But wait! There is more!  We actually imported 4,305,851 fireams from sources abroad bringing the total of firearms in commerce in the USA for the year of the Lord 2017 to 12,633,643.

This ain’t chicken feed. That is enough guns in one year to arm several of the top armies of the world.  For 2018, ammunition manufacturers  produced 8.1 billion rounds of ammunition for the civilian market and out of that the most I heard the Federal government spend is just over 1 billion dollars.

The practical principle of Gun Control is dead, there is no way it can be achieved physically even with great loss of life. The problem is most of the Antis do not mind you dying a gruesome death and the believe themselves immune to the bloodbath they are pushing. We underrated better and that is why we continue to fight at the legislative and legal level.  We know once that switch is flipped, the consequences will be permanent.

PS: Alyssa’s botox job does not look half bad.

My commute to work is much longer than it used give be so I’m filling my brain with audiobooks.

I’m in the beginning of The Guns of August, a magnificent history of WWI.

It’s  amazing to listen to this book and to see how WWI happened, how much of it was a continuation of the German invasion of France in 1870.  Many of the German and French generals in WWI were young officers in 1870.

Then to see how the dominoes of WWI have continued to topple to today.

WWII was really WWI 2.0.  Everyone took a break for a generation to repopulate, then went right back at it.  WWII precipitated the Cold War.  The fall of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey caused today’s Middle East mess.

But that is not the focus of this post.

In the book, I’m at the part were Germany invaded Belgium to engage the northern flank of France because of the German military philosophy of envelopment.

The Belgian government confiscated Belgians’ guns to prevent the Belgian civilians from shooting German soldiers to prevent reprisals from the German army against civilians.

That didn’t stop the Germans from killing civilians or burning their homes. The German army even executed Belgian priests because the Germans wanted to demoralize the Belgians into not fighting and letting them march through to France.

At that moment I thought just how different Americans are.  If we were invaded, even if the government told Americans to turn in their weapons, we wouldn’t.

After the first German soldier shot an American civilian, the shit would hit the fan for the Germans.

You know Americans would make a game out of shooting German soldiers, one point for a body hit, three for a hit through the pickelhaube,  five for an officer.

I’d suspect the biggest job for the US army would be to go door to door collecting the machineguns and grenades that Americans collected off the bodies of dead invading Germans.

The European attitude on guns is nothing new and this bit from The Guns of August really drives home how different we really are from them.

Giving the blog work a necessary break for mental rest.

Short of the end of the world, I’ll see you tomorrow.

PS: Spirits will not be involved, nor any other intoxicants.

This story is over a week old, and I am sorry for that.  It took a while to filter its way to me, you’ll see why in a moment.

Concealed carry permit holder fatally shoots armed woman outside north Tulsa shopping center

A concealed carry permit holder fatally shot a woman outside a north Tulsa shopping center Friday evening after she reportedly opened fire on customers.

A man with a concealed carry permit reportedly told arriving officers that he shot the woman after she started shooting at customers outside the shopping center.

Video reportedly showed the woman was involved in an earlier altercation in the parking lot. The woman left the shopping center and returned about three minutes later, when she pulled a gun and opened fire.

We have a concealed carry permit holder defending the lives of innocent people.

We have a female attempted mass shooter.

It happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, far from any coast.

It happened during the Coronacrisis.

Of course, no major news outlet would report on this.

However, we should know about it.  It is a reminder that even when a major, worldwide crisis is eating up all the news of the day, that doesn’t stop he normal bad stuff that happens from happening.

We cannot lose our vigilance because we allow ourselves to be swamped with all this other stuff.

Stay safe out there.