David Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. https://t.co/IFJuemyo1p

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) June 6, 2021

Doctors say an Atlanta woman has “no expectancy of survival” after being accidentally shot in a car entering Miami Beach Sunday evening.
That’s according to the arrest report for Atlanta resident 24-year-old Taniyria Holt, booked for now on charges of culpable negligence that inflicts personal injury and improper exhibition of firearms.
The victim, whose name is redacted in the report, is on life support. Doctors are waiting for her family to come down from Georgia. If the woman dies, the charges against Holt likely will change.
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She said the four women in the car were recording themselves on cellphones when Holt, in the front passenger seat, was handling a 9mm handgun owned by Ashley Burden, who was sitting directly behind Holt. Police say Holt described herself racking the gun, seeing a live round ejected.
“Thinking the firearm was free of live rounds, Ms. Holt said she went to pass the firearm over to (the victim, sitting behind the driver), but accidentally shot her,” the report said. “The cellular phone being utilized by (the victim) showed signs of the projectile struck (the victim) in the facial area, causing her injuries.”

One Atlanta woman passed a gun to another in a car. Fatal mistake, Miami Beach cops say

What pisses me off even more is that the same people that gleefully block any attempt we advance to train people on how to properly and safely handle a firearm, are the same assholes that applaud and celebrate “cultural” music videos of people mishandling weapons like the were a mix of toys and magic wands. And when things like this happen, then they blame us for the deaths they caused with their roadblocks.

You can get funding and cheers to teach kindergarteners who to properly use a condom and change their sex taught by the Child Molester of the Week, but you will whipped be run out of town if you even suggest teaching the Four Rules of Gun Safety to High Schoolers.

Then again, it is through bloody victims they make their living. Safe people are boring and unprofitable.

My apologies to Mr. Pollack.  I confused him for the other Parkland father Fred Guttenberg. Forgive my imperfect memory.  I shot from the hip and hit the wrong target.

This should be an open letter to Mr. Guttenberg and every person like him who simultaneously calls for gun control, bail reform, closing the “school to prison pipeline,” and supports all other forms of Progressive justice reform.

I have not deleted or significantly rewritten this post because I was warned by Miguel against the appearance of memory holing posts.

I also stand by the principle of everything I said, only in a flash of anger confused two individuals and directed this at the wrong one.

This isn’t the first mistake I’ve made on this blog and it won’t be the last. This is a blog not a book, I don’t have layers of editors to catch my mistakes.  I have you faithful readers calling me out in the comments.   I do my best but I’m human and I err.  I will apologize and take my lumps when I’m wrong.

My sincerest apologies to Mr. Pollack.  Truly.  Honestly.  I’m sorry I got him mixed up with Fred Guttenberg.  But other than who this letter was originally addressed to, I meant ever word of what I said.

A Twitter account that I follow re-Tweeted one of your Tweets.

My Beautiful Princess ,love of my life my everything taken by some scumbag. pic.twitter.com/eavompPGeA

— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) June 6, 2021

This is heartbreaking.

I am a father, I have a son and a daughter.  I know the feeling of worrying myself sick about them, I cannot begin to imagine the pain of losing one of them.

In your grief, you have turned to pushing gun control.

One of the attacks you, and people like you, levy against gun-rights advocates like myself is that we lack empathy.

You could not be more wrong.   I have nothing but empathy for you and the parents like you who have lost children.  The difference between you and me is how we apply our empathy.

We are both Jews.  I go on Twitter and I see people attacking Jews in the streets.  In Florida, the state I was born and raised in, a Jewish family was attacked and that attack was stopped by a good man with a gun.   Own guns for sport and competition, but mostly for self-defense.  There are millions of law-abiding citizens like myself who own literally hundreds of millions of guns and tens of millions of assault weapons* and never commit crimes with them.  Nor will we ever commit crimes with them.

*I’m not going to haggle over a name, they want to call them assault weapons, I don’t care.  A rose by any other name doesn’t change their Constitutionality.

But like you, I don’t want to see another innocent life lost.

So what do we do?

Well, the scumbag who killed your daughter was contacted more than 50 times by the feckless, useless, dickless Broward County Sheriff’s Office and didn’t do a damn thing.

Across America’s major cities, we are seeing a massive increase in violent crime and homicides.  LA is up 73% in shootings.  In New York City shootings are up 166% and homicides 73%.  Portland is hitting record numbers of homicides.  Chicago is at record shootings and near record-breaking homicides.

This has been blamed on the pandemic and lockdowns, but that’s not the case.

The single unifying cause of this crime wave is the same as the cause of your daughter’s death.  Lax policing and prosecutions.

In every city showing an increase in violent crime, the police have reduced their presence.  Sometimes it is caused by budget cuts, in other cases, it is police holding back out of fear of punishment for getting into violent confrontations with criminals.  It is also a problem of prosecutors dropping or minimizing charges against violent criminals.

Cruz should have been in prison in an orange jumpsuit the day he shot your daughter but was sent into a diversionary PROMISE Program instead.

We have become a nation that is overly empathetic to violent, recidivist criminals.

Evil exists in this world.  Bad people exist.  They do bad things.  In general, they start small and get incrementally worse.

The more society fails to hold them to account for the small crimes, the more their worsening ends with a stack of bodies.

My well of empathy for criminals has run dry and all that is coming up is the silt of rancor at the bottom.

I have reached a point where I want capital punishment to be cumulative, the way we had three-strikes laws.  A person commits a violent crime, goes to jail, gets out, does it again, we come to the conclusion that said person is irredeemably evil and we end his cycle of recidivism with a gram of Fentanyl*.

* Fentanyl OD seems to be the perfect tool for lethal injection.  It’s painless, the victim loses consciousness and stops breathing.  We don’t have to worry about pharmaceutical companies not wanting to sell it to prisons because we’ve seized enough to OD hundreds of millions of people of high-purity Chinese made Fentanyl in drug stings.  We could use seized Fentanyl in lethal injection and not give a penny to pharmaceutical companies. 

It’s not the guns that are the problem, nor is it a lack of empathy of gun owners.  It is an excess of empathy for evil criminals and a lack of enforcement of the law.

If you executed every recidivist violent criminal in the country, you could literally give guys like me machine guns and rocket launchers and the homicide rate would drop to zero.  Really.  The murder rate at Knob Creek continues to be nil.

If you really want to prevent what happened to your daughter from happening to another innocent child, stop going after the guns and demand that that school to prison pipeline be opened all the way and violent youthful offenders like Nikolas Cruz be thrown into a deep, dark pit for all eternity instead of being put into worthless diversionary programs.

Sincerely,

J. Kb.

The crime genie is out of the bottle and there is no way to put it back in.

It’s time to go full Escape from New York and wall the city off and officially declare it to be the open-air prison that it is.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Three people are dead, including a state corrections officer, and at least another five are injured following a shooting that took place outside a Kendall business as a graduation party was ending.

According to Miami-Dade Police, the shooting took place in the parking lot of the College Park Plaza Shopping Plaza at SW 104 Street and 109 Court, where there was a party at a hookah lounge.

As people were leaving, “one or maybe two vehicles pulled up and began to fire at the crowd,” said Miami-Dade Police Director Freddie Ramirez.

The car then sped off and crashed into a wall at the nearby Miami Dade College Kendall campus. Both driver and passenger were killed. At least one firearm was found in the car. Police are also looking for a second car that may have been involved.

3 Dead, At Least 5 Hurt When Gunmen Open Fire On Graduation Party In Kendall

Another ambush at another party at another party location, but this time on the other side of the county.  I believe we can say there is a pattern being formed. Just a hunch.

And, of course, the culprit is gun violence, nothing else.

I do hope the detectives investigating these sad events are following clues and not political directives or the body count will grow.

This was just Last December.

“I know when a lot of people hear defund the police, that scares them,” Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer says. “That makes them feel like they are going to be unsafe, and their community is going to be unsafe, and that is not the goal. The goal here is really to try to look at a better way to try to provide this service to the community.”

What Next? Asheville Moves Forward After Cutting Police Funding

And now, fast forward to last week:

A North Carolina police department will no longer respond to certain 911 calls due to a “staffing crisis.”
The Asheville Police Department (APD) announced Wednesday the department has lost 84 officers since Jan. 1, 2020, and is currently experiencing a “staffing crisis.” In order to “improve response times,” the APD announced they will no longer respond to a slew of crimes, including theft.
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Police Chief David Zack told News 13 there is no easy solution to the shortage of officers.
“There’s no quick fix. There’s no magic wand. There’s no magic pill that’s going to change this overnight.”
The changes come as the city experiences a rise in crimes. Asheville ranked in the top 10% of most violent cities in the U.S., according to a recent study from 24/7 Wall St., an independent financial news and opinion site.

Police Department Limits 911 Calls To Which It Will Respond Due To ‘Staffing Crisis’

And here is the list (so far) of crimes that will be ignore. I am sure it will be expanded soon enough.

The sad part is this idiocy was aimed to supposedly weed out the bad cops, but probably the opposite is happening: Good cops are getting jobs elsewhere because they are good cops with good records and the bad cops will remain where they are right now because they can’t risk not being hired by other departments because of their crappy records.

The FBI says cities under 100,000 inhabitants have an average of 3.5 officers per 1,000 people. Losing 84 officers means 24,000 citizens in Ashville find themselves with less protection which is not peanuts since the population of the city is almost 100,000. Effectively, the city is 25% less protected because of the woke-induced Blue Exodus and the numbers are showing it.

Hosea 8:7: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” 

Omg is that satisfying to watch, don’t underestimate a nice guy who loves his family. pic.twitter.com/RXQasEiVyr

— blunt force instrument (@bluntlyangry) June 5, 2021

Beware the fury of a patient man