I just found out and it floored me.

My phone call last night was from my friend Michael Meyer (who despite never getting me a Clydesdale, I still adore) telling me John had passed on. I didn’t even know he had been working on his next book. Who knows what that might have been like. Michael said everyone was in shock. I get it, I am as well. I told Michael it’s because we never expect our legends to die.

I stand on the shoulders of Giants | The Zelman Partisans

I had interacted with John Ross a bit in Facebook when he asked for help establishing the publication date of a particular paperback book he was using in his next book. He DMed me asking about my sources and I was glad to share them. Anything I could do to get a taste of his next book was his for the asking.

I hope now he sees how much of an influence he has been to tens (hundred?) of thousands of us. His book has made us better Second Amendment Advocates and possibly the most dangerous motherfuckers walking this country.

Thank you, John, and we will miss you.

Buddy Paul Lathrop from the Polite Society Podcast demonstrates it so.

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The expected moaning and groaning has already risen to full pitch.

Name is blocked because she is a FB friend and a competitive shooter.  Yes, I make exceptions.

The clip from Youtube is spectacular in showing the callousness of some of these activists.

Pro Life activists lost all the ground they fought for because they allowed the nutcases to represent them. It has not been one or two crazy incidents, but a generation full of small things (directly related or not to abortion or not) that little by little eroded any righteousness the movement had and turned it into a mass-murder enterprise (both commercial and political)

The pendulum of politics always swings fully the other way if not policed.  I believe the rank and file Pro Life either did not care anymore about it because they felt safe or because they were afraid to be tagged as the enemy if they raised concerns about how far into criminal idiocy the new breed of Abortionists was taking the movement.

The Piper just issued a bill and it is collecting.

PS: The leak may have been overblown and edited for impact rather than truth. But it does still serve as warning.

Hizzonor the Mayor being stunning and brave.

But if you want to keep beating up Jews or Asians or tossing people in front of the incoming subway, that is not seen as violence or at least not a bad type.

Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian city of Melitopol stole nearly $5 million of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership and shipped some of them more than 700 miles to Chechnya, CNN reported, only to find they had been rendered useless by a remote-locking system that prevented the thieves from turning the equipment on.

Two compound harvesters, valued at $300,000 each, as well as 27 other tractors, seeders, and additional pieces of equipment were stolen from the dealership. But the remote access technology of the equipment, which allows for GPS tracking and some of the vehicles to be remotely operated, prevented them from being used.

“When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely,” a source familiar with the incident told CNN.

Russian troops stole $5M worth of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership, which remotely locked the thieves out of the equipment (yahoo.com)

Your reminder that the Russian military has a centuries-old tradition of rape and looting. What for other armies are crimes committed in uniform, for the Russians is simply a reward.

And I would not praise the forethought of John Deere for two reasons: They will use this as example why people do not have the right to fix the equipment they bought from them and two, the software used by farmers to bypass the locks used by John Deere and be able to repair the machines paid with their own effing money come from that part of the world.

Those harvesters will be up and running in no time.

Hat Tip Zeigfriedwhiffle

An East Texas man is dead after police say he broke into a Canton home and was shot by the homeowner.

Erik J. Hicks, 51, of Grand Saline, was shot multiple times by a homeowner after he “unlawfully forced entry” into the home around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Canton Police Department.
Officers responded to a call of a shooting shortly after midnight Saturday where they found Hicks with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a local hospital and died a short time later, police said.
Police said after Hicks entered the home, he went into the living area and confronted the homeowner as he was armed with a handgun.
When the homeowner heard Hicks break into the home, he got his own handgun. Once Hicks was inside the home, the homeowner shot him multiple times, according to police.

The homeowner has not been charged.

Grand Saline man fatally shot by homeowner after breaking into Canton home | Crime | tylerpaper.com

It sounds silly to say this, but after detecting danger, first go to gun, then establish defense and only after that, call 911.

We have been ingrained with the CALL 911 IN ANY EMERGENCY that we end up believing it is a magical spell to instantly summon help. That ain’t so, Sparky.

You are your own First Responder.

Hat Tip Gary E.

5/2/22 Reuters:

“(Reuters) – A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court will vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, Politico reported on Monday.”

My guess is a disgruntled justice or clerk is trying to put pressure on the Court.  Does anyone doubt that riots at the Court or physical attacks on justices in the majority will happen?  But this time, it will be the righteous anger of the people at a misogynistic racist Supreme Court.