I am goin to start with the heart-wrenching headline:

Family mourns loss of canvasser, as gun violence intersects with a common campaign practice

And the photo of the victim.

The shooting, which remained under investigation, underscored the relevance of the most important issue in the election: the city’s ongoing gun violence crisis..

Eddie Brokenbough was struggling to make ends meet

The 46-year-old, whom relatives described as a dedicated father of 10, experienced difficulties finding a good-paying job because, like many Philadelphians, he had a criminal record.

To supplement his income as a construction flagger, Brokenbough sometimes worked as a political canvasser, knocking on doors for organizations trying to get out the vote.

On Monday, Brokenbough was fatally shot while canvassing for the progressive group One PA by another canvasser from the same organization after the two men had an altercation.

What did I say? Heart-wrenching indeed. The man had made a mistake in the past and was having issues to keep his 10 kids fed so he was working as a canvaser and got shot down like a dog by somebody with a gun. SHAME! GUN VIOLENCE SUCKS! BLAME (Insert name here)!

If you do not read anything else, you end up with a sad portrayal of a life snuffed because the gun lobby. But if you keep reading down (way down), you will find a different tune to be sung.

Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said it was still unclear Tuesday what led to the argument between the two men, but that they had “some kind of previous history,” and when they crossed paths on the street, an argument followed.
Brokenbough then brandished his gun, which he was not licensed to carry, Vanore said, and the younger man pulled out his legally registered firearm and shot Brokenbough once in the armpit.
Police said the 22-year-old, whom they did not identify, told them he acted in self-defense.

Pay attention to this sentence: “Brokenbough then brandished his gun, which he was not licensed to carry.” Why didn’t he have a license to carry? Maybe he forgot? He did not know? Nopers, you need to go farther down the article to find out.

Brokenbough was prohibited from legally carrying a firearm because of an earlier conviction on charges of aggravated assault and illegal gun possession, after he shot a man in the arm for speaking to his girlfriend in 2012, according to court records.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 ½ to 23 months in prison, plus five years’ probation. His conviction prohibits him from possessing a gun.

He was a felon in possession of a firearm. And not just any felony but a violent one, with a gun. Something he did again, but this time he faced somebody who was carrying legally and managed to defend himself which makes him the real guilty party in the eyes of The Philadelphia Enquirer.

And the most beautiful kicker is that both men were canvassing for the Liberal group OnePA who forbids is canvassers to carry firearms. I guess at least one of them is happy he ignored such stupid instructions.

B.L.U.F. Judges have history, and it is important to understand their history. We explore a series of opinions issued by one Judge that are consistently anti-Second Amendment, even though the Supreme Court has told him he is wrong.

National Rifle Ass’n of Amer., Inc. v. City of Chicago, 567 F.3d 856 (7th Cir. 2009)

Back in 2009, the NRA et al. challenged the City of Chicago’s ban on the possession of most handguns. This was after District of Columbia v. Heller, 467 U.S. 837 (2008). In an opinion, written by Chief Judge Easterbrook, the Seventh Circuit court affirmed a lower court finding that such a ban was constitutional.

He begins with:

Here the judge is saying that district courts were dismissed because the Second Amendment didn’t apply to the state nor to subordinate bodies of a state. He goes on to say that three cases from the 1800s support this because the Supreme court did not take up such cases.

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The View’s Ana Navarro.

“Being Hispanic or being black or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist.”

From their manual:

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. […] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”

1984, George Orwell.

But then these people don’t want a “free society,” they want a “polite society” in which weapons allow you to dominate others and kill them if they insist on their status as equal persons.

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) May 7, 2023

No concealed carry permit holder that I’m aware of has ever shot a minority citizen for demanding equality or equal status.

This is why they have to push the narrative that “[criminal] was shot for walking while black,” or some other similar type statement.

They cannot acknowledge that most of these shoots are good shoots because these people do not want to live in a polite society.

They want to live in a society of anarcho-tryanny where thugs and criminals can commit crimes unmolested and law abiding citizen cower in fear, defenseless.

So they beatify every criminal so that the narrative turns into a poor minority killed for wanted to be an equal person instead of a criminal choosing the wrong target.

The homeless vagrant on the subway isn’t demanding equality.  He’s robbing you with the threat of violence.

A Murfreesboro homeowner won’t face charges after he shot two men, killing one, accused of breaking into his home, using a Taser on the family’s dog and holding a teenage boy at gunpoint.

Murfreesboro police were called to the home in the 100 block of January Street about 8:30 p.m. Friday in reference to the shooting, according to a statement released Sunday evening.

When officers arrived at the home, they found 52-year-old Kevin Ford dead at the front door, according to the statement.
A second man was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the Salvation Army on Main Street, police said. He was taken to the hospital, treated and released into police custody on charges of aggravated burglary, attempted aggravated robbry, convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent felony.

Police: Murfreesboro homeowner kills man during burglary attempt (dnj.com)

Recidivism for one of the home invaders was properly reduced to zero.

And that is the way you do it.

I was TDY a large part of Friday and again on Sunday. There is an article started, but it has been slow-going. I’m learning some new tools that will accelerate things in the future.

Back at University, I was very unhappy. I was under the impression that I would be moving from a music desert to a music mecca. I could not have been more mistaken.

I went to High School listening to WCMS, 99.9FM (Almost Perfect Radio). Their original jingle was that they were the Western, Country Music Station.

There was no country station at University. It was almost like it was a leftest enclave. I listened to many different radio stations, mostly I listened to albums and those new fangled things, CDs.

One day, I heard a haunting love song come over the airwaves. It was the first song I had heard on American radio in a foreign language, German. There was even a line in it regarding Captain Kirk… I loved that song.

Nobody knew what she was singing, but it was had an energy that was fun and powerful.

Later, they released the same song in English.

This reek of political desperation.

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology as they work to try to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cautioned the investigation is in its early stages.

Federal agents have been reviewing social media accounts they believe Mauricio Garcia, 33, used and posts that expressed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, said the official, who could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Garcia also had a patch on his chest when he was killed by police that read “RWDS,” an acronym for the phrase “Right Wing Death Squad,” which is popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups, the official said.

Texas mall shooting suspect identified, investigators examining ideology: AP sources

I was over a friend’s yesterday before the name was officially released. I had read in an article that the parents of Asshole Mauricio Garcia had requested a translator while talking to Law Enforcement and I jokingly made the comment that DotGov and its minions in the Propaganda Coprs (AKA The Press) may want to pull a George Zimmerman and accusse Asshole Garcia of being a “White Hispanic” so it could be made about race. Apparently they actually were thinking about that.

Of course, I am intrigued to find out about the race of the victims and see how many POC were victimized.  From that awful video we saw yesterday, not a whole lot of dark skins in the lot.

In the meantime, the danger of Copycats has not subsided. Carry every minute and make sure you practice your head shots.