This is from the London local government:

Calls for a commission on knife crime in the black community

Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.

How very interesting.

Let’s look at US data:

Nearly 90 Percent of Black Homicide Victims Killed With Guns, New Violence Policy Center Study Finds

For the entire UNITED STATES, the study finds that in 2019:

There were 7,441 Black homicide victims in the United States that year. Black Americans represented 14 percent of the U.S. population, yet accounted for 52 percent of all homicide victims.

For homicides in which the weapon used could be identified, 88 percent of Black victims (6,190 out of 7,056) were shot and killed with guns. Of these, 64 percent (3,935 victims) were killed with handguns.

The difficult data to get is the percentage of shootings committed by race. It seems purposefully vague.

But there are trends we can notice.

Crime, not cops, is by far the largest threat to black lives

In New York City in 2019, 319 people were murdered. Fully 88 percent of them — 280 people — were black or Hispanic. And 93.2 of them were murdered by other people of color.

Almost 96 percent of all shooters and shooting victims in the Big Apple in 2019 were people of color. People of color also accounted for 73.8 percent of rape victims and 81.3 percent of the rape suspects; 69 percent of robbery victims and 93.3 percent of the robbery suspects; and 79.5 percent of felony ­assault victims and 86 percent of the assault suspects.

People of color, in other words, are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violent crime in New York City. That is a cold fact. These proportions have remained remarkably consistent over the past 12 years.

In the US and London, the percent of Black residents is very close.  Among with the, the rate of violent death, both as victims and perpetrators, is close.

The only really significant difference appears to to be the choice in weapon; knives in the UK and guns in the US.

I’m not going to extrapolate more than that, just it’s an interesting trend to notice.

It’s time to update HK. BECAUSE YOU SUCK. AND WE HATE YOU.

That was in response to this Miller ad.

Look, I hate gun bunnies too.  I have been absolutely consistent on my visceral hatred for influencer culture.  The bunny culture being the worst of that trend.

I watched as the industry fucked over lots of people would giving free guns and ammo to every Instagram model who couldn’t shoot for shit but squeezed off rounds in a sports bra and painted on yoga pants.  You dedicated your life to the shooting sports for a fuck you, while some chick who covers her nipples with a black rifle gets a free case of ammo.  Yeah, fuck that noise with a garden hose.

But, holy fucking shit, just keep your mouth shut.  You can disavow gun bunnies without the moralistic lecture.

At least H&K realized their marketing person fucked up and went rogue.

The Road Forward. pic.twitter.com/qdMEo3NiWm

— Heckler & Koch (@HecklerAndKoch) May 17, 2023

Civilian sales are not H&K’s bread and butter, but still, insultinh your customers is a bad business model.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville is looking to prevent certain parts of The Covenant School shooter’s writings from being released to the public, according to a recent motion filing.

According to court records, Covenant attorneys filed two motions to intervene, one against The Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) and another with the Nashville Police Association (NPA), requesting the court permit them to “protect its interests relating to the release of records sought” by the two organizations. Specifically, the groups are interested in the personal journals and other writings seized from Audrey Hale’s home on March 27.

While acknowledging the public need to know what motivated Hale to murder six people, including three children that day, the church is concerned parts of the documents may jeopardize the security of their facility and the personal safety of its members.

“The records sought in Petitioners’ Complaint and Petition may include and/or relate to information owned by Covenant Church, including, but not limited to, schematics of church facilities and confidential information pertaining to Covenant Church employees. Covenant Church is so situated that the disposition of this action may impair or impede its ability to protect its interests and the privacy of its employees. Therefore, intervention by Covenant Church in this action is warranted.”

Motion to Intervene by The Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville

Covenant School files motions to intervene in the release of shooter’s writings

I am not an expert, but overall your security already sucked the day of the shooting. Hoping for the best and saying “It won’t happen to us” is not recommended safety measures or preparation.  And I wonder how many of the faculty and staff are in Social Media identified with the school which makes their request for privacy pretty much dumb.

This looks more like the administration saying to themselves:”We fucked up and we don’t want the public to know we fucked up. Lawsuits are still a thing we may face.”

In my “docket alerts” over at CourtListener, I have over 30 alerts set. Each alert causes the site to send me email when a case is updated.

I’ve talked about how long it takes to get a case through to completion. The excellent news, today, is that completion now feels like it will be a win for the Second Amendment side.

But I noticed something, we are less than a year out from Bruen and the Supreme Court has already looked at two different cases. They decided against intervening, but this seems to have been done on procedural grounds.

The latest was an appeal from the 7th Circuit court. From the time of the appeal to the time of decision by the Supreme Court was less than 2 weeks. The request was denied. It doesn’t matter.

It is still a win for the Second Amendment.

In the past, 2A cases would languish in Circuit Court limbo for months or even years. The cases were delayed, progress was slow and painful.

The 7th Circuit is one of the courts that has a history of dragging its feet when it comes to Second Amendment rights. As long as the state holds the upper hand, the courts respond slowly.

We have already had the 2nd Circuit Court go from “yeah, we’ll hear the appeal sometime in the future.” to “We will hear oral arguments in 2 months.” The 7th did an instant grant of a stay. It looked like it would be many months before the 7th got around to hearing the case.

Instead, one of the cases was appealed to the Supreme Court. The Court asked for a briefing and within the week the circuit court had scheduled briefings on an extremely tight time frame.

Of those 30+ cases? Nearly half of them are at the Circuit Court level already. Some at the preliminary injunction level but some at the injunction level.

Nobody is sitting still.

I’ve been wrong about some of my timelines.

I believe that what is going to happen is that the Circuit courts are going to delay issuing their opinions until the end of the Supreme Court Term. That will give them a bit of time before the Supreme Court can take new cases.

We might be seeing cases before the Supreme Court by the end of 2023.

It is an interesting time to be involved with the 2A community.

… but it if fucking quacks, you best be ready.

During his address at Howard University’s commencement on Saturday (May 13), President Biden used the podium to assert that white supremacy is “the most dangerous terrorist threat” to America.
…
“I don’t have to tell you that progress towards justice often meets ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” Biden stated. “That’s because hate never goes away.”

Here’s Why Biden Calling White Supremacy America’s ‘Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat’ Is Important (yahoo.com)

And then via Area Ocho, I find out thirty tons of ammonium nitrate has gone missing from a railcar in California.

Update your bingo cards accordingly.

After Bud Light got absolutely slaughtered in sales over a spot they did with an effete gay man LARPing offensively as a woman, why on God’s green Earty would any other American brand who relies on sales from working and middle-class American men go woke?

I don’t know, but that needs to be asked of Ford.

Pride knows no bounds @Ford pic.twitter.com/f3EZA9mgZJ

— Caroline (@carolinecwilder) May 17, 2023

For 41 years, the F-150 has been the best selling vehicle I’m American.

Emphasis on has been.

How many working and middle-class men who use their trucks and are in need of a new one are gonna want a gay pickup?

Ford Tough used to be about how strong their trucks are.  Now it’s when you get rear ended in your F-150 and you let him go in dry.

B.L.U.F. A District Judge in New Jersey issues her order and opinion on a motion for a Preliminary Injunction. She is not happy with the state. She does an okay read of Bruen, finds in part for the plaintiffs (good guys) and in part for the defendants (bad guys/state).

Good News

The short answer, here, is that the Judge gets it. Chief Judge Renee Marie Bumb has written a 235-page opinion that is extensive. While the final outcome is not a 100% win for the Second Amendment, it is still a devastating take-down of the state.

History

A pretty good start. sprang into action has that sort of dig against the state the Courts do when they are telling the state they understand the nefarious motives of the state.
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