This story is a window into pure evil.

Virginia first-grader, 6, bragged about shooting his teacher Abigail Zwerner to school officials – and said ‘I shot the b**** dead’

A six-year-old boasted ‘I shot that b**** dead,’ after firing at his first-grade teacher inside a Virginia elementary school in January, recently unsealed redacted search warrants revealed.

Documents obtained by WTKR show that the unnamed boy told a school official how he brought his mother’s gun into the Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, on January 6 and shot his teacher Abigail Zwerner, 25. She survived the shooting that drew national headlines.

The docs also reveal the same boy nearly choked his kindergarten teacher a year before ‘until she couldn’t breathe’ and had to be removed from the classroom.

She described how the boy drew his weapon from his pocket after the class got back from recess, pointed it directly at her, at which point she asked, ‘What are you doing with that?’

The boy paused for a moment ‘then fired one shot that struck Zwerner in her left hand and upper torso,’ the court documents said. She fled the classroom to the school office, where first responders found her bleeding from the wound.

Zwerner also allegedly told police of other incidents in which the student threatened violence and physically assaulted others — all of which, she said, were reported to school administrators.

In one of those incidents, the child allegedly choked his kindergarten teacher.

Authorities noted in their affidavits they spoke to the teacher, who described how the child ‘walked behind her while she was sitting in her chair and placed both of his arms around her neck, pulling down, choking her to the point she could not breathe.’

That child is pure evil.

I don’t know of he was born bad or made bad, but either way it doesn’t matter.

A child with a history of violence pointing a gun at you intends to do you harm.

A bullet fired by a little kid is just as lethal as one fired by an adult.

I have a wife and two kids, one a little younger than this boy.

My wife needs me, my kids need me.

I will feel bad having to defend myself against a six-year-old, right until I get home and my kids hug me and tell me they love me, then I will be assured I did the right thing.

The scenario you have in your head of who is going to try and shoot you might not be accurate.

Be prepared for when it’s not.

Today we heard a great opinion out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They found that knives are arms. As arms, they are presumptively protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. Finally, they found that the government had not met their burden of finding a law from the founding that supported their modern infringement.

There is another court ruling out today. This one out of the Supreme Court.

There will be a great gnashing of teeth over this. It affects many people, it isn’t great, but it isn’t horrible either.

In late June and early July, the District court found the ATF’s frame and receiver rule to be a violation of law, NOT on Second Amendment grounds. The ruling basically said, “The ATF can’t make law, this “regulation” is them attempting to re-write the law. If Congress wants the law to be as the ATF wants it to be, Congress has to pass that bill.”

Currently, gun control bills in the Congress are fraught with risk for both sides. The gun grabbers do NOT want people looking hard at §921 and exactly what the GCA of 1968, as amended, is worded. §922 is under attack in multiple cases, having somebody challenge the rest of the GCA on constitutional grounds is not something that they want to see happen.

The state had asked the Fifth Circuit for a stay of the injunction granted by the District Court. The state was asking for a stay until the Fifth Circuit heard the case. The Fifth Circuit told them to go pound sand. The state then made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court looking for that stay.

Normally, these are quick. This took a little longer than Alito wanted.

What this means is that the frame and receiver rule is back until the Fifth Circuit renders their opinion. It looks like that could happen rapidly. The Fifth doesn’t like having their decisions overturned.

It is important to note that the Supreme Court did not rebuke the Fifth. Unlike what was done to the Second and Seventh circuits.

Now the state will drag their heels on this. The 3 judge panel will issue their findings. Regardless of how that goes, the losing party will ask for an en banc hearing. That will happen. If the Vanderstok loses, they will appeal. Their goal has always been to get this to the Supreme Court.

If the state loses, they might just tuck tail and take the L rather than get the Supreme Court involved.

So while this was a step back, I consider it an “ok” outcome. We will win in the end.

On the “Well, that’s to be expected.” Roberts came down on the side of the state. There is nothing strange about that. I just don’t trust him.

I would like to know what Amy Coney Barrett was thinking. She didn’t join with Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.

The proclamation issued by the Governor addresses several items that do not include Red Flags, Universal Background Checks and Mandatory Storage which were the top three items that Gun Controllers were badgering for.

Now, I am not naive enough to believe that some of these proposals cannot suddenly be transformed (especially item 12) into something else while everybody is looking elsewhere, so a constant state of observation will be required till the session is over. Still, I like the idea of committing resources to mental health care and I mean real care, no bullshit holistic kumbaya hormone and crystal therapy “care.”

( 1) Mental health resources, providers, commitments, or services;
(2) School safety plans or policies;
(3) Health care providers’ duty to warn about potential violent offenses;
( 4) Offenses of committing acts of mass violence or threatening to commit acts of mass
violence;
(5) Reports from the Tennessee Bureau oflnvestigation regarding human trafficking;
(6) Identification of individuals arrested for felonies;
(7) Law enforcement’s access to criminal and juvenile records;
(8) Law enforcement’s access to information about individuals who are subject to mental
health commitment;
(9) Information about victims of violent offenses;
( 10) Stalking offenses;
(11) Measures encouraging the safe storage of firearms, which do not include the creation
of penalties for failing to safely store firearms;
(12) Temporary mental health orders of protection, which must be initiated by law
enforcement, must require a due process hearing, must require the respondent to undergo
an assessment for suicidal or homicidal ideation, must require law enforcement to prove
its case by clear and convincing evidence, must require that an order of protection be
reevaluated at least every one-hundred eighty (180) days, and must not permit ex parte
orders;
(13) The transfer of juvenile defendants aged sixteen (16) and older to courts with criminal
jurisdiction, which must include appeal rights for the juveniles and the prosecuting
authorities;
(14) Limiting the circumstances in which juvenile records may be expunged;
( 15) Blended sentencing for juveniles;
(16) Offenses related to inducing or coercing a minor to commit an offense;
(17) The structure or operations of state or local courts; and
(18) Making appropriations sufficient to provide funding for any legislation that receives
final passage during the extraordinary session; making appropriations sufficient to pay the
expenses of the extraordinary session, including the expenses of carrying out any actions
taken pursuant to this proclamation; making appropriations sufficient to support mental
health initiatives; making appropriations for school safety grants, as described on page B90 of the 2023-2024 Budget Document and in Section 54, Item 1-41, Section 60, Item 25,
and Section 60, Item 26 of Chapter 418, Public Acts of 2023; and making appropriations
to support school safety at institutions of higher education.

Once again, Item 12 is the one that has the best chance to be fucked with into a Red Flag. I still would love to see a legislator add the mandatory minimum felony charges and hefty personal fines for anybody misusing a health order against any citizen. There will be no true cure for abuse unless there is a harsh punishment attached to it.

Woman screams for help as her bike is stolen in broad daylight. A bunch of people stand around watching. Nobody moves.

Welcome to California https://t.co/2lwBo3VP9m

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 8, 2023

Welcome to what the Left has created.

I guarantee you that people were more afraid of what would happen to them for confronting a black criminal than doing nothing as a white woman is attacked and robbed.

This sort of thing didn’t have to happen.  It was done on purpose.

The failure of law enforcement, social media and mainstream media that publicly shame and stoke internet hate mobs against people, this destruction of polite society was deliberate and malicious.

Society is suffering and it will get worse before it gets better.

File this away under Things I Didn’t See Coming.

The 9th Circus Court of Appeals made a good decision.

Ninth Circuit overturns butterfly knife ban, citing Supreme Court guns ruling

Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling that severely limited states’ authority to regulate guns, a federal appeals court on Monday struck down Hawaii’s ban on butterfly knives, pocket knives with folding blades that can be quickly joined into a single blade and used as a weapon.

The ruling, if it stands, could also be used to overturn California’s prohibition on carrying butterfly knives in public that have blades longer than 2 inches.

When the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last year that Americans have a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms in public — a decision that struck down laws in New York, California and other states — the court also declared, in the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, that any restriction on gun possession was unconstitutional unless the government could show it was “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation,” dating back to the country’s founding.

On Monday, a conservative panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the same standard applies to restrictions on knives, including butterfly knives.

Although those cases have involved guns, the same standard should apply to restrictions on other types of weapons, the appeals court said Monday.

“Like firearms, bladed weapons fit the general definition of ‘arms’” under the Constitution’s Second Amendment, Judge Carlos Bea said in the 3-0 ruling, citing a dictionary published in 1774.

And while Hawaii contends butterfly knives are commonly used by criminals, Bea wrote, evidence shows they are “commonly owned for lawful purposes. … Hawaii has submitted no evidence that butterfly knives are not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for self-defense.”

Seeking to satisfy the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” standard, Hawaii said that as far back as the 1830s, states had restricted or banned weapons like the Bowie knife, which has a single-edged blade longer than 9 inches. But Bea said those laws were “outliers,” not shared by most states, and were nowhere near as restrictive as Hawaii’s current law.

In the nation’s early history and tradition, there are “no analogues in which Congress or any state legislature imposed an outright ban on the possession of pocket knives to remedy this (crime) problem,” Bea wrote. He was joined by Judges Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee.

Hot damn!

My biggest complaint about the way the Second Amendment is enforced, when it is enforced, is limited to guns.

I’m a big believer that the Second Amendment applies to all weapons.

I’ve posted a myriad of videos of assaults from inside train cars and other close packed situations where a gun and pepper spray are both bad ideas.  Either over penetration of bullets or gassing yourself in an enclosed area.

Collapsible batons, blackjacks, brass knuckles, all are effective intermediate weapons for extreme CQB.

Some asshole gets in your face and starts manhandling you on the subway, a quarter of a pound of brass to the forehead will generally change his tune without breaking your hand.

I often carry an ASP Protector concealable baton.  During the summer of love it went with me everywhere in case of protesters.  Pepper spray and a baton were a good combo.

But there are many places that put restrictions on non-firearm weapons.

Tennessee for example, has permitless firearm carry but requires training and a license for a baton.

I want to see this decision used to challenge all weapon laws everywhere in America.

I’m a law abiding citizen, I should be able to carry any weapon I want to defend myself.

Another day, another Leftist asshole going on a rant about how terrible bog trucks and the people who drive them are.

I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.

What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.

A summary ? pic.twitter.com/2EOSnc5TdH

— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) August 5, 2023

Problem 1: Car bloat endangers others on the street

Tall vehicles have bigger blind spots and are more likely to strike a person’s torso or head.

Heavier vehicles exert more force crashing into a person, bicycle, or smaller car. They also have longer braking distances. pic.twitter.com/O7XlevZxrD

— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) August 5, 2023

Problem 3: Car bloat shreds tires

Heavier cars exert more pressure on tires, eroding them faster.

Tire particles are absorbed into water, where they damage ecosystems. They also float through the air, harming human health when ingested.https://t.co/NN3EguO020

— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) August 5, 2023

Some might say: “But people want big cars!”

Not necessarily. US automakers offer no alternative, and car bloat pushes buyers to upsize – if only to avoid being at a disadvantage on the road b/c *others* have big cars.https://t.co/WTGmq1DzhC

— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) August 5, 2023

What should we do?
? Tax vehicles by weight.
? Test vehicles for pedestrian and cyclist safety (still doesn’t happen in the US)
? Require a CDL for the most gigantic vehicles

Left alone, this problem will only worsen. Governments must step up.https://t.co/KQZE3cmpko

— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) August 5, 2023

He’s not entirely wrong.  Trucks have gotten stupid expensive.  A new truck payment is now what a mortgage payment should be.  And big trucks aren’t exactly the most fuel efficient vehicles.

And, to be fair, a lot of suburban Americans dont need huge trucks.  I used to drive a 2nd generation long bed Ranger and it did about 97% of what I needed a pickup to do.

If you want a big truck, have it.  This is America.

I have a Ram 2500 Powerwagon and I love her, but she goes get about 9 MPG with the 6.4 Hemi and 35 inch mud tires.  (The Powerwagon doesn’t come in a diesel, and even if it did, the diesel is a $12,000 option and half a million miles, the fuel efficiency and increased cost of diesel doesn’t make up for the initial cost of the diesel engine.)

I have a 1st gen Tundra, which is much smaller, that I use as a work truck and it’s fully capable of doing everything I need it to.

The point is, there should be options for compact trucks.  If there were, I highly suspect more people would buy them.

The problem is this assholesl’s solution is more government action.  Tax big trucks more.  Make drivers get CDLs.

That only makes it worse.

Here is a video on why there are no more compact trucks.

The real solution is to eliminate the CAFE standards.

It should be possible to built something like a 3rd gen Ranger or S10 with a new engine and get 25+ MPGs.  But the government won’t allow that to be built economically.

But this asshole is a Leftist.

Government is his God and government regulations are his religion.

He hates big trucks and he hates the people who like big trucks, and he wants to impose his religion on them.

He can’t conceive of that idea that government actually created this problem and that deregulation is the solution.

So he’ll demand more of the thing that creates the perverse incentive to make huge expensive trucks.

Make every 2500 a commercial vehicle and everyone who wants one will get a Class B CDL (which is what you need for a large RV, so not difficult to get), then set up an LLC (also not difficult to do) and turn their truck into a business expense and deduct it.

This is not a man interested in solving problems.  He’s a religious zealot conducting a jihad against trucks.

How I’m feeling today. Of course Heavy Metal was the naught animated movie of my University days.