Old News: Nobody wants to take your guns, but you don’t need guns anyway.
Too many historic examples that are not taught anywhere because they run against their agenda.
One born every millisecond.
When I heard about Non-Fungible Tokens, I thought it was a joke. Make something digital non-useful, assign a “unique identifier” and sell it? Who could be that stupid to invest in that?
Apparently, a lot of people:
A recent study looking at the price of thousands of collections seems to suggest the answer is “yes.”
A report by dappGambl based on data provided by NFT Scan and CoinMarketCap indicated that 95% of non-fungible tokens were effectively worthless. Out of 73,257 NFT collections, 69,795 of them had a market cap of zero ether.
By their estimates, almost 23 million people hold these worthless assets.
NFT Crash: 95% of the Market Is Now Worthless, Study Finds (businessinsider.com)
Allow me to explain this in Boomer terms: Some dumbasses thought that buying a Pet Rock with a serial number would be a sound financial investment. Right now, they are not even worth to bust a window in an abandoned house.
At the end of the day, the three commodities that will always pay will be beans, bullets and band-aids. You may include precious metals for trading and even there will be a time when they will cease to be useful.
Vincent v. Garland (10th Cir., 21-4121) §922(g)(1)
B.L.U.F.Is this the next case to head to the Supreme Court? The 10th Circuit found that a convicted felon does not have a constitutionally protected right to possess firearms.
(1000 words)
In 2020, Melynda Vincent filed to have §922(g)(1) overturned as applied to her. In 2007, she was a drug addict and tried to pass a bad check for less than $500. She was arrested and put in to drug rehabilitation. She came out of drug rehab before her court case and has been clean since then.
In court, she pleaded “guilty”. This has a sentencing guideline charge for multiple years with no option of probation. The court sentenced her to 0 years in prison and probation. She completed her probation early. She has had no other negative interactions with the law/courts.
At the district court level, the court used the Tenth Circuit Court’s opinion in United States v. McCane. McCain was a felon in possession case, which the Circuit court ruled in 2009 was constitutional.
The important part of their decision was that they did not do means-end to make that determination. Instead, they relied on Heller.
The [Supreme] Court observed that it wasn’t “cast[ing] doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons.” Id. at 626. We applied this observation in United States v. McCane to uphold the constitutionality of the federal ban on felons’ possession of firearms.
—Vincent v. Garland, No. 21-4121, slip op. at 3 (10th Cir.)
—Vincent v. Garland, No. 21-4121, slip op. at 3 (10th Cir.)
Rhinestone Frisco (AKA Nashville)
This is the kind of crap that you see happening in SanFran or NYC or Seattle. That it happened in Nashville is a sad preview of the deep shithole to come.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A man who threatened to blow up a Nashville church and daycare has been released from jail and ordered to a halfway house.
On the heels of the heart-breaking Covenant School shooting, a victim’s rights group is asking how could you be so lenient with someone who threatened mass violence?
On July 7, there were 57 kids and 19 staff members at the Belmont United Methodist Church and Daycare in Hillsboro village when Damian Rucker burst through a gate and into the preschool.
Metro Police say he tried to get into a room with children, but the door was locked, so he ran into another room.
Police began clearing the building, before officers tackled Rucker when he attempted to run from one room to another.
He told police “God sent me here to rid the children of evil by blowing this place up and all places of worship to rid children of evil.”
Man who threatened Nashville church, daycare released to halfway house | WZTV (fox17.com)
We will see this guy again after he has done something horrific.
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I less civilized times, he would have been committed to some mental facility, kept away from regular folks and children. But since the folks in the Justice system are so caring, he is probably walking around Nashville plotting his next attack or, if we are very lucky, finding his own private demise without involving anybody else.
But it is a good thing no faculty member or staff in the school was armed as it made the location much safer, right?
Punch related fatality
Patriots fan was punched in head before he died at stadium, witness says
A New England Patriots fan who died at a home game Sunday was punched in the head twice before the medical emergency, a witness said Tuesday.
Massachusetts State Police have said that Dale Mooney “suffered an apparent medical event” during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
“A fan in a Dolphins jersey reached over and just punched the victim twice in the face,” witness Joe Kilmartin said.
The exact cause of death has not been released because the autopsy has not been done yet.
However, the indications are that he most likely died from a brain bleed due to head trauma.
Brain bleeds are insidious. A slow brain bleed can cause pressure to build up inside the skull until death occurs.
The victim may not be fully aware of the damage to his brain because early symptoms would be headaches and dizziness, which are overlooked.
By the time it gets severe enough where the victim wants to seek medical attention, they may be incapacitated.
Head trauma is very serious, and a good punch or two, especially when unexpected, can cause fatal head trauma.
Don’t get punched in the head, and don’t let idiots yell you that you don’t need to be prepared to use force to stop yourself from getting punched in the head.
United States v. Robert Hunter Biden WTF?
B.L.U.F. Hunter might get off the hook on counts 1 and 2 if count 3, §922(g)(3) is struck down for constitutional reasons.
(450 words)
for any person in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of any firearm or ammunition from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector, knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended or likely to deceive such importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm or ammunition under the provisions of this chapter;
— 18 U.S.C. §922(a)(6)
— 18 U.S.C. §922(a)(6)
Emphasis added.
Form 4473 asks a series of questions, as well as having several places for you to fill in your information. It is pretty clear that if you lie in the section asking questions to determine if you are a prohibited person, you are lying about a material fact. What if you were to write the wrong county down? Is that a “material fact” with respect to acquiring a firearm?
It doesn’t seem to be. While it would not surprise me to learn that the ATF pulled an FFL’s license because somebody misspelled the county name, I don’t think anybody has been prosecuted for misspelling the county name on a 4473.
knowingly makes any false statement or representation with respect to the information required by this chapter to be kept in the records of a person licensed under this chapter or in applying for any license or exemption or relief from disability under the provisions of this chapter;
— 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(1)(A)
— 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(1)(A)
Emphasis added.
The information required is only required if it is a “material fact”.
The short of it is that if this was anybody with an R after their name instead of a Biden, counts 1 and 2 would hold. Even if count 3 and 1 are tossed, count 2 would likely still hold.
Hunter’s lawyers will use Bruen and the other cases against §922(g)(3) to argue that the law is unconstitutional. They are likely to win. Biden, don’t you know.
If count 3, §922(g)(3) is tossed, does §922(a)(6) still stand? If being a user of a controlled substance in not a “material fact” then count 1 goes as well.
This means that only count 2, §924(a)(1)(A) still stands. If being a user of a controlled substance is not material, then is the information required?
All in all, it looks like a good case for the Second Amendment, a poor case for justice. As more than one pundit has pointed out, this is one of the few crimes that Hunter could have been charged with that does not implicate his father.
H/T Mark Smith
