Some interesting signs have been appearing around West Hollywood, CA.

After a mass shooting, when politicians take to the stage and say they are going to curtail the civil liberties of innocent people do something, there is a run on guns.  In this case, it is noted that there is run on guns by members of the LGBT community.

Deep in the heart of Texas, a shooting range has offered free concealed carry (CHL) classes to LGBT folk, and is totally booked up on space.

It seems that a (growing) segment of the LGBT community has been bitten by Israeli “Never Again” bug and are arming themselves.

This is how we win.  The more open the gun community is to LGBT folk, the more we welcome them in, the more we show that we are not the bigoted monsters the Left has painted us as, the more we demonstrate that the right to own guns and self defense exists for all law abiding citizens regardless of sexual orientation, the more we will continue to win.

I would love nothing more than to see a bunch of rainbow Gadsden flags and rainbow Gonzales flags waiving at the next pro-gun rally.

On the other size of the political world…

Some Social Justice Warriors at the University of Missouri  decided to segregate a vigil for the victims in Orlando, driving away Gays who wanted to show their respect because they were white.

Apparently this young woman didn’t feel that the Orlando shooting made her enough of a victim and decided to whip out the race card too and go for broke.

As you can imagine, this was a knife deep in the heart of the many gay men.

And this is how they lose.  They can’t just show solidarity.  They have to divide and segregate and divide and segregate.  Incidents like this show that SJWs are just avatars of hate and victimology that have taken human form and walk the earth spreading poison.

Maybe this shooting will mark a turning point in American politics.  It seems that the all the bloviating by Obama, Clinton, the media, and Liberal punditry at large, about how this is not about Islam and we can’t say Islamic terrorism, and this is the fault of the NRA has shown just how much the Left cares about or wants to protect the LGBT community.  Not.  At.  All.  Democrats/Liberals have overplayed their hand and revealed that they don’t care about the safety of LGBT folk, gays and lesbians are a defacto Dem voting block and can now be taken granted for.

Adam Winkler is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law.

He published an Op-Ed in the New York Times arguing that the US Government should create a secret court to secretly strip US citizens of their rights to own a gun, in which the defendant has not been notified that he has been charged or has any ability to defend him/her self.

“Congress should authorize no-buy lists but mandate that appropriate protections be put in place. If the attorney general believes a suspected terrorist should be added to the list, she should have to go to court first and offer up evidence. Only after concluding that the attorney general has probable cause should the court approve the denial of the suspect’s right to buy a gun.  This court proceeding, of course, would be secret. ”

Of course, he thinks this is perfectly in line with what our Founding Fathers intended.

“Due process of law is a vital constitutional principle and Americans have a right to own firearms for self-protection.“

But then contradicts himself, recognizing that his secret court violates due process.

“Although that denies the person included on the no-buy list the opportunity to rebut the attorney general’s evidence...“

So how does he try to justify a secret court that secretly strips people of their rights without giving them the ability to defend themselves or face their accusers?

Well, the FISA court and Japanese internment, of course.

“Such principles, which were part of the framers’ broad conception of due process, have not always been followed when it comes to national security, from the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program. Yet those principles can provide a sound basis for no-buy lists.“

Get it?  Nothing justifies stripping citizens of their rights than perhaps invoking the greatest injustice and worse Supreme Court decision of the 20th century.  Not to mention that the constitutionality of the FISA court is dubious at best and has been ruled against in part in the past, and that it is notoriously on the side of government intrusion with over 75% of warrants being approved.

Saying that a FISA court like system to take away gun rights would preserve due process is beyond ridiculous as legal scholars have said that the FISA court is “the antithesis of due process.”

One would think that a liberal lawyer from California would respect the opinion of the ACLU, which hates both the FISA court and the no fly list, but apparently the opinion of a civil rights organization that fights for civil liberties means nothing when it comes to gun rights.

Winkler thinks that his idea is reasonable because “to ensure that the no-buy list isn’t being abused, the law should also require that the attorney general file periodic, confidential reports to an appropriate congressional oversight committee where pro-gun lawmakers can police any executive branch abuses.”

BULLSHIT!!!

If there is one thing that we have learned in the last nigh-on 16 years is that Congress has all of its 1,070 collective thumbs firmly embedded up its own ass when it comes to policing executive overreach.

That is not a glitch in his plan, that is a feature.

Let me pose this question to Mr. Winkler: since you are such a fan of the Korematsu v. United States decision, given that there were no verifiable cases of Japanese sabotage on the mainland United States prior to internment, but SCOTUS decided that internment was Constitutional on  the basis that public safety overrode the civil rights of Japanese Americans; given the Ft. Hood shooting, San Bernardino shooting, Boston Marathon bombing, DC Snipers, Chattanooga Recruiting Center shooting, and Pulse Nightclub shooting, do you support the internment of Muslim Americans?

Or do you just hate gun owners?

Winkler has the audacity to end his advocacy for an anti-gun Court of Star Chamber with “the best way to honor those who died in Orlando is to do everything we can to reduce the chances of more innocent lives being lost to terrorism. And we can do it while respecting the Constitution.”

A secret court that cannot be challenged or appealed, that exists explicitly to strip a citizen of their Constitutional right does not respect our Constitution.  At.  All.

Let me make this clear.  A secret court that cannot be challenged or appealed, that exists explicitly to strip a citizen of a Constitutional right is EXACTLY the type of institution that our Founders had in mind when they created the Second Amendment, having signed their names to a document that contained the words ” But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government” only a dozen years before.

The thought experiment that went into writing this Op-Ed is the reason my father – who was also an attorney, a gun owner, and who HATED the FISA court and President G.W. Bush, in particular, for expanding it under the PATRIOT Act with a vehemency –  raised me to be a gun owner.

Writing this post has really made me miss by dad.  This Op-Ed is the kind of thing I would have sent to him to watch his brilliant legal mind tear apart, quoting case law from memory.

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One other thing.

To Mr. Winkler, Gersh Kuntsman, Richard Cohen, and the other progressive Jewish voices in the media,

Shut up, you are not helping.

I have read in countless Op-Eds since Sunday how as a straight male, I don’t know what the shooting at the Pulse feels like.  I have been told that I don’t understand how gays feel in America, and that this is why so many gays are afraid to even hold hands in public.

I don’t know what that is like, they are right.  But I do know what it is like to have members of the Muslim Student Association scream in my face about the blood libel supposed Israeli war crimes and how my people are apes and pigs, because when other students put op Christmas decorations in their offices, I put up Hanukkah decorations.

I know what it is like to put a Mezuzah on my door to have it torn off and smashed.

I know what it is like to to be told to my face that my people are everything that is wrong with the world and that we should all be killed.

I know what it is like to have people protest outside my place of worship while I am trying to celebrate my holy days.

I know what it is like to think “is this a safe place for me to say that I am Jewish?”

I know what it is like to watch TV or go online and see religious and political leaders call my people a cancer on the world, the AIDS virus, blood drinkers, baby killers, and that we should be exterminated.

I know what it is like to see people celebrate in the streets and hand out candy to children when Jewish families are butchered in their sleep.

I many not know what it is like to be gay, but I think my experiences are pretty damn close.

And after all of that, how have I chosen to respond.  The way my father taught me, by having several of your hated AR’s ready in my safe.  By getting a permit and carrying a handgun with one of your hated high capacity magazines on me everywhere that it is legal.  I’m not going to die on my knees with a knife in my ribs, with the last words I hear being “Allah Akbar” or “No blood for Israel.”  I’m going to fight.

Don’t.  You.  Dare.  Disarm.  Me.

Never Again.

I’ve been working on a longer post about the massive disinformation response to the Orlando shooting and have come to a conclusion that needs to be said sooner than later.

I have watched in awe as the media has gone off the rails to explain how a shooter who pledged allegiance to ISIS and was yelling “Allah Akbar” while pulling the trigger wasn’t motivated by Islam, but was instead motivated by Islamophobia, toxic masculinity, and the NRA.

We are about to get hit by a perfect shit storm of anti-gun, social justice, and liberal intolerance, and will have to be work hard to make sure our rights survive it.

There is one insidious theme that has run through all the Op-Eds I’ve forced myself to read in a progressive coprophagic gavage, is this:

The NRA/GOP/Conservatives will not “do something” in response to the Orlando shooting to prevent the next shooting reinstate the AWB/impose restrictive gun control because we are a bunch of intolerant *Christian* homophobes and we range from not caring about to being overwhelmed with joy that more than 100 gay men and women were injured or killed early Sunday morning.

We are going to get beat over the head by a one-two punch combo of anti-gun emotional platitudes and accusations of anti-homosexual/transgender bigotry.  The murder of 50 young gay men and women is exactly the type of scenario to embolden the Social Justice Warriors of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr to go for blood.

I was going to comment on Miguel’s last post and then decided to make a post of my own on the subject.

Miguel found this image somewhere on the internet:

I don’t actually find it all that surprising.

Radical leftism- progressivism –  is an evil and insidious political ideology that is every bit as destructive and morally bankrupt as Radical Islam.

No, I will not back down from that statement.

Many years ago I was introduced to a group that was once called Queers for Palestine and now known as Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!).  Let that sink in for a moment.  Israeli, which has full gay rights, which has the largest and only gay pride parade in the Middle East and Central Asia, is being attacked by a gay interest group.  A group who’s members would be beheaded, stoned, thrown from buildings, or hung from cranes, in EVERY OTHER nation in the region.

The LGTB community in the US has been openly hostile to Israeli gays.  Israeli gays have been thrown out of LGTB rights conferences.  Israel has been accused of Pinkwashing – an anti-Semetic social justice paradox where Israel is criticized for being a gay friendly nation.  The LGBT community has been at the tip of the spear in the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement, which is an anti-Semitic movement to stop trade with Israel and target Israeli citizens traveling abroad, singling them out for harassment because of Israel’s actions, while ignoring the atrocities carried out by EVERY OTHER nation in the region.

The Left is full of anti-Semites.   The further left you go, the worse it gets.  Until you get all the way the Liberal Mecca, Berkeley California (where rational thought goes to die) where the most tolerant people on earth go around painting swastikas on things.

So to find out that the far left, vocal , LGBT community is racially pro-Islam doesn’t surprise me at all.  Jew haters stick together.

Absolutely none of this is to justify the attack on the nightclub in Orlando.

In fact, it is the opposite.

Perhaps this attack, call it the LGBT 9/11, will wake at least some of the LGBT community up from it’s progressive, intellectual stupor.  We are the same now.

The shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando and the shooting at a Jewish nightclub in Tel Aviv were carried out by the same people (radical Muslims) for the same reason (Jihad) during the same holiday (Ramadan).

Winston Churchill once said about Nazi Germany: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

You cannot appease the radical Islamists.  You can’t march for Palestine and demand boycotts against Israel in the hope that it will keep you from being targeted.  There are more than enough racial Muslims to kill us both.

To borrow some words from Benjamin Franklin: We must hang together, or assuredly, we will all hang, or be stoned, or beheaded, or shot, or blown up, or burned alive together.

At least 50  people were killed and another 53 wounded in a nightclub in Orlando in a terrorist attack.  The shooter was from Port St. Lucie and traveled nearly 150 miles to carry out his attack, indicating that this was substantially pre-planned.

The world is currently one week into Ramadan, and already the West mourning the most violent holiest month of the Islamic calendar.

Mass murder and terrorism during Ramadan is a well known phenomenon.  Hamas has called Ramadan “a month of Jihad.”  One Friday during Ramadan, June 26, 2015 to be specific, saw coordinated terrorist attacks around the world and came to be known as “Bloody Friday.”  The US State Department has warned US travelers abroad to be wary of violence during Ramadan.

The father or the Orlando shooter said that his son wasn’t motivated by religion.  It was seeing two men kiss in Miami that motivated the shooting

I am inclined not to call BS on this.  Orlando shooter claimed allegiance to ISIS.  ISIS  has been persecuting gays throughout the Middle East in really horrible ways (Warning).  ISIS has called for more violence during Ramadan, as an act of martyrdom during the holy month counts more.  I’m guessing that the shooter wanted to fast track it to some virgins.

The latest news has the Santa Monica PD stopping another man with guns and possibly bombs headed to the L.A. Pride Parade.  I’m going to believe that this is more than a coincidence. (Altered until more news is available)

President Obama’s statement on the shooting was weak tea, flavored with more anti-gun platitudes than a grasp of reality.

“Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.”

Contrast that to a shooting carried out a few days ago in Tel Aviv, where two Palestinians decided to celebrate Ramadan by shooting up a market, killing four.  Israel responded by closing the border between Israel and Gaza and the West Bank for the remainder of Ramadan.  Israel is not the same civil society as the US and does not have a constitution with enumerated rights and limitations on the government; so Israel can get away with things like that.  Israel is also no stranger to Ramadan terrorism in previous years.

Obama was not alone in his out of touch bumblef**k response to this attack.  Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal stated:

“As we learn more in shock and horror about the deadliest mass shooting in our history, my heart breaks for the families of loved ones lost or injured – and for our nation, continuing to suffer from this unspeakable epidemic of gun violence.  The Senate’s inaction on commonsense gun violence prevention makes it complicit in this public health crisis. Prayers and platitudes are insufficient. The American public is beseeching us to act on commonsense, sensible gun violence prevention measures, and we must heed that call.”

Various politicians, celebs, pundits, and other idiots have turned to Twitter to express why this is all the fault of the NRA.

Preventing terrorism and mass murder in the US is difficult, more difficult than any other nation, because our Constitution expressly protects the civil liberties of US citizens and limits the powers of the Government.  We can do better to prevent these attacks while preserving the rights and privacy of our citizens.  We need to do better.  But a first step is to recognize the cause of this type of attack and not blame the innocent because of politics.

On Facebook, Mom’s Demand Action is celebrating the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision that the 2A does not protect the right of a person to carry a firearm outside the home in the Peruta v. San Diego appeal.

The Facebook post links over to this article at NBC which is complete garbage.  The article quotes the opinion of the court:

“The protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public.”

What neither NBC or Mom’s note is that this is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE conclusion that the 7th Circuit came to in Moore v. Madigan which forced Illinois to adopt concealed carry.  This was also the stance taken by DC District Court Judge Richard Leon when he struck down the “good cause” requirements for DC’s CCW permit.  Even the 4th Circuit Court came to the conclusion that “good cause” requirements were burdensome to the Constitution in Woollard v. Gallagher in a challenge against Maryland’s may issue requirements.  Although the 4th Circuit upheld the requirement because gun control passed intermediate scrutiny and a substantial government interest.

The article also fails to note that the 9th Circuit is the most reversed appeals court in the nation with nearly three-fourths of its decisions being reversed or returned on review.

According to The New York Times, the 9th Circuit is so liberal that:

“Judge Carlos T. Bea, another Bush appointee, said: “The Supreme Court is still slapping it down when the Ninth Circuit drifts too far left. And not slapping down 5 to 4, slapping it down 9 to 0’s and 8 to 1’s” — suggesting that those cases show that even the more liberal wing of the Supreme Court disagrees with his colleagues’ reasoning.”

Which says to me that when the 9th Circuit makes a decision, 75% of the time, they are at least 88.8% wrong about it.

But sure, NBC and MDA are going to cry victory in support of an ultra left wing court deciding that the Constitution doesn’t protect a right the at least two other Appeals Courts and the DC district court says it does.

How very progressively statist of them.

I have never been more disappointed that SCOTUS didn’t take up Woollard when Scalia was still alive.  With the Courts of Appeals divided on the issue of the 2A and the right to carry – 4th and 7th for, 9th and DC against – SCOUTS is going to have to set the record straight.

We need a new Scalia on the court.

I don’t have a spare half a f*ck to give about who Trump is going to pick for his VP.  If he wants me to break my vow of Never Trump, he needs to release his list of SCOTUS nominees and they better be pretty damn conservative on Constitutional rights.

Staten Island in New York is going forward to spend $2 Million on vasectomies for deer to try and reign in their out of control population.

Anybody want to guess just how well a catch, snip, and release program will be?  I’m pretty sure the correct answer will be “not at all.”

And they are going to spend $2 Million to do it.

“Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials have agreed that this is the fastest and most humane way to limit further growth of the Island’s potentially dangerous white-tailed population. ”

Well, it’s also the dumbest.

I have an idea for you.  Most NYC parks are open 6:00 am to 1:00 am.  How about auctioning off deer tags, good for use in Staten Island parks from 3:00 – 5:00 am, bow hunting only.  You can even limit the bow draw weight to 50 lbs or so to limit the effective range of the arrows to about 50 yards.  I bet NYC could easily take in $2 Million in tag fees on this.  The meat could even be donated to local homeless shelters.

But I have a feeling that would just be too effective.  Better to waste money on a worthless program in de Blasio’s city.