It’s an absolute trend of anti-gunners explaining that you shouldn’t have a gun, because if they had a gun, they would commit murder.

To a reasonable and intelligent human, it’s simple.

Is the AR-15 slung and not being pointed at anyone?

That’s fine then.

Same with open carry.  Is the pistol still in its holster?

Fine, go on about your day.

These people are paranoid and lack self control, so will straight up murder you.  Because they can’t trust themselves, they can’t trust you, and therefore nobody should get to carry.

If gun people were an iota as violent and stupid as anti-gunners, everyone in America would be dead. The fact that concealed carry permit holders are the demographic least likely to commit crimes, shows that we’re not.

Oklahoma school to offer nation’s first bachelor’s in gunsmithing

State officials could have a new weapon in their arsenal as they try to lure gun and ammunition manufacturers to Oklahoma.

Murray State College leaders say the school’s gunsmithing program could become a huge economic development driver thanks to a $10 million legislative investment that will allow the college to offer the nation’s first bachelor’s degree in gunsmithing.

“The idea was this is an investment in an industry that can locate in our state, and regionally, we have the ability distribution-wise to become a powerhouse in this,” Murray State College President Tim Faltyn said in an interview.

Murray State College has offered a gunsmithing program since 1979. Annually, the school admits 30 students to its two-year degree program at its Tishomingo campus.

By offering a bachelor’s degree in gunsmithing, the college could admit more students and offer training on industry trends, campus officials said.

“Gunsmithing is a very old profession, but we’re seeing a major shift toward embracing modern technology,” said Chad Mercer, Murray State’s gunsmithing program chair. “The industry’s been begging for students to come out of here with some higher, more technical knowledge.”

The two-year program teaches students how to customize guns, in addition to the fundamentals of firearms design and repair. But Mercer said the bachelor’s degree curriculum will be crafted with the needs of the firearms industry in mind as gun-makers are increasingly seeking graduates with digital skills in areas like 3-D printing and laser welding.

This is fantastic.

The industry needs more skilled people in modern firearms manufacturing.

There is a college in Austria, in the heart of Austria’s weapon manufacturing region that has a weapon engineering program. There is another in the UK associated with Cranfield and another with Leeds.

It great to see this in the US.

Illinois carjacker kills woman by zip-tying her throat, leaves note saying it was his ‘only choice’: police

An Illinois man allegedly left an apology note in a vehicle he stole claiming he was “deeply sorry for hurting anyone” after killing a woman by zip-tying her throat.

Reese Miller, 24, was caught on Aug. 30 driving a blue Toyota Scion belonging to Ma L. Operio, 61, about three hours after she was found with a zip-tie around her neck that obstructed her breathing, the Harwood Heights Police Department said.

Operio died from her injuries four days later, FOX 32 reported.

Now I know that tye gut reaction from most of you will be, “always carry a gun, that would have prevented the car jacking in the first place.”

Possibly, but this is Illinois. Not just does Illinois make it difficult to get a carry permit, there are do many restrictions, that even in you have one, you might not be able to carry anyway.

Now extrapolate that to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc.

In every Leftist run shithole where carjacking is on the rise, concealed carry is difficult to impossible.

Step number one is knowing how to defeat zipties on your hands.

Step two is having a sharp implement that can take a ziptie off your neck.

I always carry a knife.

I always carry a handcuff key too, just in case.

Be prepared to self rescue, because the cops won’t find you for three hours.

This is a real article in the New York Times:

Forests Are No Longer Our Climate Friends

Canadian wildfires have this year burned a land area larger than 104 of the world’s 195 countries. But what is perhaps most striking about this year’s fires is that despite their scale, they are merely a continuation of a dangerous trend: Every year since 2001, Canada’s forests have emitted more carbon than they’ve absorbed. That is the central finding of a distressing analysis published last month by Barry Saxifrage in Canada’s National Observer.

Canada may be a disorienting cultural tipping point. If we thought trees might save us, that is looking increasingly like a foolish bet. In many parts of the world, including some of the most densely forested, trees are not perfect allies for tree-huggers anymore, and forests no longer reliable climate partners. What was once the embodiment of environmental values now seems increasingly to be fighting for the other side.

That’s not science.

That is pure and unadulterated mysticism.

The problem has been consistently bad forest management.

Trees live and trees die.

Trees grow and trees drop leaves and branches.

Fire, since time immemorial, has cleared the dead biomass from the forests to allow forests to live.

Humans started putting out the fires.  The biomass built up and now the fires rage out of control.

The fix is simple.  If humans dont want massive forest fires, humans need to do what the fires used to do and clear out the biomass.

The most effective way of doing that is logging and small controlled burns.

The good news is, that is carbon sequestration.  Carbon dioxide gets turned into wood, we turn that wood into a house.

But the Canadians, like the Californians, believe that chainsaws are tools of the devil and logging is evil.

So they make the fires worse.  And now, since they can’t comprehend the reality of forests, they say the forests are not their friends.

There will be no fix until these people are utterly ignored for being that stupid.

On Thursday, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed this executive order:

Today, I signed an executive order declaring gun violence a public health emergency. To my fellow citizens: get loud. Step up. Demand change: from your neighbors, from your friends, from your communities, from your elected leaders. Enough is enough. More coming from me tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/jOt4fv4YDC

— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) September 7, 2023

Why declare gun violence a health emergency?

Because, during COVID, Democrats learned that declaring something a health emergency gives them superconstitutional powers.

Open and concealed carry laws suspended in Albuquerque for 30 days

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she is suspending open and concealed carry laws in Albuquerque and throughout Bernalillo County for the next 30 days, temporarily prohibiting the carrying of guns on public property.

Gov. Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency Thursday, following the murder of an 11-year-old boy on his way home from an Isotopes game Wednesday night. That case, combined with several other violent cases involving children, sparked the decision.

The new public health order is effective Friday, Sept. 8. After 30 days, they will evaluate whether they should renew the order or make adjustments.

The public health order is a statewide mandate, but it only suspends open and concealed carry privileges in communities with extremely high violent crime rates and fire-arm related emergency room visits. Right now, that only includes the metro.

There are several exceptions. The public health order does not impact private property, licensed firearm dealers, firing ranges, or shooting competitions. However, anyone traveling between those locations must store their guns in a locked container or safety box.

The order does not apply to law enforcement officers or licensed security officers.

The governor said she expects to be challenged on this, but she is prepared for a legal fight.

Of course the restriction doesn’t apply to law enforcement officers.

New Mexico is not a Constitutional Carry state.

To obtain a NM CCW requires 15 hours of training, including live fire, and a background check.

People with a CCW are not the people committing the criminal shootings in Albuquerque.

The cause of Albuquerque’s violent crime increase is easy to explain. It’s a Democrat run city, that after the death of George Floyd, experienced a reduction in policing and prosecution of criminals.

Suspending the rights of concealed carry permit holders won’t affect the cause of crime in Albuquerque, it will only prevent law abiding citizen from being able to defend themselves.

Furthermore, this act suspends the rights of law abiding citizens without a conviction or even indictment.

That, in and of itself, is a serious Constitutional violation.

This violation of civil rights will only harm innocent people.

It’s a good think the governor expects to get sued, because the lawsuit printers are going to be going overtime on this.

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Both on Twitter and in the comments of this blog have I seen the sentiment, “I hope DEFCON hack these locks.”

Fuck DEFCON.

I swear these people do more harm than good.

Yes, thete is value in a security company hiring hackers to test their products.

Having hobbiest hackers hacking stuff and then putting videos online, I think does more harm than good.

Everything comes at a price. The more secure something is, the more that security will cost.  Everyone has to decide what security they will accept at the price they’re willing to pay.

Perfection is the enemy of good enough.

Putting tips and tricks to compromise security systems online only puts at risk people who can’t afford the highest levels of security as the knowledge of how to hack it goes from esoteric to ubiquitous.

I don’t need DEFCON assholes figuring out how to open every Liberty safe and then posting that where every petty thief can find it.

Liberty or S&G might react by fixing that, but it puts the millions of people who already own Libery safes at risk.