Miguel posted this video earlier.

The cop takes a bullet to the finger and then tourniquets his hand halfway up his forearm.

Yes, absolutely tourniquets are life saving tools, and it’s good that some of the medical equipment and knowledge used to save lives on the battlefield in the GWOT has become adopted by the police and civilians alike.

But when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Tourniquets are used to occlude blood flow by squeezing arteries shut.

Under the wrong conditions, they can cause more harm than good.  Tourniquets can cause nerve damage by comprising nerves.  Not something you want in your hand.

Lots of arterial bleeding?  Absolutely apply a tourniquet.  The premium is on saving a life.

A healthy person is not going to bleed to death from splitting a finger wide open, or even taking a finger off.

A pressure bandage is much more applicable here.

On my person, I generally carry an Israeli bandage instead of a tourniquet, because it’s more versatile.  It can be used with a tourniquet like function.

Don’t think I’m sitting on tourniquets, they are a vital tool for saving lives. But they have a time and a place when they are appropriate.

Being prepared is absolutely critical.

So is using your brain in an emergency situation.

You don’t want to stop the bleeding of a bad finger boo-boo in such as way as to cause nerve damage to the hand.

The Algorithm actually hit me with something good.

I have nearly this identical kit, in this same bag, as my range ballistic trauma kit.

The only difference is that I added a Hyfin chest seal in case of a lung hit.  Penetrating chest wounds aren’t as likely with a chainsaw.

It lives in my range bag, but if I’m on my feet, I can attach it to my gun belt.

I don’t know enough to start packing wounds like an EMT, but I can stop major bleeding or a sucking chest wound until EMTs get to the range.

they out there in hurricane hillary acting a FOOL…? pic.twitter.com/OAi3zEKtAR

— jay.☆ (@munch4spice) August 20, 2023

Everyone in Florida grows up knowing you stay out of hurricane flood water because it’s sewage.

This is gross.

We’re gonna have to lock down in 2024 from Hillary Pox originating in California, aren’t we?

This is the biggest gun news since Bruen.

This is Justice John Coffey’s opinion in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Dean F. Donnell.

This is absolutely beautiful.

This is a justification for concealed carry reciprocity that ignores full faith and credit.

It goes director Bruen and states that a stare must recognize an adjoining state’s permit if that state’s standard for issuing a permit is objective.

It further recognizes that the safe passage provision of FOPA is contradicted by Bruen, since having an unloaded and locked gun is useless for self-defense.

As a resident of New Hampshire, I love this decision.  I’m familiar with the mall in Nashua he talks about and the property does straddle state lines.  If you get on 495, it crosses into Massachusetts before going back into New Hampshire, so it’s entirely possible to be in violation of the law on the interstate while being legal where you started and ended your trip.

This opinion really sets precedent that all state’s must acknowledge other states’ carry permits under Bruen.

I hope this stands up to scrutiny and appeals, because this would be an incredible victory for gun rights.

I have received several comments that my use of the term “MAGA cult” is unappreciated.

My use of that phrase comes from two places.

I’m aware that MAGA is a acronym for “Make America Great Again.”

I acknowledge that is a laudable goal. However, MAGA, pronounced as a word “maga” has transcended the meaning of the words in the acronym to be a neigh on Trump battle cry.

Second, what I see among the most ardent Trump supporters is a slavish devotion to a cult of personality.

These are the people, whom no matter what argument you make to them, respond with the sentiment, and often the meme:

Trump battle cry plus cult of personality equals “Trump cult.”

I have several points of criticism to the point of disgust with these people.

Everything is a Trump loyalty test. Any questioning of Trump is disloyalty to to him, and anyone who is disloyal is RINO or “establishment Republican” or the pejorative du jure.

Trump is an American politician.  I owe him no loyalty.  He’d not a king or an emperor.

The alacrity at which Trump supports celebrate the destruction of everyone else in the Republican party.

If you don’t think 2024 was DeSantis time, make that argument. But he flipped Florida from Bluish-purple to 20 points Red.  That sort of victory would make DeSantis a rising star with a great future.  But because he challenged Trump, he had to be destroyed.  His future in the party might be finished when this race is over.  Trump may have stuffed out a rising star, possibly the next Ronald Reagan, for his own interest, and the fanatic Trump supporters celebrate that rather than understand the enormity of their actions.

Lastly, the fanatic Trump supporters seem to only care about what Trump says and ignore his results, or lack there of.

Yes, the economy was good for a few years, and gas was cheap, but Trump failed to drain the swamp, build the way, and do many of the things he promised.  That is never acknowledged.

These behaviors honestly remind me of the worst behaviors of the radical Left.

Leftist: “Everyone I don’t like is a racist/Nazi/bigot.”

MAGA: “Everyone I don’t like is a RINO.”

I’m willing to entertain a discussion why someone might think Trump is the best candidate to beat Biden.

I won’t entertain fanatic devotion to a personality by people who will ignore or deflect every fact that is inconvenient to them (another radical Leftist trait).

So, if you don’t count yourself in that group of obtuse, fanatical devotees, and you don’t like my use of the term “MAGA cult,” give me something else to call them, because my next set of choices is even more pejorative.

New York made most of NYC a prohibited place.

New Jersey decided to make most of the state a prohibited place.

Delaware is making gotcha prohibited places by secretly turning legal places into prohibited places without warning.

This update to the Delaware Criminal Code:

§ 1457. Possession of a weapon in a Safe School and Recreation Zone; class D, E, or F felony; class A or B misdemeanor.
(a) Any person who commits any of the offenses described in subsection (b) of this section, or any juvenile who possesses a firearm or other deadly weapon, and does so while in or on a “Safe School and Recreation Zone” shall be guilty of the crime of possession of a weapon in a Safe School and Recreation Zone.

(c) For the purpose of this section, “Safe School and Recreation Zone” shall mean:

(1) Any building, structure, athletic field, sports stadium or real property owned, operated, leased or rented by any public or private school including, but not limited to, any kindergarten, elementary, secondary or vocational-technical school or any college or university, within 1,000 feet thereof; or

(2) Any motor vehicle owned, operated, leased or rented by any public or private school including, but not limited to, any kindergarten, elementary, secondary, or vocational-technical school or any college or university; or

(3) Any building or structure owned, operated, leased or rented by any county or municipality, or by the State, or by any board, agency, commission, department, corporation or other entity thereof, or by any private organization, which is utilized as a recreation center, athletic field or sports stadium.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude or otherwise limit a prosecution of or conviction for a violation of this chapter or any other provision of law. A person may be convicted both of the crime of possession of a weapon in a Safe School and Recreation Zone and of the underlying offense as defined elsewhere by the laws of the State.

(e) It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the person was unaware that the prohibited conduct took place on or in a Safe School and Recreation Zone.

(f) It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the weapon was possessed pursuant to an authorized course of school instruction, or for the purpose of engaging in any school-authorized sporting or recreational activity. The affirmative defense established in this section shall be proved by a preponderance of the evidence. Nothing herein shall be construed to establish an affirmative defense with respect to a prosecution for any offense defined in any other section of this chapter.

If a public or private school rents a space, with no establishment of how temporary that rental agreement may be, be it a pavilion, a pool, a restaurant, etc., it becomes a prohibited place.

You don’t even have to know it was temporarily rented by a school, you’re in violation of the law.  The law specifically says not knowing is not a defense.

Non-prohibited places can become prohibited places without warning and if your accidentally get caught in one, you’re now a felon.

This, to me, is the most unconstitutional violation yet.

Other prohibited places are stagnant, but this just creates legal landmines.

My wife got me this, it’s interesting.

Not as much gunplay but still fun.

Treif Magic – Book of Ze’ev

Ze’ev Kaplan is not your average prayer leader. Hell, he’s not even a prayer leader, despite what his friends, family, and girlfriend might think.

Ze’ev leads a strange double life, as an exorcist and monster hunter for the Jewish Community of Texas. What starts as a seemingly standard exorcism reveals him to the schemes of a sordid necromancer who will stop at nothing to kill anyone who stands in his way.

Can Ze’ev beat the odds and put an end to the necromantic cult festering in the heart of Texas, or will he end up being the victim of Treif Magic?

That’s right, Jewish monster hunting.