This is a very Texas headline:

Texas shooting over stolen car leaves suspected thief dead, accomplice injured and robbery victim in the hospital

A man whose car had been stolen tracked down his vehicle to a Texas shopping center lot – before shooting dead one of the alleged thieves and wounding the other.

Gunfire erupted in the parking lot outside South Park Mall, San Antonio, just before 1pm Thursday after the man figured out where his stolen car was located.

The owner of the stolen car had ordered the driver and his female companion out of the vehicle – and sat them down by the tire at gunpoint while they waited for police.

But the stolen car victim was hit with a bullet when one of the suspected thieves, a male, took a gun out from his waistband and opened fire.

The owner then returned fire – which killed the suspected robber.

The woman, who was the passenger in the stolen vehicle, was also shot, and is in critical condition at the hospital.

Police said that the owner of the stolen vehicle is in stable condition.

No charges have been filed yet.

The names of the people involved have not been released.

‘Certainly a case of self-defense, is what we have,’ San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said. ‘We would prefer that they call the police before taking that into your own hands, but he did what he felt he needed to do.’

I am not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure this was a good shoot.

Texas is a citizen arrest state, so this man holding the two people he caught stealing his truck at gunpoint for the police, as I understand, is completely legal.

He only shot and killed one thief and wounded the other when they shot first.  That makes it good self defense.

The police seem to have come to that conclusion as well.

Besides, they stole a man’s truck in Texas.

That’s a state that used to hang horse thieves.

Even if they did prosecute this man, the likelihood they would find a jury to convict would be impossible.

Just one guy with a lifted pickup and a gun on the jury and it’s hung.

Federal prosecutors dropped campaign finance charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX.

He donated $40 million to Democrats last election cycle.

A guy who donates a shitload of money to the political party in charge of the DOJ doesn’t get prosecuted is pretty standard, run of the mill corruption.

One journalist decided that was evidence of white privilege.

White Privilege Alert…Sam Bankman Fried…who helped the Democrats launder $100M’s of dollars has had the charges against him dropped. pic.twitter.com/ZcF7iqsE2q

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 27, 2023

X (formerly Twitter) responded by trending He’s Jewish.

That devolved into a running insane tirade of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Fan-fuckinh-tastic.

Welcome to Weimar Germany.

The economy is collapsing and corruption is blatant, so everyone blames the Jews.

I’m gonna go buy more ammo.

This is a tragedy:

Boy, 5, high on COCAINE fatally shoots his 16-month-old brother who was high on marijuana inside Indiana home: Parents are charged with neglect

A five-year-old boy high on cocaine shot his toddler brother in the head, and prosecutors have charged their parents with neglect.

Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect and various drug charges after cops swooped on their property.

Prosecutors say little Isiah, 16 months, died from a gunshot wound to the head and had marijuana in his blood, while his older brother, who shot him, tested positive for cocaine.

Johnson was asleep inside the apartment at the time of the shooting. Welsh, a nursing graduate, was not present during the incident, according to authorities.

Initially, Johnson told police Isiah fell or was injured by his brother and denied owning a gun.

He claimed Isiah had not been shot before admitting the children’s mother, Welch, had a gun on the property.

Welch confirmed she owned the gun but told police that she usually kept it locked in a box under her bed but had lost a second set of keys to it.

Police found a gun in the safe under a bed but also found a gun in the drawer of a dresser on the property.

Officers also found 93 fentanyl pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the apartment when they searched it after the horror.

Welch and Johnson have been charged with neglect resulting in death, two counts of neglect and neglect resulting in bodily injury.

They have also been charged with conspiracy to commit dealing a narcotic drug, dealing a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic, conspiracy to commit dealing marijuana, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

The children had drugs in their system.

There were drugs everywhere.

The parents were dealing.

There were unsecured guns in the house.

Obviously, if the kids could get into the drugs, they could get into the guns.

A child is dead.

You just know that Left will blame the guns and not the drug dealing reprobate parents who let their kids fund drugs and guns in the house, and they will try to punish you for it.

Two news articles crossed my path.

First the good news:

The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
Diversity executives hit the exits as company priorities shift; ‘everything is a battle’

Two years ago chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires into executive ranks. Now, they increasingly feel left out in the cold.

Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.

Diversity, equity and inclusion—or DEI—jobs were put in the crosshairs after many companies started re-examining their executive ranks during the tech sector’s shake out last fall. Some chief diversity officers say their work is facing additional scrutiny since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions and companies brace for potential legal challenges. DEI work has also become a political target.

Once mostly tasked with HR matters, today’s diversity leaders are expected to weigh in on new product development, marketing efforts and current events that have an impact on how workers and consumers are feeling. Warren and other CDOs said the expanded remit is playing out in a politically divided environment where corporate diversity efforts are the subject of frequent social-media firestorms.

During the pandemic, some companies moved people into diversity leadership if they were an ethnic minority, says Dani Monroe, even when they weren’t qualified. Monroe served as CDO for Mass General Brigham, a Boston-based hospital system and one of the largest employers in the state, until 2021 and convenes a yearly gathering of more than 100 CDOs.

“These were knee-jerk reactions,” she says of the hurried CDO hires, adding that some of those elevations didn’t create much impact, leaving both sides feeling disillusioned.

Companies paid the racial grievance Danegeld after the George Floyd Summer of Love.

It was a disaster.

They promoted incompetent people, it undermined employee morale and cohesiveness, and cost the companies money.

In one famous case in North Carolina, Novant Health (the largest hospital chain in the state) paid a discrimination suit for $10 million because they fired a white guy to hire two black women.

Companies are starting to wise up to the disaster that is DE&I.

The bad news is that they’re not doing ot fast enough, especially in Canada.

White Toronto school principal Richard Bilkszto dies by suicide after he was accused of backing white supremacy for complaining about a black instructor during anti-racism training

A Toronto school principal has died by suicide after he was accused of supporting white supremacy for calling out a black instructor during anti-racism training.

Richard Bilkszto, 60, worked in the Toronto School District for 24 years and had been serving as fill-in principal at the Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke where he faced workplace bullying as a result of the spat with an anti-racism trainer.

He filed a lawsuit earlier in the year, claiming his reputation was ‘systematically demolished’ and he was labeled a white supremacist for his remarks questioning racism in Canada.

But on July 13, his lawyer, Lisa Bildy announced on Twitter, Bilkszto took his own life.

‘Unfortunately, the stress and effects of these incidents continued to plague Richard,’ she wrote in a lengthy statement. ‘Last week, he succumbed to this distress.

Bilkszto’s problems started on April 26, 2021, when Toronto District School Board educators attended an anti-racism training led by Kike Ojo-Thompson, the founder of the KOJO Institute, a consulting firm.

In his lawsuit, the Toronto Star reported, Bilkszto claimed Ojo-Thompson told educators that Canada could be considered more racist than the US because it ‘never reckoned with its anti-black history.’

The principal, who had previously taught high school in Buffalo, New York, disagreed with the sentiment.

He said it would be ‘an incredible disservice to our learners’ to suggest the US is a more just country than Canada, according to the lawsuit, which claims Ojo-Thompson reacted ‘with vitriol.’

She allegedly lashed out at the principal for appearing to undermine a black woman.

‘We are here to talk about anti-black racism, but you in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for black people,’ Ojo-Thompson allegedly said.

The lawsuit added Bilkszto tried to de-escalate the situation, admitting that there was anti-black racism in Canada, but argued the evidence suggested ‘we are a far more just society’ than the US.

But at another session the following week , Ojo-Thompson allegedly brought up the argument again, describing it to Bilkszto and his colleagues as a ‘real life’ example of someone supporting white supremacy.

This white man fully admitted that Canada was racist.  His only gripe was that he believed that the United States was more racist than Canada.

Voicing that opinion to a black woman was apparently an act of white supremacy.

For that, he was berated, fired, and his reputation ruined.

This feels like an Twilight Zone episode based on a Franz Kafka story.

This man was so damaged by the racist bullying of a DE&I worker, that he committed suicide.

It’s not enough for DE&I to die on its own.

I need to be put to the wall and buried in a ditch.

Possibly literally.

If you follow anti-gun politics in the US, this headline won’t surprise you.

Do gun violence prevention groups have a race problem?

Nurah Abdulhaqq was 12 when she lost a family friend to gun violence – an experience that inspired her to make a change. After the student-led protests against gun violence in 2018 following the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, she got involved as a violence prevention organizer. “I knew that I could lend a different perspective as someone who not only has lost someone close to me to gun violence, but who also lives in an area affected by the school-to-prison pipeline and poverty,” she said.

But instead she often found her viewpoint sidelined, especially in the large national-facing violence prevention groups she found herself interacting with, said the Atlanta-based activist, now 19.

“There was really not a discussion on Black and brown youth,” she said, or of the fact that gun violence has been the leading cause of death for Black male teenagers and young adults.

Abdulhaqq wasn’t alone. According to a new study from UCLA, young Black and Latino organizers commonly reported being marginalized in their work at large, national gun violence prevention groups over the past four years – including “being tokenized, silencing of racially conscious organizing and expectation to educate white peers on racism”.

Moms Demand Action, Everytown, these groups are filled with upper middle-class, Progressive, white women.  There is no more patronizing group of shallow virtue signaling people than that.

These experiences were especially concerning, researchers found, since many young organizers started their work after the violent death of a loved one or peer. The findings echo the criticisms many large, national gun violence prevention groups – which are often run or were founded by white people in the aftermath of high-profile mass shootings – have faced in recent years for their lack of diversity.

Upper middle-class white women are a demographic most likely to become professional activists, because they’re bored and have the time and financial resources to be professional meddling busy bodies.

Some participants in the study said that these national organizations – which have millions of dollars in budgets and connections to legislators and news media – don’t meaningfully focus on the daily community gun violence that primarily affects low-income Black and Latino people, and instead focus their attention on high-profile mass shootings and school shootings. Others said that their insights into the root causes of community gun violence in Black and Latino neighborhoods weren’t included in their organizations’ national platforms.

These upper middle-class white women want to take your guns away because they are worried they will lose their child in a mass shooting.

Their kids don’t deal drugs on a street corner or go into the Barrio, so they don’t really care about poor minorities killing each other.

Even their prescribed solution to gun violence won’t work in those neighborhoods.

Trevon Bosley, a 24-year-old organizer based in Chicago, said that Black and Latino organizers being overlooked or outright ignored is indicative of broader inequalities in the levels of attention and compassion certain victims of gun violence receive. “We are just a tally mark in the newspaper,” he said. “When these mass shootings happen, you see the faces.”

Because Progressives don’t actually care about minorities.  Show me one Leftist policy that actually benefits minorities.  Every single one undermines the minority community and consolidates power to the Left.  Gun control is no different.

Bosley has long been involved in local violence prevention. In 2005, when he was seven, his cousin was shot and killed; the next year, his older brother was gunned down. Bosley said that organizing became his outlet. “After having these losses I had a lot of anger, and to use that to do something positive was the right thing. That’s what my brother would want,” he said.

As his profile and experience as a local organizer grew, Bosley began working with the local chapter of larger groups that were focused on stopping mass shootings. He quickly found that many of his new suburban peers weren’t interested in sharing resources and mutual support with people in his neighborhood. “They wanted to use it for résumé building,” he said.

Case in point, David Hogg.  He’s the zenith of anti-gun activists.  He accomplished nothing that makes anyone safer, but got into Harvard, and made him self rich and famous with his activism.  Why actually help poor black people when there is influencer fame and fortune to be made.

In every way, white Progressives are the most racist people you will ever meet.

How many memes and Tweets have you seen that say “if black people bought assault rifles, Republicans would ban them immediately.”

It should be no surprise that their anti-gun groups are just as racist as every other group and policy they come up with.

It’s going to be fun watching their anti-gun groups get canceled for being bigots.

Among the most egregious travestues of civil justice in recent memory was the Sandy Hook lawsuit against Remington.

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was passed, quite explicitly, to stop vexatious lawsuits against the gun industry when criminals used guns that manufacturers sold through legal channels to licensed distributors.

The Sandy Hook parents convinced a judge to buy the bullshit that the PLCAA didn’t protect Remington because Remington’s marketing of Bushmaster was illegal.

Not that there was any evidence that Adam Lanza ever saw one of those ads, or that if he did, that was his inspiration to murder his mother and steal her Bushmaster rifle.

But Connecticut is an anti-gun state, and you know Leftists: For my friends everything and my enemies, the wall.  The law didn’t matter when they had the ability to punish a gun maker for being a gun maker.

When the ghost of Remington and their insurance companies chose to settle the lawsuit, I knew it would be bad for the firearms industry.

Now Colt is being targeted by the Mexican government for the same thing.

El Jefe, El Grito, and the Emiliano Zapata 1911.

All of those are Spanish-named Colt guns manufactured at one point in the past few decades. Translated, the first two names mean The Boss and The Shout (a tribute to Mexico’s Independence), while the third is a reference to Emiliano Zapata, a leader during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century who fought for the rural poor and is now regarded as a national hero.

Some of these models display Mexico’s national symbol along with the date of the nation’s independence day. Others have quotes and images engraved on the barrel attributed to Zapata. Some of them even have Aztec designs laid over the gun’s grip.

But all of them have the words “HARTFORD, CONN. U.S.A.” engraved on their barrels.

Gun designs like these, Mexico argued against Connecticut-based Colt in a 2021 lawsuit, don’t “even try to hide its pandering to the criminal market in Mexico.”

From this article, you would never know that these guys were distributor limited editions of no more than 500 models each.

The Zapada 1911 was released in 2019 for the centennial celebration of the Mexican Revolution.  Only 500 were made.

The Aztec 1911 is a 500 piece Talo distributor exclusive edition.

The El Jefe model was a Lew Horton special edition of 350 pieces.

These are collector grade guns that sold for thousands of dollars brand new.

The idea that these were made to attract the attention of cartel thugs is ridiculous.

Not just are these guns not well advertised, but I doubt Mexican cartel trigger pullers are ordering Talo special editions.

While the allegation wasn’t a novel one in international politics, its transition into a legal complaint was a first of its kind. A country’s government was formally claiming economic losses and fatal injuries caused by gun trafficking facilitated by a distributor and seven U.S. gunmakers: Colt’s Manufacturing Company, Smith & Wesson Brands, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Beretta U.S.A. Corp., Glock, Inc., Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc., and Century International Arms, Inc.

And Mexico isn’t just seeking monetary relief, but also court mandates that would require the gunmakers to improve monitoring of their distribution systems, ensure their guns are safe to use and finance projects focused on deterring gun trafficking.

This isn’t the responsibility of gun companies who sell to reputable dealers.

This is the fault of the US government that trafficked guns you Mexico and has utterly failed at border security.

It’s also the fault of the corrupt Mexican government.

Colt’s place in U.S. history is regarded by some as one of innovation and success, evident by the 2008 National Historic Landmark designation of Coltsville Historic District, where the former Colt factory is located. But in Mexico, where more than 8,000 Colt guns have been recovered since 2010, according to Mexican military data, Colt is partly to blame for some of the gun violence by drug cartels, Mexico says in the lawsuit.

We’re any of them those special editions?

For example, according to the leaked data, a .38 caliber El Jefe Colt pistol was recovered in August 23, 2019. The trace points to an original purchase at AMCLO Home & Hardware gun shop in Roma, Texas.

And Mexico says that those guns being trafficked into the country are ending lives, providing various examples of deaths in Mexico where the murder weapon was a Colt gun. In one of them, a version of the Emiliano Zapata 1911 was used to murder a Mexican investigative journalist named Miroslava Breach Velducea.

The answer is two.

I’m curious how many of those 8,000 Colts were actual Colt M4 Mexican police contract rifles.

Of those Colt manufactured guns, more than 5,000 of them were pistols and about 2,100 were rifles, making up 65% and 25%, respectively.

The answer is, probably most of those 2,000, considering when was the last time you saw an actual Colt AR14 in stores.

To make the argument that they don’t play a major role in the cartel’s gun supply, Mexico points to their own gun laws that ban the civilian use of assault weapons, and to the fact that there is only one gun store in the entire country, which issues fewer than 50 permits a year and is managed by the Mexican military.

Mexican officials claim that most of the guns they’ve recovered have been traced back to the U.S., and it’s confirmed by federal data from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

ATF data shows that for every year since 2016, about half of all firearms recovered in Mexico and submitted for tracing were traced back to a U.S. manufacturer. Guns traced back to the U.S., regardless of where they were manufactured, push the share up to about 70% each year.

This is mathematical bullshit.

Half the guns Mexico recovered and submitted for tracing to the US were from the US.  I’m shocked.

I’d assume that’s because the guns not submitted for tracing were out of Mexican police armories or the inventories of other Latin American narco states, and the Mexican government knows that.

I’ve seen a lot of videos of cartel shootouts and I’ve never seen that many full autos sold in US gun stores.

Mexico adds that even if PLCAA applies, the gunmakers’ violation of state or federal laws regarding the marketing or sale of guns provide an exception to PLCAA, eliminating the immunity granted to gunmakers and allowing the case to move forward. But Mexico doesn’t seek the exception through CUTPA, which is what happened in the Sandy Hook case. Instead, Mexico argues that the gunmakers violated numerous federal laws, such as the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act, which regulate fully automatic weapons and its sales.

If Mexico is arguing that Colt violated the NFA, that means they are recovering full autos that are not for civilian sale in the US.  Those have to be law enforcement or military sales.  Those guns went to governments, then to cartels through corruption.

And others agreed. After Mexico’s appeal, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and 14 other state attorneys general filed as friends of the court in the case, siding with Mexico saying that the district court made an “error” in not considering whether the alleged violation of federal statutes allow for an exception to PLCAA.

Mexico would rather sue American gun companies than fight corruption and crime in Mexico.

Of course anti-gun politicians would side with the corrupt Mexican government over American gun companies.

They are not interested in justice, only hurting gun makers.

I personally would rather nuke Mexico thsn let Mexico sue Colt into bankruptcy.

NYPD robot dog deployed in the city: pic.twitter.com/uSXwzWAmtG

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 23, 2023

This is why the Second Amendment exists, and moreover, is why the Second Amendment should (and I believe does) protect the right of citizens to possess armor piercing, anti-materiel, and high explosive weaponry.

I absolutely do not trust law enforcement use of robots in patrol applications.

It’s one thing to use a robot to deal with a bomb, but I will not accept a robot bring used to deal with people.

The potential for abuse is just too high.

You as a citizen deserve to be armed with the equipment necessary to defeat whatever equipment can be brought against you by a tyrannical government.

If they deploy robots against you, you should have weapons capable of destroying robots.