Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Miguel.GFZ
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack.
Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA.
I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed.
I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
No idea what may have led to the guy losing his mind and pulling the knife. The driver was incredibly lucky that the car with the dash camera had backed away enough for him to make an escape after the “misguided” member of society breached the window on the passenger side. According to the article in the Daily Mail, the owner was unharmed and recovered his vehicle once the aggressor left the area.
I am sure the perpetrator, after consideration and deep soul search, decided to turn in his knife to the nearest knife amnesty bins located across the Once-Great Britain.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A civilian shot a suspected armed robber after witnessing the robbery while in the drive-thru lane at a restaurant.
On Saturday, police said 60-year-old Steve Rodriguez, who was masked, entered the restaurant with a black revolver and demanded money from the employees, CBS Los Angeles reports. Police said a drive-thru customer in a Honda Accord was stopped in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane by the window and witnessed the robbery happening.
Police said someone in the Accord shot the robber twice in the upper torso before he managed to flee from the scene
This one is a bit eerie for me, allow me to explain. I am trying to constantly run the “What happens if…?” game when I am out of the house. What if there is an armed robbery when I am buying groceries at this particular Publix? What if there is a man coming in my dentist’s office and starts beating the daylights out of the hygienist? Do I run? Do I hide, Do I intervene? Some will find it paranoid, but it has helped me come up with different tactics and changes of behavior to avoid problems and preplanned responses (as much as you can pre-plan) in case there is no choice but action.
A couple of weeks ago, I went hunting for tacos at my neighborhood Bell and used the drive thru. While waiting for the food to arrive, I looked inside and realized that I had a clear line of sight to the registers and my mind went “What if an armed robber was aiming a gun at the poor 16-year-old working the register and demanding the cash?” I went through mentally work on the issue: Is the Bad Guy being cool? Is he acting desperate? Is he acting crazy? Do I intervene or do I drive away and call 911? Do I wait nearby and try to get the info on the robber and possible getaway vehicle? If I see that things are going to go bad and somebody most likely will get hurt, Do I really have a shot I can make with the particular firearm of the day? What are the chances that right before I press the trigger, another kids gets in my line of fire?
And I will admit that sometimes I think the “What If” Game might be a bit silly and without real applications in life. Some would consider it “Gun Nut” Dirty Harry fantasies. But today, I see this video of a real event running along the lines I was thinking not so long ago and I kinda fell validated and reminds me that the Mind is the Weapon that needs to be kept lubricated and trained.
It was something that have been sparking in the back of my head since the whole Publix thing started, but it just would not come out in full till today and after enough ingestion of caffeine. The not-so-subtle extortion by Hogg has happened before by a well-known political scumbag: Reverend Jesse Jackson. Some years ago, Rev Jesse Jackson was said to be the ultimate political extortionist. He would denounce a company using the brand new Race card, accuse them of whatever the heck we could up with. The media would focus on the company and repeat Jackson’s talking point till the company made some apologetic statement and the check to Jesse Jackson’s (ahem) charities.
The one that I remember and you will be hard pressed to find was his butting heads with Quaker Oats about Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Her are a couple of screen caps from the book “Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America”
And the Reverend would have continued to be successful as Mafiosi for Race, but it came out that he had a daughter out-of-wedlock with a much younger female civil rights worker at the Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition and was shelling thousands of dollars in cash monthly in child support.
It never pays to pay political extortionists like Hogg or Jackson. Their motives are never pure and they are probably corrupt to the core.
This 1944 M5A1 Stuart is an American-made light tank that was reportedly shipped to Europe late in the Second World War. It was then sold to Portugal, where it was retained in their light tank inventory through the late 1960s.
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The tank was returned to the US by the Southeastern Equipment Company (SECO) in the 1980s, and has not been used as a monument tank. The tank was in a private collection through 2016 with one owner. The current owner added it to his collection 2016 and performed a general service shortly after his acquisition, including changing the fluids. This running and driving Stuart is located in Los Angeles, California, and it is now being offered on behalf of the current owner on a bill of sale.
$200,000 sale price. Like my wife says: “Dear, you have the good taste, just not the budget.”
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – The District Attorney’s office filed a dozen felony gun charges Thursday against a member of a prominent farming family.
According to court documents, the California Department of Justice raided Jeffrey Scott Kirschenmann’s home last month, after he tried to register an illegally modified gun online through the state’s website.
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According to court documents, the DOJ began investigating Kirschenmann when he electronically submitted photos of an illegally modified AR-15-style firearm.
Retired KCSO Commander Joe Pilkington is a court recognized firearms expert. He could not speak directly to Kirschenmann’s case but says the laws are changing so frequently, it’s often hard to keep up with the latest regulations.
“Just in the last few years, there have been lots of changes in gun laws,” he said. “Making an effort, a good faith effort to comply with these really complicated laws, should count for something.”
A new state law requires assault-style weapons be registered by the end of June.
I want you to digest the story: He tried to comply with the state mandated registration. He volunteered the information in good faith. He got arrested and is facing felony charges. The State has made the whole set of gun laws so baroque and complicated that people will mess up and end up being felons.
Mr. Kirschenmann is the CEO of Kirschenmann Farms which is a big supplier of potatoes for Frito Lay so you know he ain’t some poor redneck slob in a trailer park. Now, if I were a suspicious individual and decided to check political contributions and find out that although Jeffrey Scott Kirschenmann does not show up as an individual giving money, there is a fair amount of Kirschenmann kin working in the Kirschenmann Farms who donated to Republican causes.
Now I am sure that the good folks of California Government would never stoop so low as to arrest somebody with ties to donations to the Republican party. Let’s not speculate like that.
This also reminds me something from the book Unintended Consequences where Joh n Ross mentions that Gun Laws are more likely to be used against the people with money than your average criminal. And that leads you to something I should be mentioning more often and I don’t:
Petitioner was charged by a three-count information filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas with violations of the National Firearms Act. 48 Stat. 1236. Two of the counts were subsequently dismissed upon motion of the United States Attorney. The remaining count averred that petitioner, in violation of 26 U.S.C. 5851, knowingly possessed a firearm, as defined by 26 U.S.C. 5848 (1), which had not been registered with the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate, as required by 26 U.S.C. 5841. Petitioner moved before trial to dismiss this count, evidently asserting that 5851 violated his privilege against self-incrimination, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
And there you have it folk. If you try to obey the convoluted gun laws of California (in this case) and register your weapon, you may end up a felon. But only if you are a felon, you can ignore any Gun Registration law without fear of legal consequences.
The NRA, now with 6 million members, is energized and ready to stand and fight, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said during the NRA’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Dallas.
This was not what was supposed to happen. The intention was to demonize the NRA so deeply that its members would be live in fear and embarrassment, to have them quit and fade away, to diminish the numbers so they were no longer a force that could affect legislatures and elections. Instead, we picked another million. Gun sales sky-rocketed and more people own those Evil Black Rifles that scare the crap out of the Liberal Intelligentsia.
Come November, there are going to be a lot of surprised politicians who bet on the wrong horse and will find themselves going into civilian life.
