First off, let’s face facts: Gunblogging (and indeed, blogging of all kinds) is pretty much dead. It’s pining for the fjords of Norway. It has ceased to be, and social media is now triumphant.
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Surviving The Death Of The GunBlogosphere.

I have been trying to write about this for several days now, but current events forced me to delay it till today. The original title of this post was “GunBlogging Zombies… that would be us.” But if the traffic the blog had after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I have to say the vital signs are quite strong. I don’t share Kevin’s pessimism. In fact and after what we have seen in terms of Social Media active boycotting, Filtering and Shadow Banning, we are now again more that just relevant: we are indispensable.

The Gun Blogs that are still alive, have been for not a small a number of years. Heck, my own crappy contribution became 10 years old last month! So the first advantage over social media is we have a great amount of information collected through the years and available in one place with a simple search. Many of us go back to the Dark and Dangerous Age of Usenet when speech was not only free but brutal just one modem garble away. We remember things from that era and wrote about it All that info cannot be allowed to go to waste.

And I understand one grows tired of blogging. It is not that we cannot do it but we feel we are repeating ourselves, not being original, trendy, cool. And I believed so until I realized we have new people coming in every day and they do not know what we know. It is our responsibility/calling to pass along that  information. How many times have we corrected misinformation related to Stand Your Ground? And we need to do so because we know it may save somebody from ending up in prison.

I was amazingly lucky to have a moment of common sense and convince J. Kb. to join the blog. He is a good writer, passionate knows most of his shit and is in a path of higher learning. People like him and he has helped to spread the word to other I had not. So I would urge my old tired fellow bloggers to search for younger blood, not necessarily in age but in blogging “freshness.” Fair warning: you will have volunteers, but most of them will soon realize it is hard work and will have a change of heart. Don’t be discouraged until you have tried at least 15 different folks and don’t be too strict, we are talking new people here.

There is one problem I foresee coming: Blogger is owned by Google who also own YouTube and has begun a Sherman’s March type of banning and removing videos that are offensive to their liberal standards. If you are in Blogger, you may want to thing about having your blog moved to a paid hosting service. The other set of bad news is that you will have to transfer to other blogging platform like WordPress, but fortunately this is not as hard as it was several years ago. Plugin and Hosting Services will make the migration less troublesome.

So, pause for a second before hanging your blogging mouse forever.  Yu may feel  not as sexy as Social Media, but we are reliable. Facebook is the Blonde, Twitter is the Redhead, we are the Brunette.

We are Velma.

The NRA boycott thing ahs reached Exalted Stupid Status

So what makes this gentleman to be above the rest of the stupid? He is asking people who hate guns and don’t own guns, not to buy guns. I am not making this up. And also, not to buy in companies that sell gun-related stuff they never buy to begin with.

Some examples:

The concept behind the effectiveness of a boycott is to have people who spend money on a company, to stop doing so as way to exercise influence on them by affecting their income. If you never buy from that company, your effectiveness in boycotting is rated as zero.

Who is a company like KelTec or Remington or Crimson Trace going to pay attention to? The idiots that do not buy their products or the Gun People that do?

As I always say, Liberals can’t do math. And no I have to add that  Logic and Common Sense are esoteric  principles that Liberals cannot fathom.

Hat Tip @MalRoadkill

“I think it is time to have a conversation about what the right to bear arms means in the modern world,” Rice told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday. “I don’t understand why civilians need to have access to military weapons. We wouldn’t say you can go out and buy a tank.”

Condoleezza Rice says US needs to consider Second Amendment’s place in ‘modern world’

And another Republican murders her chance to be President.

Dear Condy: Never opine on stuff you have not personally researched.

1943 Sherman ( Grizzly ) Canadian built M4-A1 – Location: Newhall , Cal. 91321

Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle – Location: Fort Atkinson, WI

1997 Leopard 1A5 Location: Santa Margarita, CA
It is the Washington blindness: We only see what is being talked about in our insulated piece of D.C.

Dear Condalezza Rice advisors: “Have a conversation about guns” was used by Moms Demand (Owned by Michael Bloomberg)  as slogan when they were starting. But since they refused to engage in any kind of open discussion and kicked gun people out of their social media, “Have a conversation about guns” translated to “Shut the fuck up. You are a Gun Nut and you don’t get to talk.”  and that is what we heard when you said those words.

Hat Tip Manuel L.

TAMPA -– Thousands of gun enthusiasts flocked to the Florida State Fairgrounds for the Florida Gun Show event.

Organizers say they had a record number of people attend the event on Saturday, almost 7,000, and expect more Sunday.

Manager for the Florida Gun Show, George Fernandez, says they’ve never seen such a big crowd.

Florida Gun Show sees “record number” of attendees despite gun control debate.

You threaten us with more Gun Control, we buy more guns. And more ammo. Gun Control politicians claim they don’t want more guns in hands of untrained civilians, yet I am sure the NICS checks will blow the roof  just the last week of this month.

And I had to make a screen capture of this image from the accompanying video. It so destroys myths and lies of the Opposition.

A Black man buying a tactical shotgun in a supposed enclave of White Supremacists. The Narrative cannot be maintained if they keep showing evidence like this!

I am wondering how many thousands new AR and other semi auto rifles have found a home this weekend. I wonder how many tens of thousands will be adopted in the days to come.

Dear Liberals, the best way not to spread guns is trying not to ban them.

Just a thought.

I was checking the latest Florida Concealed Weapons permits last night.  The three top counties in number of permits are Miami-Dade, Broward and third Palm Beach. Almost 400,000 permits in the area encompassing the three counties. One of every 16 people in average of the three counties have a permit. So basically if you live in an urban area, no matter what, you will be  rubbing elbows with somebody with a Concealed Weapons Permit.

Sleep tight!

Palmetto State Armory  AR-15 Lower Safe/Fire – 1728  $49

I promise to water it and care for it so it can grow and be a full size AR.

Brother Blogger John Richardson from No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money and Co-Host of The Polite Society Podcast asked me to share these two memes and it is a pleasure to do so: