Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
These companies gave discounts or offered credit cards to NRA members. The alleged boycott is the equivalent of losing the Sunday newspaper coupons and the week’s junk mail.
In this world of instant rebates and online coupons, I am sure that we will survive “the loss.”
By now you know that the Broward Sheriff Office was not truthfully reporting (if at all) crimes committed by students in schools. Some will find that shocking but those of us who have been living here a while, is nothing new.
Powertrac was a complex statistical system used to quickly assess and respond to crime patterns. Modeled after Compstat, a seminal crime-fighting tool developed by the New York City Police Department in the early 1990s, Powertrac powered up just as Jenne became sheriff. He wholeheartedly embraced the system, torturing a catchy acronym from the name: Provide Objectives Where Enforcement Resources Target Responses Against Crime.
Suddenly, amazing things were happening when BSO patrolled neighborhoods. Crime plummeted and the rates of solved crimes soared. Other police departments in Broward — and all over the state — looked like Keystone Kops compared to crack crime fighters of the BSO…
…By early 2004, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office (SAO) was immersed in an investigation of widespread falsification of records by BSO deputies. Particularly skewed were BSO’s rates of solving crimes in Pompano Beach and Oakland Park as compared to the numbers generated by the disbanded police departments.
Interviews with current and former BSO employees and independent investigators, as well as a careful reading of court and SAO documents, suggest that Jenne and his top men had long known of the problems underlying Powertrac and the improbability of its results.
The Naked Truth – Miami New Times.
It is a long article, but it explains how deeply corrupted BSO was under Ken Jenne and I have the feeling that it has not been cleaned that good after his departure and vacation at a Federal Pen. The shit they pulled was amazing and yet, only an expendable handful were punished.
Fudging stats is too tempting. It requires little in human resources and little in the way of expenses.
I am gonna get this bothersome till the Legislature closes for the year in 2 weeks.
Besides your state Senate and Representative, you also need to contact these two gentlemen: Speaker of the House Representative Richard Corcoran and President of the Senate Joe Negron. On their pages you will see the contact info in the left column.
And this is the locator where you can find the contact information of your Legislators.
Be polite, be succinct, use Gun Control to name our opponents and use the word Rights and Bill Of Rights as identifier of our side. It does not have to be a long and elaborate letter, just make it clear you do not support any more Gun Control bills. You can use the same one for all four (or more) individual, the beauty of Copy/Paste.
On the one I just sent, I asked to investigate why County Officials failed to act on Nick Cruz rather than accepting Gun Control bills that would have not prevented the massacre.
So please, go use 10 minutes of your life to defend our rights.
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President Trump made the term “Fake News” popular about a year and a half, maybe two years ago.
Gun Owners have been living and dealing with Fake News for 50 years.
On October 22, we will be “commemorating” the 50 years of the Gun Control Act of 1968. It has been non-stop lies about since before that, but GCA68 is a defining date: Both Senate and House were under the control of the Democrats and it began the accelerated erosion of Gun Rights in the USA. It also created new fervor for those who wanted to save our Bill of Rights. In 1974, the Second Amendment Foundation was created and began the legal study of gun laws and the Second Amendment. The next year came the Cincinnati Revolt where the old school NRA leadership who had gone as far as to support GCA68 was removed and new blood came in not only to maintain the original programs of teaching firearms safety, marksmanship and hunting but to lobby for the Second Amendment because without it, there would be no teaching firearms safety, marksmanship, hunting or much Freedom left in this country.
Today the barrage of Fake News against Gun Rights is something to behold, but then again we are armed with High Capacity access to Social Media: The “Assault Weapon” of the Fake News Wars. Millions of us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the rest can do withstand and even overcome the tide of information BS against us.
And if you have any doubt how effective we are, just realize that Twitter and YouTube are openly banning accounts from conservatives or Gun Rights people who dare criticize CNN’s Children’s Crusade under the excuse of protecting them against bullies.
But they have a problem. Even with all their algorithms and filters and hired hands to clean the waves:
Keep up the fight. Remember, they are good a polishing the turd and try to make it look like we are losing. We only lose if we give up.
Pester your State and Federal representatives. Make them aware that you are a gun owner that can actually vote and will, not a Pod-Eating Teen with a script from CNN.
I warned you a while back that Gun Control as organized movement is on it way to oblivion, but at the same time, they were not going to go gently into the night. They will cheat, they will lie and they will engage in any kind of despicable conduct possible so they can survive. There is both money and power in Gun Control and they do not want to lose that. They will have the morals of mobsters about to lose business.
Prepare yourselves.
Let’s review:
Nick Cruz was known by students, teachers and the School authorities to be disruptive, engage in vandalism and prone to be violent, so #BoycottNRA.
As it is coming out now, Nick Cruz had a police history of school crimes scrubbed because it does not look good for Broward Sheriff’s Office to show they had no control on School crime and make their stats look shitty, so #BoycottNRA.
Broward Sheriff’s Office was called over 30 times via 911 to Nick Cruz’s home for domestic issues. Apparently there was never any kind of resolution so #BoycottNRA.
Nick Cruz was examined by school experts who found out he was cutting himself in Snapchat and possibly suffering depression, so #BoycottNRA.
None of the Government officials deemed or had the guts to declare the kid to be a danger, so nothing went into the official record which allowed Nick Cruz to pass the Background Check and buy a rifle, so #BoycottNRA.
When Nick Cruz walked inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and started to shoot people, Broward Sheriff Office Deputy Scot Peterson (School Resource Officer) hid outside the building behind hard cover while the students under his alleged protection were massacred, so #BoycottNRA.
It totally makes sense to #BoycottNRA… in the mind of Liberals only.
This information is not only available to everybody, but actually being reported by the Media elements that are pushing this Children’s Crusade and #BoycottNRA.
Does anybody else still believe the Media is not outright lying and misinforming the public?
I stand on my decision not to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.
This is not to say that teachers would take to using their weapons to discipline black and brown children. But there is precedent for physical escalation in confrontations between young people of color and armed authorities. What happens in confrontations between teachers and students when guns are added to that mix? How would students of color fare in armed and fortified schools, where at least some teachers are on the lookout for potential shooters?
Arming Teachers Would Endanger Students of Color – Slate.
But of course we are going to recycle all the old Concealed Carry and Campus Carry excuses while adding a dash of Race Card and use them against Teacher Carry.
So according to Slate, only White teachers will carry concealed in school and will target kids that misbehave who are exclusively minorities, white kids do not do stupid shit in school.
Translation: Slate Magazine thinks Black and Latino teachers are too dumb to carry guns and Black and Latino students are the only ones creating problems in school.
