After filing nearly a dozen gun-related bills for the 2017 legislative session and seeing none of them become law, state Sen. Greg Steube is scaling back on his proposals for 2018 and focusing on less controversial measures.Steube, R-Sarasota, filed two gun bills this week. One bill would allow concealed weapon permit holders to carry a gun up to a courthouse security checkpoint and leave the weapon with security. The other would require a business to provide security if it prohibits people from carrying concealed weapons and would make that business liable if someone prohibited from carrying a weapon is injured by another person or animal.A third gun bill in the works would clarify that accidentally exposing a concealed weapon is not a crime, Steube said

Source: Steube dials back on gun bills, won’t file more controversial measures

We are not getting Good Gun Bill for next year due to the sudden loss of testicles by the GOP legislators.

This is no longer a case of one or two senators or one representatives cowering to the supposedly power of the Anti Gun Groups, we are seeing a full contagion going on and it is because we have been kind and voted for them come hell or high water. It is our fault, we are suffering from a political form of Battered Wife Syndrome and it has to stop.

We don’t vote for GOP next election.

We don’t vote for GOP next election unless we see good bills reaching the desk of the Governor. Hell, I will even make it easy: Just get Open Carry to the Governor’s hands, but make sure it is veto-proof.

Dear Florida GOP Legislators: We no longer will pay for commodities we are not getting.

… do not correct him.

Conroe’s chief of police was asked to leave the Texas Ear Nose and Throat Specialists office in The Woodlands Tuesday afternoon because he was carrying his firearm. Chief Philip Dupuis told The Courier he was wearing his badge on his belt in plain view next to his handgun, as well as his Conroe PD identification on a lanyard around his neck when he entered the doctor’s office in the 3900 block of Pinecroft Drive around 4 p.m. and started to check in. A receptionist took his driver’s license and insurance card before questioning him about the gun on his hip. Dupuis said she asked him to take his gun out to his car. The 35-year law enforcement veteran, who never has had an accidental discharge, refused to disarm himself, reiterating that he is a police officer.
That’s when he was asked to leave, Dupuis said.

Source: Conroe police chief asked to leave doctor’s office for carrying his handgun – Houston Chronicle

A consequence of Gun Control being so tightly associated with the Left is that members will adopt the causes so indicated by Intelligentsia even when it will hurt them.

That a business or medical practice would deny service to Law Enforcement just because they can be assholes that way, is a momentous event for our side. It is not that LEOs are Anti Gun (not by far in most regular USA) but serves to show to Mr. and Mrs. Undecided the real amount of crazy & stupid bubbling over at the Opposition.

They need massive and coordinated media efforts to try to destroy our reputations but it only takes one single solitary event by an individual to bring a lot of it down among cops.

And some on our side should pay attention to this. Just because you can do something or feel that it should be that way does not mean it is the smart strategy to follow.

Fight Smarter, not Harder.

And the Fanbois are not happy.

Popular hotel alternative Airbnb formerly canceled bookings Tuesday for a group that planned to attend a rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. Airbnb told event coordinator Jason Kessler that the group violated the company’s community standards, which requires that all members “accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or age.”

Source: Airbnb Cancels Bookings In Rally | The Daily Caller

And they probably have the right to do so and few people will side with nazi Assholes.

But that is not the point. What if you made a reservation and have already spend other monies for travel expenses, taken time off to be with your family and somebody in Airbnb checks your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, finds something “offensive” and cancels your reservation when you and yours are already on travel? You are out of luck, you will have no place to stay and zero recourse.

Hotels can’t do that, and if they can get you a room, they will probably find you another similar hotel nearby and even get you a reduced rate. But you are dealing with professionals and they do not come cheap. And they understand that bonehead maneuvers like the one Airbnb pulled can cost them 20-30% of their clientele.

That is why you will not see me in Ubel, Lyft, Airbnb or any of that crap. It s just Hipster SJW Craiglist with an app.

And you know how well that usually ends.

In case it does not, the section I want to comment on starts at 3:54.

Idiots in low powered bikes having fisticuffs in the middle of the road and blocking a lane of traffic. Here comes somebody in a car, becomes a dick and runs over bikes and one of the guys. That would be a way that many people would interpret what we saw. For some of us, it is a different way to look at it.

When I saw it the first time, I found myself nodding in approval (mostly) about the car driver’s overall behavior. Am I a jerk-off anti motorcycle? I am pleading the 5th on that one, but I have been in a similar situation and it was a trap. It was an attempted carjacking.

It is interesting to see that after 20 years of continuous living in the US (Holy crap, that long?) I have not been able to shake off certain experiences. I am much better now, there was a time when a biker behind me in traffic just doing nothing but following the traffic laws would set my warning bells off. In one particular case, my wife was able to crack that particular after she saw me tense up behind the wheel and suddenly wear my cannibal face. She asked me what was wrong and I explained that we were being followed by a motorcycle.  Knowing what that mean, she looked behind us and laughed while assuring me that somebody in a Harley Davidson was a very very unlikely candidate for a carjacking or sicario attack and that probably he was just simply riding his bike.

But if my experiences were not enough, events that happened to very close friends are mental reinforcements: The wife of my childhood friend of 50 years was gunned down in traffic by a couple of motorcycle-riding assholes who were  trying to rob her and couldn’t get her to stop. Another friend and former colleague was not long ago sitting in deadlocked traffic when he felt a metallic tap on his window which turned out to be a gun aimed at his face by a rider who cleaned him up of all his belonging with exception of his glasses and the car itself. The same thing or worse has happened to acquaintances of mine through the years.

It might be silly and even selfish on my part, but it is my past experiences with motorcycles that puts me against favoring Lane Splitting laws in Florida (It is illegal in case you did not know.)

Does that mean I will run over anybody with a motorcycle doing something weird? No, although some assholes riding crotch rockets do deserve some attitude adjustment. But at the same time I know I will never be comfortable behind the wheel when motorcycle divers are acting the fool near me.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that you use your experiences to modify your tactics and adapt to future events. You do not let the experiences control your behavior and make it irrational or foolish. But it is not a simple task, specially when events like this happen :

I usually stay home that day 😀

When News Channel 8 spoke with Jones, he told us the doctor said the knife’s five-inch blade landed just millimeters from his heart. He said he hadn’t realized Watson stabbed him until deputies told him he was bleeding.

Source: Purse snatcher stabs woman, good Samaritans, outside Seminole Publix | WFLA.com

From other stories told me by people who have been stabbed, this is the norm rather than the exception. One former LEO and now instructor, told his story about being stabbed several times in the chest and other than a difficulty breathing, he did not realize he was dying till he noticed the blood minutes after the attack and after the suspect was under control.

Two things I take out of this. One:  After an encounter with a blade-wielding person, check yourself and have somebody check you. You do the same for whomever might have been attacked. You may be having a mayor blood loss and not knowing it till the eyes roll all whites and go into  hipovolemic shock. And I do not need to remind to always carry the necessary items to stop the blood loss, do I? Y’all smart cookies.

Two: How effective is a knife to stop an attacking individual? Again, we are mostly misguided by Hollywood where one simple stabbing to the guts has the damaging effect of a 20mm cannon round.  I figure that the concept of One-Stab-Kill is same as with handgun loads, a wishful thinking. My only reference on what to do with a knife in self-defense is what I have seen with Michael Janich who focuses a lot on disabling the person (thus stopping the attack) rather than going for the kill. The point is always to stop the attack and avoid injury as much as possible.

Do please use the comment section if you have experiences or advice to share. I am sorely ignorant when it comes to knife fighting even though I carry knives every day and I am going stupidly assume most of my readers fit in that category.

PS: I almost forgot. Do read the article quoted on top. It was a good resolution done by a citizen armed with a gun.

And no Sales Taxes during the event.