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.

The Kung Flu Insanity Down Under

This is why, even vaccinated and supporting vaccinations, will rabidly stand against government health mandates. Lockdowns are not science anymore but a tool of absolute control. If you have done the same thing 5 times already and did not work, what in Hera’s name makes you think this time will work? The answer is: They know it won’t work for whatever they sold you it was needed but it is working charmingly for their purposes.

Back in the US, we need to wrestle away control from the ultra politized CDC and let the individual states come up with their own strategies for vaccination and disease control. The Center for Disease Control should be nothing more than a Federal Health Costco where states go to get their supplies and maybe a roasted chicken or a hot dog to go; no mandates, no directives, specially from people who probably were ranked 101 out of the bottom 100 in Med School or worse: have zero medical expertise but are experts in Red Tape and Making Shit Up.

If this pandemic proved something was the wisdom of President Reagan”

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. “

No kidding, Ronnie.

I am glad I missed the Tennessee Permitless Carry battle.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – With the new permitless carry law, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) has more concern this year than ever before.

There have been nearly 500 car break-ins in Shelby County so far this year.

While it is a large number, Detective Toby Shaw with SCSO says it shows some progress in comparison to previous years. In 2019, there were over 800 break-ins overall and in 2020, there were over one 1,000 for the entire year.

Shaw says many break-ins are done by teens.

Shelby County Sheriff’s Office issues warning for gun owners who leave guns in their vehicles (wmcactionnews5.com)

And this morning I was reading in the local rags about TSA complaining about people accidentally bringing their sidearms to the security check ins at Nashville Airport. I am sure that tomorrow or the day after, we will read about how Permitless Carry also contributed to the spread of the Delta variant, the conflict in the Middle East and also Hair Loss in women.

It has been a month since the law came into effect and these type of news articles are simply the reflection of desperation because the Media and the Left knew for a fact that Wild West shootouts were coming. But since the proverbial bus full of orphans has not been shot to pieces by the local Rednecks, the best they can do is blame the rash of car break ins on the object rather than the culprits.

But just because the Media is comprised by idiots, that does not mean your responsibility ends and you get to leave your firearm unsecured inside your car. Our vehicle is now containing not one, not two, but three safe boxes to lock guns in case of need if a packing relative is with the missus an I and we must enter a prohibited area.

With prices beginning at $40 and under, you have no excuse not to have one in your vehicle.  And shit will happen, just ask J Kb.

ShotSpotter not only lacks accuracy but it can be altered.

On May 31 last year, 25-year-old Safarain Herring was shot in the head and dropped off at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago by a man named Michael Williams. He died two days later.

Chicago police eventually arrested the 64-year-old Williams and charged him with murder (Williams maintains that Herring was hit in a drive-by shooting). A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot.

How did they know that’s where the shooting happened? Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place.

Except that’s not entirely true, according to recent court filings.

That night, 19 ShotSpotter sensors detected a percussive sound at 11:46 p.m. and determined the location to be 5700 South Lake Shore Drive—a mile away from the site where prosecutors say Williams committed the murder, according to a motion filed by Williams’ public defender. The company’s algorithms initially classified the sound as a firework. That weekend had seen widespread protests in Chicago in response to George Floyd’s murder, and some of those protesting lit fireworks.

But after the 11:46 p.m. alert came in, a ShotSpotter analyst manually overrode the algorithms and “reclassified” the sound as a gunshot. Then, months later and after “post-processing,” another ShotSpotter analyst changed the alert’s coordinates to a location on South Stony Island Drive near where Williams’ car was seen on camera.

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI (vice.com)

My long time suspicion about the efficacy of ShotSpotter has long been recorded in this blog. I have seen personally how inaccurate the system can be, but I did not know it could be so easily manipulated to create “evidence” to be used against citizens.

I know of cities that have dropped the system because it is both inaccurate and expensive, but now that it has been found out it is alterable, I do not know how any remaining customer cities can take the chance of having cases dropped because part of their important evidence can be changed to satisfy the need of a less than honorable LEO or prosecuting attorney. At best, cities will open themselves to magnificent lawsuits for false incarceration and at worse, human predators will be have to be released among the population and the erosion of the public trust will only get worse.

 

How about shut the hell up and peel potatoes?

If was a restaurateur who somehow managed to stay alive after pandemic shut downs and then idiotic regulations, the last thing I want to do is risk income by becoming a COVID Enforcement Agent for some power hungry assholes in government.

As a consumer, I believe I have a better chance of ending up in the hospital with a case of food poisoning from Chez CDC than catching the Kung-flu in an eatery.

Dear Gun Control Trolls:

If you are trying to shame me in social media by posting kids accidentally shooting others, I will remind you over and over that your side has been the one opposing the Eddie Eagle program that teaches kid to stay away from guns and trying to defund Project Childsafe which distributes free gun locks to secure weapons from kids.

In fact, you are the ones killing the kids, not us. You are the bloodthirsty assholes. You need to have kids killed so you can post something besides your latest quiche recipe and why kale is good for masturbation.

Take a bow, King Herod.