“The Second Amendment is not absolute. What else do you want? Cannons? Artillery is only for the Army.”

It seems Madrid did no shut down as the rest of Europe did and even theough the local government was criticized and the usual doom and gloom predictions were issues, it did not come to pass:

In the last twelve months, for example, Madrid is the territory with the lowest lethality of the country, only matched by the Balearic Islands and Melilla.

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The [Carlos III Institute of Health] has been collecting statistics for just one year, on 10 May 2020, when the fearsome first wave in Spain has already been completed. Since then, 49,058 people have died in Spain and 6,383 have died in Madrid. This community ranks third in the total number of deaths, behind only Andalusia, which accounts for 8,243 deaths, and Catalonia, which registers 7,645. (Browser translated)

Madrid, la comunidad con menor letalidad desde hace un año 

From I could gather, Madrid was criticized heavily for allowing hotels to conduct business and that meant the flow of tourism was not severely affected. Madrid’s income is Tourism, the same way Orlando is dependent on it: No tourism means people do not get a paycheck and buy food, period.

But how did lockdown regions do? The stats have an answer for that.

While one in a hundred people die in Madrid, the Balearic Islands and Melilla, in other communities the number soars well above average. The most striking cases are those of Asturias and Aragon, fiefdoms both governed by left-wing governments. According to figures collected by the Carlos III Institute of Health, an average of 3.3 people for every hundred who became infected with Covid have died since 10 May 2020.

Little by little the evidence is creeping out. Lockdowns not only did not work, but were killers. Add to that a Socialist government and you get three times more killed than pure, unfettered Capitalism.

Something about History repeating itself…

A mask dispute in Key West sent one man to the hospital and another to jail over the weekend.
The incident took place Sunday afternoon at Dairy Queen, 1207 United St. It started when Neshad Potts refused to put on a mask as an employee behind the take-out window had requested, said Eli Paez, who ended up in the hospital with a head injury and a hole in his lip after being punched in the face by the man.
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Paez accused Potts of passing gas on him before subsequently striking him in the face.
“He farted on me and I was like, nobody’s ever done that to me,” Paez said. “That is the most disgusting and childish thing. He looked at me and smacked the hat off my head.”
Paez told Potts he wasn’t afraid of him.

A man was punched over a face mask dispute at a Key West Dairy Queen, police say

You have to admit, farting was a nice tactical use of a distraction before a sneaky attack. The heart attack bit has been overused by Hollywood and I really don’t see them using farts as substitute.

I am going to keep checking the South Florida news after we move. These bits are too much fun to just ignore and abandon.

Definition of Mechanical Offset

The fact that you must zero your rifles and pistols is a result of the fact that you aim with sights or optics that are some distance above the center bore of your barrel. The spatial difference between the two is known as mechanical offset.

https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/c9c0c646-a953-4960-89db-facab84764f0

In a win for Republican lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, an appeals court Friday upheld a 2011 state law that threatens tough penalties if city and county officials approve gun-related regulations.

A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected a challenge to the NRA-backed law by 30 cities, three counties and more than 70 local officials. A Leon County circuit judge in 2019 found that parts of the law were unconstitutional, spurring Attorney General Ashley Moody and Gov. Ron DeSantis to appeal.

NRA, GOP win as court upholds law preventing local gun control

This decision came down a month ago and it came to my attention last week. Florida’s State Preemption on Firearms had been take to court as unconstitutional, specially when it came to the hefty penalties applied to individuals in local government and the local government itself. The penalty to individuals is $5,000 and it is specially “harsh” because the law mandates that no public funding can be used to pay for it. Basically that the violating individual has to pay out of his/her pocket which is why I say this particular has teeth in it.

The local governments and officials did not challenge the underlying 1987 preemption law but contended the penalties in the 2011 law were unconstitutional. Friday’s ruling focused on arguments that the 2011 law should be rejected because of two legal concepts known as “government function immunity” and “legislative immunity.”

Judge Susan Kelsey, writing for the appellate panel, rejected the arguments and pointed to the state’s “superior authority in this context.”

Here is the text of the opinion and it slams the door pretty hard on the cities. The way I read it (IANAL warning) is they tried to go against the concept of preemption while saying they respected it (contradictions are never good) and also tried to inject separation of powers and Federal stuff that did not apply remotely to the case. The concept of state preemption is pretty well established in Florida with several prior cases already decided in favor of it as I read in the opinion, so in my untrained eye, this looked more like a legal Hail Mary/Propaganda move.

I understand a bit more the opposition Democrats had this year to SB 1884 “expanding” preemption of firearms to cover also unwritten gun control policies and allowing plaintiffs who sue local governments to get paid even if the elected officials dump the policy before the judge comes with a decision. Once becoming a law, this opinion by the 1st District Court of Appeals makes it all but impossible to challenge.

And cases like this are the little obscure things we don’t pay attention to because (to paraphrase from the film “The Firm”) they are not “sexy” but got teeth and go a long way to keep the grubby hands of the Gun Controllers from infringing in our rights.

Wayne Tarrance : Get ’em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that’s exciting.
Mitch McDeere : It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That’s ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You’ve got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There’s two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That’s racketeering! That’s minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That’s more than you had on Capone.

What The Holy Flock?

Pardon me for stating the obvious, but I believe wheelchair people already are effing seated!

Meet the genius:

And hear this: She is being roasted alive not because it is an idiotic idea but because it eliminates “beds” for the homeless. But I doubt she had that ulterior motive as I don’t think she is capable to generate an original thought and breathe at the same time without acquiring a stroke.

I know most everybody associates Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” as the essential Miami Vice song.  But to me one song braded the series before  that one was used: This Masquerade in Season 1 Episode 2: ‘Heart of Darkness’. It is just played a bit right at the end of the episode, but it hits you like Viking axe to the chest.