Brooklyn: Bedford Avenue & Fulton Street, video #CaughtOnCamera last night shows how a man walking on the street gets “Sucker Punched” in the confines of the @NYPD79Pct.

Special thanks to Montiex Security for sharing the video. pic.twitter.com/222tW2CYRs

— NYC Scoop (@NY_Scoop) April 27, 2021

After a third asshole going to the morgue for having a poor victim selection, incidents like this would become a rarity rather than the recurrent affair.

General Bill by Judiciary Committee and Education & Employment Committee and Williamson and Byrd (CO-SPONSORS) Andrade; Bell; Beltran; Brannan; DiCeglie; Duggan; Fetterhoff; Fine; Fischer; Grall; Gregory; Harding; Hawkins; Ingoglia; Leek; Maggard; Maney; Massullo; McClain; Overdorf; Payne; Roach; Robinson, W.; Rommel; Roth; Sabatini; Salzman; Shoaf; Sirois; Smith, D.; Snyder; Yarborough

Safety of Religious Institutions: Authorizes, for specified purposes, concealed weapons or firearms licensee to carry firearm on certain property of church, synagogue, or other religious institution.

Effective Date: upon becoming a law

Last Event: 04/27/21 S CS passed; YEAS 24 NAYS 16 on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:42 AM

And now we wait for the bill to be enrolled and sent to the Governor for signature.

Bill has been enrolled! Damn that was fast!

Next stop: The Governor’s desk.

I am finally starting to be optimistic about this bill becoming law.

And I reckon the Lord will be saying: “About time you attended Mass. It has been a spell. Now do de sign of the cross and sit yer butt in that pew over there.”

I might even take Communion.

The Painted Word: Wolfe, Tom: 8601300194813: Amazon.com: Books

I forget how I got to this little book (112 pages) but I had the most fun you legally reading the Tom Wolfe deconstructing the snobbery behind Modern Art. In modern blog terms, he fisks the living daylights of of sacred “artiste” crowds with the snark of the gods.

“First you do everything possible to make sure your world is antibourgeois, that it defies bourgeois tastes, that it mystifies the mob, the public, that it outdistances the insensible middle-class multitudes by light-years of subtlety and intellect—and then, having succeeded admirably, you ask with a sense of See-what-I-mean? outrage: look, they don’t even buy our products! (Usually referred to as “quality art.”)”
― Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word

It is glorious.

Reader Dano sent me this:

CHICAGO—The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Monday against an Indiana gun shop it says is responsible for the flow of hundreds and possibly thousands of guns into the nation’s third-largest city, making it one of the largest out-of-state sellers of guns used in crimes here.

The lawsuit against Westforth Sports Inc. of Gary, Ind., is seeking the appointment of a special master to oversee the store’s operations and assure that it abides by federal gun laws for a period of five years, as well as monetary damages.

“These eye-popping numbers are not the result of bad luck or coincidence or location,” the lawsuit says. “They are the natural and predictable outcome of a business model that ignores the federal laws and regulations that are intended to keep the public safe.”

Chicago Sues Indiana Gun Shop Over Illegal Guns

This has failed miserably in the past. You may remember Bloomberg starting a campaign targeting “bad apples” via Moms and on his own.  I seem to recall the Brady bunch going that way also and some low level organization staging protests in front of alleged bad stores.  In Miami Dade, they targeted Lou’s Police Supply with a ton of bad publicity trying to shame them by suggesting they were selling guns in a shady manner to any felon walking in, which was the dumbest accusation possible for two reasons: Lou’s sells more guns than anybody in Miami Dade county and because the place is worse than a donut shop: It is a cop hang out. My first gun in the US was bought in Lou’s.

The target of this lawsuit, besides telling Chicagoans “See me! I am doing gun prevention shit!” is to hit the store in the pocket with a frivolous lawsuit even though they know they will lose. Gun Controllers have no fiduciary common sense because they can waste the taxpayer’s money. Make it painful for them to do stuff like that and you see this idiocies disappear.

Take for example a bill still alive in the Florida Legislature: SB 1884 – Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation.

Providing that written or unwritten policies are subject to provisions allowing for recovery of damages if such policies violate specified provisions; providing that a plaintiff challenging a local government regulation concerning firearms is considered a prevailing plaintiff for certain purposes in specified circumstances, etc.

What municipalities were/are doing is to either write code or policy prohibiting something related to gun and in some cases just be an order by a superior and them when they got sued for violating pre-emption, withdraw the order before the case is brought to court.   The people bringing the lawsuit would have no standing anymore because the policy has been removed, but expenses were incurred and time was wasted. And the best part is that they can do it again at a later because they can do the same idiocy again. This bill makes them pay anyway.  And as you can imagine, the Florida Democrats hate it with a passion and are trying to delay it with amendments so it is not discussed and voted on before Friday. In fact, this amendment was introduced as I was writing this post:

 The amendments made by this act shall not apply until 365 consecutive days have passed without an incident in the state in which three or more persons were killed or injured by the use of a firearm.

The misuse of the public funds for Gun Control is basic for their cause. Bloomberg is only a recent phenomenon and even hizzformerhonor of New York seems to be withdrawing from the fight. Gun Control is a minority and that is reflected in their voluntary funding so they need to funnel cash from somewhere else, namely your pockets.

I am usually tired of the internet by the end of April with the closure of the Florida Legislature, but add the Covid stupidity and I am actually feeling not so much for the Sweet Meteor of Death but at least a couple of EMP devices strategically placed.

We live in an absolute mad world!

To be honest I would rather live in Idiocracy, its better of a society than what we have now. pic.twitter.com/Eokg59R2l1

— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) April 26, 2021

Sorry if I am sparse with posting as I am also engaged in some work around the house (some my ass) and actually it is going to get a bit intense in the next 30 days or so.

And if you are thinking if I am avoiding Federal gun stuff, the answer is yes. I decided that I was going to stay local and leave the big stuff for others. But I will start sharing other bloggers’ posts that I believe have a better understanding of what’s coming.

And, of course, there are the mellow posts of J. Kb always peaceful an insightful.

GENERAL BILL by Rodrigues

Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation; Providing that written or unwritten policies are subject to provisions allowing for recovery of damages if such policies violate specified provisions; providing that a plaintiff challenging a local government regulation concerning firearms is considered a prevailing plaintiff for certain purposes in specified circumstances, et

YEAS 24 NAYS 16

That is one down. There is a companion bill in the House to be discussed so I am not sure where are we standing on this.  I’ll let you know.

As I told Reader Nick, I want this to happen and at the same time it scares the bejesus out of me. I reckon we will see this sorted out sometime next year.

Everybody start crossing fingers.