Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
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News Media would burn you in effigy, Every so called “reverend” would demand the FBI to initiate and investigation for violation of Civil Rights – the First Amendment to be precise that guarantees your right to peacefully pray to your deity.
Now revers it and make it Black Lives Matter sabotaging a Catholic prayer and nobody gives a damn.
Yesterday I made this meme as a joke. Now it seems more like a relevant question.
Does he know that they are called the Laws of Physics? They are not the Regulations of Physics. To send a piece of lead and copper weighing a tenth of an ounce with enough speed to reach a human body at 5 football fields away so unloads enough energy to split it would require such an initial velocity that parts of his skull would be peppering the landscape after the M-16 blows in his face with the force of a grenade, maybe two.
Anyway, I’d be needing my rounds in 62 grains and above. Thank you.
What…? How?
Giddy up, Chicago. I’m calling on the Census Cowboy to help improve our Census response rates across Chicago. Make the Census Cowboy proud by filling out the Census today at https://t.co/tt2S9ojTmW. pic.twitter.com/eT2e6V74uk
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 13, 2020
My first thought is that they are gonna find the cowboy dead and the horse in some block party as main course.
In the meantime, the bodies keep dropping in Chi-town.
From The Sun:
Turn off air conditioning to reduce coronavirus spread, experts say https://t.co/nGvQrJHQPh
— The Sun (@TheSun) July 12, 2020
It’s currently 90° and 70% humidity in Huntsville.
I am much more likely to die of heat stroke than COVID.
Heat stroke is the leading cause of death among children after vehicle accidents.
COVID has virtually no mortality in healthy children.
Even with the elderly, heat is more lethal than COVID.
So we turn off the A/C to stop the spread of COVID and we kill tens of thousands of more elderly and tens of thousands of children with heat stroke.
No. Fuck no. And the person who suggested this bereft of risk assessment or perspective can stick their head in a wood chipper.
Amazed to find out that exercise equipment is designed for people that are already fit.
“If I had the weight limit you recommend, I would not need your fucking expensive machine to begin with.”
Again, not a bug but a feature. You force cops to escalate to lethal and you have an excuse to defund them even more.
Hat Tip LawDog.
For the readers of this blog, this is nothing new. Since BLM started, Moms Demand has attached itself to it and hast taken the Anti Cop stance firmly, mostly because Shannon’s attempts to advance politically. Once she was in what seemed a climbing path and suddenly she petered out of flavor from the Democrat electoral machine. My suspicion is that she is too white, to Middle America looking and with Monsanto corporate skeletons in her closet and the new flavor was Young non-white Socialists.
But with the advent of Black Lives Matter, she thought it would once again a path for her political relevance. Who does not get camera time accusing the cops of being violent assholes in this climate?
Eight years ago, Shannon Watts responded to a crisis—the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—by founding the Moms Demand Action movement against gun violence.
Now, her movement counts several hundred thousand members as it responds to the United States’ two most pressing crises: the coronavirus and the fight for racial justice. Gun safety is at the center of both those battles, particularly activism against police brutality. “Police violence is gun violence,” says Watts
Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts: ‘Police violence is gun violence’
Wait, does she know George Floyd was allegedly choked to death with a knee across his throat? Are knees the new “assault weapons”?
We know that the gun lobby exploits tragedy and national disaster to juice gun sales. We’ve seen them do this all the way back to Hurricane Katrina. Of course, they did it again when the coronavirus crisis hit. We’ve seen a historic number of gun sales over the spring—at least twice as many as were sold in the same time period as last year. We’re also seeing an increase in domestic gun violence, in unintentional shootings, in gun suicides. The reverberations of the gun lobby’s actions will be with us for months and years after the COVID crisis is over.
I am still trying to figure out why is Katrina brought as example of fearmongering: it was a total screw up by the local government and LEOs (who remembers NOLA cops looting themselves?), there was plenty of criminal violence and there was a reason why the Military was called to quiet the damn city. Oh yes, and the fact that they were confiscating guns left and right leaving people at the mercy of the criminals that did not have problem keeping their guns. Once again, I redirect the new readers to The Great New Orleans Gun Grab so they can learn about what happened on the ground that was not covered much by CNN and the Weather Channel.
If you look at the NRA’s Twitter feeds and materials they put out, they have a variety of marketing tools they use where they talk about natural disasters and chaos and how the only thing that will protect you is a gun. It’s very much: the government, the police—they can’t and won’t protect you and you can only protect yourself.
And are we lying? If so, explain the rise in violent crime across cities where they have bought the BLM Kool-Aid.
There’s a lot of messaging around the need, particularly, to protect yourself from looters. The conversations we’ve been having as a country over the last few months—not just COVID but also police brutality—the NRA has perverted it and made it feed into their narrative that every American needs a gun to protect themselves.
Here is where she starts to have troubles speaking from both sides of the mouth and making sense at the same time: The NRA is wrong in saying you are alone but police is brutal.
Every country is experiencing the coronavirus crisis. In the midst of it, only America is giving civilians easy access to arsenals and ammunition.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
We know that women are isolated with their abusers. We believe there’s a 20% increase in calls to domestic violence hotlines. We expect to see an increase in domestic gun violence.
And of course, if it happens, she will not be able to say that it was directly related to the mass gun purchase we have seen recently. But it looks good to associate new stork nests with births. This next paragraph is of the essence.
Police violence is gun violence and that’s why our movement must be responsive as well. We’re partnering with leaders and organizations who are experts against policing. We’re committed to working with them to address white supremacy and racism at its roots. We are seeing an appetite among lawmakers to push through anti-police brutality legislation.
The official position of Moms Demand: Less or no cops and disarmed citizens. I am gonna screencap this one before it gets memory-holed.
In Shannon’s mind and unfortunately many of the White Liberal apparatus, the consequences of both Gun Control and Police Defunding can be controlled thus they need to be achieved. An out-of-control violent crime is a valid political tool. Ask the Venezuelan government how successful has it been in making sure the citizens behave. What curfew by dawn? You got it! No cops at night make for criminals roaming freely and people running inside their homes praying they don’t get killed.
The next step to be taken by the Democrats will be (write this down) to criminalize Self-Defense. They won’t be able to do it all the way, but it will become so restricted in tis application, legally would be the equivalent of not having anything. The elimination of Stand Your Ground has never left their radars and I think Castle Doctrine is next. What better way to keep you under control that the fear that you are not even safe in the sacred four walls of your home?
Not a bug, but a feature.