Don’t be fooled: They want to, but that is like wishing for the Easter Bunny to be real. But if I know my Left Wingers, they will follow the strategies used in other countries which have worked damn well: You make Self Defense illegal.

Somebody aims a gun at you anywhere else in Texas and you cap him, you are not only going home that night but you are hailed as a hero. In a Democrat-run city with a Soros-backed prosecutor? You are found guilty of murder.

And that is the next step in their strategy.

You can have all the tools you need, but you will pay dearly if you use them, thus making gun useless and even a risk to own.

Of course, police and military can still shoot the shit of anybody, you included. Some exceptions are already in place also, pushed the hard way into their minds (George Floyd Trial and Instructional to LEOs).

Make notes: You will see this again.

There was a triple homicide last week in Orlando.

Three teenagers involved in petty crimes got killed by two other teenagers and a 12-year-old during a botched illegal gun sale and robbery.

This clip from the Sheriff’s press conference has been going around because the Sheriff made the point that no new gun laws would have prevented this homicide.

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods SNAPS on reporter for gun question after 3 teens were murdered by suspects using stolen gun.

"All the gun laws we got in place didn't prevent it, did it? … the bad guy's gonna get a gun no matter what law you have put in place!" pic.twitter.com/unDT9pIFcG

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) April 7, 2023

He may be right, but note what he said in the very beginning.

The gun used in the murders was stolen out of a car.

This is a point Miguel and I try to drive home constantly, lock up your guns and putting them in a glove compartment doesn’t count.

A little less than two years ago I posted about how my truck was broken into in a hotel parking lot, but my 9mm was locked in a Liberty pistol box tethered to the front sear frame with a steel cable and didn’t disappear.

At the time my right (dominant) hand was broken and in a splint. We got to the hotel around midnight, and I was too tired and in pain to do anything more than help get the kids into the hotel room, which is why I didn’t take my gun into the hotel room with me.

I now have Liberty cable boxes in all of my cars and a Hornady cable box that I’ll put in my wife’s car if we’re road tripping and I need a place to lock up my gun.  If I don’t teather it to a seat frame, I’ll lock it to the spare tire anchor point in the trunk.  Hell, I’ve seen cable lock boxes on sale at Harbor Freight for under $20.  I might but one and do a review, because $20 for gun safety seem like a great deal if it works.

There are plenty of reasons why you might have to leave a gun in a car, but if you do, lock it up.

For the cost of a cheap cable lock box, someone lost their gun and now there are three bodies on it.

Lock up your guns.

Hawaii has been one of the most horrible locations for gun rights for decades. After McDonald they were suppose to be a “May Issue” state but when the records were checked they had not issued a single CCW permit in years and years and years.

They are worse than California, New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts.

After almost a year they were proud to announce that they had issued 34(?) CCWs.

Of course infringers have to infringer.

So they are following in the footsteps of NY, NJ and all the other states that have decided that they will issue a you a CCW but only after you prove you are good enough and then you’ll only be able to do so if you can avoid all the “legal gun free zones”.

2nd Amendment advocates balk at Green proposal to create gun-free ‘sensitive places’

Gun advocates say the proposal is government overreach.

And then there are other birdies.

The multimillionaire, tech startup founder of CashApp was murdered in San Francisco.

Slain Tech Exec Bob Lee Screamed for ‘Help’ in 911 Call After SF Stabbing

Tech executive Bob Lee walked up an empty San Francisco street in the early hours of Tuesday gripping his side with one hand and his cellphone in the other, leaving a trail of blood behind him.

“Help!” he screamed into his phone. “Someone stabbed me.”

Those were some of the last words Lee said on a 911 call before collapsing on a Rincon Hill sidewalk, according to surveillance footage and records reviewed exclusively by The Standard.

Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard shows Lee, who had already been stabbed, walking up Main Street away from the Bay Bridge at around 2:30 a.m. Lee crosses the intersection at Harrison Street and walks up to a parked white Camry with its hazard lights flashing.

Lee then lifts his shirt—as if to show the driver his wound and ask for help—and falls to the ground after the car drives away, the footage shows. He gets up and walks back toward the Bay Bridge before falling to the ground again outside an apartment building called the Portside.

At some point, Lee dialed 911 and repeatedly screamed for help, saying he needed to go to the hospital, according to the records reviewed by The Standard. Lee made the call at 2:34 a.m. and police arrived on the scene less than six minutes later.

Lee was unconscious when officers found him on the ground, police said.

Rincon Hill is one of the more affluent and peaceful areas of San Francisco.

On the heels of that stabbing is this story.

Former San Francisco fire commissioner attacked with crowbar day after Bob Lee stabbed to death

Neighbors of former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani said “no one is safe” in the city after he was brutally attacked by a transient with a metal crowbar just steps away from his family’s front door.

Carmignani, 53, was leaving his mother’s home at about 7 p.m. in the Marina District when he was accosted by a man waving an industrial metal crowbar, friends of the ex-commissioner told The Post.

Joe Alioto-Veronese, a prominent attorney and friend, said Carmignani was at his mother’s home when he noticed Doty and two other transients blocking the driveway.

When Carmignani asked them to move, he was bludgeoned in the back of the head by Doty, which injured the former smoke-eater’s skull and brain.

How has the city of San Francisco responded to this?

WATCH: San Francisco Police Commissioner @KevinMBenedicto speaks on Bob Lee killing.

"We don't know all the facts…But I find it premature and distasteful to try to fit this horrifying act of violence into a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda." pic.twitter.com/6fDB5VD1pQ

— The San Francisco Standard (@sfstandard) April 6, 2023

“Nothing to see here.”

This actually shocks me.

When the poor and middle-class are the victims of crime, it’s usual for the government not to give a shit.

When multimillionaire business people/political donors and government officials are the victims of crimes, the powers that be kick into action.

In Florida, when people who lived on the canals (used to be not valued property) complained that the gators were eating their pets, nobody cared.  Once a gator attacked a rich guy on a county club golf course, they started dealing with the gator surge.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a city not give a flying fuck when a VIP got murdered.

This is an adherence to a Woke narrative that shocks even me.

There is no recovery for San Francisco.

When its Tech Executives are acceptable casualties, the city is fucked.

B.L.U.F. A win in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Case challenging the MA handgun roster.

The FPC scored a win in a notoriously anti-gun rights First Circuit Court of Appeals. They heard oral arguments on the Tuesday the 4th and vacated the district court’s opinion yesterday, Friday 2023-04-07.

The case was first decided in May of 2022, before Bruen and we see the same standard path. The court first said that it assumed without deciding that the conduct was protected by the Second Amendment.

At that point the District Court moved on to decide the level of scrutiny required. Being the district court of Massachusetts of course the court decided to use intermediate scrutiny which of course allowed them to find the infringement “constitutional”

The date of dismissal is sort of interesting, it looks almost as if the court was rushing to get its decision out before the Bruen decision was published.

The FPC appealed to the First Circuit Court on June 15th, 2022. This was still before Bruen.

The Circuit Court had all of the documents in place by middle of July, less than a month after the District Court’s decision.
It wasn’t until August that a briefing schedule was set.

Another interesting case to follow because it shows just how many cases are being overturned due to Bruen

Shredding will begin in the morning. It has been a long day. After that, smoking ribs and meatloaf to complete the marathon.

‘Nite.

UPDATE: 12 pounds of shredded goodness. The photo sucks, but the pork came out delicious.

In case you wonder where I got the recipe, here’s the video.

He is also the one I go to for the Smoked Meatloaf recipe.