We know our opponents hate us and our culture. Some of them go so far as to want us dead. We also know what happened to a disarmed people when those in power want them gone. Just ask the Jews and the Armenians…

Source: No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money: What It Could Come To

If you need an explanation, you are in a sorely need of history.

This comes from a recent Facebook discussion about the George Zimmerman case. The subject still believes that Trayvon martin was murdered/assassinated/whatever even though the evidence in court showed otherwise:

Is your eye twitching yet? It takes about five minutes for the eyelid contractions to stop, just relax.

The gentleman’s ‘likes’ in FB are unsurprising: Hillary, Everytown, National Gun Victims Action Council, Democrats, Wendy Davis…. well yes, he is from Texas.

But that is how zealots respond when the evidence keeps mounting against the cause and are so emotionally invested: they must resort to blind belief and fanatical responses.  I am not joking when I said they rather see bodies pile up as long as their inflexible creed is untouched by criticism and ridicule. Expect no truth, respect or sympathy from them.

Stolen from all over.

Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.

Venezuela has also bought laser technology to mark ammunition, Reverol said, in an attempt to keep a registry of the bullets given out to the South American nation’s many state and municipal police forces.

Source: Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets | Reuters

Given that ammo imports are tightly controlled by the Government and that most of the ammunition that you can find is manufactured by the military, I expect that they will find troubles with the laser micro-stamping.  You see, Gov ammo is sold in the black market not only to criminals but to guerrilla groups and drug cartels.

By the way, reloading equipment and supplies are strictly verbotten. My crappy Lee single stage press can get you (IIRC) about 8 years in prison and that is not counting primers, bullets, cases and powder. I think I would end up serving something like 25-30 years if all I have for rolling my own ‘boolits’ is added up.

But I want to direct your attention to these “experts” on guns and disarmament:

And they wonder why Gun Control is failing in Venezuela.

From Guns.com

And therein lies a major flaw in the argument that Williams is trying to make.  While SYG laws has been used as a defense by a law enforcement officer regarding a shooting, the primary purpose is to protect ordinary people who use lethal force to counter an attack.  The authority of police to use force or otherwise to carry out their duties comes under a different heading.

Source: Professor of law struggles to miss the point on Stand Your Ground

And I figure Greg Camp was restricted in the number of words because this article in the Nation is chock-full-of lies and distortions, it would make for half a book on corrections alone. Let’s begin with the title:

You kinda lose respect for the author and the editor when you resort to Click-&-Race-Bait. But since we are now living in the era of Black Lives Matter And We Will Lie When We Want To, it is to be expected. I selected a quote about Castle Doctrine from the article because it only takes all of 3 minutes worth of Google search to confirm or deny the statement.

Harvard professor Caroline Light has traced the history of our romance with legalized vigilantism. She dates it to the Reconstruction era, “when post-war political and economic turmoil and the enfranchisement of African American men fed late-19th-century gender panic, and the legal terrain shifted to characterize a man’s ‘castle’ and the dependents residing therein as an extension of the white masculine self.” Light (whose excellent new book Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense is forthcoming from Beacon Press next spring) asserts that current policies, including defunding basic public services, have led to a situation in which “the state’s retreat from the protection of its citizens creates a perceived need for (do-it-your)self-defense.” The supposedly race-neutral idea of “reasonable threat” actually encourages a “lethal response to black intrusions into spaces considered white.”

What in the good name of Martin Luther King is this crap about? I looked up Harvard professor Caroline Light and she turns out to be a Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Or as we call them in Real Life, a degree in “You want fries with that? I have Student loans to pay”) so not even a Law Professor or even a paralegal. But you don’t need to be a Supreme Court Justice to do a basic Google-Fu and find out that Castle Doctrine comes from English Law and dates back to 1628.

it has been a legal precept in England, since at least the 17th century, that no one may enter a home, which would typically then have been in male ownership, unless by invitation. This was established as common law by the lawyer and politician Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook), inThe Institutes of the Laws of England, 1628:

“For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man’s home is his safest refuge].”

So basically “Professor” Light missed by just two centuries. That is what passes for accuracy in Harvard nowadays , I guess.  And I am still trying to wrap my head to the idea that Castle Doctrine somehow just applies to white homes and not to every home. Does she have any statistics that proves that statement? Any law in the books that says something remotely similar?

Of course, this is just another attempt to confuse the understanding of Stand Your Ground laws by repeating the lie that it discriminates against Blacks when at least in Florida we know it favors Blacks .

People like Patricia Williams, the author of this “article” and Professor Light firmly believe that Stand Your Ground was a racist NRA/ALEC construct created in 2005 so White People in Florida could shoot Blacks with impunity. I have mentioned ad nauseam  the Supreme Court cases of  Beard v. United States – 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), but I just want to add another SCOTUS SYG case that I happened to find not too far back. It is Rowe v. US (1896):

(Intro)
The testimony on the part of the government tended to show: That on the evening of the 30th of March, 1895, the defendant, David Cul Rowe, who is a Cherokee Indian, and the deceased, Frank Bozeman, a white man, a citizen of the United States, and not an Indian, met at an hotel at Pryor’s Creek, Ind. T., at the supper table…

(Court’s majority decision by Justice John Marshall Harlan.)
… The accused was entitled, so far as his right to resist the attack was concerned, to remain where he was, and to do whatever was necessary, or what he had reasonable grounds to believe at the time was necessary, to save his life, or to protect himself from great bodily harm. And, under the circumstances, it was error to make the case depend, in whole or in part, upon the inquiry whether the accused could, by stepping aside, have avoided the attack, or could have so carefully aimed his pistol as to paralyze the arm of his assailant, without more seriously wounding him.

Without referring to other errors alleged to have been committed, the judgment below is reversed, and the case is remanded for a new trial.

REVERSED.

So much for evil racist roots of Stand Your Ground.

I did write to The Nation pointing out the error on Castle Doctrine part of the article, but I haven’t and do not expect to hear from them.

If I had kids of almost College age, I would encourage them to go to some sort of Trade School as they would make more money after they graduate than many of these “Professors” and do not have to be infected with their political BS.

While doing research for my last post, I cam across this article: Millennial men are significantly weaker than their fathers, study shows.  Of course they are.  Of course.  I know so many who don’t know how a hammer works, let alone have ever swung one.  Adult children whose heaviest lifting is an I-Phone to take a selfie.  Worse, who are physically revulsed by tools and the self sufficiency that come with them.

I used to get offended when I read article after article how millennials are the dumbest generation.

I am one of them, technically, and I am nothing like what these people describe.  Neither are my friends.

Then I realized what it is.

These weak, narcissistic, safe-space ninnyhammers, that have come to be the public face of the millennial generation are Eloi.  The live their sheltered, pampered lives on the surface, in the daylight.

Those of us who toil, doing useful work, keeping the lights on and the economy running are the Morlocks.  We have the hand strength, bad backs, calluses, and paychecks to prove it.  We live in the dark, underground.  Ignored by the media and pop culture.  We terrify the Eloi by our very existence.  Mocked for going to bed because we have to get up early for a job, and can’t stay up all night taking pictures of our craft beers for Pinterest.

I’m OK with being a Morlock.  The Eloi were never the good guys, happy to watch a fellow Eloi drown (nowadays while videoing the drowning Eloi for their YouTube channel).

I think if a Victorian man, with the hand strength that comes from a life of having to shovel coal or split wood when it got cold outside, came to Earth today in a time machine.  He might be more inclined to marvel at the underground industry us Morlocks created than the pampered indolence that the Eloi complain is too much work for them.

As for me.  When the big one hits, SMOD makes impact, or the dead rise up and start to walk the earth; I’ll be fine sitting down to a nice, juicy, Eloi steak.