I watched a cop TV show where a White Guy snaps (always a White Guy) after losing his good job, losing his house and car, his wife divorcing him and he basically being penniless, but yet he manages to get his hands on a couple of brand new handguns, at least one full auto Uzi and a high-powered assault rifle with a scope that is worth more than all the guns combined.

Is there a Salvation Army of Guns for deranged White Guys I have not been informed about? You walk in, explain your situation and they give you all those wonderful tools of revenge for free?

I don’t check on them regularly and they go hypocritically stupid:

And they even changed their cover photo:

Even back then, The Narrative was set to ignore the fact that it was armed civilians who stepped up and kept Charles Whitman’s head down with their own personal rifles. It was this gunfire what allowed the killings to stop,  rescue of the wounded to begin and police to reach the top of the tower and take care of Whitman:

I will quote from Massad Ayoob:

He never comes right out and says it, but McNab seems to show some sympathy for armed citizens. Analyzing the Texas Tower massacre by Charles Whitman in 1966, he writes, “The body count was soon stacking up on the streets of Austin. Such was the frustration felt by police that they permitted armed civilians to join them in directing fire against the tower. Their role became invaluable, as was acknowledged by Texas Ranger Ramiro ‘Ray’ Martinez, in his later autobiography ‘They Call Me Ranger Ray.’”  It was Martinez who, along with brother Austin officer Houston McCoy, killed Whitman atop the tower. McNab quotes Martinez, “I was and am still upset that more recognition has not been given to the citizens who pulled out their hunting rifles and returned the sniper’s fire. The City of Austin and the State of Texas should be forever thankful and grateful to them because of the many lives they saved that day. The sniper did a lot of damage when he could fire freely, but when the armed citizens began to return fire the sniper had to take cover.”

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But the lessons keep being ignored at the peril of the population. Politics trump common sense.

Via  Greg Ellifritz. Everything happens on the top half of the screen.

I can’t tell for certain and I wish we could have access to the autopsy report, but it seems not surprisingly) that it was a shot to the head at very uncomfortable close range what finally stopped the attack.

When I began training in firearms, one of the things that I was taught was defending against a man armed with a knife. First thing I was told was to put a lot of distance and have some physical object in between the attacker and my body. Lacking that and if attacked, you were to sidestep the bad guy to the side opposite where he had his knife once he got somewhat close to you. The idea was that the inertia of the forward movement would be big enough for the attacker to have a much difficult time reacting and trying to change directions. On the other hand, sidestepping is faster and you are the one doing the action. Action always beats reaction.

And goes without saying that you must place effective shots on the attacker. Other than that, you are just doing a dance with a nutcase wanting to kill you.

My take (yours may vary according to the local laws) is that if a violent person is displaying a knife, your first movement must be at least drawing your weapon and putting distance between you and him. Maybe he will see the wisdom of stopping his actions, but that is a bet that I am not willing to pay with my life. The attacker in the video knew he was going after an armed person and still did not stop him from attempting to kill him.

According to the FBI, in 2014 there were 1,567 homicides and 124,380 Aggravated Assaults by Knives or cutting instruments. But what is interesting from the FBI stats is that although homicide by firearms far surpasses homicides by knives, there is only a small difference between them when it comes to aggravated assault: 138,336 by firearms.

Inevitably somebody ignorant will come around and say being wounded by a knife is not as bad as being shot and that we are better off without guns and blah-blah:

I beg to differ.

… being anally raped in jail, then prosecuted for instigating an asshole and then get into a fist fight with him, hurts a lot.

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Extra points for recording the episode and giving the prosecutor evidence against him.

Ego will get you in trouble with Life and Law faster than anything else.

Hat Tip to Sean Sorrentino.

We watched in 2008, then again in 2012, the major American news outlets be-clown themselves in their fawning, sycophantic, adoration of Barack Obama.  We watched the host of a prime time new show describe getting a tingle up his leg listing to the then Democratic candidate bullshit Americans.  We watched as journalists from one of the most reputable and venerated news shows ask the President questions that could only be described as “comically obsequious.”  It has been clear for the last 8 years that the 4th estate is in the tank for the Democrat party.

One would think then that a person would become jaded to this bias when it comes to Hillary Clinton and 2016.  For the most part, yes.  When the Huffington Post publishes a piece following Hillary’s nomination with the headline “Hillary Clinton Looks Downright Angelic In A White Pantsuit At The DNC,” is that in any way shocking.  There are many words I could use to describe Hillary Clinton, a precious few of them might even be nice, but none of those words would be angelic.  But of course a writer with HuffPo is going to write about Hillary in a way that is nothing short of oleaginous.

Then I came to this article by Ezra Kein of Vox, that was so beyond the pale, that I just couldn’t leave it alone.

This election isn’t just Democrat vs. Republican. It’s normal vs. abnormal.

It goes on to explain that Trump and the GOP is an abnormal, crazy, loudmouth; and by contrast, Hillary is the normal candidate.

Ezra Klein is wrong (what else is new?), there is nothing about this election that is normal.  I’ve said enough about Trump, so I’m going to skip him for this post.  What I will say is that his abnormally pales comparison to the abnormality of Hillary Clinton and what goes on around her.   Especially what goes on around her.

We can talk about Hillary Clinton and cattle futures or any of the other financial scandals she’s been involved in, but those are fairly run-of-the-mill type bits of low level government corruption.

A Democrat Congressman commits tax fraud and lies about his income.

A Democrat Congresswoman commits fraud and steals from a fake charity she created.

A Democrat Congressman commits fraud and steals from his campaign fund.

A Democrat Governor commits fraud and uses state resources to line his pockets.

A Democrat Governor commits fraud and tries to sell a Senate seat for personal gain.

Just read the history of “Boss” Tweed and Tammany Hall or the Chicago Political Machine to see what real political corruption looks like.

The Democrats may not have invented political corruption, but they sure as hell have mastered it.

If Hillary Clinton’s scandals were limited to pay-to-play, graft, patronage, and other forms of Gombeenism, that would be one thing.  But the level of corruption Hillary Clinton has engaged in undermines the security of the United States of America.  What we have seen when it comes to Hillary Clinton, from those that support her, is a casual disregard of Banana Republic level corruption.  It is bizarre.

The Republicans have tried to make hash out of these types of scandals that emanate from Hillary.  It is not that these accusations don’t stick.  It is that Hillary supporters just don’t care.

Republicans: Hillary Clinton was derelict in her duty as Secretary of State, allowing the loss of our Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, to enemy forces and the death of a US Ambassador and three other Americans.

Democrats: And…?

Republicans: Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, allowed the Russian Government to buy 20% of US Uranium mining rights – a strategic national resource – after making a substantial donation to the Clinton Foundation.  

Democrats: And…?

Republicans: Hillary Clinton set up an unauthorized server for her email – deliberately to be outside the reach of FOIA requests – that was unsecured and put classified documents at risk of being stolen, in violation of the Espionage Act.

Democrats:  And…?

The FBI investigates Hillary Clinton.  Former President Bill Clinton meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.  The FBI Director, live on national TV, laid out the case for the prosecution and conviction of Hillary Clinton, and ends his press conference with “but we ain’t gonna do shit about it.”  And nobody who supports Hillary cares that she could and may have compromised the security of the United States.

Democrats:  And…?

Absolutely everybody with a functioning brain KNOWS that the Clinton Foundation was a institution set up to allow businesses and foreign governments to buy influence from the Clintons.  It’s just that Clinton supporters JUST DON’T CARE.

Democrats:  Sheesh guys *rolls eyes* and…?

The question is, what happens when this apathy towards this level of corruption puts Hillary in the White House?

On some random date in, say, 2018, a headline will appear in the news: Chinese Government makes record $5 Billion donation to the Clinton Foundation.

A week later a headline will appear in the news:President Clinton authorizes sale of Nimitz Class supercarrier to China.  

Or

Someday in 2019: Iranian Government makes $500 Million donation to the Clinton Foundation.

A week later: Clinton Administration will not respond to successful test of Iranian Nuclear Weapon.

Will the response by the Democrats still be: And…?

Obama is incompetent in the matters of dealing with world crises because he is bound to an ideology that won’t let him acknowledge who the arsonists are that are responsible for burning the world.

Hillary Clinton will let the arsonists burn the world, if they donate enough to the Clinton Foundation.

If ISIS can donate enough funds, will President Hilary Clinton recognize them as a legitimate political actor with Raqqa as their capital?

This is the abnormality of Hillary Clinton.  Trump may be a hothead.  But I believe that he sincerely cares about America’s safety as a nation and would not put the security of America above personal gain.  He might risk it for ego, but I don’t think he can be bought.

Under Hillary, America’s safety, security, national secrets, are all for sale to the highest bidder.

This may be normal for a Hillary supporter like Ezra Klein, who has excused all of her other previous scandals.  It is not normal for me.