The gruesome massacre in Ohio last week had the good folks of Everytown/Moms Demand in a frenzy.

I found it a bit strange that the shooting was done in several places and waited for more info to come in. Some of the people I interact with felt the same way: There was something just not kosher… and we were right.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The slayings of eight family members in rural southern Ohio were sophisticated, planned executions, authorities said Sunday, as they also revealed that several marijuana-growing operations were found at the crime scenes.
Investigators said at a news conference that it’s unclear what, if any, role the marijuana growing had in Friday’s killings at four homes near Piketon. Marijuana, both recreational and medicinal, is illegal in the state.
They also told residents they are safe but to arm themselves if they’re fearful.

Source: Ohio attorney general: Slayings of 8 ‘pre-planned execution’

So people engaged in the drug trade, got killed in suspicious circumstances. We never heard this before, have we?

I would not be surprised if the investigation reveals that this was not the job of one guy but multiple killing teams. It looks like the massacres done by the Mexican Cartels on their turf. Let’s see what does the investigation finally reveals.

I do love the advice given to local area neighbors: Get your guns!

A package of proposed gun regulations for city residents won’t stop determined criminals from shedding blood in New Orleans, but it’s better than doing nothing, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and members of the City Council said Friday (April 22).
Standing in Bunny Friend Park, scene of a 2015 mass shooting that wounded 17 people, Landrieu said that police and other law enforcement will continue to fight gun violence, but more needs to be done to limit the availability and prevalence of handguns, which account for the overwhelming majority of fatal shootings in New Orleans and the nation.
“When criminals are intent on doing harm, too many innocent people are caught in the crossfire. I believe we have a moral obligation to do everything in our power to fight back and to halt the stream of guns getting into the wrong hands,” he said. “In some instances, people have a right to own a gun, something that I support, every gun owner … has to be thoughtful, and they have to make sure that they handle that weapon responsibly.
“The provisions of the proposed gun ordinance, which include establishing “firearm-free zones” and prohibiting the sale of guns that don’t have serial numbers, are far from groundbreaking. In some cases they would merely localize or marginally expand state law.

Source: City gun regulations won’t stop violence, but it’s a start, Landrieu says | NOLA.com

More Gun Free Zones? Isn’t that like applying leeches to an arterial wound?

Basically “We need to look butch so we are going to do stuff that we know it does not work but makes for great TV.”

I swear it seems that NOLA is being run by Benny Hill…. but he is dead.

Hat Tip to Wibbins. 

Instructors said the training requirement does not infringe on our constitutional rights and without the training requirement, the gun owner could hurt themselves and/or hurt others.
“You might as well not carry it at all if you don’t know how to use it correctly,” said Maxfield.

Source: Firearm Instructors Speak On Controversial Gun Bill Passing Sena – News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports |

It has to be an equal mix of greed and stupidity that launches the mouths of some firearm instructors to blab about government-mandated training.  If by now, any Gun Owner does not realize that regulations that come from political hacks have no basis in real life and are actually a gateway to restrictions, simply in a disconnected idiot.

Should Gun Owners get training? Yes. If you are an instructor offer affordable classes in different levels of guncraft, from basic pistol handling to weapons retention. But do not latch yourself to legislators in order to keep your gravy train running. The Four Rules of Gun Safety were not designed by a Washington Think Tank under orders of Congress and after spending millions of dollars in “research.” It was a cranky old SOB who came up with them and have served us very well. The same goes for basically all firearms training: Individuals coming up with the best way to shoot and be safe using only their own money and time.

Stop The Fudd.

“It’s just not the whole picture,” said Jennifer Doleac, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, who studies the connection between gunfire and crime. “There’s a lot more gun violence than what is reflected in homicide rates.”

The more telling number about gun violence might be “shots fired.” And now, thanks to broader adoption of new technologies, it is getting easier to show just how common gun violence is in America.

Last year, there were 165,531 separate gunshots recorded in 62 different urban municipalities nationwide, including places such as San Francisco, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Canton, according to ShotSpotter, the company behind a technology that listens for gunfire’s acoustic signature and reports it to authorities.

This may be the best way to measure gun violence in America. – Washington Post

Please retrieve your lower jaw from the floor and return it to its locked position. I understand that this level of intellectual ineptitude is new and frankly awesome in “derpiness”, but we must try to remain calm and collected and not laugh so hard at them.

You have to understand that for the Gun Control Intelligentsia, every shot fired represents nothing but deadly violence. Do I need to remind you about one of the favorite slogans? Gun are specifically designed to kill! If you factor that in, then the study makes sense for them and every shot was done in anger.

My first thought after reading that quoted section was all those shots “in anger” that are popped every weekend across the country at different shooting activities. I went to the IDPA website and found the results of the MVSA Mountain Valley Regional in Hot Springs, Arkansas:  112 stages with a round count of 200 in which 168 shooters participated. That comes out to 33,600 shots fired  during the match. Two days of competition netted one fifth of the alleged number of “violent shots” in what passes for scientific study.  Yet, no mass killings, no brawls ending in High Noon shootouts among 168 competitive people carrying guns, not one of the usual predictions came to happen… but “shots fired” is  a “better way to measure gun violence”… yeah right.

“But Miguel, they do not mean it like that! Besides, those are the results of a very scientific form of measurement by ShotSpotter in urban areas!”  And I am not sold on that thing either. I have seen results first hand and where the “spotting” has been off by two blocks and even not recorded at all.  I used to work in Miami Gardens where there is a decent amount of gang activity and saw first hand how useless the system was because if you are not only off geographically but arrive to the wrong location between six and none minutes after the fact, you pretty much get less data and results as if the incident was called via 911.

Some years back while enjoying some quiet time in my back porch during an afternoon, I heard several shots nearby three to be precise. My brain made a quick calculation and figured they were within a 4-block radius and they were high velocity rounds, probably .22 LR. I called 911 to report them and cops arrived at my door not long after. I explained what I heard and pointed at the general direction where the shots might have been fired.  They replied with no amount of smugness that “no shots had been reported” meaning the ShotSpotter that covers our little patch of Miami Dade did not say anything. I insisted that I had heard shots and added that I was a competitive shooter, well used to gun fire and that if they  reluctantly got back in their car and drove towards where I indicated. Some 20  minutes later, I saw them go by again, but this time with two young individuals in the back seat and I could not get officers to make eye contact with me. I wonder why.

So, I am not impressed with this “new” and “improved” way to measure “gun violence” as it is probably more packed with political manure than the Clinton campaign. And I give you one last piece of smoky beef jerky to chew on: “165,531 separate gunshots recorded in 62 different urban municipalities nationwide” in a year’s period. Does that include the celebratory gunfire during the Fourth of July and New Years? That is a bunch of shots right there.

But when your movement is slowly sinking into oblivion, you hold on to anything to see if it floats, even an anchor.

The first reports/rumors are that he might have died of an overdose or related to over-medication. If so (and a big one) I find that ironic knowing that deaths by overdose have long overtaken all deaths by gunfire in the United States:

The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, including a 200% increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers and heroin). CDC analyzed recent multiple cause-of-death mortality data to examine current trends and characteristics of drug overdose deaths, including the types of opioids associated with drug overdose deaths. During 2014, a total of 47,055 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, representing a 1-year increase of 6.5%, from 13.8 per 100,000 persons in 2013 to 14.7 per 100,000 persons in 2014.

Source: Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014

But remember, #OnlyGunDeathsMatter to the Vulture Brigade.

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AUSTIN—Many female UT students have never been in a fight before, but now want to know how to pack a punch. It’s all in the name of self-defense.The murder of Haruka Weiser has spiked interest in the Rape Aggression Defense System.”I’ve seen a lot of things on social media, like links to YouTube videos that explain some self-defense tactics,” said Katie Goodfellow, a UT student. But, interest in self-defense hasn’t just piqued on the web. Instructors at Rape Aggression Defense System classes say more students have been asking about signing up for the free self-defense courses on-campus.

Source: UT Murder Spikes Interest in Self-Defense Program

If you have not heard about it, Haruka Weiser was an 18 year old Freshman and ballet dancer at the University of Texas who was murdered by Meechail Criner, a homeless teen with a history of  Mental illness and violence.

Although I support that women learn Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) System, I am afraid that selling it as the only thing a woman may need to stave off an attacker is a dangerous disservice.  Let’s get one thing out-of-the-way: A male attacker for the most part will outweigh and out-strength a female victim and to expect that the RAD system will somehow nullify that disparity is asinine. Just look at the pictures above and compare the different body types. You cannot cheat anatomy and physics, the advantage is clearly with the bigger mass.

RAD would be a great initial response to create a time/distance event that would throw the attacker into a momentary confusion and distraction enough for the intended female victim to deploy a weapon that will tilt the balance of the confrontation heavily in her favor. Notice that I am not asking to “even out” or “Make things balanced” but demand that the women have an overpowering advantage over their attackers. I want the woman to win by either making the attacker reflect he may have poorly chosen his victim and decided to leave or to have him feel pain and bleed out on the ground reflecting too lately that he committed a major mistake in the victim-selection process.  Self-Defense is not a sporting event, screw fairness.

With the advancement of Campus Carry, some progress is being made in allowing women to have a real fighting chance against attackers. But there is another problem: It only covers those who are 21 or older for the most part and leaves the 18-20 crowd at the mercy of the schools’ weapons policy which in general is so restrictive not even the mildest of less-lethal devices are allowed under penalty of expulsion leaving the unfair concept of hand-to-hand combat as the only approve method defense.

Colleges and Universities must be forced to change that unfair and dangerous policy. And I say forced because as any institution, they are notoriously reticent to change the status quo or simply they just rather not face the fact that bad things happen. Also, allowing women to have the necessary weapons for their defense is an admission that the  advertisement to parents about their institutions being safe and not to worry about the well-being of the kids is in reality a big lie that must be kept at all costs, even if tragically proven a lie, just as it happened in Virginia Tech.

My only recommendation to women in the 18-20 bracket is to discretely and legally carry a defensive even if it contradicts college policy. And also it is time they start a movement just like Campus Carry but directed at the ability to carry Less Lethal tools on campus for their defense.

Your life is more important than any diploma.