They passed a law and now everybody is safe!

Starting last Saturday, (10/10/15) you will not see any more discharges of firearms in or nearby school properties in California (Yes, I am using the Everytown/Moms Demand definition of School Shooting.)

Of course, after the next “school shooting” and the necessary pointing out that the law did not work, we will be regaled with the equivalent of “It is just a first good step,” “If it only saves one life” and “we need more laws” volley of excuses and defenses.

In the meantime, the bodies will continue to pile up.

Poe’s law is an Internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, parodies of extreme views will, to some readers, be indistinguishable from sincere expressions of the parodied views. (Wikipedia)

I bumped into this character in Twitter.

How wrong can one person be? Not an accessory, not a magazine, it holds 10 rounds which with the exception of NY, every Gun Control States considers fine and killing power is not defined by quantity but energy of the round.

Now, if this was the only example of sheer stupidity…it is not.

Yes, an air rifle. The hits continue.

So we have been wasting all that money on tactical flashlights…damn it.

Not even the Shroud of Turin can accomplish that level of miracles!
There are plenty more tweets with nonsense like this. @SistaSimone (if real) must have found some old posts or modern rehash of the Clinton Assault Weapons ban’s list of lies and distortions and she decided to give it a modern look. By what she posts on other subjects, I am inclined to believe that this is not a troll account but a real person… without much in the brain department.

And she votes. God help us.

Earlier this year, Texas joined 8 other states in allowing CCW permit holders to carry on state university campuses.  To obtain a Texas CCW permit, as far as I can ascertain from the website, the applicant must be 21 or over, go through a through background  – check including a fingerprint check – and undergo firearms training, which is live fire.  This is run of the mill for me at this point, my IL and NE permits both required fingerprints and live fire training.  My FL permit required fingerprints but the training was classroom only.

I lived in SD for a while.  Campus carry there was at the discretion of the school.  At the school I went to, the policy was “don’t ask, don’t tell, just keep it concealed.”  Where I did my undergrad in Indiana, I used to clean my guns in my dorm room when I went shooting during break.  I got in trouble with the RA, only because I made the dorm smell like CLP.  Campus policy was students could bring guns but they were supposed to be stored with campus security when not in use.  I was dating a townie and stored them at her place.  Heck, my undergrad had a shooting club funded by the school and put on three open shoots every year.  The point is, guns on campus is nothing new for me, going back 14 years.  In all that time do you know how many violent encounters I experienced with drunken college kids with their guns?  If you guessed “none,” you win.

Of course none of this matters to some people, who imagine that concealed carry on campus will turn every state school into the OK Corral.  So some students at UT-Austin (National Rank No. 52 – hence the title of the post) have decided to protest TX Campus Carry by carrying their own … protest items … er … recreational prosthetic male accouterments (link possibly NSFW).

I just … um … can’t even…

I mean, I get it.  You know the tried trope: guns are phallic extensions.  So how better to protest carrying guns than carrying literal phallic extensions?  Except this brand of stupid is so thick I could use it patch cracks in a asphalt driveway.

“‘You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I’m carrying a HUGE [ARTIFICIAL MALE APPENDAGE],'” Jessica Jin (protest group founder) says in the group’s description. “Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.”

Seriously?  A marital aid is just as effective as a gun at defending oneself against a mass shooter?  Somehow I don’t think that’s accurate.  Unless, maybe, getting pelted with flying silicone phalli causes the shooter to die of shame.  Also, I’d be a little afraid to have relations with Ms. Jin.

Recently, politicians, the media, and social media has been awash with comments and criticisms of campus rape culture (which of course doesn’t exist) and the rate of sexual assault on campus (which isn’t as bad as it is claimed to be).  So I am astounded at the monumental doublethink that is happening here where 1) campuses are a hotbed of rape and abuse of women, 2) let’s protest giving women the ability to defend themselves against rape by carrying sex objects.

As a borderline-libertarian conservative,  I get cognitive dissonance really badly. Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for the discomfort you get when your brain is trying to reject doublethink, and these people are giving me a migraine.  All I can say at this point is: I’m embarrassed for these kids.  Life is hard, it’s even harder when you’re stupid.  Based on that, I think this kids are going to have a real rough time when they get out of college.

Blue Rondo A La Turk, Al Jarreau’s version of Dave Brubeck’s piece. 

Crank it up. it is worth it.

My cousin’s husband has been ranting on the Book of Face about the Founder/CEO of Jimmy John’s big game hunting.  From the best research that I can find, nothing Jimmy John Liautaud was illegal and that the pictures of his African hunts that made it online, are from a fair chase safari.

None of that matters to him, who continues to push the same old canards that big game hunters are cowards, psychopaths, murderers, etc.  Of course he considers it his moral duty to proselytize to all his friends on the Book of Face, why they should Boycott Jimmy John’s because of this outrage.

Here’s the thing.  I am a gun industry insider (that’s as much detail as I’m going to give).  I make my living off of guns, many of them for hunting.  I pay for my house, utilities, food, everything, with the money spent by people like Jimmy John.

My cousin in pregnant.  Her baby shower is coming up.  Giving the feelings that have been espoused, I’m wondering if I should not buy them a baby shower gift?  The money that will be used to buy a gift would have come from cowards, psychopaths, and murderers hunters and sportsmen.  I’m sure they aren’t going to want something tainted by “blood money” as a present?  I’m only abiding by their wishes, right?

Ben Carson is under attack for his comments about gun control and the Holocaust.  Of all the groups condemning him, the one that has truly gotten under my skin in the Anti-Defamation League.  I have no love for the ADL.  I have participated in a few Appleseed Shoots and have found the atmosphere to be nothing but inviting and patriotic.  The ADL, unsurprisingly, is not a fan of Project Appleseed.  I have ranted about anti-gun Jews before, so this time around I’m going to let the Nobel Laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, have the last word.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Parenting Level 999 (If it was IDPA, I would give the full 1K 😉 )

Hat Tip to John C, Jr.