Around 1:45 a.m. officers were dispatched to 545 West 23rd St., off Boulevard Street, after receiving several calls about gunshots heard in the area.

“When we arrived, we met with the homeowner. He stated that several individuals tried to break into his house and he shot at them,” said Sgt. Craig Waldrup.

A short time later, a car arrived at UF Health Jacksonville with one person injured from gunshot wounds and suffering life-threatening injuries, Waldrup said.

via Police: Homeowner shoots man who tried to break in | News – Home.

OK, so far, so good. Bad victim selection process that resulted in injuries to the criminal.

JSO said a total of four people were in the car and suspected of being involved in the attempted robbery. Only one of the suspects was shot.

Multiple aggressors, something to keep in mind. Not everything is High Noon one-one-one confrontations, in fact they are the minority.

Police said the homeowner shot at the suspects with a rifle, hitting one of the suspects several times.

Can you imagine if it turns out to be……

“You have a right to defend your own home your property and your family,” said News4Jax crime and safety analyst Gil Smith. “Now the best thing to do is if you have a weapon, make sure it is registered to you.”

Mr. Smith is a former Jacksonville Sheriff Office deputy…which explains the dumb assertion.

From other news sources, we find out that at least one of the attackers knew the homeowner. That brings us to the sad fact that you must be aware that the bad guy, may turn out to be somebody you may have interacted in a regular basis and you might consider low/no risk just to be deadly wrong.

And for the obligatory “My boy ain’t bad and it is your fault” moment:

Action News spoke to the mother and aunt of Derrick Brown, the 18-year-old shot during the alleged home invasion. They claim the homeowner is lying.

“If you’re going to shoot someone five to six times, you’re not trying to get them out of your house. You’re trying to kill them,” said aunt Juaria Moultrie. “You’re not trying to warn them at all, that’s not a warning.”

via Police: Homeowner shoots at four intruders; One wounded | www.actionnewsjax.com.

Poor Derrick Brown was never told that breaking into somebody’s house was a no-no which may bring severe consequences. And no Mrs. Brown, bad guys do not get time-outs or warnings during the commission of a forcibly felony.

Last Saturday I posted about the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence coming down on a satirical T-Shirt from Ranger up about how some elitists treat veterans with PTSD and the immediate backslash from the Veterans and Active Service personnel. As they usually do, CSGV went into delete mode getting rid of those who criticize them and they did a great job depopulating the comments.

Unfortunately, they left the comments of their supporters and in a lot of cases, in a format that is easy to follow…and screen capture. Some of them really need medical intervention:

And then we have a gentleman under the name of Eddie Delisio who also goes under Eddie Haley and probably resides somewhere in Colorado. Here is what he thinks about Vets:

And yes, the Vets and supporters had post with bad language too, but they got deleted for the most part while CSGV somehow approves of this gentleman’s thoughts.

That should tell you all you need about CGSV.

It’s Branson, however, who has always been the most troubling of the cosmic cowboys—selling not just himself on his fever dreams but his trusting customers

via Enough With Amateur-Hour Space Flight | TIME.

There was another cowboy back in the day who dare to dare everybody become cowboys.

When Kennedy made this speech, we didn’t even have a vehicle capable to reach halfway the moon, hell I think the Atlas rocket could barely break Earth orbit.

And we had loses that did not even happened on the air:

Perhaps Mr. Kluger is under the impression that our Space Program was built by an efficient government in governmental offices and produced a flawless product the first time around. He probably ignores that we sent men to outer space wearing suits built by a brassiere manufacturer sitting on rockets built by a private company with enough explosives inside to erase half Manhattan contained in vessels with the thickness of a metal trash can and landed on the  moon on another privately built ship that had more in common with an Airstream Sport mounted on a scaffold than what science fiction ever envisioned to be a proper landing craft.

Same as now with Mr. Kluger, the Timid & Cowardly back then had their way and killed the most advanced and fruitful scientific & technological  project of the XX Century. Their disgust was so that they ignored what hundred of thousands of people worked on and declared that the biggest contribution that the Moon program ever gave was Tang. Forget the new materials, the new engineering and even the new computing & software that launched this country ahead of everybody else in the history of Humanity.
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks.

Ad Astra Per Aspera
(A rough road leads to the Stars)

Hat tip to Tam.

BERLIN — A wrought-iron gate bearing the Nazis’ cynical slogan “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work sets you free,” has been stolen from the former Dachau concentration camp, police said Sunday.

via Historic gate at Dachau concentration camp stolen – Europe – Stripes.

Why would anyone want that evil piece of history? And eve if they just want to destroy it, the memory of those who passed or what happened to them by it cannot be erased.

It lacks on cheesy sex music but makes for it in sheer BOOM.

Somebody deep in CSGV HQ decided it would be a good idea to come against this shirt offered by Ranger Up.

The shirt’s message is humorous and harsh: Yes, some Vets might be suffering from PTSD but that does not give anybody the right to treat them as some sort of dangerous sub-species of human, untrustworthy to be walking about our streets.

As we have know to happen, the Laddittes came out on full force being stupid,

Audrey Ohlson Smith The gun mentality is the biggest threat to our country!!!

Alex McKinlay Ironically, they have just strengthened the case for tougher gun laws. Then again, they’re probably too stupid to realize it.

Judi Green Our gun culture’s mass shootings is slowly desensitizing us from our own humanity. This T-shirt is a manifestation of that madness.

Jeanne Ellsworth Wallace That’s one big sicko!!! After a very recent mass school shooting in Washington state, this is close to my heart, and his shirt is not the least bit funny. I’d warn the police of his intentions!

Carl Thayer How bloody bizarre: it’s like seeing inside the mind of an actual lunatic. How extraordinary.

Karl Rines If they put it on…. take away their guns and lock them up in a mental ward immediately.

Linda Lloyd Unbelievable…promoting senseless violence…why?

Sean Pronay I’m pretty sure I would be well within my legal rights shooting anyone who wears that shirt … at least in states with stand-your-ground laws

Sean Pronay Again, Steven, please see my comments of 11:11 Tuesday. My position is that wearing a message like this (especially while doing something others might find suspicious, like um, I dunno, maybe openly carrying a gun in public) is at best a dumb idea, and at worst indication of a death wish. And if you’re doing it in a state with an SYG law, and maybe your complexion isn’t as pale as mine, there’s at least a slim chance you’ll get fatally shot and your killer will be acquitted.

Elizabeth Cornwell This shirt looks like grounds for arrest and not just for being *!@#$%&* stupid!

Eddie Delisio The domestic terrorist wannabe shirt.

What they were not expecting (and had kept the poor media intern busy deleting comments) was the reaction of veterans against being treated, again, as a dangerous animals. And being vets, some of the counter-comments are just “illustrative” and plain genius:

Rodney Woelfel Instead of treating us Vets like second class citizens maybe you should at least try to understand us then you just might realize what the TRUE MESSAGE this shirt is sending. You will NEVER understand us but at least you can try to and STOP treating us like we are Monsters and second class.

BJ Bromer What Liberals and gun-grabbers don’t get is that us vets have an oath that we took. We will never give up our 2A rights. Got my 11 Bravo degree at the university of Ft. Benning.

Loren Scott You don’t understand it so you think it shouldn’t be allowed… Tolerance…

Loren Scott Ironic how many comments by veterans have been deleted by the moderators up this messed up page

Tony Barone

Preston Gamblin FREEDOM OF SPEECH! LOOK IT UP, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT DON’T BUY IT…UNTIL THEN LEAVE THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE VETERAN COMMUNITY ALONE! Ranger Up, ART15, and Grunt Style, are just a few of the companies Owned, Operated, and employee Veterans that understand Veterans, and assist Veterans! If the Veteran community found this shirt “Offensive” Ranger Up would have pulled it ASAP! Quite your crying about what you think is best for the Veteran community…Try Shuttin your damn mouth for five minutes and listen!!!!!!

Daniel A Cox

David Wagner

• The Blue Falcon Army

  
  • The Blue Falcon Army But seriously, I have a hard time believing that this gun control page isn’t run by a bunch of trolls.
    Seriously, are people this fucking retarded in real life.

Ken White I think I speak for most of the vets on here I say, the next time you have a thought do us all a favor and just let it go.

Bryan Edmonds Un-adulterated jackassery… Go fuck yourselves.

RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!

Now I go buy a shirt …

Tim Carey

Robert Conner II

There are more replies from vets, too many in fact that CSGV is having a tough time catching up and deleting them. But I like this last one as it summarizes the whole affair:

Frank Schoner Wow. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence just got owned.

Well put.