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Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: Dear Negroes, stay unarmed.

I don’t think the Klan would be this forward:

CSGV Dear Negroes

See? If you are black, you must not have a gun or they will send the big bad cop to shoot you.

CSGV has been jonesing badly for mass shooting between cops and  civilians. They are getting so desperate that they are now wishing cops to start unloading in blacks so they can blame it on Insurrectionists everywhere…because you know there are NRA members in hiding even among cops, a fifth column of alleged traitors.

These are sick people… very sick.

Dear CSGV: Quod Erat Demonstrandum

CSGV NRA Ferguson

Every dystopian warning of the gun group has come true in Missouri, yet the organization is offering no sympathy for the African American victims.

via Why Isn’t the NRA Defending Ferguson’s Blacks? – The Daily Beast.

Why? Because the NRA is not a false Do-Good organization that promises to solve all your problems if you only vote for them/give them boatloads of money/appear with the proper media stars.

Unlike Moms Demand or Illegal Mayors or Brady, we are not a selected few telling the little people how to do or behave. The NRA is not a top to bottom organization where the top elite waves like a roman emperor to his subjects. We just simply figure shit has to be done, we get it going and we get it done. No waiting for subsidies.

Hell, we are even aware that many shooters not associated with the NRA benefit from what we do, yet we do not close them out when we win in a court or a legislature but we let them share the spoils. No Union card necessary.

And you still do not get it. You even admit we were right altogether! And that alone is a beauty on its own: Q.E.D.

And that is why we win and we will keep winning.

PS: The NRA could have done something about Ferguson after all: open a booth to sign up for new membership.

NSFW: Robber shoots himself and clerk at same time.

ATLANTA – Hotel security cameras show the unidentified robber walk into the hotel office. The man bought a snack out of a vending machine then walked to the counter and pulled a gun on Vrajesh Patel, 19, according to police.

It appears other customers were not aware of the robbery until the gun fired.

When the gun went off, Patel was hit in the stomach, but at virtually the same time, a second bullet from the gun hits the robber in the head, according to detectives.

via LiveLeak.com – Robber shoots himself and clerk at same time.

Go to 2:16 and watch.

I smell rancid cod on this one. Somehow and accidentally the bad guy shoots the clerk in the stomach, manages to do a reverse Curly Bill Spin, rotate the gun 90 degrees and proceeds to shoot himself in the head? and all in fractions of a second?
My money goes to somebody off camera popping the bad guy and a sympathetic reaction got the clerk shot.

The “riots” at Ferguson.

After three nights of watching live video feeds and listening to the St. Louis PD scanner, I have come to the conclusion  that  false advertising is alive and well in the XXI century.

If you check social media or Main Stream, you’d swear that there is a battlefield in about two blocks worth of city with bodies strewn all over the place, cars on fire and people running amok while the cops spray them with 50 caliber machine guns, sort of like in Robocop when the Detroit Police went on strike.

Let me summarize: People gather in the streets, chant, somebody throws something, cops send about 50 tear gas grenades and some flash bangs, people retreat half a block. This is repeated a couple of times till everybody gets bored and goes home or the local McDonald’s needs to open for breakfast.

Last night was the worst. Maybe a people gathered around, cops formed in a marching line. A warning is issued to the media to move to their assigned safe area, they do: about 10 people who were there to protest left in the street.

This crap is being fueled by whatever interest are out there. Having Benjamin Crump as lawyer representing the parents of Mike Brown kinda says a lot and it is mostly Trayvon 2.0 with a better software patch.

But the truth is that no matter how brightly painted you get the snails, racing them won’t make them NASCAR.  That is pretty much the riots at Ferguson.

PS: Over the scanner, I heard the call of four men with rifles at a location not too far from the protest. Police arrived within minutes. Report back :Store owners keeping an eye on things. No action taken. NFR 😀

A fully militarily weaponized Miami-Dade Police Force?

The Detroit Free Press has a very interesting data base search engine that allows you to search what kind of military gifts your county has received from the Federal Government.  Miami Dade has made out like a bandit with six armored vehicles, two observation helicopters, 5 grenade launchers and two hundred and forty assault rifles.  These are not the semi automatic versions civilians get to buy at the local gun shop but full auto capability in the majority of cases. Two hundred and twenty-eight rifles are in 5.56mm which makes them in all probability M4s and out of those one hundred and ninety two rifles were given to Miami Dade between 2012 and 2013. That is very interesting since the other two times rifles of this particular caliber were given to MD was in 2006 for a grand total of 10 rifles and then in 2009 for a total of 16 rifles. What kind of issues were so impending security wise that the sudden need to accept enough rifles to fit an army company? But if that was not enough, the value assigned to the weapons is amazing. The 7.62 rifles (Those could be from bolt-action to semi automatic) are valued at $ 138.00 each in a county where you cannot find a 100-year-old Russian made Mosin Nagant surplus rifle for that price without having a mob of people rush into your store. The “value” of the M4s for 2012 is listed at $495 which again would send civilians into a shopping spree since they are between 40% and 50 % cheaper than the semi auto versions. But what would make gun shop owners hire several platoons of vikings on bisons for crowd control would be to sell M4s at the value assigned in the 2013 rifles:  $120.00. Now Broward County must be on the naughty list because they got nothing but old trucks, but Monroe County (Florida Keys for those in Georgia and farther northern states) got a total of 34 M4s, an observation helicopter and $800,865.00 Cargo plane. Has Cuba threatened to invade us and we civilians have not been told?  If I were a suspicious person, I’d think that the local government is somehow afraid of its population and feel the need for more firepower than they already had.

Bad news: I am a suspicious person.

Hat Tip: Lagniappe’s Lair.

It is called shooting dynamics, not shooting statics. (Somewhat graphic content)

Gigantic caveat: I am not a famously well-known TV coroner or we have all the information in the case, so take this for what is worth.

If you have not heard, the New York Times released what appeared to be a diagram of Michael Brown’s autopsy:

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It is always a risk to come up with an instant “aha!” by looking at static two-dimensional paper renditions of a dynamic three-dimensional event, but that apparently does not stop some.

Last night or early this evening, I saw in Twitter the following:

MB surrender

 

Figuring that maybe a new video or other source appeared with new info, I prompted the author about the source and I was sent to MSNBC. But there was no mention of “downward angle in surrender” but just the location of the shots. When told that MSNBC had not expressed that qualifier, I got this response:

MB surrender 2

Most people are rather ignorant (as in lack of knowledge) about shootings getting most of their info from movies and TV shows. Life however is not a tidy script written in an air-conditioned suite in Hollywood and it differs from the “imagination” of a writer.

People react when pieces of lead traveling at high rates of speed impact their bodies. They feel pain and immediate movements happen. I found this video in LiveLeak (00:40) and it shows somebody being shot in the stomach and the movements after. here are some screen shots:

stomach 1
Before the shot: Standing straight up.
stomach 2
Bullet impact. Notice a “contrail” coming out of the back of the subject who is already bending forward.
stomach 3
The head is already at 45 degrees and the arms coming closer to the body.
stomach 4
The top of the head is now at 90 degrees from vertical facing the shooter and the arms are almost tucked to the side of the body.
stomach 5
Falling. Right arm tucked in full contact with the side of the body.
stomach 6
On the ground.

In the video you will notice that all these movements happened in a second. Having seem similar reaction in different videos and you yourself seen it if you ever playfully pretended to ht a friend in the stomach, it is in the realm of possibility that something similar happened with the Michael Brown shooting.

Humans will react to pain in the pain/chest area by crouching and or trying to get in a fetal position as way to protect the internal organs, we are hard-wired that way. But the problem is that we have a Narrative already set in motion by whatever pundits decided it would be profitable and normal human reactions do not conform to it so it must be ignored:

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There is comfort in self-delusion I guess.