So this study (I know , a joke) is making the round in the webs. I was amazed that Florida ranked so low and I checked what factors they are taking in consideration and found out that, not surprisingly they have the data wrong.

1-Active Military Personnel (31): I really do not see what this has to do with anything unless the author thinks the Military will be the entity that will save us all. Unfortunately and as recent events show, when you have a unarmed members of the military in bases, they are just as much targets as anybody from New Jersey on a Saturday Night.

2–Military Veterans (17): Allegedly because they have experience fighting…. then again we are talking about Zombies and not the Wehrmacht here.

3-Physically Active (28):  It says “States with residents who rarely get out of their Laz-E-Boy will not escape the zombie menace” What is it with the “you must run to save your life” thing? The only thing you will accomplish is to end up tired and bumping into more zombies. Let them come to you.

4–Martial Arts Enthusiasts (36): Also known as Zombie Fodder. Really? you are planning on go Jackie Chan with living corpses unable to feel pain?

5-People with Survival Skills (44):  Hey Sparky… Hurricane Zone rings a bell? If you live here, you learn to develop Survival Skills…and the smart ones to boot. We kinda have a long tradition of Survival Skills applied in real life.

6-People with Knowledge of Zombies (37): Wait… Are you frigging kidding me? Not only we are home to the biggest Haitian community in the US but we are a puddle jump from the island and we are 37? Where do you thinks Zombies come from? Saskatchewan?

7-Laser Tag Enthusiasts (20): Dude, the only lasers we care about are mounted in our guns…the one that spit real bullets.

8-People with Guns (42): this one made me laugh hard. According to the ranking, the Gunshine State (I wonder why we got the nickname) is about the same in gun ownership as the most strict gun controlled states. In 2013 alone, Florida had one million NICS checks for purchasing weapons or 5% of all the new firearms purchases in the US.

9-Obesity(12):  This is a repeat of 3 and already answered.

10-Paintball Enthusiasts: Laser Tag all over again. SMH.

11-Triathletes: Run, you will only die tired.

OK, why Florida will do OK and better than average if the Zombie Invasion were to come?

1-We ain’t running away. Experience with natural disaster has taught us that the best way to get in real crap is to leave your home and go out where you don’t know what’s going on.  Stay home where you have a nice cache of food, water and ammo and ride the zombie wave. And for the doubters, may I remind you that Florida homes are not the cardboard crap with unprotected windows that show in zombie movies.
Hurricane Panels and other devices make for great Zombie Defenses.

2-We are the frigging Gunshine State: Do I need say more? We have more small arms here than all the US Military.

3- One word, Machetes: Are you impressed at the Shaolin Monks developing a martial arts based on agricultural implements? Them monks would run for the Great Wall of China when facing a mob of pissed off Floridians of Caribbean descent with razor sharp machetes. Even Miyamoto Musashi would have gone “Fuck this” and hide in a Geisha House.

4- Another word, Gators: Zombies are attracted by sound, so the only thing we need to do is to get some stereos and/or some DJs in the middle of the everglades, the zombies will take strolls to a beautiful National Park and become one with nature. At least they will get stuck in the swamp and go nowhere.

5-It is frigging hot down here: With hot and humid weather at least 9 months out of the year, Zombies will take little time becoming decomposing masses of biological matter.  The stink would be supreme but a couple of good storms and even a hurricane would clean up the mess.

So, if the Zombie Apocalypse hits us, come to Florida for the sun, the fun, the guns and the cold drinks with cute little umbrellas.

And I think this will be the last Zombie post I’ll ever do. The Meme is pretty well dead….unless they make the Monster Hunter International Movie and/or TV Series.

According to his Facebook page:

Jason Paul is a progressive Democrat running for State Representative in Connecticut’s 48th District, including the towns of Colchester, Mansfield, Lebanon, and Windham. He has been active in Connecticut Democratic politics for over a decade

And here is a pic of the candidate during the Connecticut Citizen Defense League sponsored pro-gun rights rally Saturday April 5, 2014… and a comment worth pure gold.

Mr. Williams wins the Interwebs 😀

PS: This post is dedicated to Sherrie.
Making Monday a Moms Demand-Free Day (Unless they screw up really really bad)

And someone agrees with them wholeheartedly:

“It is stupid to me that anyone can have easy access to a powerful weapon without being mentally evaluated. This makes the government indirect accomplice… These bastards have perfected their way of attacking studying previous massacres to gain publicity and their minute of fame as a villain. But thanks to Hollywood and the sensational profiling by the media [they] give more power to those intelligent cowards.”

The person that wrote that? Spc. Ivan Lopez, the Fort Hood shooter.

You know? If I were a member of Thinkprogress or Media matter or DailyKos, I’d be shouting to the skies that this is a conspiracy and that we are force feeding mind-altering drugs to unsuspecting people and programming them as killers. All being the fault of the NRA, the gun manufacturers and the Koch Brothers to make Gun Control look bad .

Or we can simply apply Occam’s razor and say that the simple answer is the correct one: Gun Control advocates are not right up there and some do fall off the tracks and harm people.

Callie Adams told Jacksonville police in 2011 that she shot her husband, Rodney Adams, two times during a fight inside their car because Adams was repeatedly punching her in the head. Police said the shooting happened at close range in the parking lot of a nightclub.
A stand your ground hearing for Adams was held Thursday at the Duval County Courthouse, a hearing that will determine whether or not this case ever goes to trial.
Will it work? Blackamericaweb.com

It was a question of time. The narrative on Stand Your Ground, specially from the ultra liberals is that it is a hunting license against black people. They keep repeating (partially) the findings of the Tampa Bay Tribune that shows most of the “victims” are black but curiously ignore that the great majority of the beneficiaries are also black.

And that brings us to the Callie Adams case: Black woman with years of abuse by her husband is attacked in the confines of the vehicle they were in and she uses a firearm to defend herself.  I don’t know any more details or going to speculate on the particulars of the case I do not know, but I am just wondering where do Liberals stand on this? Do they root that she is denied SYG because it is a “bad racist law”? Are they wiling to be accused of being accomplices of “The War on Women” supporting the idea that she did not have the right to defend herself?  Or are they support her just because of her race and thus support SYG on the rebound contradicting their earlier stand?

And never forget that  what triggered Stand Your Ground in Florida was spousal/domestic abuse and the fact that if a woman defended herself, she was automatically treated not as a survivor but as a murderer.

A 53-year-old South Austin man with a valid concealed carry permit was able to shoot at two men who tried to accost him outside of his home early this morning….

…The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor’s home, Sullivan said.

One of the two men pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed at the man who took out his own gun and managed to fire several times at the males, Sullivan said.

The males fled the area without being struck and the shooting did not result in any property damage, police said.

After the shooting, police responded and determined that the man was shooting in self-defense. The man had a valid firearm owner’s identification card, a valid concealed carry permit and police were able to determine that he had completed a required concealed carry class and was properly trained, Sullivan said.
Cops: No charges for man with concealed carry permit who fired at armed male.

Dear Chicago: Welcome to the Gun Culture.

State legislators have given initial approval to a bill that would allow ranchers to kill Mexican gray wolves caught attacking humans or livestock.

The Mexican gray wolf, which once roamed large portions of the Southwest, has been listed as an endangered species since 1976.

Eva Sargent, Southwest program director with the Defenders of Wildlife, said the bill violates federal law and ranchers should use different approaches to coping with wolves.
Bill Would Allow Ranchers Kill Endangered Wolves in Self Defense.

That NM needs a bill that say it is OK to shoot a predator that is attacking you shows there was a lot of insanity to begin with, but that some nimrod is actually trying to tell you that you can New Age a wolf into becoming a puppy and fetching the flip-flops is just catastrophic idiocy.