They accuse us of being afraid which is why we want/worship guns. Reality is a wee different.

WATCH: Momentary panic ensued at the March For Our Lives rally in D.C. Saturday when someone yelled “gun shot” around a large crowd

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— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) June 11, 2022

Somebody yells “gun shot” at one of our rallies, and the answers will vary from “What caliber?” to “Who was the dumbass with the negligent discharge?” or even “Who needs first aid?”

And, of course, everybody would probably be at the low-ready position or at least hand on the holstered gun searching for danger.

Oh yes! I almost forgot: D.C. is a huge Gun Free Zone, how come they panicked? I mean, gun free zones work, right? It keeps bad armed actors away, right?

They proved the uselessness of the Gun Free Zone Laws and the confidence they really have in them.

Stay the hell away from me and my people. You are not getting my guns.

Outer Range

I’m halfway through the first season and it is a good sci-fi mystery.

No politics.  No wokeness.

Just a deeply intriguing mystery.

Josh Brolin and Will Patton are as excellent as ever.

Highly recommend.

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Plano man gets life in prison for fatal punch outside pizza shop

A 38-year-old Plano man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for a sucker punch that killed another man who just happened to be picking up a pizza for dinner at the same time.

The victim had stopped at the Little Caesars Pizza restaurant on Park Road in Plano after work, ordered a pizza and waited inside.

James Gutierrez and his fiancé arrived a few minutes later and also ordered a pizza but decided to wait in their car.

Prosecutors said surveillance video showed the victim later walk out the restaurant with a pizza in hand. He puts it down on the hood of his truck as Gutierrez calls him over. Without any warning, Gutierrez punches him in the head with a closed fist.

Jurors heard testimony about Gutierrez gang affiliation and past criminal history including sex offenses before deciding his punishment. He was also accusing of assaulting his fiancé while out on bond awaiting trial.

One sucker punch and the victim died.

I didn’t see the video but I am almost positive that the victim lost consciousness when he was struck and fell over hitting his head on the concrete parking lot, possibly a curb or parking block.  Usually that’s the part that’s fatal.

The lessons here are two fold:

Maintain your situational awareness so you don’t get sucker punched.

A bare fisted punch from a grown man can be fatal, we need to make the laws relating to self defense acknowledge that.

Faithful readers who followed this blog through our analysis of the Broward (Coward) County Sheriff response to the Parkland shooting understand the limitless seething contempt I have for disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel.

I didn’t think it would be possible for a LEO chief to be worse than him, but Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo may have cleared that bar.

Uvalde school police chief ditched his radio during shooting because he ‘thought it would slow him down’ and claims he ‘didn’t know he was in charge’ as he describes standing outside classroom while 12 kids and teachers inside waited for help

The Uvalde School Police Chief widely blamed for the disastrous cop handling of the massacre at an elementary school has revealed he intentionally ditched his radios because he thought they would ‘slow him down’, and said he didn’t know he was in charge of the operation.

He has been widely blamed for not responding to the shooting more promptly, and Texas officials even said he gave directives to cops telling them not to try to breach the classroom where Ramos had barricaded himself inside with kids.

Now, in his first interview since the atrocity, he told The Texas Tribune that he gave no such directive or any others – because he didn’t think he was in charge.

‘I didn’t issue any orders. I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door,’ he said.

He also says he didn’t know there were kids still alive inside the classroom because he didn’t have his police radio on him.

He had decided to ditch it on his way into the school because he thought it would ‘slow him down’ – a decision that experts have slammed as unheard of.

‘Arredondo believed that carrying the radios would slow him down. One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran. The other had a clip that Arredondo knew would cause it to fall off his tactical belt during a long run.

‘Arredondo said he knew from experience that the radios did not work in some school buildings,’ the Texas Tribune reports.

Let us break down these failures:

He is the chief of police for the Uvalde school district but didn’t think he was in charge of what is clearly the worst crisis in Uvalde school district history.

He abandoned his communication equipment because he thought it was a hindrance.

One had an antenna that annoyed him.  The other would fall off his belt.  These are the most absolutely worthless and pathetic excuses I have ever heard.

He tried to justify it by saying he knew the radios didn’t work in the school buildings.  As the chief of school police it was his responsibility to make sure they had radios that work in schools.

Try to comprehend a chief of police explaining why they have communication equipment that they know doesn’t work inside their specific jurisdiction and thinking that’s okay.

There is so much bad leadership and incompetence in this interview I’m floored.

I can guarantee you that the reality is that Pete Arredondo assumed this job was a sinecure.  Chief of school police sounds like an easy government job with a fat salary and great pension he could coast on until retirement.

Shit went down and he ditched his communication equipment so he could hide from responsibilities he was totally unprepared for and incapable of dealing with.

But it gets worse.

More than a DOZEN of the 33 children and three teachers trapped in Uvalde school during massacre were alive and awaiting rescue for an HOUR as cops scrambled for key to unlock classroom and up to 60 officers waited outside for bulletproof shields

More than a dozen of the 33 children and three teachers trapped in the Texas school during the massacre were alive and awaiting rescue for an hour as cops scrambled for a key to unlock a classroom door, a review has found.

The terrified victims were stuck inside the building for 77 minutes as bungling officers tried to figure out how to get past a ‘steel jamb’ entrance to the room Salvador Ramos, 18, was in, the study of video footage showed.

Pete Arredondo, the embattled chief of Uvalde school police, was among the first officers to enter Robb Elementary during the original siege.

But when he and his officers were pushed back – with two injured in the gunfire – he did not let them enter again for another 40 minutes as they waited for better equipment to arrive.

Ramos managed to butcher 19 children and two teachers at the school in the time it took for police to shoot him dead an hour and a half after he broke in last month.

All of the breaching equipment in the county and they fucked around waiting for a key.

And they fucked around for over an hour while the shooter casually killed teachers and children.

Arredondo cost lives.  He absolutely made it possible for the casualty count to be as high as it was.

Every single thing that the department did was wrong because their chief was a worthless cowardly piece of incompetent shit.

Unfortunately for the people of Uvalde and fortunately for Pete Arredondo, he’s protected by qualified immunity.

The only honorable thing for him to do though (and I said this about Scott Israel too) is to pull a Budd Dwyer during a press conference.

Biden faces a delicate trade-off as he tries to help his fellow Democrats in the November elections. He needs U.S. consumers to pull back just enough so inflation eases, but not so much that the economy risks plunging into a recession.
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University of Michigan economist Betsey Stevenson, a former adviser to the Obama White House, said it would be helpful if Americans reduced their spending. This would lessen demand and allow supplies to catch up, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower inflation through higher short-term interest rates.

“Fundamentally, the problem right now is the opposite of stagflation — it’s regular inflation driven by an economy operating at or even above its potential, with consumer demand outstripping the capacity of the economy,” Stevenson said. “I’m hoping that people stop digging into their savings and cut spending a little — not enough to slow the economy, but enough to slow the price increases.”

Biden’s inflation crunch: Too much shopping — even at beach (chron.com)

You effing ingrate! Stop buying gas and food and baby formula and stuff! You are making the President and the Democrats look bad after all they have done for you!

These people are not taking crazy pills, they are shooting the stuff up directly into their bloodstreams. There are two way to “reduce” consumption: By imposing forceful restrictions on sales (rationing) or reducing consumers. Both have been tried before in certain countries where Karl Marx was the popular economic thinking and I am sure I do not need to tell you what were the results.

In what appears to be yet another politically-motivated prosecution of a white police officer who lawfully defended himself from a violent, non-compliant black suspect, Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr has been charged with second-degree murder over the April 4, 2022 shooting death of Patrick Lyoya, according to FOX News.

Officer Charged with Murder in Shooting of Suspect Who Seized Control of Taser – Law of Self Defense

When I saw the videos back when they got released, I had the feeling this had the chance to be a political clown show and it seems I was right.

But the weather is different now. BLM not only does not have the same clout it had once, it is pretty much going downhill when it comes to reputation.  Will it be protests and riots? You betcha ’cause free shopping is always accepted by the scum of the earth under the mantle of Social Justice.