I was an Eagle Scout, so I remember the Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared.

Or the motto of the United States Coast Guard: Semper Paratus (always ready).

It’s good advice to follow.

Shooting at Oakland CA Juneteenth celebrations last night, leave 1 dead and 5 injured. This is how people reacted when the EMTs arrived. pic.twitter.com/AcFPciJuzq

— Anthea (@Anthea06274890) June 21, 2021

At least they did not beat the EMTs and set the ambulance on fire.

Oh hell no. Our standards are higher.

83 year old Mr. Greer placed 10 shots inside a 3 inch circle at 1,000 yards.

Nothing short of amazing.

Comment from reader Therefore:

I’ve caught a brass case on top of my safety glasses. Yes, it left a painful blister. But the gun was down on the table before I reached up to remove it. OUCH.

I had a similar incident like that, but I had a set of eye-pro that was “generous” in its fitting and left a gap from the face big enough that I had a 9 mm case fly in and land on my right eyelid while shooting an IDPA stage. It was a pretty static stage and I was almost done so I force myself (cussing and all) to wait for the Safety Officer to do his thing before clawing the glasses off. I did get a small blister .

The other reason I got the case nested on my eyelid was back then I did not use any kind of brimmed hat, just a plain bandana, because cool and crap.

I forget who gave me the advice to use caps or hats to help avoid the same accident, but it has become part of my safety routine at the range.  And for cool factor, I just went with this hat adorned with the appropriate pins

So, wear good-fitting eye protection and wear something brimmed that shelves over your eyes. Shooting safely is no joke.

I guess some of you have seen the new version of the old Gay flag.

More colors to include more gender fluidity and I am guessing race?

But wait! There is a better one out there. I saw it this morning at my local Big Box hardware store.

Now that is an widely inclusive flag. Probably a bitch to fly a top of the mast.

I keep hammering this point home because it must be understood that the goal of the Left is to sew division where ever possible as much as possible.

There were over 828,000 Union casualties during the Civil War to advance through the Confederacy and end slavery, making the celebration of Juneteenth possible.

That is part of what should be celebrated.  It is perhaps, the very first time in human history a race fought and died for another race to be free.

In the whole tribalistic history of humanity, I cannot think of another time that has happened.

But according to the Left, all white people are guilty for slavery and therefore it is a holiday they should not celebrate.

Unity is dead because they don’t want unity, they just want another group of Kulaks to blame for all their problems.

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If I ever take up firearms training, one of the things I may do is to shove hot brass inside the clothing of people so they get the experience over and not react like fools when an ejected shell ends up in their soft parts.

If you have been shooting for a while, chances are you have caught a hot one and know that although painful, it does not kill you or makes you bleed. You get a blister and that’s pretty much it. Just because it stings, does not mean The Four Rules get to be ignored.