Gun Free Zone

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday night that he does not anticipate New York City fully reopening until September despite declining hospitalization rates and deaths.
The city is on lockdown along with the rest of the state until May 15 at least, after which point is must meet seven requirements set out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo before it can reopen.
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New York City currently meets three of the four criteria; it is lacking in free hospital beds and does not yet have the number of contact tracers – people to track down everyone who has come into contact with new COVID-19 cases – that Cuomo is insisting on hiring before it can reopen.

Bill de Blasio says NYC won’t completely reopen until September despite declining deaths and hospitalization rates

What do you mean you don’t have free beds? We gave you a fucking medical ship with 1,000 beds and you guys sent it back!

President Donald Trump said the US Navy hospital ship Comfort would leave New York City as soon as possible after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was no longer needed in the city’s fight against the coronavirus.

The USNS Comfort was deployed to New York City on March 30 to help the city’s hospitals as they struggled with a tidal wave of coronavirus patients.

The 500-bed US Navy hospital ship Comfort is leaving NYC after treating just 179 patients in 3 weeks

And another 1,000 bed in a military field hospital in Javits Center is being closed because they are not sending patients their way.

Sao they piss away 2,000 beds and then bitch they don’t have enough. And if New Yorkers are fine with that, please do not come crying for the rest of the country to bail them out with our taxes so they can by Starbucks and Sushi to survive.

This scene from Escape from New York makes more and more sense every day.

I think somebody is intoxicated with power to the point Narcan may beed to be employed.

Hat Tip Manny L.

From the blog Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children:

THE PANDEMIC, THE GHOSTS OF WAR, AND A BROTHER LOST

The government stripped people of their ability to be with others. And it’s the camaraderie that helps veterans cope. They are a brotherhood, a sisterhood, a family. Remove the family, and the pieces begin to fall apart. We have seen this time and time again when veterans become isolated, they lose their sense of self-worth. Hopelessness takes over, and the future becomes too dim to grasp. For Rory, it was too much to bear.

Rory took his own life on May 1, 2020.

This is horrible.  Rory Hamill was a husband and father of three.

He left a written cry for help.

“I began writing this at 03:46 in the morning, on April 19th, 2020. I’ve been drunk on red wine since the previous night. I haven’t slept. I haven’t stopped suffering. My own personal hell has been reignited, in light of present circumstances affecting us all. This pandemic, although viral in nature; alludes to what happens to us as human beings, when we are stripped of our outlets, and are deprived of our ability to socialize.” Rory

I have written about this before on other posts.  For people who suffer from PTSD and depression, a regular routine is critical to maintain normalcy.

I went through a bout of depression in college, due to some life circumstances, and I know from first hand experience how important it was to get out of bed, go to class, and try and live a normal life.  If I sat alone in my room I would spiral into worsening anguish.

I can only imagine how someone suffering from PTSD finding themselves trapped at home without their routine and support network could crash and self harm like this.

It makes me wonder with churches and other places of congregation shut down how people who suffer from addiction and depression are coping of they can’t go to AA or other support group meetings.  These are not things easily done virtually.  People need the human connection of face to face interaction.

This post is not a dunk, it’s not an “I told you so.”

It’s an example of how in our panic to save lives we have harmed others and how it’s easy to forget about the needs of people like Rory Hammill.

Pray for his family and everyone else suffering in these times.

If you know someone suffering like this, reach out to them in any way you can and remind them that they are loved and needed.

From Newsweek:

NEW YORK GOV. CUOMO TELLS REOPEN PROTESTORS ‘YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO JEOPARDIZE MY HEALTH’

Several anti-lockdown protests have taken place across New York state, the worst-hit by the pandemic, in recent days, including in Albany, Buffalo and Suffolk County on Long Island.

He said he understood people’s frustration with the measures, but said he disagreed with those who want the economy to reopen despite the public health risk.

Cuomo then lashed out at those who were gathering at rallies without a mask covering their faces, calling them “reckless” and “irresponsible.”

“You don’t have a right to jeopardize my health. You want to jeopardize your health, God bless you. You have no right to jeopardize my health,” he said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is keeping New York under lockdown because he doesn’t want to get sick.

The rest of the state, counties that have only a handful of COVID cases can suffer from the death spiral of unemployment and bankruptcy as long as in doing so Governor Cuomo doesn’t get sick.

Never mind that he’s the most protected person in the state. If he got sick his staff would yank anyone else off a ventilator to make to available to him.  The best doctors in the state are at his back and call.  He can’t risk getting sick so other New Yorkers must nose dive into unemployed destitution.

There is no sacrifice too great that he is willing to demand of his subjects to avoid his getting the Wuhan Cough.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A park ranger who was trying to disperse a crowd on a sunny Thursday at Lake Austin says he was pushed into the water. Police say a 25-year-old has been arrested in the case.
A video shared on social media appears to shows the ranger speaking to the crowd and asking them to keep six feet of distance between them to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. The video then shows a man run up and push him, sending both men into the water. The suspect then climbs out of the lake and runs off.
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The person who took the cell phone video of the incident said they were glad the person got in trouble for pushing the park ranger.
“The park ranger was actually being really sweet and understanding before,” they said.

Video surfaces of park ranger pushed into Lake Austin, suspect arrested

The article mentions the group was smoking and drinking which I  am pretty sure that the drinking part was already illegal before the pandemic. He could have been an asshole but was not, the video shows the ranger being nice and just talking to them when “edgy asshole” had to push him into the water.

There is a firm difference between being a rebel and being a douchebag. Learn it .

I am guessing I don’t have to remind the readers of this blog when Dan Crenshaw decided to play with Moms Demand and be used as clown for their Gun Control efforts.

He got properly roasted, specially after he wrote some stupid shit trying to appear Solomonic and “find a middle ground” which only accomplished to be derided by gun owners for ringing the bell to the moms.

Apparently his use and good intentions have come to the end of usefulness for Bloomberg and his gang.

Via Bearing Arms:

The Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund rolled out a $250,000 ad campaign Monday focusing on Republican-held House seats in Texas.

The gun control group’s ads will run in districts held by Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Michael McCaul, John Carter and Chip Roy, as well as the state’s 24th Congressional District, where Beth Van Duyne is running for Congress.

Gun control group launches ad campaign in Texas GOP districts

Oh snap! He is no longer useful for their campaigns and Bloomberg monies will be used to unseat him after he managed to piss off his base.

Oh well. Best of luck and all that.

And she is an elected official, folks.

And as we have been expecting, she is using the Pandemic as an excuse to go full Hugo Chavez. From her official government site:

The deadly coronavirus pandemic has shaken our world. Working people face a triple-emergency – illness and loss of loved ones, severe job and income losses, and a worsening housing emergency.

The emergency will, unfortunately, last well beyond 2020. We cannot afford to wait until the health crisis is over to set in motion the massive jobs and housing investments that workers will need.

That’s why we’re fighting to tax Amazon and other big businesses, to fund immediate COVID-19 relief for working people, and then to go on in 2021 and beyond to fund a massive expansion of new, affordable, social housing and Green New Deal renovations of existing homes. These programs have the potential to create and support thousands of good, union jobs. We’re also fighting for a statewide suspension of rent, mortgage, and utility payments, because hundreds of thousands of working Washingtonians have been laid off or have lost wages through unpaid stay-at-home.

“The emergency will, unfortunately, last well beyond 2020.” This is something we are seeing more and more as theme. It began with some states’ governors extending the quarantine and a few others the mention of more Federal help. But Sawant here does not care for the frog in the pot theory but wants the full broil treatment immediately. Rent control/free, power to the People who will be in controls of the means of production? Yes please! May I have some more Communism?  

Of she has not planned what would happen if Amazon and other “big companies” decided to shut down and move out of Seattle and even out of the State. She will probably rattle on about how she needs to be elected to positions of bigger power so she can take on these evil cowardly corporations that ran away from their responsibility in Seattle and she can only do that if you help her get to Congress in D.C. Your donation is needed, just a few bucks from the Pandemic monthly checks she fought so hard to give you.

Because you cannot be a good communist leader until you reach the politburo and have your own  private dacha.

From the New York Daily News:

Video shows shocking moment man is fatally shot by two masked bandits aiming pistols with silencers

Two masked bandits hopped out of a Jeep holding pistols with silencers — and blasted a man in the Bronx, killing him in cold blood, startling video obtained by the Daily News shows.

The victim, 51, is seen socializing in a parking lot on Holland Ave. near Boston Rd. in Allerton around 3:20 p.m. when the gunmen get out of the blue Jeep and open fire.

This is a snip of the video.  You can watch it in the link above (I didn’t want to embed it because it auto-plays).

I don’t know if those are suppressors, but it sure looks like it from the security can footage.

If they are suppressors, I am about 100% positive that they are not legally obtained NFA registered.

Every once in a while I will see an ad for an “oil filter” or “fuel filter” that just so happens to come with a 1/2-28 female thread.

Make no mistake about it, these are VERY ILLEGAL TO OWN.

The ATF does not take lightly something that looks and acts like a suppressor, even if you call it something else.  They will send you to federal prison for 10 years if you get caught with one.

So I suspect that shooters Wingus and Dingus in the above video got their hands on some illegal Chinese imported “solvent traps” to commit murder with.

But as we all know, those sorts of details are meaningless to politicians.

If these two committed a murder with suppressors then all suppressors must be banned, even though you went through an ATF anal probing, paid $200 to the Tax Man, and waited the better part of a year to legally get your can.

I’m not sure how many Republican politicians are going to take the brave stand in the defense of NFA owners, especially after the bump stock ban fuckery.

This worries me.  It’s something we need to keep an eye on.