Florida defensive uses of guns; A twofer.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Broward County homeowner turned the tables on a would-be robber and the confrontation was caught on camera.
The suspect who was shot has been charged, and the homeowner who shot him wants other would-be bad guys to take note.
The homeowner, who did not want to reveal his identity, told Local 10 News he was alone and spotted the two men outside his home.
They split up, and one of them walks straight into the home’s carport, grabbing items that don’t belong to him, wheeling out a pricey pressure washer.
…The suspect who was shot received help from employees at the car dealership, who called for help.
He suffered non-life-threatening injuries and has been charged with burglary.
Surveillance video captures Fort Lauderdale homeowner open fire on burglars
And before you ask, I believe it was considered a burglary which is a Forcible Felony. Add to that Disparity of Force and simply that a Law Abiding home owner should not have to deal with BS politics.
And I saw this one over Divemedic’s
ORLANDO, Fla. – Police said a suspect was shot after entering an Orlando business angry and armed with a machete, attacking two employees and forcing one of them to open fire.
Investigators said that a suspect, a man in his 30s, entered the business, appearing upset and armed with a machete. An argument ensued between the suspect and two employees of the business. The suspect then allegedly attacked them with the machete.
One of the victims reportedly discharged a firearm at the suspect, but he was still able to flee the business on foot. However, a man who matched the description of the suspect and who had a gunshot wound was later located and apprehended by officers.
Police: Suspect shot after attacking employees at Orlando business with machete
The machete wielder has been identified:
Records show 31-year-old Oraine Mitchell Grant came into the business seemingly upset with a large knife, later identified as a machete. Grant argued with a woman and a man who worked there, then went to stab the employees, investigators said. Officers said as Grant was trying to lunge at the employees, one of the workers shot him.
Office employee shoots man during machete attack, Orlando police say
I did a quick search and I got a return of somebody with the same name and same age from Brooklyn, New York and with an arrest in 2015 involving a woman.
Oraine P. Mitchell-Grant of Grote Street was charged Thursday night with third-degree assault, assaulting a police officer and second-degree harassment following an attack on a Grote Street woman.
Buffalo police respond to a rash of reported assaults in days before holiday
Machetes are the trendy weapon in New York City, just check YouTube. But in Florida? Every other household in Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties have at least one. And people also know if you wave your machete in anger, you will get a wee bit (lot) of violence back with the blessings of the local PD and prosecutors.
Welcome to Florida.
Something the armchair economists on the Left don’t understand
Video warning: ladies, you might need to take an extra birth control pill before watching something this manly.
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1359851366018121729
This is why this guy makes $100,000 (or more) per year with a high school diploma.
The guys who do this and like doing it are not going to take well to sitting behind a desk and being taught to code for $20 per hour.
“But we’re going to t retrain them…”
Bullshit!
Only a white-collar technocratic numbnuts with hands softened by years of fondling money could believe that the highest career people aspire to is to be the soft-handed drones of white-collar technocratic numbnuts.
I hope that the next time some Ivy League graduate working for the NYT writes an OpEd about how no, really, it’s a good thing Biden put these guys out of work so they can get a green energy job coding a smart grid, one of these dudes flicks his wrist and wraps a chain around a pampered journalist.
Environmentalists have made us dependent on other nations for all the most important natural resources
From the Financial Times:
China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry
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China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture of American F-35 fighter jets and other sophisticated weaponry, according to people involved in a government consultation.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology last month proposed draft controls on the production and export of 17 rare earth minerals in China, which controls about 80 per cent of global supply.
Industry executives said government officials had asked them how badly companies in the US and Europe, including defence contractors, would be affected if China restricted rare earth exports during a bilateral dispute.
“The government wants to know if the US may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban,” said a Chinese government adviser who asked not to be identified. Industry executives added that Beijing wanted to better understand how quickly the US could secure alternative sources of rare earths and increase its own production capacity.
China isn’t stupid. They control the market on materials we desperately need and so they are going to squeeze our balls. This is a logical and strategically brilliant manuver.
We’re the ones who fucked ourselves.
There are rare earths in the United States. We just don’t mine or refine them because the environmentalists shit a brick whenever someone tries to mine in the US.
This is functionally no different than what they did with oil, shutting down our production forcing us to buy from Middle Eastern nations that hate us.
We need domestic rare earth mining but the Left will not stand up to the environmentalists, we know that.
There is, of course, another option.
One of the richest nations for rare earth is Afghanistan. We spent billions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives there.
The Left already calls us racist colonialists. I say embrace it, since denying it does nothing.
Strip mine the fucking country to nothing. If Lockheed needs rare earths for the F-35 get the Secretary of Raytheon Sherholder Dividends to get Biden to announce a program to get our money back in rare earths.
At least use the press’ willingness to suck that old man off to sell a colonial war of resource conquest to the American public as something great.
I truly don’t care if we spend $50 million teaching Afghani children gender-neutral pronouns in Urdu as long as we are bringing back needed minerals by the metric-fuck-ton.
Neither will The New York Times for that matter.
Either way, we’re going to have to do something, before China sets us back to using cathode-ray tubes just because they can.
We’s gonna be in all the wars!!!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1361751241865519116
Sure, we could have sustainable peace through trade in the Middle East, but how would that let the Secretary of Rathyon Shareholder Dividends Defense justify needed all the new toys?
I honestly prefer Democrats that spit on our soldiers and called them baby killers to the ones the destabilize the world to boost their buddies on Wall Street.