Gun Free Zone

Reader Eve’s Hubby sent me this email and I think it is worth sharing.

Something occurred to me recently that I felt was worth sharing, concerning all safety systems but especially in cars.

With the tethering cable on my car safe, I’ve gotten used to pulling it out only a certain length to deposit my pistol. The last time that I went to put it in, I noticed I pulled it out much farther than usual, and I was pretty shocked to find that the cable was out of the safe’s cable socket. I didn’t know how it had actually been like that, but I quickly corrected it and tested to make sure it was still tied to the other side. A quick test ensured it was as secure as it could be.

What it brought to my mind is that security systems need regular inspections and testing, no matter how simple they are. Imagine if I hadn’t noticed the cable wasn’t attached and some burglar was feeling lucky with my car. That small roadbump in the cable would have been missing and no doubt a would-be thief would snatch it up quickly.

Do we schedule ant type of routine maintenance check with our safety items? When was the last time you checked your box or your fire extinguishers or the alarms? When was the last time you checked ALL your defensive guns? Have you given your EDC gun a full clean up and oiling lately? It does not matter if you shot it or not, guns attract crap.

Have you checked your first aid kit for expired/missing items? Frigging gnomes steal stuff. Make sure the tourniquets are still there.

Maybe a day every 2-3 weeks we do a quick walk-through and make sure things are copacetic.  It does not cost much but a little time and it does not have to be all at once.

Give it a thought.

They start with a seemingly innocent question.

And they start with a couple of examples where “peaceful protesters” were merciless mowed down by cars driven by people with  apparent no social conscience. Climb in the hood of a vehicle to make him stop? Good protester. Drive away with the protester still attached ? Evil person.

And then this:

Under Florida law, drivers and pedestrians share the burden of staying out of each other’s way. But when pedestrians are protesters, Tampa Bay law enforcement has often faulted those on two feet.

The Tampa Police Department said both incidents remain under investigation. There have also been close calls in St. Petersburg, where police have started ticketing protesters. Both cities say they do not plan to change their approach to policing protesters. A St. Petersburg police spokeswoman said “we have not encountered incidents where motorists have been at fault.”

Ouch, a dose of common sense applied. But of course, them Eeeevil cops are gonna side with the drivers and not the righteous people that want cops defunded and psychopaths’ dealt with by recent graduates of Social Studies from the local community college.

But it is the next two paragraphs that set the final tone of the article”

But incidents of motorists driving into protesters have become increasingly common over the past five years, said a terrorism researcher who’s been tracking cases. He has recorded at least 75 incidents across the nation over the past two months.

What motivated drivers in these incidents — anger, confusion, fear — is unknown. But ramming protesters has emerged as a tactic of right-wing extremists, such as white supremacists, who have spread the perception that drivers have the right to run over demonstrators.

So what is the inferred conclusion?

 Anybody that runs past a riot on the streets and highways is a Right-Wing extremists and White supremacists supported by our local cops. Therefore, Tampa Bay Cops and others in the Sunshine State are White Supremacist Right-Wing Extremists. 

This is basically a call for rioting in the streets to denounce a KKK-Style police and have it defunded.

If you keep reading, you will finally meet the “terrorism” research made by one  Ari Weil, researcher at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. And even though the TBT just said that ramming has emerged as a tactic for the right Wing, there is only one “proven” case mentioned:  Charlottesville.

And then he drops this comparison:

Weil explored the subject for his master’s thesis, finding that vehicle attacks became increasingly popular in the 2010s among western jihadists, Palestinian nationalists and, in the U.S. and Europe, the far right.

Muslim terrorist with a truck mowing civilians just living their lives is the same thing as Uncle Patrick trying to go home and being blocked by a mob cursing him and threatening with ending his life or at least fuck him up.

But I have to admit I am confused: I thought Muslim Terrorists were a protected political sub-species, yet the TBT is throwing them under the bus (pun intended) to make a case for a local violent riot?  so they are expendable People Of Color after all.

Long live the Revolution’s omelet!

Hat Tip Roger G.

Part of the media narrative is the statement that the protesters are throwing fireworks at federal law enforcement.

They are trying to convey things like sparklers, mostly harmless.

At @USAO_OR & @DHSgov press con, we learn 6 officers were injured overnight at Portland riot, including some who had to be hospitalized from mortar blasts. Legacy media asked about officers plans to “deescalate” & how they’ll address grievances. I wasn’t selected to ask question. pic.twitter.com/9FdYZPQkSN

— Andy Ngô ?️‍? (@MrAndyNgo) July 25, 2020

I posted this Tweet earlier:

Some are lobbing explosive fireworks over the fence at the feds. Here are two big ones. pic.twitter.com/NuQ27Jb5rs

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020

There were six injuries from fireworks.

Big fireworks are serious business.  A 2-inch mortar firework produces a very powerful blast.

Additional interior photo of the suspected explosive damage to the the East Precinct’s wall: pic.twitter.com/2qHnkiiWDZ

— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 26, 2020

This is a hole in a wall made by protesters with their IEDs.

Any blast powerful enough to punch a hole in plywood is powerful enough to cause severe injury to a body.

Here is a news interview with someone who was injured by a firework.

This is a video from USA Today of what happens from being too close to a mortar firework when it goes off.

This man blew his entire arm off, and lost part of his hearing and sight.

Have I made it clear that fireworks, especially big mortars, are dangerous?

They can and do blow off hands and arms and take out eyes.

Throwing them at law enforcement isn’t cute or harmless protesting.

These people are throwing IEDs that can maim and kill.

This should be treated the same as throwing a hand grenade at police and that it’s not is dangerous for law enforcement, the civilians who they will throw these at next, and an example of obscene mendacity by the media.

Sorry but if the spectacle of a ragtag band of savvy Home Depot shoppers armed with $50 leaf blowers choking out federal stormtroopers with their own tear gas doesn’t fill you with joy, you’re a bad patriot who hates America, sorry I don’t make the rules https://t.co/mVuk6TcYKa

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) July 25, 2020

What would fill me with joy is seeing these insurrectionists who are wounding police with IDEs and blinding lasers start catching live, lethal munitions.

A buddy sent me this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDH7Wgapm1R/

Holy shit.

That’s…

That’s insane.

Do not drive through, near, or in the vicinity of protests.

This is getting more dangerous by the day.

And if you somehow find yourself in that kind of situation, you better be damn sure you pop that fucker right in the T-Zone so he does not have to ability to shoot you back.

And we get news from Aurora, Colorado about a Jeep not stopping for a crowd blocking I-225 and somebody decided to let out a couple of shots ignoring The Four Rules and specifically Rule 4.

BE AWARE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT IS BEHIND IT.

The result? Two “peaceful protesters” shot.

Seen from above:

And by the side of the road:

GUNFIRE! -Shots fired in Aurora, Colorado.

A Jeep drove through a crowd that was on I-225. A protester shot some other protesters while trying to shoot the driver of the Jeep!

Shooting at a vehicle that already drove by is a full on crime! LOCK EM UP! ?pic.twitter.com/rz3tQUvUQ1

— ✨KAL ..the?riginal ? (@RightWingLawMan) July 26, 2020

And the police is looking for “a person of interest” regarding the shooting.

I am all for the self-thinning of the stupid herd.