Gun Free Zone

Pro-gun arguments generally follow a pretty consistent three-step script:

One: It’s my moral right to be able to defend myself from violence and oppression.
Two: It’s my Constitutional right as a law-abiding citizen.
Three: I’m not hurting anybody so fuck off and leave me alone.

Anti-gun arguments can be endless rationalizations of why you don’t need a gun and your rights should be restricted by the government.  One common theme of anti-gun arguments are: you can protect yourself more effectively with something other than a gun.

Every once in a while, an anti-gunner will make an argument so ridiculous that you wonder what type of reality they live in.

Gabrielle Blair is a mommy blogger.  She runs a website and wrote a book about how to be a mom and live in a house that looks like its being featured in Better Homes & Gardens or Martha Stewart Living.  We used to call these “catalog homes,” as in every room looked like a still frame from a housewares catalog.

She and her family live in the San Francisco bay area.

Clearly firearms use, culture, and politics is an area of her expertise.

She decided to chide gun owners about how they don’t need a gun to protect themselves and instead should have…

There are far better ways to protect your family than a gun. Get a life insurance policy. https://t.co/sKtXngJft0

— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 24, 2019

Does this woman understand how life insurance works?

You have to die for it to pay.

While my wife receiving five times my annual salary in a single lump sum will make it possible for her to pay off the mortgage and all of our debts, will a big fat check help her bathe the kids and put them to bed at night?  Will it make my children daddy’s special French toast on Saturday mornings?  Will it help them with their homework?

I think I am worth far more to my family alive than dead.

Ms. Blair here disagrees.

I wonder if she feels that way because her husband runs a web video series about their kids with fewer than 1,200 followers, and looks so beta that I wonder who really sired their six children.

That was just the first Tweet in a thread about why you don’t really need a gun (unrolled for easy reading):

I know you truly believe that you’ll need to defend your family at gunpoint. You need to let that go. Statistically it’s just not going to happen. I know it’s boring, but if you want to protect your family, things like seatbelts, fire alarms, and life insurance are your best bet.

None of these things are mutually exclusive.  I have car seats for my kids and I wear my seatbelt.  I have fire extinguishers in critical areas of my house.  In fact, if you look at my nightstand, I have a large fire extinguisher sitting right next to my biometric gun box.  I can use many different things to protect my family against many different threats.

The reality is, you’re probably going to die of heart disease or diabetes, or just old age and natural causes. I know it’s not as cool-sounding as an armed-standoff, but it’s still true.

Nobody wants to die in an armed standoff.  We want to be prepared in case something bad happens.

If the topic of protecting your family comes up, a gun extremist will immediately imagine an armed intruder who has come to murder. That’s not going to happen. It’s rare enough that it’s not something people need to worry about or make decisions based on.

Well ackshually… according to the CDC, there are between 500,000 and 3 million defensive gun uses in the US in a year.  According to the NPFA, there are about 350,000 house fires every year.  So statistically you are more likely to need a gun than a fire extinguisher.  So maybe having both is a good idea.

If the topic of protecting your family comes up among people who actually interact and care for children each day, they think of things like using car seats, preventing hormones and dangerous chemicals in food, child-proofing the cleaning supplies, and schoolyard bullying.

I’ve done all that, and I child-proofed my guns too.

Hundreds and hundreds of you have explained to me that a life insurance policy won’t protect against an armed intruder.

I never said it would.

She wants her husband to die so she can take the money and run off with her kids’ biological father.

The thing you don’t understand: There isn’t going to be an armed intruder. That’s just your paranoia.

Tell that to the guy in Miami who was just robbed in his van.

How Often Do People Use Guns In Self-Defense?
Many gun owners say the primary reason they own a firearm is self-defense. But for years, experts have been starkly divided over how often people actually use guns for this purpose.

Not according to the CDC.

A gun in the home is FAR more likely to kill or maim a household member than it is to protect them.

This is bullshit.

Enjoy your daydreams about armed stand-offs. But that’s all they are. Daydreams.

Update: A shocking number of you are CONVINCED that armed intruders will enter your home at 2 AM. And specially at 2 AM. Is there like an NRA ad about a 2 AM break in? Some meme I missed?

Nothing good happens after midnight.

Don’t answer. I don’t actually want to know. Muting this thread now.

She enjoys the comfort of the moral superiority of her ignorance.

As a responsible father it’s up to me, and nobody else (except maybe my wife) to decide what steps I can take to protect my family.

I have life insurance, and fire insurance, and all sorts of other coverage, that I hope I never have to use.  I have a fire extinguisher, activated charcoal, and tourniquets that I also hope I never have to use.  I have security cameras and a gun, also that I hope I never have to use.  But just in case the shit ever hits the fan, I have them and will be glad that I do.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A 60-Year-old Miami man said he was forced to shoot and kill a gunman who had broken in to his van early Monday morning in an attempt to rob him of his jewelry.

“The guy I killed last night, he put an AK-47 to my damn face,” said Donovan Stewart.

Stewart told CBS4’S Peter D’Oench that he had to act quickly because he was worried about the safety of his 11-year-old son and girlfriend who were in the van with him.

“I am from Kingstontown in Jamaica,” he said, “and I am not going to go out like a punk. So I emptied my Glock in his chest

Miami Man In Van Guns Down AK-47 Wielding Robber Because He Didn’t Want ‘To Go Out Like A Punk’

Hell yeah!

“So I thought you are you going to kill me so now I have to act quickly because I am trained,” he said. “You know I have a security license, I have a G license and I have a state firearms license and a concealed weapons permit and I have a gun and I am a member of the NRA.”

God Bless you, sir. You are a nightmare for Gun Control advocates: Person of Color, Immigrant, background checked at least twice, member of the most hated organization by Liberals and used his firearm to defend his family. The alleged criminal was identified as responsible in at least another armed robbery by his victims, but his life was turned around for the better thanks to Mr. Stewart .

Last night, a guy whom I’ve not heard of because I don’t Instagram regularly, who goes by the name of Whiskey_warrior_556 went live on Instagram and claimed the cops were there, at his house, trying to serve a red flag order to get a 30 round P-mag from him. That was all it took for internet gun guys to lose their freaking minds and start asking people to literally go to the location and “help” the guy.

Turns out, Whiskey_warrior_556, whose real name is Alexander Booth, was lying out of his ass. The cops were not there to enforce a red flag law, they were there to arrest Booth for a warrant. You see, Booth and his wife are separated, and at some point in the recent past, Booth and his wife had a domestic violence incident. The cops had a warrant for his arrest based on that prior incident. Booth knew this is why there were there, because according to him, he was in contact with the cops via the phone.

Sadly, several people whom I respect, and a couple I am even friends with, fell for Booth’s lies hook, line and sinker, and they lost it. Facebook pages and Instagram accounts of gun folks blew up! People were calling for militias to show up, for people to gear up and respond, and quite honestly, a scary number of people were talking about shooting cops.

Whiskey_Warrior_556 is the Mike Brown of the 2A Community

As usual, go read and then come back.

There was without a doubt way too many people that got emotionally attached to this clusterflock because the proper propaganda switches were flipped and the proper bells rung. I already have a huge Scarlet Letter in certain Facebook Florida Gun Group and I reckon after yesterday, I may have acquired at least a third of the red alphabet because I called my doubts on the situation.

We violated the rule we have for any high profile case and mass shooting: First information is to be taken with a grain of salt and we should wait 24-48 hours for all the facts to come out. But apparently one idiot thoight it would be the Chest Thumper™ thing to believe him up front and the rest of the cool kids decided to join in because “Muh Right!” and got bamboozled by an alcoholic wife beater. And rather than admit Mea Culpa, they double down and insulted anybody who dared to have a different take plus concoct the weirdest conspiracy theories to explain the obvious lapses of logic in the narrative. being the best so far how SWAT team swooped on a concentration of “patriots” gathering in a cemetery as they were preparing a rescue mission. The cops apparently arrested them all without a shot fired, booked none of them and ship them to parts unknown (Guantanamo?) without telling anybody.

Oh yes, and NOTHING made it to the MSM because there was a blackout imposed by (pick your villain) in order to keep the Regular Folk uninformed of the revolution/rescue/clown show. Really? a bunch of idiots in tactical gear running around in a cemetery in the middle of the night and caught like puppies demonstrating that armed citizens can’t face cops is not gonna make the news and being peddled 24/7 by Moms Demand and Everytown?

We got a black eye yesterday and we hit ourselves. Let’s stop doing shit like this, shall we?

This protest happened in New York City two weeks ago.

NYC: Muslims & Leftists call for the destruction of Israel & complete ethnic cleansing Jews from the Middle East.
Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christians are safe & Jews exist.
Jews cannot live in Gaza, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq etc.pic.twitter.com/FJgpRIpoCZ

— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) November 22, 2019

This is a call for genocide.  There are no ands, ifs, or buts, about it.

First of all, despite the rhetoric they use, Jews have been expelled from every Muslim nation in the Middle East.  After the foundation of Israel, almost one million Jews were driven out of their homes and communities in Arab countries by force.  The number of Jews in Syria and Iraq can be measured in the dozens.  This is one of those inconvenient facts that the Left loves to forget when talking about Israel.

The few Jews that live in Arab countries do so under severe oppression.

So turning Israel into Palestine isn’t going to create a state of equality.  It will create an Arab state where the Jews are subjected o persecution, oppression, and violence.

Does anybody honestly believe that the Palestinians who have been murdering Jewish children for 70 years are suddenly going to become peaceful neighbors and that they won’t want to take revenge for the grievances Palestinian leaders have blamed Israel for that entire time?

But before it got to that point, the dissolution of the State of Israel will be a near genocide in and of itself.  Millions of Jews for three generations have fought, risked, and given their lives for a sovereign Israel.

Those Jews are not just going to give up Israel without a fight because some UN Jew-hating bureaucrats said they have to.

Israel will have to be conquered and the Israelites will fight to the last man and woman that can fire a rifle.

What BDS is protesting for is the violent destruction of several million Jews in Israel.

Which is probably why you never heard about this protest in Times Square.  The Leftist media didn’t want to cover it.  Democrat politicians who can find white supremacism and alt-Right Antisemitism around every corner have been totally silent on a bunch of Leftists and Muslims calling for Jewish genocide in the middle of America’s largest city.

Maybe it is because Squad members Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC, openly support BDS, and Bernie Sanders has BDS activist Linda Sarsour on his team.

If you wonder how NYC can ignore the violence against Jews in the city, this is how.  When Jew-hatred come from the Left, everyone turns a deaf ear and a blind eye.

None of that actually surprises me.

I just have one question for my fellow Jews:

Is Orange Man so bad that you are willing to continue to support a part that has Jewish genocide and the elimination of Israel as its platform?

So last night there was flurry of messages across Social media decrying the application of a Red Flag against a guy in New York State because of a single solitary 30 round magazine in his possession. No other mags or even weapons were in the house. The gentleman live streaming and had barricaded himself. The local Gestapo had threatened to kill the wife who snitched on him  about the nag (In version #1) or a friend who is no longer a friend snitched on the guy about the magazine (in version #2).

Bear with me. Also we were told that Armed Patriots cross the county were concentrating nearby to rescue the barricade and prosecuted man or at least downvote and dislike what the police was doing. It came a moment where the reports of shots fired came out and that mass incarceration of patriots had occurred light after the Cell Jammers were brought out so nobody would know what was happening.

Of course, you will not see this in the New because there is a conspiracy between Bloomberg, Reuters and the Pope so you don’t ever figure what happened and only get the milk toast version: That a trouble veteran with a past for domestic abuse had an episode and the local cops (those abusing Gestapo assholes) took 7 hours to calm the guy down, managed to get him alive.

One of the sources of information I was assured to be accurate is this reddit post. The other source is one of the local TV stations.

I am sorry if I have issues swallowing the version that makes the writers of Mexican Telenovelas go “This is loco! I can’t use this.”

Think donkeys. not zebras. Don’t make shit up and specially do not repeat it, retweet or repost. A shootout between armed guys and a SWAT team doe not make it in the news anywhere? Not even in the town resident’s comments in Facebook?

There is  meme going around about “the face a burglar makes when he hears the house alarm is ‘Let The Bodies Hit The Floor.’ ”

I would go in the opposite and scarier direction:

The maniacal giggling that they would be hearing in the background will be mine.

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend

The end
Of our elaborate plans
The end
Of everything that stands
The end
No safety or surprise
The end
I’ll never look into your eyes
Again

If they are too stupid to remain inside after that…

Apparently it is not enough for him to wait for elections to see if he can recover his post, but he is suing in Federal Court.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Scott Israel has filed a federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Senate following his removal from office as Broward sheriff.

The lawsuit was filed on Friday by attorneys Ben Kuehne and Stuart Kaplan for what they described as their client’s “illegal removal from office in violation of due process.”

A statement issued Saturday by the Kuehne’s office reads, “The lawsuit seeks Sheriff Israel’s reinstatement on the grounds that the Florida Senate’s removal decision was purely partisan even though Governor DeSantis was shown to have no valid reason for the removal from office.”

Scott Israel sues DeSantis, Florida Senate over removal as Broward sheriff

Did he hear something coming out of the Broward Democratic Machine about his “re-election” that he did not like? Or is it simply to get free advertising from the media? Or even both?

I would not be surprised that he considers himself a bigger victims than the kids his deputes allowed to get killed in Parkland for such is the way of the asshole.