Gun Free Zone

I want you to look at the photo. That is the UPS truck up front and (visible) 24 law enforcement vehicles from 9 agencies chasing after it.

This was a Far East Fire Drill (apparently I cannot say Chinese Fire Drill anymore) in the making and proven true at the end of the chase when the UPS driver and a bystander ended up dead.

Yes, the bad guys had already proven they were dangerous: they were armed, shot an employee of the jewelry store and kidnaped a civilian to escape authorities, but this was police overkill.

I do not know who shot who and I will not comment on that till the investigation is done. But there is no excuse for this posse attitude from the agencies. At least two agencies (Broward Sheriff and Miami-Dade PD) have helicopters that could have followed the truck and the suspects and the cops be distributed in a way that anticipated the kidnapers.

I have the strange feeling that nobody was talking to anybody else (including up and down the respective chains of command) and in the best South Florida tradition, this was a Greyhound race that ended up with the bunny dead.

This is a whole lot of bad:

UPS driver killed in armed robbery, chase and shootout identified as a young father

Family members and friends are mourning the loss of a UPS driver and young father, killed after being taken hostage by two armed robbers in Miramar.

WFOR reported the name of the driver as Frank Ordonez, one of four people killed in the incident. His brother told CBS Miami he’d been a driver with UPS for the past five years.

However, Thursday was Ordonez’s first day as a UPS driver.

Ordonez leaves behind a one-year-old daughter.

Killed on the first day of his job in a police shootout?  This is like something out of a Lethal Weapon movie.

The ordeal began as an armed robbery and possible shooting at Regent Jewelers in Coral Gables on Thursday afternoon. A female employee suffered injuries in the armed robbery.

Police said the armed robbery suspects then carjacked a UPS truck as the driver was making deliveries.

Holy shit.

The police chase ended with the armed robbery suspects and police exchanging gunfire on Miramar Parkway, just west of Flamingo Road. According to CBS Miami, 19 officers from five different agencies fired into the UPS truck. The number of shots fired could exceed 200 rounds.

Were they making up for Broward’s lack of response in Parkland or did they take shooting lessons from the NYPD?

The two armed robbers were killed.

The FBI identified the pair as 41-year-old Lamar Alexander and 41-year-old Jerome Hill.

Both are from Miami-Dade County.

A civilian motorist was also killed in the shootout.

Two bad guys, a bystander (by-driver?) and the hijacking victim were all killed.

The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation, according to Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam, who spoke to CBS12 News reporter James Torrez on Friday.

Good, because when you watch the video the question is: killed by whom?

There are some hair-raising videos from that shooting.

Every long “pew” that you hear in this, is a bullet whizzing past the person recording this.

There are civilians behind the bad guys when the police started shooting.

Those are police taking cover behind civilian cars with people still in them.

I’m amazed more people were not killed.

I’m not a cop, I won’t even pretend to be on the internet.

I’m just curious about the wisdom of engaging in a massive firefight on the Miramar Parkway during heavy traffic.

This is one to follow.

The idiots of Extinction Event are “blocking” an intersection in DC as I write this. I use the term “blocking” because it looks like DCPD already diverted traffic and about the only cars in the intersection are police ones.

somebody was live streaming the “protest” and I saw this young something with this sign:

The first thing my mind popped up was “Soylent Green” from the 1973 movie.

And just a reminder, Soylent Green is set in the year 2022. Where is Soylent Blue? It is 2019 and we are supposed to be living in a almost dead world and getting our nutrition via Soylent Blue.

Yeah, but the science was settled back then just like it os now.

There are no coincidences.

Yesterday an Active Shooter at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. And just now the news of another active shooter in a navy base, this time in NAS Pensacola.

(OK, yes, there are the copycats and stuff.)

Micheal Bloomberg gave a speech in Aurora, Colorado, in which he explained how he wants to destroy the right to keep and bear arms.

Bloomberg announces he wants a nationwide permit for people to obtain before being able to buy a gun: "I know critics will say that Americans shouldn't need a permit to exercise their constitutional rights, but voting is a constitutional right and we require people to register." pic.twitter.com/NCTpaIeCKb

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) December 5, 2019

He wants to make the US like New York City, where owning a gun is not a right but a privilege.

Right now, the Federal government has to have a reason to deny you a gun.  You have to be a felon, convicted of domestic violence, be adjudicated mentally ill, or meet one of the other prohibited person criteria.  If you are not a prohibited person and are of legal age, the default is your right to own a gun.

In New York City, it is exactly the opposite.  You have to have a permit to purchase a gun and the process is set up to default to deny applicants unless they are well connected or grease the requisite NYPD palms.

For Bloomberg, passing a background check at the time of sale is not enough.  He wants the ability to preemptively deny you the right to buy a gun.

“No matter what the background check says, can you stop them from getting a gun.”

It doesn’t matter if you are not a prohibited person, your right will be infringed upon.  Your rights can be denied even without a conviction in Bloomberg’s America.

He tries to justify this by comparing registering to vote to gun registration.

If he wants to make that comparison, I am all for having a lengthy discussion about restricting the franchise.  Like the great Robert A. Heinlein, I think it should be earned, but not limited to civil service.  Civil service is one way, but being a net positive taxpayer is sufficient.  If you get more money from the governor than you pay into it (exceptions for people on Social Security or Disability) you don’t get to vote.

But I have a feeling he’s not interested in kicking people on welfare off the voter rolls.

The reason voting registration exists and is important is for Congressional representation.  We need to make sure that a person votes only for the Congressional seat that they live in so that everyone gets adequate representation.  Without it, the Democrats in heavy blue districts could send some excess Democrat voters into low population density Republican districts to swing their elections.

There is no equivalent compelling reason to restrict gun rights.  When he invokes the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that is a call to restrict the power of government.

It is a complete inversion of our Founding Father’s intent to make the argument:

Big government must restrict the Constitutional rights of citizens so that free citizens do not threaten the liberty of other citizens.

This is an argument for the nanny state, of which Bloomberg is the self-appointed Handicapper General.

Hopefully, Bloomberg’s desire for a presidency based on tyrannical gun control falls as flat and Douche Nuk’em Swalwell’s, and that it takes his entire $54 Billion with him.

What I do know is that trying to impose that on Alabama will make the south rise again.

20 minute video so save it for a good coffee or liquor break.

I learned about and “met” Andrew via Twitter during the Zimmerman trial. He was actually doing an almost bow by blow description of the trial and his post summarizing what happened in court were on the money. Same as those who were following him, I was outraged at the whole sham trial and were happy when Zimmerman was acquitted.

I haven’t plugged his stuff for way to long so go ahead and start with his book and the progress with the rest of his products. It is the cheapest “insurance” in case of trouble you will ever get.

I should say knickers’ twisting, I guess.

She feels properly disturbed by this. What does it take to be improperly disturbed.

Hat Tip Mad Ogre.