Gun Free Zone

The Florida Senate is scheduled for today at 2 pm to discuss and vote the removal or reinstating Scott Israel as Sheriff of Broward County.  I think it will be important because the during the Rules Committee hearing, one republican left the reservation, in fact he flounced.

How the vote goes today might be a forecast of what we can expect for approval or dismissal of Gun Bills (Good and bad) in the new legislative season. I have not pointed out two things: Next year, a lot of legislators term out, so they are not influenced by the threats of not being reelected. Second, we lost Greg Steube when he got elected for the US Congress and he was a relentless fighter for Gun Rights in Florida. I do not know if we have somebody who will fill his shoes.

It’s long been the practice among security-conscious firearms owners to obscure the serial numbers in any photographs of firearms they put up on the Internet.  This is because unscrupulous characters have been known to note the serial numbers, report “their” firearm stolen (with that same serial number), and claim the loss against their own insurance policies.  The insurance companies then keep the firearm on the stolen property lists, and if there’s ever an inspection (for example, you’re stopped while driving, and the policeman checks your firearm serial number against his database), you may find yourself in trouble.  It’s happened to two people I know.

Now it emerges that Google and Facebook (and possibly others) are using optical character recognition to index the serial numbers of firearms in photographs posted or stored on their services.

A serious warning about firearms security

I am one of those who will blackout the serial number of a gun when I post it (and posting pics of my guns  is something I pretty much stopped doing). I always thought serial numbers were something nobody but me needed to know about and only if they were stolen, I would share it with authorities and the insurance company. Peter mentions an insurance scam that I was ot aware it existed and which it should make anybody’s butt clench. If we are being SWATted by jackasses, I would not put it past them to file a false police report stating that one of your fully internet-identified guns belonged to them and was stolen, then a month later another asshole drop a fake dime on you and you are arrested for possession of a stolen firearm.

And from the comments I caught, the Kiwis are not happy about Americans meddling in their internal affairs. That is more than understandable because we told Aussie Rebecca  Peters more than once to go eff herself when she was at the UN pushing for the US to do the Gun Ban thing. Also, crapping on their Prime Minister may not have been the smartest thing. Not everybody in the world has a seething hate for their elected leader like US Liberals do.

I wonder who invited them or if they invited themselves.

I need aspirin.

The Democrats are right: Impeachment is not Lynching. And they should know as they executed the practice of lynching very well for over a century. If anybody is an expert on what a  lynchings is and how is done, it is Democrats.

I could not going to let that low hanging fruit remain untouched.

Rachel McKinnon is a Canadian professor of philosophy and competitive cyclists.

McKinnon just defended her master’s title by setting a new world record qualifying time.

What makes this so controversial is that McKinnon was born a male, is a trans woman, and is one built dude.

This is from her Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1167114459023904774

This is the picture of her victory from Cycling Weekly.

Look at the size her McKinnon’s thighs compared to those of the second and third place winners.  Her thighs are beefier than mine and I’m doing reps at 850 lbs on the sled press.

McKinnon took to Twitter with a thread on her victory (unrolled):

Many people claim to support trans women

But often they only support us until our lives impact them in any meaningful way

In my case, people literally say they support trans women…but not in sport

There can be no ‘but’

We are either full and equal women, or not

We are.
And babes, facts don’t care about your feelings: medical professionals (WHO, AMA), mental health practitioners (both APA’s), and sport (IOC) all say that trans women are *real* women, are really female.

Cry about it all you want. Your feelings won’t change the facts that we are.
There’s no need for me to change *your* misguided opinion on the matter. You *don’t* matter.

Sorry. You don’t.

Everyone who *does* matter already says we’re real women, really female.

My birth certificate, passport, US green card, etc etc all say I’m really female.
This is why I refuse to debate, live or otherwise, whether trans women are *really* women.

That debate is over.

You lost. Your feelings don’t trump our rights and basic human dignity.

Get a better hobby. Obsessing and harassing trans women is not a good hobby.
The thing is, the people who oppose trans women’s full and equal rights think that the ‘facts’ are on their side.

This is why they always come back to “common sense.”

That’s not an argument, loves. It’s the last refuge of the ignorant. It means you’ve already lost, bad.

McKinnon is an adult, she has every right to dress and look the way she wants.  It is out of courtesy that I am referring to her as “she.”

However, as someone who has spent his entire adult life as a weight lifter, I can tell you, it takes balls to build muscle like that.  Or, injections of horse testosterone.

That fact that McKinnon’s defense is that the WHO, AMA, and APA all agree she is “really female” and that your opinion does not matter is the point of this post.

First, that some board of doctors came to a conclusion that seems to fly in the faces of reality and that negates your opinion is the worst and most totalitarian form of the “appeal to authority” logical fallacy.

Second, that some board of doctors came to a conclusion that seems to fly in the faces of reality shows how groups of professionals can be just as able to be corrupted by ideology as anybody else.  Perhaps more so.

Her argument amounts to “Trans-activists managed to convince a bunch of virtue signaling doctors that 2+2=5 and you must submit to that because they said so.”

Her last Tweet  is literally Orwellian: “This is why they always come back to ‘common sense.’ That’s not an argument, loves. It’s the last refuge of the ignorant. It means you’ve already lost, bad.”

From 1984 (which every day seems more like reality):

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

Activists have convinced governments to destroy common sense and those of us who employ such sense become “haters,” our opinions are discarded as irrelevant, and we will be punished accordingly.

I am generally a libertarian guy.  I’m mostly fine with letting grown individuals live the life that they want.  What I will not accept is being told that I have to say there are five lights because some bureaucrats say so.