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According to the Democrats, every shooting is always the fault of the people who didn’t pull the trigger.

Over the weekend there was a shooting at a bar in Kansas City, and Kamala Harris rushed to Twitter to blame Mitch McConnell for it.

Americans continue to be shot and killed, while Mitch McConnell refuses to bring a gun safety vote to the floor.https://t.co/T0ualIYcvZ

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 6, 2019

As a result of this, #MassacreMitch was trending on Twitter, because had Mitch McConnell capitulated and brought the House’s gun control bill to a vote, this shooting would not have happened… or something like that.

This is the same mentality that makes these people believe that if only we had not dropped out of the Paris Accords, Hurricane wound not have happened.  There are people who fervently believe this, as scientifically unsound as that assertion may be.

What does Kansas City local news have to say about this (because the national news sucks)?

Tequila KC shooting suspects identified: 1 in custody, 1 still at large

Kansas City, Kansas, police early Monday morning identified two suspects in a shooting at a KCK bar in which four people died and five others were injured.

KCKPD said Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, and Javier Alatorre, 23, have each been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

According to records from the Kansas Department of Corrections, Villanueva-Morales was released from prison in March 2019. He was incarcerated for several years after three robbery convictions.

Villanueva-Morales and Alatorre are accused in the mass shooting at Tequila KC, which police said may have been motivated by an earlier dispute at the bar.

The news reported that there were previous violent altercations at the bar earlier in the night, however, at the time of that reporting it was unknown if those incidents had anything to do with the shooting.

KCK Shooting: What we know about Tequila KC

Kansas City, Kansas, police records showed at least two incidents of violence near the bar in 2019. Around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 2, 2019, officers responded near the bar on an aggravated assault – use of a deadly weapon call. Then, around 2 a.m. on April 5, 2019, officers responded on an aggravated battery – intentional great bodily harm or disfigurement call.

It was not known if any charges were filed in connection with the two previous incidents.

It appears that after the arrest of the first suspect, that yes, the shooting was in connection with the earlier assaults at the bar.

So I would like to know, exactly what gun laws allowed a man who was released from prison a few months ago after several felony convictions to buy between 8:30 PM and 1:30 AM and would the latest House gun bill eliminated those loopholes?

I can’t speak for all gun owners, but I don’t need a UBC to tell me not to sell a gun I have listed on Armslist at 10:00 at night to a guy with a prison tattoo on his face.

These facts don’t matter though, because the point isn’t to reduce gun crime, it’s to disarm and thereby punish gun owners who the Democrats assume is Trump’s base.

This week is the last week of Hispanic Heritage Month.

My former Congresswoman, and the mother of one of my highschool classmates, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen went to a Books and Books in Miami and saw a display for books of Hispanic Heritage.

The original tweet has since been deleted, but because of the magic of the internet, I can still give you the text.

Mañana, I’m honored to read a book for #HispanicHeritageMonth to my 3 year old grandson’s class but this is the selection of outstanding Hispanics at my local ⁦@BooksandBooks⁩:

Che Guevara
Frida
Cesar Chavez
Sonia Sotomayor

Apparently, there are no conservative Hispanics pic.twitter.com/7WBcvzMhcq

— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) October 6, 2019

I have a feeling that she took that Tweet down, because based upon the Tweets that are still up, some old Cubans might try and burn Books and Books to the ground.

https://twitter.com/RosLehtinen/status/1180923430453104642

Yes, you read that correctly.

A bookstore in Miami is featuring a hagiography of a racist, Communist, mass murderer.

I guarantee this book ignored that Che ran the infamous La Cabaña Fortress prison, where tens of thousands of Cubans were executed by firing squad.

Che was a murderer and a madman.  He, along with Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe, was on the JV squad of murderous despots to the Varsity Squad of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.  The only difference between them was body count.  Cuba just didn’t have the population to support the murder of millions.

I don’t know if there will be a backlash against this, but there should be.

Featuring a book about Che that is even vaguely positive for Hispanic Heritage Month is like featuring a white supremacists biography of Hitler for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I grew up in Miami in the 80’s and 90’s, so I was taught about the Cuban Revolution from the grandparent of my friends who witnessed it first hand.

It is because of this, even though I have no Cuban heritage, that I feel so strongly about this topic.  Witnessing the grandfather of someone you are close to break down and cry, telling the story of family members who were executed by Che’s goons, it makes it real in a way that history books never capture.

One of the great travesties of history is that while most people know of the Holocaust, very few know what really happened in Cuba.  Che’s face is seen on the shirts of young, hip Leftists.  Fidel Castro was mourned by world leaders when he died.

There is a part of me that is occasionally tempted to take a sabbatical from engineering and do something different.  One of those things is to try and make a movie.  Since Hollywood has never, and probably will never do it, I would love to make what amounts to the Schindler’s List of the Cuban Revolution about the La Cabaña Fortress.  To bring into the pop culture an understanding of exactly what was done to the Cuban people.

Maybe this is a project worth Kickstartering.

J. Kb. covered the NYC Homeless Killer from one valid point of view. I am going to approach it from another.

After smashing the pair in the heads with the 15-pound, 3-foot-long piece of metal, Santos left the two men for dead and stalked for more victims, police said.

Maniac that bludgeoned sleeping Chinatown vagrants has history of violence

You have seen my posts’ series titled Old News. They come about from a research I am doing for somebody writing a book (which is gonna be really damned good) and one of the things I am researching is murders. One of the things I have found out perusing tens of thousands of digitized newsprint is the most efficient way to kill silently, specially while the victim or victims are asleep, was a metal bar or the blunt side of a hatchet, hell, even an axe.  Crushing a skull makes almost no noise compared to a silenced firearm and it is faster than stabbing/slashing somebody, specially if you are not good with a knife. If you think about it, a blunt weapon is  simple to use: a hard blows to the head, crush the skull and the victims don’t even have time wake up before they are dead. And even if you don’t kill them all the first time around, the victims are most than likely unable to produce a defense due to the brain damage,  and can be finished at leisure.

Basically a cheap piece of steel bought at any Big Box Hardware store will be a more efficient killer than your four figure choice of pistol and silencer.

PS: The other thing I have discovered doing this research is that truly Evil deeds and assholes are a constant through the centuries.

From the New York Post:

4 homeless men found murdered in Chinatown, suspect in custody

Four homeless men were found beaten to death in Chinatown early Saturday and a fifth was critically injured in a terrifying Lower Manhattan rampage, police said.

Sources identified the alleged killer to The Post as Rodriguez “Randy” Santos, who has 14 past arrests — including an assault charge from May.

The homicidal spree came to light as cops responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress on Bowery Street near Doyers Street in Chinatown at about 1:50 a.m. and found two homeless men with head trauma, cops said.

This is a serial killing.

Maniac that bludgeoned sleeping Chinatown vagrants has history of violence

A homeless maniac bludgeoned four other vagrants to death as they slept on the sidewalks of Chinatown early Saturday — bashing in their skulls one by one with a scavenged metal bar during a senseless predawn murder spree.

Rodriguez “Randy” Santos is just 24, but already had what cops call a history of violent, random attacks when he allegedly approached his first victims, two men sprawled asleep side by side on cardboard bedding at Bowery and Doyers Street just before 2 a.m.
“They were sleeping. They never saw it coming,” one shocked police source told The Post.

After smashing the pair in the heads with the 15-pound, 3-foot-long piece of metal, Santos left the two men for dead and stalked for more victims, police said.

Santos was being held Saturday night in the Fifth Precinct pending his arraignment; he faces multiple murder and assault charges.

He had been acting “not 100% there” in his holding cell, a source said — including exposing himself.

“He’s doing things that would get him arrested if he was doing them in the subway,” the source noted.

So we have a deranged vagrant going on a murder spree.  It seems that he targeted homeless men because they were sleeping in public.

Given the list of other crimes he has committed (listed in the article), he has been a threat to the public for a long time.

It was simply ease and opportunity that caused him to attack other homeless this time, it could have been anyone that presented an easy target, homeless or not.

Do not make yourself an easy target.

So J. Kb. “had a feeling” about talking about the benefits of security cameras which roughly translated means: “Yo! Your turn to add something to the conversation.”

I was told a story when I was a kid about the Great wall of China. Supposedly it was indeed impregnable and many lives of enemies were lost trying to defeat it.  Its effectiveness eventually collapsed when the enemy prodded and found the common failure of all security systems: The human factor. Guards at one of the gates were bribed and the wall was breached.

We are animals with deeply ingrained curiosity and the need to find answers. While most animals run away at some sudden noise, we concentrate our attention to what caused it and seek to find out an answer.  I am not saying it is a dangerous thing to do, but we have other ways to achieve the same results in a safer manner: surveillance cameras. I have spoken about that at a length, so I am not going to repeat it.

The question now is: If you have gone and installed security cameras and even a doorbell camera, why do you need to breach you own perimeter if something looks/sounds fishy? Use the tools you spent and make sure there is nothing outside your perimeter that can kill you.

This is my Mail Lady. She has been in our area for decades and she is as sweet as she can be. She came to deliver a registered letter but even though I knew her, I did not open my door till I made sure it was her and only her.  My perimeter was opened because there was no detected or presumed danger.

If somebody I don’t know knocks my door  or I have people making  racket outside at night, I no longer need to try to gather info via the peephole  or crack open the door to gather info: The camera does it for me and either gives me peace of mind or the chance to elevate the DEFCON and prepare accordingly.

So yes, get at least a doorbell camera and keep your perimeter security intact

Usually when we say “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” we are sarcastically referring to a criminal or person engaged in malicious activity getting their comeuppance somewhat instantly.

Sometimes, however, good people play stupid games as well and they prizes they win are tragic.

Florida man fatally shoots son-in-law who was trying to surprise him for his birthday
The incident was “a horrible accident that should have never happened,” the Santa Rosa County sheriff said.

A Florida man who shot and killed his son-in-law who jumped out of a bush to surprise him for his birthday will not face criminal charges, authorities said.

Christopher Bergan, 37, had arrived in Florida from Norway on Tuesday night to surprise his wife’s father, Richard Dennis, 61, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said at a news conference Thursday.

The sheriff called the shooting “totally accidental,” saying it was preceded by an unrelated incident at about 9:30 p.m. that night when a relative banged on Dennis’ front door. The banging startled Dennis, who went outside and ran the person off, the sheriff said.

About two hours later, Bergan arrived at the home in Gulf Breeze outside of Pensacola to surprise his father-in-law, according to the sheriff.

“At 11:30, Mr. Dennis hears the same type of banging on the back door that he heard on the front door earlier,” the sheriff said. “So he turns on the back porch light, he steps out and Mr. Bergan jumps out of the shadows, scaring Mr. Dennis.”

Bergan made a growling sound when he jumped out of the bushes, the sheriff said, citing a police report.

Dennis fired one round and struck Bergan, killing him instantly, according to the sheriff.

“Our investigation has revealed that this was totally accidental, it was a really sad occurrence, and that no charges are warranted in this case,” Sheriff Johnson said.

After the shots were fired, Dennis immediately called 911 and started first aid, the sheriff said, adding that when deputies arrived to the scene, there were towels on Bergan and attempts had been made to stop the bleeding.

The incident was “a horrible accident that should have never happened,” Johnson said. “I can’t imagine what they’re going through,” he said of the family.

This is just horrible.

The son-in-law clearly thought that he was playing a joke on his father-in-law, but in the United States, especially a state like Florida (because of the number of gun owners) banging on the back door and then jumping out of the bushes is just stupid.

Maybe, the son-in-law being from Norway didn’t think that the homeowner would check out what goes bump in the night at 11:30 PM armed with a pistol, but in the US, that is common.

Yes, I am aware of the 4th rule of gun safety “Be certain of your target, your line of fire, and what lies beyond your target.”  But this situation, had it been a home invader, not the son-in-law would have been a textbook quick reaction self-defense shoot.

It’s especially sad that the father-in-law did try to save his son-in-law’s life with first aid and failed.

The only slightly silver lining to this is that the police are not charging the father-in-law because everything pointed to it being an otherwise “good” (lawful) shoot.

I like pranks as much as the next person, but this kind of prank is stupid.

I have a feeling Miguel might want to follow this post up with something about the benefits of security cameras and checking on who is banning on your door close to midnight from safety over the WiFi.