Gun Free Zone

So the Democrats have been talking about the need for more background checks when it comes to buying guns.  They want to make it harder for bad people to get them… supposedly.

So it shocked me to read this headline:

San Francisco board rebrands ‘convicted felon’ as ‘justice-involved person,’ sanitizes other lingo

San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.”

The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country and staggering inequality exemplified by pervasive homelessness alongside Silicon Valley wealth.

The local officials say the new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, from now on a convicted felon or an offender released from custody will be known as a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or just a “returning resident.”

Having solved all of the other problems plaguing (literally, there is bubonic plague on the streets to San Francisco) San Francisco has decided to stop offended criminals.

My question is, how will this jive with background checks?

“Are you a convicted felon?”

“No, I am a returning resident who was recently justice-involved.”

“Oh, that’s fine then.”

There are lots of times that it’s good to know what someone has done.

How about sex offenders?  Do they get their crimes sanitized too?  What about child molesters?  How will San Francisco cover for them?

The Democrats want to make it harder for you to buy a gun, but San Francisco Democrats want to make it easier to hide your criminal record.

As we all know, what starts in San Francisco rapidly spreads to the rest of California and then onto the rest of the Democrat Party.

Just give it a few more years and you are going to get red-flagged for liking a gun blog on Facebook and thrown in jail for driving a V-8, while some drug dealing rapist gets to walk around calling himself “unlicensed supplier of pharmacology with a unilateral consent sexual orientation.”

Hasan Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur.

Uygar is the host of The Young Turks, a hyper-Progressive news opinion group named after the Turkish political party that committed the first Genocide of the 20th century.  In true form to his media company’s namesake, he’s an Armenian Genocide denier.  He’s also a vicious antisemite and general piece of shit.

Piker decided to voice his opinion about Dan Crenshaw and America.  Including that the insurgent who cost Crenshaw his eye was “a brave soldier” and that the USA deserved 9/11.

Twitch Streamer who’s (Far Left) says “America deserved 911” ⁦@Twitch⁩ has NOT banned him #DramaAlert pic.twitter.com/N0ZpcJ90Ia

— KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) August 21, 2019

Cenk's Nephew called the man who took @DanCrenshawTX's eye a "brave fucking soldier" This is what happens when you're gifted a job by your Uncle you know you didn't earn & it eats away at your mental state. pic.twitter.com/BohESrbvJ6

— Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) August 21, 2019

Of course, this human turd has the constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech.

All I’m saying is that I know a lot of people who are sort of hoping for CW2.0 because they have a list of names of turds that need flushing if shit ever gets kicked off.

From the Twitter feed of Bernie Sanders:

Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused. #GreenNewDeal

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 22, 2019

There is no problem those Socialist bastards cannot solve that doesn’t involve throwing people in prison.

Bernie wants to throw the management of oil and gas companies – you know, the fuel that powers our economy – in prison for the destruction that they will attempt to qualify with dubious science.

What law have any of these execs broken now that is a prosecutable offense?

What will the charges be?

Can they prove that one weather-related death, one bit of weather-related damage, one grain of sand washed off a beach was the result of a direct action of one of these people?

No.  It is 100% fallacious to say “this storm was more destructive than it should have been because of global warming and that is why damages were $10 million instead of $1 million.”

What Bernie really wants to do is have a Soviet-style show trial where these people are dragged into a court to be convicted on purely political grounds.

The thing is, if he can do this to them, he can do this to anybody.

Bernie wants to end the use of fossil fuels, most likely with a ban.

I bought a brand new 2018 Dodge Ram Power Wagon 18 months ago.  I have barely 9,000 miles on it.  I’ve added some accessories (rumbly exhaust, light bar, etc.) because she is my baby.  I’m a truck guy to the core.

My Wagon has a 6.4L Hemi big block, I get about 12 MPG.  That doesn’t bother me because I don’t drive far (hence the 9,000 miles in 18 months).

I am persnickety about preventative maintenance.  My last truck was a 2003 Silverado 1500.  I still have it and only 109,000 miles.  I got 15 years out of that as a daily driver and it still runs strong.

My plan was to give the Wagon to my son in 11 years when he turns 16, at which point, it should have about 70,000 miles on it, which is practically brand new for a 2500 truck.

So will Bernie institute a mandatory buyback for both of my pickups?  Or will I have to buy a new electric vehicle while paying off the loan on my Wagon which I can’t get rid of because banned gas burners have no resale value?

What if I refuse to comply.  Do I get to go to prison too for wanting to keep my beloved trucks?

The same guy who wants me to give of my AR-15 is going to come for my truck too.  I don’t think so.  I’m not going to give anything up to those bureaucrats.

You can have my pickups when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

David Hogg demonstrated the mental acumen that makes him a Harvard man.

It shouldn’t be easier to get a gun than an affordable therapist.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) August 21, 2019

It should, should it?

Pray tell how do you do that?

First of all, what background checks are necessary to see a therapist?  Are felons prohibited from getting therapy?  Can you not see a therapist across state lines?

Maybe I’m focusing on the wrong part that sentence.  Maybe I should focus more on the “affordable” part.  Maybe his issue is that therapy can be expensive for those without insurance or those with limited coverage, while you can buy an AR-15 for less than $400.

A few days ago I broke down the price-fixing fantasies of Beto O’Rourke on guns and insulin.

At least the insulin and guns comparison were both mass-manufactured consumer goods.

A therapist is an educated and licensed professional.  The affordability of therapists is driven by supply and demand.  There may be a great demand, but the supply of people with the intellect, drive, personality, and resources to go to college then grad school for 10 years or more for a Ph.D. or Psy.D. is limited.  Even earning a masters to become a licensed therapist is more intensive than most people are able to do, considering that across the board only 13% of the population has more than a college education.  That doesn’t include passing the board certification exams.

That restriction means that unlike guns or even insulin, you can’t just scale up equipment to make more.

You could reduce some of the barriers to entry, but lowering standards just means that the “affordable therapists” are also not good at their jobs.

So while this sounds like a nice platitude, it’s economically ridiculous.  The things he likes should be cheap and the things he doesn’t like should be expensive because of feelings.

I’d like to know what else he’s like to price-fix to make him happy.

Not just will David Hogg destroy gun rights, he’ll destroy the economy too.  Then again, that usually goes hand in hand.

Effing Borepatch owes me a new keyboard.  😀

Damn you all with a smile and heartfelt cheer to all of you who sent me the link. I was trying by bets not to write about it because it is getting hard not asking for an oil-soaked 2×4 perm to the head some people for sheer stupidity.

The recent trip to Venezuela by a group calling itself a Chicago Teachers Union delegation has upset some union members and expats who question the point of the tour and take issue with the group’s praise of the country’s disputed government.
The four travelers, who crowdfunded the July trip under the banner of the CTU, met with Venezuelan government officials and educators, visited a commune and were featured in local media.
They wrote online about wanting to connect with Venezuelan teachers, students and unionists, criticized U.S. economic sanctions against the South American nation and wrote admiringly of its socialism, its communes and high literacy rates.

CTU also retweeted another post by teacher Sarah Chambers, one of the travelers and a member of the CTU executive board, which read: “While staying in #Venezuela, we didn’t see a single homeless person. USA is the richest country in the world; yet, there are homeless people everywhere. Over 17k CPS students are homeless… This is why @CTULocal1 is fighting for fair housing #CTUAgainstVezIntervention.”

Chicago Teachers Union group’s trip to Venezuela, praise of socialist leader slammed as ‘propaganda tour’

If you go to Venezuela, indeed you will find locales that look like a travel agency brochure and stores plentiful of delicacies for the most distinguished palates and all very plentiful. And I bet they were even take to a school that would shame most schools around the world for its cleanliness and modern teaching implements.  And I know that is what te good Socialists Teachers of Chicago saw. But they also chose to ride the Dog and Pony show and not step away from their minders to see how the rest of the country lives. ,

In the latest post, one member of the group wrote that she’d wanted to observe a method for teaching reading that combines numeracy and literacy skills. She was also curious about if and how educators incorporated the country’s social movements into their curriculum, she wrote.
They visited a commune and talked to educators involved with Misión Robinson, a social welfare program to improve literacy started under former President Hugo Chavez.

Here is the thing: Plan Robinson claimed that something 98.9% of Venezuelans were able to read and write thanks to the program. Unfortunately for them, Plan Robinson did not do squat since literacy levels in Venezuela were already running that high prior to Chavez taking over and thanks to several programs that had close to 30 years running already.

What has been the impact of Socialism in education? Here is a short answer:

(Original in Spanish)
‎School dropout rate rebounds in 2018 to 60%. More than half of students are dropping out at all levels. But in the teachers guild the matter is worse, about 70% of the teachers of the universities are resigning to emigrate.‎

‎In Venezuela students defect, the priority is to eat‎

Meals are not provided to school kids in Venezuela unless they are in a very special Dog and Pony Show school. Parents choose to keep the kids at home where they burn less calories, rather that have them trek to the local house of learning and hope they have a teacher that day.  Because at the end of the day, who gives a shit who liberated the Gran Colombia if you cannot pay attention due to hunger pains.

Long live the glorious revolution!