Gun Free Zone

A Florida man caused some worry when he walked into a Port St. Lucie Walmart and asked the clerk about a gun to kill people with.

Phil Attey, an anti-gun activist, admitted to WPTV the remark was in poor taste, but he was trying to make an anti-gun statement because he saw someone who looked like a white nationalist purchase a gun.

It “was for them [Walmart] to wake up and think about their role in the gun violence toxic climate that we have,” he said.

The clerk said Attey asked him, “Can you sell me anything (or a gun) that would kill 200 people?” When the worker replied, “That isn’t funny,” Attey said, “I know,” and asked again if they could sell him anything that would kill 200 people.

Florida man who asked Walmart clerk about a gun to kill people was ‘making political statement’

Goes without saying that his political stance was no what the Walmart people understood and they called police. St Lucie PD took it seriously enough to issue this warning in social media.

I would not mind if the full book is thrown at this idiot, but we know it won’t happen. What we will see is an incremental series of actions oriented to wards violent response by police or civilians. In fact, I believe we should be seeing Gun Control Jihadists who will commit serious act of mass shooting even if he or she dies in it. The fanaticism is such, that I believe we will see people killing and dying trying to make sure their twisted version of peace comes on top.

Liberal Jihadists Demand Action for Gun Sense In America.

Yup, I can see it

There is a new show on Amazon, I am only two episodes into it but I love the premise.  Like it was made for me.

The Boys

Faithful readers of this blog know that I hate the universe of Harry Potter.  The books are well written, and J.K. Rowling is an immersive author, I just hate that universe.

I am also not a fan of virtually all superhero universes.

Both for the same reason.

We all know the old adage “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”   It should go without saying that superpowers would therefore corrupt superly.

In the real world, superhumans would-be bullies and tyrants, using their powers to oppress or steal or do just about whatever they want.

In the Harry Potter universe, magic is essentially a superpower and the existence of the Death Eaters is pretty much just that.  Use magic to oppress the non-magical.  The “good” wizards don’t even care about the non-magical people, they simply want to keep the Death Eaters at bay to avoid the non-magical world from knowing about them.  Both sides in the wizarding world treat non-magical with total disregard, not caring about the enormous amount of collateral damage they cause.

The problem is that these stories are aimed at children, so the authors want you to empathize with the wizards or superheroes.  It’s escapism.

Not in the world of The Boys.

The superheroes of that universe are rapists, sex offenders, addicts, blackmailers, murderers, and every bit as awful as you can imagine someone who is both a super-wealthy A-list celebrity and indestructible could be.

For instance, the one whose power is invisibility is a total peeping tom.

The main character’s girlfriend is killed quite gruesomely when A-Train, their version of the Flash runs into her at top speed.  Then you find out he can’t be prosecuted for her death or even sued because superheroes have qualified immunity.

Even in fiction qualified immunity is total bullshit.

So The Boys are a quasi-vigilante squad that deals with the superheroes when they get too far out of line.

This is fantastic.  Previously, when a character in a superhero movie brings up the issue of those with superpowers being corrupt, they are the bad guy, e.g., the senator from the first X-Man movie.

This is finally a series that addresses how those with superpowers would really behave.  Like assholes.

I’ve said it before.  I believe in gun rights.  I believe in the old saying “God created all men, but Sam Colt made them equal.”

In a world where superheroes exist, I’d be the guy selling Loretnz Force Disruptors.   Because when the guy grabbing your wife in the bar has superhuman strength, you can blow his electrons off.

This is an actual Twitter rant from some angry member of the anti-Trump #Resistance.

It has been unrolled and captured.

All she wants is vengeance.

She has no plan to actually help anybody.

She just wants to figure out every possible way to hurt people on the other side and implement that for no other reason that what motivates her is hating the other side.

If you want to understand how a bunch of people in Hollywood could look at a script about murdering Trump voters for fun and say “yes, we want to finance that and put it in theaters in Red States” this is how.

Their hate is all-consuming.

If you want a reason not to give up your guns, this woman is it.

“As soon as we have the power, we’re going to torture you all and destroy everything that you hold dear” isn’t really a message that inspires me to go along with her side.

I watched the CNN town hall on guns that Chris Cuomo hosted.

It took a long time because I had to keep pausing it to let my blood pressure come down.

This is the opening of that town hall, in which Chris Cuomo attacks the NRA for not wanting to be on CNN a second time.

Here’s the link to more of the intro, he also compares the NRA to “big tobacco”: @ChrisCuomo shames the NRA for not showing up to firearm town hallhttps://t.co/ygxVGYLSsx pic.twitter.com/3erppAUznD

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 8, 2019

All you have to know is that a year-and-a-half ago at the CNN town hall after Parkland, CNN provided total coverage for a sheriff that was found to have been in such derlicition of duty TIWCE, that the governor kicked him out and the state court affirmed his firing.

CNN made him look like a hero.

Chris Cuomo is the most mendacious person on television.

A man killed 4 in a stabbing rampage that lasted hours. He was arrested at a 7-Eleven

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers found his car parked outside a 7-Eleven convenience store and arrested him, authorities said.

In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police said.
The victims killed included two people at the suspect’s apartment complex, a 7-Eleven security guard and one more person at a Subway restaurant.

Dude killed four people, including a security guard, with a knife.

The suspect was armed with “two very large machete-type knives,” Lt. Carl Whitney of the Garden Grove Police Department told CNN, “and he was very brutal when he attacked his victims.”

Sorry, two large “machete-type” knives.

Just after 6 p.m., officers got a robbery siren alarm at an insurance business in Garden Grove. The suspect had stabbed a woman at the business, stolen money and taken off, police said. “This female employee was very brave. This guy was armed with knives — she fought as best as she could,” Whitney said.

Shortly after, police got another call of a man stabbed in the back while pumping gas and his nose nearly slashed off by the same suspect.

It’s a good thing those people were not able to carry guns to defend themselves from a crazy guy with two machetes because that would have led to chaos and the streets running red with blood.

You know, this wouldn’t have happened if California had common sense knife control.  Actually, it sort of does.  But since “machete-type” knives are not “dirks or daggers” they are legal, which sounds like some sort of “yard work implement loophole” that needs to be closed immediately.

This is the United States.  Why does anybody need to be carrying two machetes on them?

UPDATE:

There is video of his arrest.

His “machete-type” knife was a 10 inch Chef’s knife.  Seriously.

I don’t know who decided that “machete-type” knife was the proper description but that is friggin’ ridiculous.

NEW VIDEO: Man Arrested After Stabbing Spree Kills 4 in Orange County @NBCLA

FULL STORY: https://t.co/8wdBogeBKm pic.twitter.com/wwd2Bzg3DF

— Kenny Holmes (@KHOLMESlive) August 8, 2019

Meet Jake that goes under the Twitter handler of @USMCLiberal.

Jake is an expert because he is a Marine (or so he says) so you must believe what he is saying. I screen captured this delightful cascade of BS for your entertainment and I’ll begin fisking at the bottom of the pic:

“AR 15 AK 47’s… are terrible for selfdefense”
Which is why they are not used in any military to safeguard installations, right?

I’ll tell you from the viewpoint of a Marine, with extensive training on these weapons, how they elevate violence, are terrible for selfdefense, and shouldn’t be on our streets.
Thank God we have somebody like you to save us from ourselves! where would we be otherwise!

“If we’re talking about personal security, whether in your home, your store, or out on the street— nothing is more effective than a can of bear spray.”
Oh yeah, Bear Spray is “effective” up to 35 feet and then  you are screwed. Any “yute”  with a rock can pop in the head you easily at twice that distance. Also, a Dollar Store umbrella can stop or deflect Bear Spray. %.56 NATO rounds? Not so much.

The last thing I’d reach for is a long rifle or a handgun. So the idea of “self defense” as a reason to own them is ridiculous.
A question that then begs to be asked: Why does the military issue rifles and handguns to fight wars? I reckon just loading you with Bear Spray and I am sure you could have cleaned Tora Boar all by yourself.

As someone with more weapons training than most Americans, I know how firearms can fail you in a rushed response to a threat.
You were supposed to remove the safety before shooting. That is not a failure of the instrument but the player. Call of Duty is harder than it looks according to my nephews.

And anyone who’s on drugs, who might be immune to bear spray, would also take several shots from a firearm— even if they’re well-placed.
Super Zombies!  Destroy the brain and still they keep coming….wait one second. What do you mean immune to bear spray? You just were selling the effing thing as better than a gun! What the actual fork?

Good luck doing that when that threat is quickly bearing down on you.
I’ll take my chances with a firearm, thank you. At least bullet holes deplete the amount of blood of the attacker… unless you are proposing that with some drugs you don’t need blood. Are we talking Zombies again?

The AR platform is not a defense weapon.
Yet it performs the job ever so well. There are two home invaders  residing in a morgue in Florida because of that “not a defensive weapon”

It is designed for an assault.
“PFC Jake! What the fuck are you doing with an AR15? The Taliban is attacking and they get to use AK47s You are not assaulting, so you get to use bear spray to defend our position!”
Get the point, Jakey?

And handguns also present a number of issues when trying to confront an immediate threat.
We know Jake, that is why we shoot till the threat has stopped and, by the way, also the reason we want out guns with those evil high capacity magazines.

In close proximity, the AR has a number of deficiencies. It’s long, requiring the target to be at a distance.
Wait, are you saying that a 5.56 round is not effective coming out of the muzzle than it is about 100 yards downrange? Were you sleep in rifle class? Or maybe you weren’t at all.

Within the reactionary gap, getting it into your shoulder to take aim is time wasted.
Now I know you read something in the Internet and you think you are an expert. Apparently you don’t suffer from reactionary gap if you are packing bear spray.

And handguns, when fired in a panic, are notoriously inaccurate.
The gun is not affected by panic or hunger or the need to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie. A handgun is an object and it is the shooter who is inaccurate. You sounds like guy at the range who blames bad sights for shooting all over the target and not the bulls’ eye.

But the cone on a can of bear spray is wide, and ensures that you’ll hit your target, without fumbling with the safety or the slide.
No, it is not wide. And have you ever seen a can of bear spray up close or just in YouTube videos? They have safeties you uneducated poser! Some even have pull pins like grenades! And as a Marine, you know what a grenade is, right?

If you want safe and effective self defense, a can of bear spray is, by far, your best option.
Our best option for self defense is ignore all the dangerous crap you have been spouting and go with the proven solutions.

Speaking on the mentality of the AR/AK platforms. There is an immediate desire to “destroy” when you put them in your hands.
Huh? I am not in favor of Red Flag orders, but you buddy are a walking-talking example of a straight Baker Act. Unless he happened to grab one of the Hatian Assault Weapons imbued with Voodoo and stuff that make you straight cold killers. I think I have seen a movie like that once There was a Cuban Santeria AK47, but it only made you want to drink very strong coffee and talk loud.

Only when my training objectives were to put rounds in a specific target on a range, did I focus on my breathing and trigger control.
Good to know the USMC has the proper training to counter Voodoo. I guess they picked it up when they visited the country back in 1915 and then again in 1995.

Every other time I’ve had an AR or AK in my hands, and was getting ready to shoot in an unsupervised setting, I’ve wanted to lay waste to everything on the range.
Baker Act, on Aisle 4! Stat!

And I’m not a violent person.
We are seriously wondering about that. Sane people don’t touch objects and suddenly develop a desire to “lay waste to everything.”

There’s a feeling of power that accompanies firearm of an “assault” nature.
I agree. It means you are not the weak subject of somebody who wants to impose violence upon you and that you are capable to return the favor in spades.

They’re designed for dominance, not defense.
The way you say dominance sounds like it is a dirty word. And if I got a bunch of idiots breaking into my home, I sure want to defend myself by “dominancing” the living daylights out of them with whatever weapon I chose to do so.

And when you combine that with the hatred and sense of bigoted superiority that #WhiteSupremacists have, you have all the elements for another #MassShooting.
And finally the real message: You are a Nazi  (because I say so) and you do not get to defend yourself with the right tools. #EveryoneIDon’tLikeIsHitler

Get lost Jake. If you are not Stolen Valor, you are an embarrassment to the Corps for being so stupid you probably would not qualify for the Mali UN Peacekeeping Force.

Hat tip to Mal Roadkill @MalRoadkill for directing me to this …individual even before I had my first coffee… hatechu with love. 🙂

People are protesting in Hong Kong, and the Chinese government replied with a propaganda video reminding the protesters that the Chinese military could come in and kill them all.

London had had to put up signs telling people what to do in case of an acid attack and not to shit on the streets.

Sweden is having a problem with migrants feuding with hand grenades.

Women in Venezuela are being targeted for human trafficking because of the economic collapse in that country.

Christians are being persecuted at genocidal levels in Muslim countries around the world.

But Amnesty International wants to remind the world that it is the United States that is a piece of shit.

The travel advisory addressed growing gun violence, mostly hate crimes, including racism and discrimination, highlighting that the traveler’s race, country of origin, ethnic background, sexual orientation or gender identity may place them at higher risk after recent attacks linked to white supremacist ideology.

The action called attention to the extent to which all aspects of life in the United States have been compromised in some way by unfettered access to guns, without comprehensive and uniform regulation of their acquisition and use. By prioritizing gun ownership over basic human rights, the U.S. government is willfully and systematically failing on multiple levels and ignoring its international obligations to protect people’s rights and safety.

I wonder how Boer farmers in South Africa or Christians in Nigeria would feel about having gun rights?

I wonder how Germans who just watched a Syrian refugee hack a man to death in the street with a sword would feel about gun rights?

I wonder how the Venezuelan people felt about gun rights when they were being run over by government forces in armored cars for protesting?

None of these countries have guaranteed the protection of their citizens from rape, murder, and sexual slavery.

See, it’s not really about human rights and it’s not really about the level of violence people might actually be exposed to.  It is about pushing a narrative and that narrative is that the United States is a uniquely bad and awful place because our citizens have gun rights instead of being subjects to tyrannical governments.