Gun Free Zone

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Ads Pulled for Gory Universal Thriller ‘The Hunt’ in Wake of Mass Shootings (Exclusive)

This isn’t the first time a movie has had the trailers pulled because of some high profile crime. Years ago the suspense thriller Phone Booth was delayed because of the DC Snipers.

The problem is the headline of this article does not reflect the enormity of the contents of the article.

In the wake of a trio of deadly massacres, the studio is evaluating its strategy for the R-rated Blumhouse satire in which elites stalk “deplorables.”

Ummm… what?

“Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?” one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: “At least The Hunt’s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”

This is a major motion picture that Hollywood sunk money into and expects us in Middle America to pay money to watch.

In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.

It took a mass shooting to for some in Hollywood to reevaluate the idea of a murder porn in which they take pleasure in killing working class, Middle American, Republicans.

The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it’s his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. “War is war,” says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.

So the ultimate Hollywood Progressive fantasy is to murder Leftist caricatures of gun-owning Conservatives.

“Employees in different departments were questioning the wisdom of making such a movie in these times,” says one filmmaker with ties to Universal. “In light of the horrific [recent shootings], is this not the most craven, irresponsible, dangerous exploitation?”

Maybe confirming to Middle America just how much the Progressive elite look down on us was a bad idea to begin with.

That point is countered by a Universal executive, who says the movie “is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in,” adding, “It might even be more powerful now.”

So he wants to air his Republican murder porn.

Keep in mind that these are the same people who want to ban you from owning guns.  Who say that your gun ownership is racist and terrible and irresponsible.

Knowing just how much they hate us really fills you with the warm and fuzzies, doesn’t it?

Next time some Hollywood starlet says that we need to give up our guns, remember that is only because they know in their minds that it will make it easier for them to kill us.

This is by car “gun safe.” We know it is barely a strong box, but it does the job we want it to do which is to withstand a basic snatch attack of our gun. When this vehicle finally goes to Junkhalla, the next one will have a stronger and will also be bigger as to accommodate long guns.

So what was the stupid? Today I had to go to a Gun Free Zone (as defined in the law) and obviously I had also to disarm. I was in a bot of a hurry, target locked on a parking spot near the entrance, parked, got the box from under the seat and proceeded to secure the gun. When I was about to slide it under the seat, I look out of the passenger window and saw that the truck next to me not only was occupied but by the body language, the people inside had watched what I did.

I drove away. No screeching of tires or nothing, just smooth behavior out of the parking lot and onto the street. I drove around for a while making sure I was not being followed. Then I went ahead, took care of other stuff and returned about 40 minutes later. The truck was gone and I did not see anybody paying undue attention to me or my vehicle.

100% my fault. I got lazy, forgot to look around prior to park and then parking, making sure nobody was watching. Never forget that unless proven otherwise, failures of safety bounce back directly to something you knew you should have done.

Lesson re-learned.

I am currently creating an encyclopedia of mass murder in America and have catalogued 504 incidents so far. Common methods used throughout our history include axes, hatchets, blunt objects, knives, hanging, drowning, poison gas, poison, fire, and aircraft (and not just on 9/11). Some of the rarer weapons demonstrate that where there is an evil will, there is a way. Scythes. Blowtorches.
Of course, the axes and hatchets were around because they were needed in an age when people cooked over wood stoves. I can imagine axe-control fanatics in 1890 arguing that “an axe in your home is more likely to be used against you than against an intruder.” And perhaps it would have been true: The “Church of the Sacrifice” slaughtered dozens of families with their own axes in the early 20th century.
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There’s the 1973 mass murder at a gay bar in New Orleans that killed 32: An ejected customer went down the street and bought a can of cigarette-lighter fluid. And the 87 murdered in New York City in 1990: A guy upset with his ex-girlfriend bought $1 worth of gasoline. In 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, union officers put pressure on an employer by using camp-stove gas to murder 97. On July 5 of this year, a guy in Port Angeles, Wash., burned his trailer, killing his wife and three children. Did you see that on CNN?

Clayton Cramer – Mass Murder without Guns

Old time readers know I have covered murderous arson before. Even with 9/11 and the Oklahoma City Bombing in the countdown, murder by fire easily have the biggest body count, far exceeding what is trumpeted in the press with “modern” firearms. There were other means to achieve the body count without an AR 15 and I hope to God killers do not find out from history.

Madness and evil are the only constants and common denominators through years past and present.

Remember everything I have been saying for the last 48 hours about the people of influence not giving a single solitary shit about actually trying to prevent the next mass shooter, only focusing on driving the partisan outrage that gets them clicks, contributions, and ad revenue?

Well, it’s like they just can’t help but prove me right.

There is a lot to be concerned about when it comes to the Constitutionality of Red Flag laws.  I am an ardent defender of the right to keep and bear arms, I think my history with this blog shows that.

At the same time, after Parkland, El Paso, and Daytona, it might be a good idea to have some sort of program in place where a person can call up and tell the police “hey, this guy I know has a list of all the women he wants to rape and guys he wants to kill, can you come and make sure he’s not going to go psycho and shoot up a movie theater or something?”

Whatever protections are put in place to make sure that peoples’ due process rights are not violated is a subject of much debate.

But I supremely believe that most people want to keep guns out of the hands of people like Nikolas Cruz before they go on their massacre.

Then I see some bullshit like the stuff David Frum put on Twitter and I realize that the idea of any sort of mass shooting prevention is dead in the water.

Really?

Yeah, really.

I get that sort of open carry is jackass behavior.  It’s legal in a lot of places, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to do it.  And this comes from someone who lives in an open carry state and occasionally open carries himself.

But… are these red flag worthy?  No, no they are not.

If you think these were the worst examples, no, Frum gets even dumber.

This is what was quoted:

That doesn’t seem like woman-hatred to me at all.  It’s a fairly reasonable argument.  But Frum doesn’t like being argued against, so it’s easier to claim that this guy is a dangerous woman-hater and red flag him.

If you go into the comments on any one of these Tweets, you’ll see quite a number of people also stating that if they see anybody with a gun (open or concealed) they will red flag that person.

These people don’t want red flag laws to prevent mass shooters.  They just want to abuse them to harass law-abiding gun owners with the weight of the law.

Not just does this put people’s rights at risk, it also puts the lives of gun owners and law enforcement at risk.

I want to support some sort of mass shooter prevention law, but I’m not going to back anything that anti-gunners are gleeful to abuse to get me arrested and stripped of my rights because of my CCW pistol.

When you are more excited about how to use a law to intimidate law-abiding gun owners than you are about a law being able to stop an actual threat, you are part of the problem.

Their open desire to abuse this law for partisan gain instead of saving lives is why we can’t even begin to discuss doing something helpful.

Listen guys. I understand that the cool kids’ latest Tide Pod Ingestion is to post “Fuck the NRA” at least 12 times a day in different social media. But please, be careful what you are targeting or you are being as irrational as the Other Side.

The latest red laser dot that has some gun owners jumping all over the furniture is anything that has to do with Red Flag laws. And yes, Red Flag laws suck and must be stopped, but that is not what the NRA-ILA post was about! The ILA is simply stating the truth: That we support keeping the guns away from the people who have been adjudicated mentally incompetent. That means people are restricted only after doctors have seen them and diagnosed a mental problem, the case was taken to a judge and under oath, a case was presented with enough convincing evidence that the person in question needed to be in treatment because he or she are a danger to themselves or to the community.  This is the same position we all had for decades now and it makes sense.

But you come along just to prove you are a part of the Cool Kids and piss on that, then you are giving ammunition to Bloomberg and Co. “See? Even if a battery of doctors say the guy is suicidal and the judge agrees, these Gun nuts want to give them guns so they can kill themselves.”

Think before you post.

I know that 2014 seems like forever ago, but it really wasn’t.

In 2014, a software engineer named Brendan Eich was famous for creating JavaScript and co-founding the software group Mozilla.

He was selected to be the new CEO of the Mozilla company.  By every measure, he was the right choice.

There was only one problem.  Brendan Eich is a Catholic.  He decided to put his money where his faith was, and he donated $300 to the Prop 8 campaign to ban gay marriage in the State of California.

Some people in the software community publicized this information, leading to the protest of Mozilla, the dating site OK Cupid stopped its site from working on the FireFox platform, and Eich was forced to step down from CEO of the company he helped create in three days.

The justification of all of this was that his paltry donation was tantamount to anti-LGBT bigotry and regardless of there being no history of discrimination, his donation was a very public thing requiring such extreme action.

Fast forward to Yesterday in Texas.  Joaquin Castro is the Democratic Congressman of Texas’ 20th Congressional district, which includes much of San Antonio.

Castro is also the brother of Obama HUD Secretary, former Mayor of San Antonio, and current clown in the Democrat Primary clown car, Julian Castro.

Joaquin went to Twitter and named 44 people in San Antonio who donated the legal maximum to Donald Trump.  He gave their names and the names of their employers, saying “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”

He defended his actions by saying that all this information was public record.

We’ve seen this tactic before when newspapers in New York published the names of pistol permit holders and other newspapers wanted to publish the names of concealed carry permit holders.

There is a difference between information being publicly available and it being widespread.

It is, but that is not the point.

The point is to make it clear that those who donate to Donald Trump in his Congressional district are not safe from retribution.

The goal of this tactic is clear, make potential Republican donors fear donating.  Especially small business owners.

One defense of what Juaquin Casto did has been “if they are proud of their donation, why not make their names public.”

The answer is, of course, because they don’t want radical Leftist trying to destroy their business or get them fired for their donations.

If Trump wins again in 2020, I can tell you what they are going to do next.  Forget attacking the electoral college, the Democrats are going to try and end the secret ballot.

If you are proud of your vote than there is no reason to keep is a secret, right?

Trust me, you will hear that argument made mainstream sooner than later.