The city of Chicago registered more homicides than any city in the nation in 2012, surpassing even New York — despite the fact that the Second City has only one third as many residents as the Big Apple.
In new crime statistics released Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up sharply from the 431 recorded in 2011. New York reported 419 murders last year, compared with 515 in 2011.
They are returning to DC after their spectacular stealth tour that nobody went to see.
My guess is that they will be looking for leftover blood in which to tap dance as they are the Yankee Vulture Bus. A warning when you read names, make sure you don’t mention Aaron Alexis as it is in bad form. KTHNX!
Warning: No idea if the memo is true or a fake, but argument’s sake let’s say is the real thing:
Lets go by parts, shall we?
Clear? You can still Open Carry (and for that matter Conceal Carry) and you will be served. Just don’t act like a jackass because you will be asked to leave as it is their right to do so.
Don’t let yourself be baited by a Mom Demanding Lemonade. Behave, be polite and ask the manager to remove the taunting/offensive idiot. Let the other jackass make the scene and get the bad reputation.
Subtext is important here. Being a firm from Hippie Town U.S.A. Starbucks is probably not very Pro-Gun. At the same time and during tough economic times, it would be idiotic to shoo away people with extra cash when you have investors that will expect a return. Since the first “buycott” Starbucks shares have risen almost double and they’d be fools to garner the ill will of Gun Owners since they are the majority. At the same time, no company wants bad publicity and the Antis do know how to be squeaky wheels. Also I think that the legal team examined the issue of enforcing a ban on all guns and found it somewhat complicated. You have states that have very few restrictions to carry a gun (concealed only) like Florida where you pretty much can ignore any No Guns Allowed sign since they carry no legal weight. Then you have states that allow business to ban guns but with specific signage and this is pretty much different from state to state. So it is a mess to have a corporate policy on gun banning that may not come back to bite them in the corporate ass or the local franchisee.
My very humble and non-legal opinion? This is a cover-yer-butt document that will be issued to the Media who will go and chant that the Gun Control Activist won a round against the NRA and everybody is happy: We still get to carry and the Anti Gun Squeaky Wheels get a dose of Slipstream Weapons Lubricant.
I still stand on my analysis. They just don’t want the undue attention. And this next bit kinda reinforces what I said about the legal crap: “authorized law enforcement personnel.” Law Enforcement cannot authorize the carrying of a weapon, only the enforcement of the laws as written by the legislature and signed by the Governor. They either consulted the junior partner of the legal firm or this was driven by the PR people (most likely.)
So, don’t act like jackasses, let the other side be the jackasses. Leave the Mosin Nagant at home.
PS: Sorry Joe, I could not help myself. 🙂 Slipstream is a great lubricant!
Gun Control groups are grasping at whatever faux straw is out there. Unfortunately the Navy Yard Shooting turned out to be a nightmare scenario for them. Let’s forget the fact that they jumped in the politicking bandwagon when they should have just express sorrow (or fake it which is more likely) and then wait at least till today to commence the Bravo Sierra.
But they could not help themselves and there they went. And if that was not enough, they went into intellectual copulation with what was being regurgitated by the Media while raising the volume to about 11.5. The inevitable results were not unexpected.
First came the suspect: Aaron Alexis, a young black male. Gun Control minions were already on the full narrative about NRA= Rednecks = Insurrectionist with small genitalia and then that narrative has to be stopped full, pretty much shredded. The minions went on idle because they could not say ANYTHING bad about a minority as they fear being branded racist. In a way is kind of tragicomic that they had to apply the race card to themselves. Evil and Madness do not care for race, gender, sex or anything: They just attack. But this cannot be accepted by the Opposition trapped in an ultra liberal Narrative.
While they bemoaned and did the crocodile tears thing asking how this horrible thing happened, it was pointed out to them the obvious: If you force unnatural Gun Free Zones on people, they become targets of vicious predators. It was also pointed out that the Navy yard was under Double Gun Free Zone status, one for federal location and the other for being in Washington DC. This went unheard as they furiously latched to the erroneous story that the weapon that Aaron Alexis used was an eeeevil AR15.
Evil AR-15! Why do we need such a weapon of war in our streets? This questions were being asked while replaying the videos of Military and Police carrying precisely that arsenal gong after the shooter. But irony is one thing they appear to be genetically immunized to so it flew over their heads like a Reaper drone. Senator Dianne Feinstein came out of her cryogenic capsule and once more demanded that Congress banned once and for all these awful “assault weapons.”
And then….. disaster. Rumors and innuendos that the shooter never had an AR-15 but a plain old Vice-Pres Biden shotgun. Eventually the FBI confirmed that a shotgun was the weapon that was carried into the Navy Yard by Alexis and he procured two sidearms from officers he shot with it. After that, it all went to the privy and the mocking began.
Let’s review the Gun Control Formula, shall we?
Unarmed Civilians + Gun Free Zones + Police & Military with weapons = World Peace!
The Navy Yard Killings was that equation. It failed bloody and miserably. It is not news to us as we have seen variations of the above over and over, proving its innate fallacy. You’d think that a normal and rational human being would go “You know Felicia? Maybe we are wrong. Maybe we should re-examine our stance. You don’t hear much if any mass shootings at gun stores or gun ranges so these Gun Nuts may be right, at least in part.” Oh No! Death before admitting error! So what do they do? Take a look:
Yep, the same “stay-at-home” Mom Demanding Action
Apparently they are either blaming themselves but not blaming themselves for the failure of the equation or their supply of bath salts go contaminated ear wax from a yak. But you have to excuse them folks, when the facts keep spanking somebody and call him a liar all the time, a certain amount of neurosis will tend to set in.
If it was not for the 12 people who are now on mortuaries across the DC area, this would be funny. But these idiots are not funny but dangerous and we cannot give them a break until they become less than (pick your number/object/value.)
