Gun Free Zone

Last weekend was supposed to be the climatic point for the Trayvon Martin protest. US Rep. Frederica Wilson organized an event at Miami’s Bayfront Park and she assured that they were expecting 70,000+ people to attend. Apparently the number fell woefully short. One source claims that 3,000 showed up while the Miami Herald only counted over a 1,000.
You can tell that the political furor is slowly dissipating.

Lessons to be learned are several.
1) Don’t rush to have your case tried in the Media. Contrary to conventional wisdom, journalists and other media types are barely above congresspeople and used car salesmen in people’s trust. By default, most people think they are being lied partially or even totally and you become untrustworthy by default.

2) If your case is righteous, do not lie, suppress or obfuscate. The first mistake was the constant use of the picture of a younger Trayvon instead of a more recent & accurate. Also painting him as a perfect angel with nothing in his past. People hate to be deceived and will turn on or away from your cause if you lie to them. A simple statement in the lines of “Trayvon was not a perfect child and did have some issues but did not deserve to be killed like that” would have voided or lessened any of the stories that came out eventually.

3) Certain “leaders” are past their expiration and credibility dates. Both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton should pack and retire for good. The New Black panthers are a joke and with the same human qualities of the KKK.

4) The Race Card is losing its power. And if you stamp it left and right on everything,you end up looking like a fool. Save it for real racism cases.

5) It is time you figure out the Internet is more powerful than the old media. Even in a 24 hour News Cycle, the power of the Net and Social media is amazing. You imagine that after the Dan Rather debacle people would wise up and try not to “massage the message” but some people just do not get it and they get hired by idiots.

The sad part in this whole affair is that whichever way this case goes, we will always have the lingering doubt that the decision was tainted by by the truckloads of BS thrown on top of it. I have my doubts that justice will ever be served.

I read somewhere that if you grab a gun for the first time and it feels like the handshake of your long lost brother, you should buy it. That is pretty much what happens when I grab my wife’s CW9.

After she bought it, we went to the range where she graciously allowed me to shoot a mag worth of ammo through it. I expected a snappy recoil, but I did not feel it (then again I am not bothered by recoil unless we are talking triple digit revolvers starting with “4”) and I found myself placing a beautiful tight headshot groups at 7 yards.I think this is partially because of the texture of the frame: soft on the sides and aggressive but not painfully so in the front and back. It gives you a very positive control if the gun while shooting.

The sights are notch & post with a white vertical line painted in the rear sight and a withe dot in the front. It was also a nice surprise that with my corrected vision I han no trouble aligning them, it was almost a natural thing to do. I was ready to hate the vertical line but my mind was happily changed.

Lately I’ve been thinking about buying a gun for Back Up/NY reload/”pocket.” Something small and slim that I could hide in my less than perfect figure without having to wear a cover garment or even (gasp!) an inside the love handle holster and my brain kept going back to the CW9. The other option was the Ruger LC9 which is a nice little weapon and with almost the same dimensions and price, but somehow it did not feel quite as well as the CW9. In the Plus Plus column, Ruger and everybody else are just joining the Sub-Compact madness while Kahr has been in it for many many moons (pun intended.) I think by now they have the whole pocket pistol thing down to an art.

Then it hit me: it makes sense to buy the CW9 if for nothing else, redundancy. All but one of the other handguns in the house are too big or too hard to manipulate for my petite wife and if hers is to be in need of repairs, she will surely commandeer mine till hers is back from repairs. It also makes sense that if for any reason I am to be out of the fight in a situation, she can retrieve it and carry on with a gun she already knows.

The only problem is that I need to dispose of a gun to get this one. The economics are not that good and I got permission to buy the CW9 only by not affecting the budget, zero sum. I already have selected a Safe Hermit that has not been shot in almost 2 years and that should cover the price of a new CW9 and a couple of spare mags.

I may have to beg for the holster and the mag pouches though. Birthday is several months ahead. 🙁

The Race Baiter’s CINC, Rev. Al Sharpton is now in the warpath. He is demanding tougher “Civil”  Action to get Zimmerman arrested. The problem with “civil” actions is that the can get quite “uncivil” in a blink of a meth head’s eye.

Having been forcefully invited before to a couple of social dislocations that overwhelmed public services, I can tell you that when your neighborhood goes gaga to the point that Law Enforcement has to withdraw, you better be ready to fend off and survive for at least a week. It may take three days for people to stop looting & burning and the authorities to regain control but seven days of mayhem are not unheard of.

Since you will be incommunicado from your usual supply sources, you should be know if you have enough foodstuffs to feed you and your family at the rate of three meals a day. The person most likely to accurately come up with that calculation is the one that cooks for the family. That person can, with a quick glance figure rapidly if there is enough food & water for 21 meals per person.

Although Social dislocations rarely affect the electrical grid in a wide area, you might be blessed with your local thugs accidentally parking a truck against a pole or setting a fire that will cut the lines in the 2 or 3 block radius that includes your home. That means that you better be sure your 21 meals can be eaten with no energy sources. Or that you have an independent source that can cook a very simple meal. Leave the fancy stuff for when you can actually only worry about the utility bill.

There has to be a secret code within the DNA chain that activates only in case of Mobs and makes the break any window on sight. Mobs apparently hate windows for some unknown reason and this leads to looting and general destruction of your private property. And please let us not forget the pyromaniacs that feel the need to disinfect your home with liberal applications of gasoline and other volatiles and a source of ignition. The great thing about South Florida is that hurricane panels are available everywhere and they are not very costly. It is in my plan that if we are suddenly in a Mob-Day-Out situation, the first thing that goes up will be the hurricane panels for the front of the house (The back & sides have no direct available access to the street plus you always need a way to GTFO in a hurry.

Florida Statutes allow for the use of deadly force to prevent arson. Of all the crap that can go bad in a riot, nothing scares me more than some idiot with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Fire is not a joke or a prank and some of the biggest multiple death situations in the US have resulted because of fires. As with any defensive situation, distance is our friend and having a weapon that can deliver accurate firepower to long distances with ease has to be number one on your list. If you have not entertained ownership of a shotgun or rifle, you may want to reconsider your strategy. Nothing says “Please move along, nothing to burn here” that a well placed slug or rifle round inside the anatomy of an arsonist. But do not count on having to use the “warning” once, I have personally seen a mob who was being decimated by accurate fire and still tried to loot a bodega. Have enough ammo to make a lasting impression on those with special educational needs.

If you are alone or nobody else in your household is trained in the use of firearms, you will have to do with little sleep. Prepare accordingly. At least get one person in your home to stand as a lookout while you catch a well deserved nap.Make sure that person had had enough rest that he or she will not a fall asleep while you are in Sandman Land.

As for the rest of preparations, following a basic Hurricane Preparedness list should be enough. Depend on nobody but those who live in your family unit as it is not uncommon that neighbors turn idiotic and turn against their neighbors, specially if you had a constant disagreement about the length of the lawn or the dog pooping in somebody’s front yard. Such simple things can be exponentially exaggerated and a less than stable neighbor will use the as an excuse to take you out.

And, of course check the news as much as possible. A well advanced warning is something very much desired in this cases to do the initial defensive set up.

Be ready and pray for the best.

We’ve got cranes fornicating on the front field and it sounds like velociraptors doing jello shots but I’ve grown fond of the sound.

LOLed so hard that my glasses fell off my face. Go read the whole thing!

via Two Rules Of Critter Cohabitation: Part I | The Adaptive Curmudgeon’s Blog.

For the last week or so, I’ve been trying to leave comments on different blogs based on Blogger and I have pretty much given up. Even with the help of top cryptologists, Bloggers keeps saying I cannot read their mumbo jumbo words.

So, sorry guys and gals in Blogger. I hope they fix that crap soon. If not, come to the Dark Side of WordPress, specially if you host on your own.

And I am so getting this book. J.D. consider this my comment on your post 🙂

I think (operative word) that the way comments are being displayed now are a bit more easy on the eyes.

That is all…carry on.