Gun Free Zone

The history of the NRA is storied. It started as a civil rights organization and stayed that way for a very long time. Sort of like the ACLU. Both have morphed.

The ACLU is now a slave to the left. Where there was a time in their history where freedom of speech and assembly meant they would defend a bunch of self proclaimed Nazi’s marching in a jewish neighborhood, today they are only interested in left leaning causes.

The NRA morphed as well. They became a “sportsmans” organization. As long as there wasn’t a threat to $2000 double barrelled shotguns and deer rifles they were ok with it. Carry laws didn’t really affect what they perceived as their base so they didn’t engage.

That changed in the 70’s with the membership takeover. The members had seen their dues go to pay for weak lobbying. They took over and demanded that the NRA fight for all gun rights. And they did.

They became a one issue organization that would fight to stop any gun control law.

They were also smart about it. If they knew they were going to lose, they did their best to create something that wasn’t a complete shit show. An example of this is the NCIS system. As originally proposed, the “background check” was a full on gun registry with built in wait periods that would become unreasonable.

Consider that a NCIS check will give you a denied, delayed, proceed in less than an hour in most cases and when things are really busy, it might take 3 or 4 hours. Then compare that to how long it takes to get permission to purchase a suppressor.

Is the background check to buy a suppressor really that much more extensive than that to buy a firearm? Not really. But they can extend the process at will. There are many stories of people begging for permission to purchase an NFA item to wait months before they get a “rejected for paperwork”. I.e. they filled out some part of the paperwork incorrectly and now they have to resubmit.

In the case of NICS, the NRA saw what was about to happen and helped to create NICS. While we don’t have to like it, the NRA made the default “proceed” if there was no answer within a given time. This required the government to do its job in a timely fashion. I.e. if they didn’t get a denial to the FFL within that time period, the person was going to be able to take possession of their firearm.

In recent time the NRA has fallen on hard times. Mostly the doing of the board. There appears to be some highly questionable financial going ons. In addition, NY State has taken aim at the NRA and is trying to sue them out of existence.

Which brings us to this article:
Good gun owners unite: A new group could help break the deadlock on firearm-safety laws

Another example of the “strange respect” that conservatives receive for five minutes when they surrender to the left. We see it all the time when some GOP senator or representative sides with the left. The left fawns all over them. Ten minutes after they are no longer needed, the bus comes roaring in to drive over them.

According to the NY Daily News, you become a good gun owner when you support “firearm-safety laws”. When you are interested in “responsible firearm laws”, when you value the right to keep and bear arms but “understand it must have sane limits, then you too can have that strange respect.

The problem with this sort of article is that they use polling data that is extremely misleading.

The overwhelming majority of gun owners are in favor of universal background checks, of raising the minimum age to buy guns to 21 and so-called “red flag” laws to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, a new NPR/Ipsos survey finds.
— npr

The poll in question:

This NPR/Ipsos Poll was conducted June 15-21, 2022, using the probability-based KnowledgePanel®. This poll was based on a nationally-representative probability sample of total American adults 18+ who are gun owners (n=1,022), Republican Americans 18+ who are gun owners (n=445), Democrat Americans 18+ who are gun owners (n=183), and Independent Americans 18+ who are gun owners (n=389).

Translation, they surveyed 1022 self reported gun owners of which 445 reported to be Republican, 183 said they were Democrats and 389 said they were Independent.

The poll can be found at Ipsos site

Q3, part k: “I own firearms because they give me a feeling of power?” is sort of interesting.
Q8: “Do you think it is more important to protect gun rights or control gun violence”

This question tells you that the poll is slanted. Unless they are asking about controlling hammer violence as well, this question is very slanted.

I’m firmly in favor of controlling criminal behaviors. Putting a stop to violent criminals as soon as possible.

Q9: Do you support or oppose Universal background checks for all gun sales, including those at private sales and at gun shows?

Interestingly democrats are at 90%+ for all options that are about restricting the rights of gun owners and are only at 53% for hardening schools (slanted rephrase of the question, by me)

It is worth looking at the original poll. There are results that don’t match what I “feel” are the correct answers.

The take away from all of this is that polls don’t always tell use what we want to hear. The media is still lying.

Again, I need to clarify.  There is a different between victim blaming and doing a forensic analysis of a crime to understand the lessons as a warning to others.

Store owner, 68, pistol-whipped, hit with hammer in sickening 20-minute attack: video

Sickening video shows an elderly jewelry store owner getting pistol-whipped and stomped on the head — before he was hit “full force” in his skull with a hammer during the brutal, 20-minute robbery, according to kin.

Footage shared by the 68-year-old Delaware store owner’s family shows a man dressed all in black — including a mask — initially pretending to show interest in the jewelry at Solid Gold in downtown Wilmington on Sept. 15.

But then he suddenly grabs the Korean American store owner near his throat — and appears to hold a pistol to his head.

Despite his victim not appearing to resist, the black-clad thug then slams the weapon into the elderly man’s head.

Still not done, the attacker clambers over the counter — and starts stomping on the seemingly unconscious man’s head.

Here is the relevant part of the video footage?

This 68-year old jewelry shop owner was pistol-whipped & hit in the head w/a hammer 9/15 in DE.

Son Steve told me he wants to spread awareness b/c “I’m thinking ab my family’s safety & safety of Korean biz owners.”

He spoke w/@nydia_han & @6abc covering ?⬇️ #StopAAPIHate pic.twitter.com/A1jaAipFIA

— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) September 26, 2022

Why would anyone trust someone in a full goodie, hat, mask, and gloves in their store?

Especially a store like a jewelry store after all the robbery and looting of jewelry stores that we’ve seen?

Everything about this person’s appearance screams “criminal” and “looter.”

It looks from the video as if the store has a double door security entrance.  This person should not have been let in.

It’s noble to be trusting but at the sane time it’s important to be situational aware.

This is also a situation in which lawful gun ownership is important.

Jewelry stores are high on the list for robberies.

No one questions why every employee in a gun store us wearing a loaded gun.

I’ve seen more than a few times the guy behind the counter in a convenience store packing heat.

I don’t understand why a jewelry store owner and employees aren’t strapped the entire time they are on shift.

If you own or manage a business where you know you are a likely target of crime, act accordingly.  Don’t let in suspicious looking people and if your staff can legally be armed, let them.

We have people that have no problem subjecting a child to hormone injections, chemical blockers and disfiguring surgeries in the name of Gender Politics. But substitute “child” with “puppy”, and you will have a mob at your doorstep ready to burn you alive for cruelty.

You can’t even treat chickens with antibiotics anymore and the same for injecting hormones in cattle. But it is OK to Mengele the shit out of a prepubescent kid till it is a manufactured freak of political medicine.

Ooops!

S.F. women share more disturbing stories of alleged stalker. How did the city miss its chance to intervene?

It was a sunny Friday afternoon, and the grass at Dolores Park beckoned. A 27-year-old woman named Cassidy lay down near the tennis courts, popped in earbuds to listen to music and began to doze off.

Suddenly, she felt somebody’s breath on her face. She opened her eyes to find a stranger pressing his body against her side, his arm around her. His eyes were bloodshot, she said, and the veins in his arm bulged. His fingers on her body had the letters E-V-I-L inked on them.

“I think I just found the love of my life,” the man said.

“Who the f— are you? Get off of me right now!” Cassidy remembers yelling in a panic at about 2 p.m. on July 8. She jumped up, and the stranger followed her to her car before she managed to get inside and drive away.

Cassidy, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she fears for her safety, is the latest of numerous women to describe being harassed, touched, assaulted, followed or leered at in San Francisco by a man they believe to be 33-year-old Bill Gene Hobbs.

In what has become a five-alarm fire for many women in the city — spread on social media — several alleged victims have posted photos of the distinctive-looking Hobbs, a 6-foot-4 white man with a buzz cut and a body covered in tattoos, including the E-V-I-L tag on his fingers.

The fact that a San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed a case against Hobbs in which he was accused of following and grabbing a 15-year-old girl — first reported in this column — is well known by now. So is the fact that he’s back on the streets despite a long arrest record in four counties, despite admitting to me in a phone interview that he follows women he finds attractive, and despite the flood of new complaints.

Cassidy said she knows seven other women who claim to be victims of Hobbs and that they’re buying Mace, pepper spray and even stun guns because they feel so unsafe walking around in San Francisco.

“I’m pretty pissed that they know as much as they know, and he’s still allowed to walk the streets,” she said of city officials. “Where is the line?”

Meanwhile, young women around San Francisco have created their own community of watchers, crowdsourcing sightings of Hobbs and circulating his photos as a warning.

So there is a big, creepy stalker in San Francisco menacing women and the SFPD isn’t doing shit about it and the San Francisco district attorney isn’t charging him or doing anything to stop him.

These women need something to give them an advantage over a six-foot four-inch man, and pepper spray isn’t enough.

In a civilized society this women would be able to be adequately armed.

In the feces covered streets of the Bay Area dystopia, they are at the mercy of a creeper.

If you listen to the Left, they would have you believe that the goal of every Right Wing conservative is to bring about The Handmaid’s Tale as reality.  A world in which women are totally subjugated to men and are forced to carry babies to term for wealthy men against their will.

But like everything the Left complains about, it’s pure projection.

This is a story I covered before but it resurfaced again with a new twist.

In a nutshell, two gay men got married and wanted to have a kid.  They discovered that their health insurance didn’t cover the $200,000 for IVF and surrogacy because two gay men not being able to conceive isn’t a medical problem.

Apparently these two men graduated from college and law school and never learned basic biology.

I feel like I need to write a LGBT sex ed book, it will be one page.

When two men love each other very much, or maybe don’t, but met up in a club or bath house or on Grindr, and they fuck each other in the ass, they will never get pregnant because that’s not how that works.  That is how monkeypox spreads, though.

So now they are suing.

What caught my attention was the subheading.

‘We are expected to be OK with not having children’: how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground

In New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone else’s body?

You do not have a right over someone else’s body.

Not at all.

we have a word for that: slavery..

What this is describing is pretty much the plot of The Handmaid’s Tale: An upper middle class couple can’t conceive a child so conscript a poor womb-having “gestational carrier” to have the baby for them, which they then take away and keep for themselves.

Who would have thought Gilead would be a bunch of gay men demanding poor women carrier their children for them.

Actually, given how we’ve seen the militant LGBT community let trans women run roughshod over real women, this should come as no surprise.

Florida is a law and order state.

Looting and lawlessness will not be tolerated. pic.twitter.com/8Ma9RuSlPq

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 1, 2022

I’ve said it before, Florida gets a lot of shit, but one thing Florida does right is that Florida only has to learn a hard lesson once.

It is well understood by locals that looting is not tolerated at all.

People put a lot of effort and money in hurricane preparedness.  Looting someone’s hurricane stash is an affront well and above burglary.

Florida people know this.

I suspect that DeSantis is saying this for the benefit of the recent COVID transplants from New York, California, and elsewhere where looting after a riot or disaster is commonplace.