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Posted on June 6, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Schools being a “Gun Free Zone” A) Doesn’t mean they’re gun free, B) Doesn’t mean everybody is disarmed:

A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, police said.

A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman after he entered the foyer at Otto Miller Hall, and several other people jumped on top of him and pinned him down until police officers arrived, police said.

The anits will put this case down as a foot-note. There was a “Gun Death”, but it wasn’t one of their coveted “Mass Shootings”. I don’t say “Coveted” lightly either, because we saw how they operate when the Santa Barbara killings were initially reported as a “Mass Shooting”, and we saw them clamoring for more gun laws (despite all the gun laws in the world being in place in California, and that college campus) and then going into damage control when it turns out there were only 3 shooting victims and the other three dead and injured were killed with a knife, and hit with a car.

Still I don’t want to spend much time on the shooter, he had a shotgun which most likely was a Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 just by pure statistical conjecture which is one of those sacred guns that the antis seem to dangle in front of us as a gun we CAN have, and as with other shootings this very well could have been a mass murder rather than a single murder.

It wasn’t because the students acted! They used all weapons available to them, and they acted together and subdued the killer. That being said pepper spray used indoors is risky as the sprayer is most likely to get the effects as much as the attacker, and biologically speaking it is nothing more than a distraction than an actual weapon. The defensive weapon here was the brute strength and superior numbers of the students who refused to be a victim.

Don’t “Shelter in Place” and don’t “Play Dead”, if somebody is initiating a spree killing, consider yourself dead, and act accordingly, it just might turn the tide.

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“Gun Death” Stabbing

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Weerd Beard

We all Have knives, but somehow we are all not murderers:

Police in central Ohio say a teenage girl was fatally stabbed in Columbus, and another female teenager and a man were being questioned about what happened.

…There was no immediate indication of what caused the fight.

The man being questioned was described as a possible witness.

So we have two teen girls, one who stabbed the other to death. Where are the calls for age limits on knife purchases? Where are the calls for background checks?

Of course we know in England when they got their gun ban they then did just that for knives….for all the good it’s done them.

It is the person, not the tool.

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Images of the Antis: Racism

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Found this interesting Image from a particularly despicable Anti-rights fanatic:

Now first up, I’ll note that even in the more extreme views this is NOT open-carry, but brandishing firearms. One of my big issues with the long-gun open carry flap is so many of the people posing for photos have their slung rifles in a firing grip which is NOT analogous to somebody walking around with a Glock in a holster. There have been many images of people with their rifles slung across their backs, which is perfectly fine IMHO…if we’re talking about carrying a rifle for day-to-day tasks/activism. I still prefer just carrying a pistol or two because if I was expecting to need a rifle, I’d just stay home, and I don’t want to lug around all that extra gear.

Still since I like two-point slings, I really dig on African Carry for rifles:

It also has the added benefit of your hand that controls the rifle being on the forearm or magazine well rather than on the pistol grip, and unlike slung across the back you still have a hand on the rifle controlling it.

Next minor issue, why would these gentlemen be concerned about open carry? You can carry a Desert Eagle or a folded carbine concealed dressed like that!

Still the major point whoever created that image (I have no idea who created the original photograph that the text was added, nor the context of it) is that somehow people who support the 2nd Amendment are RACISTS who would HATE to see armed blacks.

Still if these gentlemen are not prohibited people, and they go out without their hands on the grips of their guns, and they indeed conduct themselves as gentlemen, who cares what color their skin is, or how they dress?

Of course the bottom line is THIS anti who’s putting up this image IS a racist…but like most mentally ill people, just assumes EVERYBODY feels the same way he does.

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A Full Night of Podcasting!

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So first up I’ll lead with our call-in topic, it’s a good one:

Cribbed from Ace of Spades

If you could travel back in time and cure or kill any person, who would it be and why? We don’t like the US only limit so we’re making it cover the entire world. You have one chance, no repeats, no backsies and you have to live with the consequences. (For the purposes of this exercise we’ll assume the time stream is linear and ignore the many-worlds interpretation.)

How cool is that? So yeah call in for your answer for that one! starting at 9pm EST 214-530-0036! I’m pretty weak in my history when it comes to individual people, so you will all show me up!

It’s also Book Club week! Did you all Read Dark Tide? Call in too to talk about what you thought was interesting in the book! On this I have a bunch to talk about.

Also we’d be remiss to not talk about trading 5 Terrorist Big-Wigs for one Deserter.

So yeah all that and more tonight on THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!!

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Ninja Squirrel Sriracha observed by Chester The Road Gunner while he was blowing his paycheck at Whole Foods!

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“Gun Death”…Yeah..

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Ok Then…

The mayor of a village in north-western France has been castrated and killed by a jealous husband, reports say.

…The unnamed attacker then reportedly killed himself.

When it comes to guns and Europe, France isn’t too bad. Still it didn’t stop this guy from avoiding the gun’s mind-control waves before committing this killing.

Yeah, say what you want, but it isn’t a “Gun Death”.

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“Gun Death” Bees

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Even with protective clothing you are NOT safe!

An amateur beekeeper with a 6-year-old son has died after what appears to be a fatal allergic reaction to 40 stings.

April Taylor was wearing gloves and a beekeeping veil when she was stung by some of the bees that she kept in her family’s back yard in Willard, Utah.

Those precautions did not cover her entirely, however, as many beekeepers regularly wear full suits and high boots to insure that they are entirely covered when they interact with the insects.

Sad story! We could prattle about not NEEDING to keep bees (but how else would we have honey?) but really this is just another person who didn’t die because of guns!

Why do only “Gun Deaths” count?

H/T Bob

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Well Thank You Internet!

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So I was out to water my grass seed tonight and my hose nozzle broke. Attempted to do a red-neck repair job on the snapped plastic piece by clamping it and “Spot welding” it with a cigarette lighter. That worked but not well enough. My neighbor was nice enough to lend me his nozzle until I could buy a new one, but this nozzle had been on the hose for about 4 years and it was frozen on.

I attempted WD40 and pipe wrenches to pop it loose but no hope. In a last ditch I used a torch to free up the nozzle. That didn’t work, AND this “Kink free” hose has a fairly low melting point.

Somebody on IRC was nice enough to show me this.

I’ll be fixing it tomorrow!

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Gun Registries: Good For NOTHING!

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Weerd Beard

A bunch of other bloggers have covered this, still as a person who’s guns are registered I need to expel my rage to this story:

When questioned by the deputies about reported disturbing videos he had posted online, REDACTED told them he was having trouble fitting in socially in Isla Vista and the videos were merely a way of expressing himself,” the sheriff’s office said in a written statement.

“Sheriff’s deputies concluded that REDACTED was not an immediate threat to himself or others, and that they did not have cause to place him on an involuntary mental health hold, or to enter or search his residence. Therefore, they did not view the videos or conduct a weapons check on REDACTED.”

….Kelly Hoover, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, would not elaborate on why no weapons check was done, and declined to confirm whether there would be an internal investigation of the visit.

Now this guy was not, as the media calls him, a “Mass Shooter”, he was planning on using knives, hammers, and other otherwise benign equipment to torture and murder people. The guns were the backup, and because his plan failed so badly he had to fall back to the guns. This very well could have been a story exclusively for the “Gun Death?” Files if things had gone well with his plan, and his plan was not outlandish. He attempted to enter a sorority house as they were preparing for a party, and they didn’t answer the door. Not answering the door saved those women from being hacked to death and threw him off his game enough to make this killing spree as small as it was.

Still what’s the damn point of a registry if it isn’t used by the police for calls like this? Might this case have been handled differently if they had discovered the guns along with all the threats he had publicly made?

Meanwhile California DOES use it’s registry to confiscate guns from lawful citizens. No other state or country that has a registry has ever used their registry for the benefit of public safety. While California may want to enact a policy where the registry is watched more often during police calls, and we’ll see if that oversteps bounds. I’m betting it will. Still we should be talking about DESTROYING registries not USING them.

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How Are You Liking the New Commenting Software?

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So from all I can tell, comments are still rolling in. I have only found one comment that got eaten by McThag who’s commenting away below.

So how are you all liking it? Seeing less Captcha codes? When you see the code do you find it easier than the ones I used to use?

Blow up the comments below with feedback, because I’ve been manual emptying the HUNDREDS of spam I’m now seeing every day with the new system by hand. I’d like to tell the software just to nuke everything that doesn’t pass muster, but I don’t want to do it if somehow I’m missing a bulk of good comments in the sea of dick-pills and knock-off handbags that are showing up in my trash can.

So sound off, can I take the safeties off and leave everybody happy with the comments? Remember while I blog to blow off steam and talk about interesting things, I really do this all for the comments and discussion.

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A Different Angle to the “Red Team Thinking” Discussion

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Weerd Beard

We’ve talked on several occasions here on the lack of “Red Team Thinking” done on the anti-gun side when they present their points. I see a lot of evidence (especially from all the outrage from Colion Noir NRA show, as well as all the clips of Glen Beck I used to see on “Progressive” websites back when he was on basic cable) that the other side DOES venture across the political and ideological aisle on a regular basis. Still when they craft their arguments it seems to show they HEAR what the other side is saying, but don’t contemplate WHY the other side is saying it.

The end result is what we often see in what passes for debate these days as “Talking past each other”. Hell look at the greatest victory on gun control. The 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban”, it succeeded because of red team thinking. Back in the 80s and 90s we had what our side calls “Gun Culture 1.0” people had guns, but A) It was mostly people living in rural areas, and they were mostly white B) Most of the shooting done in this country was hunting game animals, and target shooting, and C) The “Newer” guns like the AR-15, and Glock Pistols weren’t as popular as bolt-action rifles, pump-action shotguns, and single-stack pistols and revolvers. So a bill that attacked the guns that many people didn’t have, and were ignorant of worked very well.

It backfired on them of course because all this talk of “Assault Weapons” and “High capacity clips” got people to ask questions about them, and buy examples of them just for novelty.

At the same time police forces were switching over from Revolvers and Slide-action shotguns to semi-auto rifles and double-stack pistols. This has been mistakenly argued as an “Arms Race” against criminals, but criminals were mostly using cheap single-stack pistols, revolvers, and slide-action shotguns. Really this was like the switch from carbureted engines to electronic fuel injection. Yeah there were arguments for the “old ways”, but really the new technology was superior and now you really can’t buy a new EFI car from a dealer.

I’m getting off on a rant here, but this video really opened my eyes to the extent of the Red Team thinking of the other side:

I really think it isn’t just lawful gun owners they don’t understand. They also don’t understand the criminal element. Hell when I first moved to Medford Mass my soon-to-be wife and I rented an apartment in a quaint little neighborhood. Now reading the news there were assaults and robberies in my town, and you could often hear police sirens at all hours. Still MY neighborhood was quiet and safe. Or so I thought. Then my landlord decided to sell the house as condominiums. We couldn’t afford to buy our unit, so we were essentially evicted and had to find a new place to live. My wife quickly went online and found that there were a bunch of units that were not only CHEAPER than what we were paying for rent, but only a few miles away!

WOW, had we been missing out on some great apartments for less money this whole time? You know what they say about stories that are too good to be true.

We went and viewed a few of the units. The neighborhood was AWEFUL, it was dirty, run down, and there were sketchy people sitting on stoops watching us. I had never wanted to have my carry permit more then. One of the apartments had a massive stain on the bedroom floor, and I wondered if former occupant had been murdered. Who knows. Still we were approximately two miles from our current apartment. WALKING DISTANCE!

This got me thinking, if the bad areas are walking distance from where you live, is your neighborhood really “safe”? Also this really changes when you note that criminals have cars.

It was really a big step on my Red Team thinking of the criminal element. Was I 24/7 terrified of being mugged? Did I think I would need an armed squad and close air support to keep me safe as I went to the grocery store and work? No, but I learned that no place is safe, and while we hope for the best, we should always prepare for the worst.

I really don’t think anti-gun people think much into the issue. Maybe it’s the fear that they always accuse us of. It can be pretty scary to think about such things when you also aren’t interested in thinking about how would you handle it.

So is the divide in the debate as simple as Red Team Thinking? I mean both the anti-gun and pro-gun side talk about wanting more public safety. We’re really not so different in that sense, but in terms of gaming out scenarios where bad people do bad things, there is a VAST difference.

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