“Gun Death” Daredevil

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Weerd Beard

People talk about “Gun Death” claiming guns are somehow unsafe.

A wingsuit flyer died after plunging into a valley in rural China during a trial flight for the world championships.

Hungarian Victor Kovats was found with a smashed skull at the foot of 100m cliff this morning after a major search in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Hunan Province.

The cause of crash is being investigated, but initial reports suggest his parachute may have failed to deploy.

Given that I’m pro-freedom, I’m all for people doing these crazy dangerous stunts.

I’m not like that. I carry a gun because I’d prefer to die in my bed surrounded by loved ones, rather than as a puddle in the ass end of the world…

Think about that, Antis!

H/t Bob

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Advice from One Mom to Another

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Via Rockstar who is just plain awesome!

Repeat the following:

1. She’s safe
2. She’s fed
3. She’s clean
4. Nothing’s on fire

It’s really hard to retrain our brains to let go of all the other stuff that needs doing. However, you have to reprioritize – you and baby are on top. Everything else is on a completely different page.

Things that helped me and other ideas:
>Do something that makes you feel like yourself / more human. It can (and should!) feel indulgent – go for a walk, bake something, watch TV, get a pedicure, take a long shower, eat toast slathered with butter in bed, etc.
>Plan the next 5 minutes or hour, and try not to think beyond that. You’re in survival mode. Things change on a dime. Once you can accept that, it’s a more freeing.
>Pick the one thing that “needs to get done” that pisses you off more than all the others (dishes, laundry, floors, etc) and do it. Then say fuck it to the rest of the housework until tomorrow. Or next week.
>Stare at your baby. Get lost in her.
>Go onto shutterfly and look at sample XMas picture cards. Since you have a kid, you are now legally obligated to spend the next couple decades sending picture cards.
>Put on work clothes (if they fit decently enough).
>Sit at the table and eat a meal with your husband.
>When your Mom is here, have a mini date with your husband. Look at each other – you probably haven’t done that since She was born. You’re both so sleep deprived and emotional that you’ll probably either start crying, laughing, or both. But, get out of the house together, even if it’s just for 5 minutes.
>do a crossword puzzle
>do a puzzle
>research local Mommy movies
>have a cup of hot chocolate

You get the point 🙂

Tag this on to the great advice from Last Night’s Squirrel Report, and we’re now instant experts!

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“Gun Death” New Jersey

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Weerd Beard

It is not the tools, its the monsters among us we need to worry about.

Police are searching for the suspect who sexually assaulted, beat and robbed a 96-year-old woman in her southern New Jersey home.

Relatives say the masked suspect sneaked into the woman’s Pleasantville home when she went outside to get a newspaper early Saturday. Pleasantville is just outside Atlantic City.

Relatives, who asked not to be named to protect her identity, told WMGM-TV she said the suspect knocked her on the floor and tried to strangle her.

Those who constantly tout “Gun Death” imply that somehow less guns will make the world safer.

What would have made the world safer is if this old woman had shot this asshole BEFORE he laid a hand on her.

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“Reasoned Discourse” Cowardly

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Weerd Beard

So Clinton got heckled in Buffalo about Benghazi. Her response to the heckler was “We need to sit down and talk rather than yell”…which is valid…but ironic given that the heckler was being escorted out of the venue, and she didn’t talk any further about it.

Cowardly.

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Cops and Guns

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Here are a few stories sent to me by Les.

The first one is just sad.

Northern California sheriff’s officials and family members say deputies shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a replica assault weapon.

Two Sonoma County deputies saw the boy walking with the replica weapon around 3 p.m. Tuesday in Santa Rosa. Lt. Dennis O’Leary says they repeatedly ordered him to drop what appeared to be a rifle before firing several rounds.

The gun is a Replica AK. Its realistically colored, sized, and has no orange tip on the muzzle. The kid was ordered at REAL gunpoint to put down his toy and he refused, and got shot. Everybody loses in this one.

Frankly I’m most upset at the family for not telling the dangers of these toys in public. I have no issue with realistic toys…but there are risks to everything, and those risks were NOT mitigated.

Now more negligent safety on behalf of officers.

A child pulled the trigger of a police rifle at a Southern California elementary school Wednesday, firing a bullet that shattered and created shrapnel that injured three youngsters, authorities said.

The AR-15 was locked to the side of a motorcycle that was on display at Newman Elementary School during an anti-drug program when a student managed to fire it, Chino police spokeswoman Tamrin Olden said.

“The bullet disintegrated when discharged by striking a metal plate where the barrel rests against the weapons mount,” and metal debris apparently struck some children and caused minor injuries, she said in a statement.

“It is likely that metal debris struck two children resulting in extremely minor injuries,” Olden said, adding that the children were treated at a hospital and released.

Now I have no idea what kind of mount was used, but something was VERY wrong if access to the safety selector and trigger were allowed by children on a loaded rifle. (Of course even if it was unloaded that’s a rule #1 violation)

I did a quick search of “Motorcycle AR-15 Mount” and found this page. Now some of those mounts completely enclose the receiver and fire-control group, and such a mount is perfectly safe. The one towards the top of the page looks a lot like what may have been the mount used. A Clam shell like mount that encloses the receiver and fire-control group, but also conceals much of the rifle. I can see police wanting to show-off by opening the mount, leaving the fire control group wide open for curious fingers.

Of course in the end the only safety worth a damn in the one between your ears, and these rifles needed to be in direct control of the officers…doubly since they were loaded.

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“Gun Death” Another Sledgehammer

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Weerd Beard

I thought this was a repeat of the earlier post…it wasn’t and it is REALLY bad!

A suburban Chicago woman is charged with murder in the death of her 6-month-old granddaughter.

Authorities said Monday that 61-year-old Alfreda Giedrojc of Oak Lawn used a sledgehammer and knife to kill baby Vivian Summers on Sunday morning. Prosecutors say the grandmother placed the baby on the floor and hit the baby repeatedly with the sledgehammer. They say the woman then retrieved a kitchen knife and slit the baby’s throat.

How the fuck can ANYBODY do this???? Further why is there concentration on “Gun Death” in debates of public safety? We have two common house hold items, EVERY house has a hammer or two, many have a sledge, and EVERY house has kitchen knives.

Yet we don’t see these kinds of murders every day. This is the same reason why with growing gun ownership we don’t see a rise in violent crime. It is NOT the tool, it is the monsters among us!

There are those of us who own lots of guns, knives, and other defensive arms and keep and bear them for our protection…and then there are the creatures who would murder a baby.

There is nothing related between them…

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Always Interesting Videos

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Not sure how I found this guy, but I have really enjoyed every post he’s made.

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Grenade Runner

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Weerd Beard

WTF does ATF do anyway?

In a case that is prompting comparisons to the botched Operation Fast and Furious, police believe explosives found at a murder scene in Mexico may have come from an American bomb-maker whom the U.S. attorney in Arizona refused to prosecute.

According to an internal U.S. Department of Justice memo, a “Kingery grenade” was among the 10 explosives found at the scene of a shootout between police and drug cartels in Guadalajara on Oct. 10 in which three officers were killed.

The “Kingery grenade” refers to those manufactured by Jean Baptiste Kingery, a California resident who made grenades in Mexico from parts sourced in the U.S. He also converted AK-47s from semi- to fully-automatic weapons.

ATF agents arrested Kingery in 2010, but the assistant U.S. attorney in Arizona at the time, Emory Hurley, referred to the grenades as harmless toys and told the ATF the case “lacked jury appeal,” according to the ATF supervisor in charge, Pete Forcelli. Forcelli had handled the case until the U.S. attorney declined to prosecute.

Is this enforcement agency doing ANYTHING to keep us safer, or are they just a rogue firm designed to HARM people for the sake of busy work?

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Quote of the Day: “Reasoned Discourse”

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Weerd Beard

From Joan:

I don’t usually publish “Unknown” comments. But I liked what you said so will do so this one time.

That pulls back the curtain a bit. You’ll note in purple beside where that comment appears her “Commenting Policy”

Comments are allowed but are moderated for civility and decency. My blog is intended to change public opinion about the gun debate and all readers will not agree with me. No comments that demean, debase, attack, call names, or are generally impolite, rude and offensive will be published. In general, comments that are “snarky”, mean, overly aggressive or harassing will not be published. Keep the language clean and respectful. Anonymous commenters are not allowed on this blog. Thanks to my readers for participating.

It should read “I will not publish comments I don’t like because I am an intellectual light-weight and I am so generally disliked I need to bask in anybody who make me feel inappropriately human”.

Its a hard life Joan has chosen for herself. I can’t say she doesn’t deserve it!

Also the “Ugly American” she’s talking about is more than likely an Australian.

Hey but its all America’s fault for making Austrian guns and all! Also shows she can’t even have a good time when she jets halfway across the world to a sub-tropical climate!

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“Gun Death” Hate Crime

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Tho not the one the media cares about:

Lakewood police are looking for five black men in their mid 20s after a 20-year-old Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, police said. Friends have identified the victim as 20-year-old Tevin Geike….ccording to authorities, a vehicle passed by three active duty JBLM soldiers and yelled something about being “white.” One of the soldiers then yelled back something about the men treating combat solider with disrespect.

The car turned around and stopped next to the soldiers.

Police said five men got out of the car, surrounded the soldiers and a verbal confrontation started between the two groups.

The driver called the other men back to the car when he realized the men really were combat soldiers.

According to police, as the group returned to the vehicle, one of the men bumped into Tevin Geike . His friends saw him fall to the ground as the car drove away. He’d been stabbed.

Police say say the victim had multiple stab wounds. He died from his injuries at the scene.

So we have a twofer on the “Progressive” punch list. You see only “Gun Deaths” count, and only hate crimes count when its whites doing the hating. This is just another non-story in “Progressive Utopia”.

h/t Barron

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