Today is a day to thank those of us who have served in battle in the name of this country.
Whenever I personally thank a Veteran or service-member for what they did, I always get rebuffed like it was no big deal.
No it wasn’t, but hey, I won’t argue with you.
I’ll just thank you.
Thank you to all of our veterans, and those currently serving.
This one is pretty horrific.
They didn’t know their attacker. The weapons he used were a crossbow and a hatchet. His motivation? Demons made him do it.
Certainly we need to regulate the tools rather than pass a bit of scrutiny on the monster who did this. Also cases involving “Gun Death” are far more relevant to the issues, aren’t they?
h/t Maddmedic
I always like to point out stories like this because while we talk a lot about keeping and bearing arms to protect against violent people. We shoot on human silhouette targets and ones with armed attackers on them.
That’s not foolishness, as humans are the most dangerous predator against other humans…but they aren’t the ONLY predators.
A South Seattle man fatally shot a pit bull late Monday after it attacked another dog…“The woman, her husband and others made numerous attempts to stop the attack using rocks and other yard implements to no avail,” Detective Jeff Kappel said in a statement. “With the boxer bleeding and obviously injured and fearing his wife was about to be attacked by the pit bull, the woman’s husband retrieved a handgun and shot the pitbull once, fatally wounding it and ending its attack.”
Good move. One thing about animals is they are NOT people so there is more leeway in the law. Also while violent criminals are a very unpredictable lot, violent animals are vastly more unpredictable, and they don’t understand that when a guy pulls a gun they need to straighten up and fly right to take a dirt nap.
Again carry your guns, the world isn’t a safe place, and weather you live in the country or the big city, 4 legged predators are always a danger.
Disavowed With Honor responds with an amusing dream interpretation.
The cat: Representation of an aloof Government that doesn’t want you to do anything for yourself, hence dependant upon them (I always knew cats would try to take over).
The puppies: Representation of your rights that the cat won’t let you have.
The cucumber: Representation of the governement distraction. That thing you want, but ultimately, never get to see. (Bet you thought I was gonna go with Dr. Freud didn’t you?)
The parking lot: Representation of the waste land that this country is becoming. A place to “Occupy” with little else.
So you are faced with the Great American Distraction while trying to get your Rights back, but the government won’t let you, and you see the results all around you in an Occupied, yet vacant, landscape. Your “friends” from central casting are all of us fellow bloggers you haven’t met. We are in the same predicament. Linoge being there is someone you recognize to be in the same situation. Because you are familiar with him, it allows you to be anchored to the dream by having a familiar and common ground personality with you.
OR… I could go with Freudian cucumbers if you like? 😉
Or it could be that I had an upset stomach.
Still he has a point, and I appreciate staying away from Freud. It just so happens that cucumbers are one of my favorite tastes of summer, and sliced with a little salt and pepper they’re one of the best snacks around if you get the fresh off the vine, they lose a LOT once they age.
Also as much of a dear friend as I consider him, I have yet to meet Linoge, but damn-it we’ll hoist a pint some day, by George!
OK so this all starts at Joan Peterson’s Twitter page where she links this news story.
There was panic in the emergency room at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital on Wednesday night. Cecilia Belle-Singleton was a patient inside when bullets started flying…A Bronx-Lebanon spokesperson said the fight stemmed from an altercation that a male patient in the ER had outside the hospital earlier in the day. The theory is whoever he had a fight with or people that knew about the fight must have came back to retaliate.
“An individual in our waiting room pulled out a concealed weapon and our security officers immediately went into action to prevent more seriously problems from occurring,” spokesperson Errol Schneer said….Bullets ricocheted off the ceiling as patients and staff ran for cover. Police said two men, a security guard and a nurse suffered superficial gunshot wounds. The suspects took off, but were quickly apprehended and were put in lineups outside the hospital for witnesses to identify.
I’m pretty sure NYC doesn’t have binding signage, as states that are severely draconian about who GETS a carry permit, aren’t very restrictive on WHERE one can carry. (You wouldn’t want to harass the Mayors cousin when he carries a gun into a posted store) But certainly this person didn’t have a permit. Also if this crime is consistent with the shit we see in Boston the perp is likely under the age of 21, and it doesn’t say WHY there was an altercation in an Emergency Room, but I’m guessing it was over the illegal vocation of the perp, or over acquiring certain recreational pharmaceuticals, and I’ll put money that this won’t be his first felony charge.
Of course the point of Joan’s tweet is the same idea as Collin Goddard’s message. A bad thing happened in this place with a gun…if we make EVERYPLACE like this place the world will be better.
Odd how they don’t have any such stories about various Open Carry protests or gun club social dinners, blog dinners, and other situations where you have lawful gun owners carrying their guns.
These people never hesitate to dance in the blood of victims, as “Gun Death” and “Gun Violence” are their currency that they use to push their agenda, is there any wonder why they push to make the law in your town or state the same as the towns and states that have such horrible violent crime problems?
Essentially an employee was fired for wearing an American Flag lapel pin. Their right to fire him for it, our rights to throw the “asshole” flag on the play.
Also note that I cribbed the post title directly from Borepatch for a specific reason.
Got up late, had an upset stomach last night that is waning but still there, and I’m swamped at work.
Still before I forget about it I thought I’d share my strange dream I had last night.
Now before I start, again I’ll note I was indeed having some digestion issues last night. Generally that results in some freaky nightmares, or some bizarre tours of an MC Escher dream-scape.
Nope, last night I dreamed that Linoge and I, and a bunch of friends who must have been from central casting, because I knew they were my pals, and I was happy they were around, but I sure as hell had no idea who they were, or even their names, were waiting in line for what was told to me was a summer cucumber eating contest.
It was just us standing in line and talking about random shit. It was just an asphalt parking lot, and I couldn’t even see any cucumbers or tables or anything…nor did I know what a “Cucumber Eating Contest” entailed, and if I’d be playing or just watching other fools.
The one real oddity was a man pulling a red wagon filled with Akita Puppies and one slinky old white cat. If you went to pat the puppies the cat would go Exorcist and hiss and spit in the most loud and vicious way I’d ever encountered….so I left the dogs alone.
That was the dream. A bit strange…but really I was amazed just how fucking boring it was. I’ve read that everybody dreams every night, and just most of the time we forget them. Strange that such a forgettable dream was remembered…..
Those who which to limit freedoms often say for a violent crime to happen you need to have a dangerous area, and guns.
Authorities say the two men did not know each other but were in two rival groups that met on the streets just after midnight Sunday.
Authorities say Pilalas started swinging a knife during a fight, piercing Goulart’s heart. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead…It was the town’s first homicide since 1996.
They say if you stay away from dangerous areas you’re safe and don’t need a gun. Also if people don’t have guns violent altercations won’t turn deadly.
That’s the purpose of the “Gun Death?” Files, to expose the lies of the talking points, but also to raise awareness on our side. Of course it also shows how violent a world that still has violent criminals, but no guns can be.
There’s talk in the story the departed protecting a friend from the attacker at the time of his fatal stabbing. Also the news says they didn’t know each other but were from “Rival Groups”, which says “Crime” to me. So there’s one account of nobility and one of crime, I’ll call it a wash.
That being said when a thug like this guy comes flashing a knife do you think you’ll be better or worse off you have a gun handy?
In a world without guns the crazy guy with the knife kills you…
So Tam has picked up my recent post on Joan Peterson, and she talks about actual compromises that I suspect she doesn’t much care for, but are indeed compromises.
Sebastian indeed has openly contacted several people in the anti-gun world about a licensing and background check idea and his response has been nothing.
Sebastian does have a point. His ideas can be seen to fail the Jews in the Attic Test, I’d be fine just to have a mark on everybody’s driver’s license denoting prohibited person status. Doesn’t matter if you own guns or not (just the same way that most states issue a different license to those who are over 21 for the purpose of alcohol consumption…drink or no drink, your ID says weather you have the choice or not). You buy a gun, you flash your DL and you walk out with the gun. (Also FYI this might wake some people up to the bullshit laws that will take your rights away)
You get caught faking your ID, you face serious charges.
Now ideally in Weer’d World buying a gun shouldn’t be any different than buying a pocket knife or a power saw. Buy it out of the trunk of a car from Sumdood himself, who cares, because misusing the gun (or anything else) is the important part….also a lot more people being armed around mean if you decide to do something stupid or bad you could get your ass shot.
But that’s a compromise. Compromise is NOT what they want. These people want the same “Compromise” the Palestinian people want. They want to kill all the Jews, and then they’ll probably start sharpening their scimitars for the Christians etc. The anti-gun people want to ban ALL GUNS, and then look to ban knives. These are the people who are excited when some commie said they wanted to repeal the 2nd Amendment.
When they talk about licensing they aren’t thinking a New Hampshire carry permit where they just double-check your background and give you a card, they’re thinking Chicago style permitting where they require a permit to OWN a gun and they close the registry after a while so no new gun owners, and eventually the old guard dies and private gun ownership is over.
When they talk about universal background checks they aren’t talking about popping down to your corner gun shop to set up a transfer (and maybe the guy at the shop is your buddy, or sees you come in to buy a few boxes of ammo every week or new guns so he waives the fee) they’re talking about Mexico-Style where you may need to board a PLANE to get to travel thousands of miles to the ONE shop, go through a TSA-style screen to ENTER the shop, and when you get in there you get to see a selection of guns that makes the bullshit Massachusetts system look lavish. (Just to give you an idea, .380 Auto, and .38 Super are the most popular handgun calibers in Mexico because calibers like 9x19mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP, and .38 Special are “Military and Police Calibers” and illegal for civilians to own), and the article doesn’t say, but I know the ONE GUN SHOP in Washington DC (which doesn’t actually SELL guns, he just signs for the package from another FFL and then transfers the gun to you…and you need to make an appointment because he doesn’t have shop hours) charges $150 just for the transfer. With one shop in the nation, and given that this asshole charge $150 for literally NOTHING (The shops around here charge between $20 and $50, but they have a shop, rent, insurance, and employees, and I can just show up during business hours and get the job done) who’s to say $500 just to call the NICS line is unreasonable?…$1000?
They don’t actually want to talk compromise because in any compromise situation lawful people get to own guns. They don’t want that, so we get the responses we do.
So those who have been following the blog closely know I acquired a Romanian SKS for a good price, and by default it became my SHTF rifle. I must say I have a lot of love for the SKS it has good ergonomics and out to 100 yards its passably accurate. Also while its a fixed-magazine semi-auto it can be quickly reloaded using 10 round stripper clips.
Still its a communist rifle and it exemplifies the Soviet military mindset at being “Adequate” in every way. I yearned for more gun.
So I dropped a little more coin for a WASR-10
Long story short, after a few months I found that if I wanted to burn 7.62x39mm ammo, I was still bringing the SKS to the range. The WASR just wasn’t fun to shoot, and just didn’t sing to me, and I’ll say 90% of that was changing magazines on the gun. AK pattern guns just require some very unnatural movements to seat that magazine, and magazine changes are kinda the whole point to getting a detachable magazine gun, so I went and sold it.
You see, 7.62×39 was a compromise for me anyway. More powerful than 5.56x45mm which I just don’t have a lot of confidence with, and the ammo is easy to get. Still my true love is 7.62x51mm/.308 Win when it comes to muzzle energy, bullet size/weight, and availability.
So the guns I looked at were the AR-10, the PTR-91/H&K G3/CETME, M1A, FN FAL, and the FN SCAR-17.
Out of the box the SCAR-17 is the vastly superior gun in every way…but with its standard folding stock it is not Massachusetts legal. They also sell for about $3000, and guns and magazines are virtually unavailable, so that got ruled out. The AR-10 is a nice gun, but I’m not crazy about the AR platform, and the magazines are a nightmare to find in Massachusetts, and they’re super expensive when you do. The CETME platform is an ergonomic nightmare, eats brass, and is the ONLY gun here without a bolt hold-open. H&K? You suck and I hate you!
So that left the M1A and the FAL. They’re close enough for government work, but the FAL has better ergonomics, IMHO a more robust design, and magazines are easier to aquire. So it won, and I bought a Century L1A1 Sporter:
I got it for a smoking deal, and I overall liked the gun, plus the non-threaded, not muzzle-brake’d muzze was a huge selling point because of the Massachusetts AWB. Still it only took one trip to the range to work up the laundry list of issues with the gun. The big ones being A) no Sling mounts, and B) the Crappy Thumbhole stock was not only an eyesore, but it made it impossible to actuate the safety with a normal firing grip.
The issues complicated themselves more when the gun began to chronically short-stroke. I decided to give the gun to Commenter and Buddy Wally, along with a bucket of parts I got from hither and yon, and asked him to work his magic.
Well I got it back. Well it turns out what they say about Century is true. The gun was missing internal parts (namely the gas tube pins) and its halmark of quality was the drywall screw that holds the pistol grip on.
Well Wally un-fucked all that was fucked, installed the new parts, and also decided to give it a minor trigger job. The trigger was quite ugly on the gun, now its still heavy, but VERY clean.
It now functions like a champ, and after throwing a com-bloc AK sling on it:
I am so happy with it! This gun reminds me of the first time I picked up a 1911. It just makes SENSE. The controls are all where they need to be, and the gun points and shoots SO WELL. Also it puts a round I have 100% confidence in down range.
So I finally have the SHTF gun I always wanted.
Now if only we could repeal the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban so I could also get an 18″ Paratrooper
