A federal judge in Florida ruled a U.S. law prohibiting people from having firearms in post offices is unconstitutional. That is a ruling guaranteed to be appealed.
Antigun
Not Conflict Resolution
The author of this piece is Dr. Tom Hastings, the conflict resolution coordinator at Portland State University. Portland. Enough said, but let’s look closer at his nonsense anyhow.
It is long past time to repeal the Second Amendment.
Why?
To strengthen democracy.
I don’t want democracy. With democracy, 50.1 percent of the voters would be able to legalize slavery. The voters could easily vote to euthanize everyone over the age of 65, or even confiscate the property of everyone who has a net worth of more than $500,000 so that it can be redistributed. The beauty of our system of government is that, while they are democratically elected, our representatives can’t violate the rights of the individual.
Already in 2022, as of Sept. 25, there have been 32,643 gun deaths in America from a variety of causes, including murder, homicide, accidents and suicides. Many of these deaths were in places that attempted strict gun control, including a ban on assault rifles, but were successfully sued by the NRA or other gun rights groups and their local or state laws vacated by rulings prompted by the Second Amendment.
Let’s start with the “gun deaths” metric. First, a “gun death” is a stupid metric. An early death is no more tragic if carried out by cancer, diabetes, being tossed out of a helicopter, or simply beaten over the head with a hammer.
Second, more than 26,000 of those “gun deaths” were actually suicides. A person intent on killing themselves could, if guns were outlawed, simply step in front of a train, leap from the window of a tall building, or overdose on sleeping pills. Getting rid of the Second Amendment would not save the lives of anyone intent on suicide. The fault in logic here is stunning- the left contends that people who wish to take their own lives would not do so if there were no guns in the home. Ridiculous and easily demonstrated as a false premise. In the United States, over 48,000 people take their own lives each year, and there is no reason to believe that things would improve with the outlawing of guns. Take Guyana as an example, where the government has passed every single dream of gun control proposed by the left.
In Guyana, Category B firearms are only available to sport shooters who hold a license to practice for at least 6 months, with a medical certificate, without a criminal conviction, and additionally require at least three shooting sessions with an instructor. Specific purchase and possession permits can then be applied for from a local police department, are valid for 5 years and can be extended. These weapons can then only be used for sport shooting in shooting ranges, never for hunting. Category B includes all assault rifles such as AK-47/AKM, AK-74 or AR-15/M16/M4, as well as all similar weapons, even if they are chambered for rimfire (.22 LR) cartridges. These can only be semi-automatic. All handguns, including those using rim ammunition, are classified as Category B. It is illegal to possess these Category B weapons after the expiry of a specific non-renewed license: the weapons must be disposed of (e.g., sold to a firearms store or otherwise destroyed).
Meanwhile, Guyana has the highest suicide rate of any nation in the world: 40.8 suicides per 100,000. That number represents a suicide rate three times that of the United States. So gun laws have no effect on suicide rates, which are more of a mental health issue than they are a firearms issue. In Guyana, the suicide problem is related closely to alcoholism, not guns.
Civilized countries enact laws that actually protect their children. Unlike every single other developed or large country in the entire world, the number one cause of death for children in the US is firearms.
Wrong. Homicides don’t even come close to being the number one cause of death, even including homicides by all mechanisms. Unless you consider 15-24 year olds as being children.
To prevent Civil War 2.0.
With approximately 400 million guns floating around US society and an armed MAGA-driven polarization met by an increasingly armed leftist radical wing, along with evermore virulent rhetoric and escalating numbers walking around open-carrying war weaponry in public, half of America believes that civil war is coming. Tossing out the Second Amendment would free legislatures and city councils to begin seriously ending such belligerent displays of combat weapons.
During Vietnam, the left thought they were clever by asking “What if they threw a war and no one showed up?” The more important question is “What if they threw a war and only one side showed up?” The answer to that is, of course, genocide. Disarming one side allows the other side, still armed, to do with the unarmed as they please.
It’s as if he thinks that getting rid of the Second Amendment would cause the 600 million plus guns already in US hands to simply disappear. Instead, the repeal of 2A would cause many of those 600 million guns to be used against the very people who would be attempting to confiscate them, guaranteeing the onset of an American civil war.
This guy, who is supposed to be interested in conflict resolution, is advocating for the one thing that is guaranteed to cause more conflict than any other single thing that the government could do. Clueless, but the left’s ideas usually are.
Anti American left
Ha, Ha
Liberals moving to Canada to live the perceived liberal Utopia there are discovering that their ideas don’t work. They are finding that “free” health care is a great benefit when you are healthy, but if you are sick waiting lists are quite long.
Niren, who has lived in both the US and Canada, voiced similar concerns. He said his own mother, who needs a hip replacement, had been on a waitlist for 18 months. “There are people who have to fly to other countries — including the United States — to get cancer treatment because it takes too long,” he said. “In the US, you can get a specialist appointment in two days.”
Niren also said Canadians paid elevated taxes to support such a comprehensive healthcare system.
“People call it free healthcare — it’s not free,” he said. “It’s very expensive because you’re paying through the taxes.”
Wait, you are telling me that the Doctors and Nurses in Canada don’t work for free? WTH?
He added that there was still an opioid crisis in British Columbia, but it wasn’t as striking as it is in Portland. Ouellet said that in the three years he’d lived in British Columbia, he’d seen one syringe on the ground, compared with Portland, where he saw dozens a day.
That’s because you live in leftist shitholes. I have NEVER seen a syringe on the ground. That’s what you get for living in Portland.
“When you’re out in public, and you hear a noise, no one runs, no one checks over their shoulder, no one thinks that it could possibly be gun violence.”
The reality is that, outside of a few leftist shithole cities, so called “gun violence” is as rare in the US as it is in Canada. The simple fact is that Canada has a population density that is much lower than in the US, and when you compare cities of equal density, you get similar crime rates. Couple that with the fact that blacks (the demographic most likely to participate in violent crime) only make up 4.9% of Canada’s population, and the result is low crime.
Still, lefties- GTFO
Taxes
Democrats and Taxes
Florida Democrats are proposing a law that would require HOAs to donate 15% of their dues money to charities in the community where they are located. The bill text is found here. (pdf warning)
This amounts to a 15% tax placed on the backs of all property owners. What this means is that all HOAs in Florida would have to increase their association dues. This will increase the costs of housing for everyone in the state. Even renters.
Democrats: they hate property owners. They hate America. The only groups that they like are sexual deviants, criminals, and illegal immigrants.
So how do you fight this, should it pass? The law doesn’t specifically say what organizations that the donations have to benefit. This is what it requires:
Donate or use at least 15 percent of the association’s total annual income to benefit the community in the county in which the community served by the association is located.
What constitutes a “benefit the community”? Perhaps using it to donate to a progun group, establishing firearms safety courses, or some other pro-liberty cause. I mean, increasing gun ownership benefits the community, at least in my opinion.
Military
Whites Aren’t Buying It
All branches of the US military have been reporting that they are falling short in their recruiting goals, and they have been trying some pretty spectacular stunts to get more recruits. It seems that the Military’s recruiting woes are due to whites not enlisting.
A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were white in 2018, but in 2023 that had fallen to 25,070. That represents a drop of over 19,000 recruits per year. With the Army having a shortfall of more than 10,000 enlistees in its recruiting target, it’s plain to see that it is a lack of white candidates that is the reason.
It seems that whites, and specifically white males, are tired of being told that they are the enemy, that they are racist, and they have decided that they don’t want to sacrifice their lives to defend people and a nation that despises them.
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Spammers
In the past week, I have been receiving 100 spam comments per day, and spammers have been signing up for user accounts at a rate of 60 or 70 per day. Not only that, but I am getting 50 or 60 spam emails per day to my admin address.
So, for starters, I have banned the IP of the most egregious offender. I am also suspending the ability for people to sign up for user accounts. Sigh. I have too much going on right now to deal with this.
Lawfare
Those Are Rookie Numbers
An Arizona man’s home was raided because he threatened to kill FBI agents. The media is all in an uproar because he had 5,000 rounds of ammo, an AR15, body armor, and six loaded magazines in his house. He also had a loaded handgun in his car.
That’s what I like to refer to as a “starter kit.” I have more than 5,000 rounds of just .22 LR, not to mention 12 gauge, 5.56mm, 7.62mm, .380ACP, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, .357 Sig, 9mm, .45ACP, .32 ACP, or .40S&W. I have a two safe system here. One safe is filled with “cold” firearms. That’s where I store the guns that are unloaded. The other safe is the “hot” safe, and that is where I store my EDC firearms, as well as a loaded 12 gauge, a loaded AR, a set of electronic ears, a few spare, loaded magazines, and a ballistic vest.
I think that most, if not all, of my readers would more than exceed the NBC Pearl Clutching story above. So what was his crime?
in August of last year, Tomasi posted: [to a social media website] “Shoot the FBI first ask questions later. They are terrorists that deserve nothing but to be shot on site.” He also warned that FBI officers who “have a problem with that come to my house and see what happens.”
They also claim that he posted about wanting to torture a former federal official “to death,” subject a U.S. congresswoman to “the horror of a violent rape,” and executing a U.S. congressman. He didn’t name a specific official or lawmaker, according to the story.
I’m hard pressed to see the crime here. He didn’t name a specific lawmaker or official. I don’t see where that is a threat, since he didn’t specifically name someone. There must be more to this that isn’t being reported.
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People Trying to Help
We closed on the house, which wound up taking all day. The reason it took so long was that the woman at the title company took it upon herself to “correct mistakes” that she thought that she had found in the financing paperwork. This caused a cascade of issues that added four hours to the time needed to close, and required a personal visit from the President of the mortgage broker’s company to fix. As a result of her mistake, it added $200 to the closing costs, which I refused to pay, so the finance company was forced to eat it.
My original plan was to spend a couple of weeks getting the place ready to move in, then we would spend another couple of weeks actually moving. There was a lot that needed to happen before we started moving in. I had to:
- Change the locks. I don’t care if it’s a brand new house, I always change the locks so I can be sure that I know who has keys to my place.
- I bought commercial concrete paint and sealant. It takes three days to apply and another three days to cure, but gives you a very professional looking, durable, slip resistant floor that won’t absorb things spilled on it, such as motor oil. It wasn’t cheap. Enough to do a three car garage cost about a thousand bucks. The floor looks great, though. I paid it because you only get one chance to seal a new floor.
- I had to install four televisions on the wall, six ceiling fans, and replace 12 light fixtures. The light fixtures that came with the house were the cheap ones because I didn’t like the choices that they had, so I bought my own. The lighting looks great.
- I installed a whole home sound system, the home network, added some power receptacles in the garage where my workbench will be, because I wasn’t willing to pay the $140 per extra outlet that the contractor charges to add them. I added 4 outlets for about $100.
- I paid movers to move the furniture, and a locksmith specializing in safes moved the gun safe. We moved everything else. The movers took care of every single piece of furniture that my wife didn’t place off limits because the pieces were fragile or very valuable. For example, I have an antique AM radio that uses tubes. It used to belong to my grandfather, and my dad listened to the old radio programs on it as a child. I won’t plug it in, but it looks great in the man cave.
So that was the plan. The plan died when my wife’s family came over to help. They decided to do a lot of stuff while I was working, so it put things into overdrive. We wound up moving the entire household in only 8 days. Now I am sitting in my house, surrounded by dozens of boxes, trying to organize and put things away. I still have to get a plumber to come over and install the water softener, and I will need to spend a couple of weeks getting the old house ready to either rent or sell.
Normal blogging to resume today.
On a side note, my shower in this new house is pure indulgence. Three showerheads, it’s like showering in a car wash.
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Getting There
The move is progressing. This is the living/dining/kitchen. Blogging should resume within a couple of days.
