The Ninth Circuit court of appeals has just ruled that standard capacity magazines are protected by the Second Amendment. The court applied strict scrutiny and ruled that the blanket ban of “large capacity magazines” was not the least restrictive means of achieving the compelling interest of preventing “gun violence.”
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Redesign
My wife was just notified that the school where she works is moving in three years. They are building a new school, which will be 20 minutes further from our house. She wants to move to an area that is closer to her job.
The funny thing is that although this new school is also further from my school, it is a shorter commute.
We won’t have to sell our current house, and will be able to add another rental to our business, one that has no mortgage.
So I am onboard. This will be the first house that I have had built. Ever.
I told her that I would like some design features added to our home. The wife and I are currently discussing adding some features. I want to make the place more secure without making it look like a fortress. Maybe some nice looking planters in front. See if I can get the walls for the master closet made of sturdy enough material to make it a safe room. I am not sure what it will be, but I want to see what we is possible for what we can afford.
We have two years to plan before we have to start construction, so there is plenty of time.
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Trust Crisis
Florida contact tracers complain that no one trusts them enough to give them information. It could be that people read stories like these:
Florida couple jailed for breaking coronavirus quarantine
and they don’t want to risk having some government official lock them in their homes upon penalty of being locked in jail.
It could be that they lied about the masks. Or people who were shot or died in motorcycle accidents being classified as COVID. Or nurses who claim they are overwhelmed while filming TikTok videos of them doing choreographed dance routines.
WHEN THEY LIED ABOUT THE MASKS, THEY POISONED THE TRUST WELL. WHEN THEY GAVE THE BLM RALLIES THEIR SEAL OF APPROVAL, THEY SHAT IN IT. Contact Tracing Is Having a Trust Crisis. Nobody trusts the tech companies, either, for similar reasons. When you lie and cheat, people don’t trust you.
At this late date, contact tracing is largely pointless anyway. It might have mattered in February and early March, but the CDC made sure there weren’t enough tests.
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What we have here is a failure to communicate
There is an article in Fox news this morning that talks about how the protests riots in Portland have moved from the downtown area into residential areas. What I want to point out is this part of the article:
Some residents in the neighborhoods have expressed support of the movement despite the disruption. Neighborhood residents regularly aid protesters as police chase small groups through Portlands residential streets, Getty reported.
If one of my neighbors is actively assisting rioters in the destruction of my property, whether that be actually damaging property or assisting them in escape and evasion from police, my neighbor now has a problem.
See, if I have proof in the form of video, I am suing his ass for all of the damages. If that isn’t possible, then guess whose property is going to be damaged by unidentified looters the next night.
Targeting government buildings isn’t working, so the insurgents have decided to target residential areas instead.
The people in these neighborhoods need to make it known in no uncertain terms that this won’t be tolerated. Maybe some protesters can go visit the riot assisting neighbors’ homes and do some “mostly peaceful” protesting against their cars and property. Maybe the message will be understood.
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Authoritah
Every year, there are a couple of things that happen just before school starts. One of them is that teachers have to complete refresher training in the proper way to secure a classroom in the event that there is a mass shooting. We are taught to do a number of things. This first picture is a screenshot from the actual training video that we are required to watch.
Pay special attention to the picture in the center. They have taken a table, wrapped an extension cord around it, and then tied that cord around the doorknob.
Then there is this method:
My door opens out, so not effective. What about this one?
Stupid. Places your students in front of the window in the door where they can be shot, and also note that there are two people playing tug o war with the door knob. If only there was a better way…
Well, two years ago I found a better way. I paid $150 for two of these. My classroom and the one next door are connected by an office, so I got 2 of them- one for the door to each classroom. It securely locks the door, making sure no one can enter.
All’s well, right? Teacher finds a way to secure two classrooms at no cost to the school. Well, that brings us to the second thing that happens every year: One of the cops assigned to campus security visits each classroom to review how secure the room is. They ask the teacher questions like: “If there was a shooter in the building, where would you have your students take cover?”
Then he noticed the extra door lock and asked me: “If there was shooter and we needed to get in here, how would we get in?”
I responded with “I would have to let you in, because nobody is getting in here once I lock that door, unless I let you in.”
He said, “what if the shooter were already in here when you locked it, and had already shot you?” I responded that the teacher in the neighboring classroom would let them in the room next door.
He then asked me, “but the shooter would surely have shot the other teacher as well.”
I then said, “Look, you are trying to twist some convoluted scenario where you are going to prove that this lock won’t work, no matter how unrealistic. There is no difference between what I have put here and tying the door shut with a table barricade, except that my device will actually work.”
He said that he would be reporting it to the school safety authority, because they cannot have a room where the police cannot simply enter by using their master key. THAT was his real issue. He can’t stand the fact that there is a room that he cannot get into.
I don’t know what will come of it. I don’t think they can have me remove it, because I drilled holes through the door to install it. I guess we will see.
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Air Force chopper emergency landing after being shot over Virginia
A helicopter from the 1st helicopter squadron was struck by ground fire, injuring a crew member. The helicopter had to make an emergency landing. The crew member was treated at a local hospital and released. The first helicopter squadron flies out of Joint Base Andrews. The FBI is investigating. The Air Force declined to provide any further information.
Although Marine One flies the President, the First Helicopter Squadron is responsible for evacuating people in the Presidential Line of Succession in the event of an attack on the US.
One has to wonder if this is a continuation of the violence against government that has been increasing with the presence of the insurgency.
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Rules for radicals
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
…The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
…the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
…the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
…the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
…the seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
…the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
…the ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
…The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
…The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
…The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
When two forces go head-to-head, the side that tries to play nice usually ends up with its head in a box. When is it time to not be nice?
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White House shooting
Secret Service pulls President from press conference because they are in the middle of a firefight on White House grounds. I don’t ever remember the Secret Service interrupting a press conference, with the possible exception of Reagan getting shot. Unusual, until you consider that the press room has doors that open right outside.
Democrats are criticizing Trump for allowing himself to be evacuated by the Secret Service because of the shooting. They are saying it is cowardice. What do you expect him to do, put on a six shooter and have a quickdraw contest on the south lawn?
Meanwhile, Joe Biden hides from the press in his basement…
EDITED TO ADD: One SS agent and one suspect were transported to local hospitals. The suspect was said to have critical, life threatening injuries.
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Even water burns when it shoots out of your nose
Male PPB officers detaining a female protestor and patting her down w/ no female officers present. I asked if they had a female officer to do patdown, one responded by “nope” the other said, “how do you know I don’t identify as a female?” Other officers laugh.
Replies are comedy gold:
SJW:
This happened to me the morning of 8/5 at PPA and I’m looking for footage. I demanded female officers and they refused.
Reply:
stop assuming the officers genders you archaic relic of the oppressive past
Alynsky’s fourth, fifth, and sixth rules…
…the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
…the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
…the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.