Divemedic

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a mechanic for American Airlines, was arrested for trying to sabotage an American airlines jet shortly before it was set to take off from Miami International Airport for the Bahamas.

The left is trying to pick a fight where they have underestimated their foe.

According to the US census, Florida has a population of 20.6 million. 20 percent of that population is under the age of 18, meaning that there are 16.45 million adults living in Florida. There are 7.4 million households in the state of Florida, equaling an average of 2.1 adults in each household.

According to the Department of Agriculture (the state agency that issues CWPs), there are over 2.1 million non-law enforcement citizens in Florida who can legally carry a firearm. (pdf warning) That means that, on average, 27 percent of Florida households contain at least one permitted firearm carrier.

Just in the past 20 years, over 42 million rifles have been manufactured. Between 20 and 50% of all rifles manufactured in the USA are AR-15 pattern rifles, including all of the variants like the AR-10, and all of the miscellaneous caliber variations. This means that there are somewhere around 20 million or more weapons that would be subject to any sort of so-called “assault weapons” ban.

There have been more than 320 million NICS checks done since the system was set up 20 years ago. This means that there are more than 650 million firearms in this country. Each year, Americans are busy buying 27 million firearms and 10-12 BILLION rounds of ammunition a year. To put that in perspective, that is more ammunition than  was used by the entire US military during each year of World War 2, when the average was just over 10 billion rounds a year.

What all of this means is that, outside of the major antigun metroplexes of NYC, Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, and LA, more than half of households have at least one firearm, and more than a quarter of them own at least one “assault weapon.”

If even one percent of the gun owning public decides to respond in kind to being called an enemy of the people, there will be somewhere around 1.5 million people who are armed, pissed off, and know how to shoot. They will not be lined up in neat ranks out in a field somewhere, just waiting for you to nuke them.

The US police cannot even begin to control the gang problem in our inner cities, and the membership of those gangs is only around 800,000 or so. This is a fight that cannot be won, but they don’t care, because liberals are not the ones who will be getting killed. Or so they think. That is dangerous thinking indeed. The people of each who are the least stable will be the ones who decide when the violence begins and how far it goes.

Civilized society is a thin veneer. Humans are just like any other animal on Earth: when supplies are in short supply and survival is on the line, even normally well behaved people will discard societal norms to survive. 

Just so you know, I celebration of your recent decision to stop selling anything gun related unless it is for hunting:

I just bought several hundred dollars of defense ammo from my local gun store.

Then I went to the range and got rid of some target ammo.

San Francisco has declared that the NRA is a terrorist organization, and is urging the Federal Government to do the same. As a life member, I guess I am now a terrorist. Does this mean that I will be added to the “no buy” list? Even if I am not, such a declaration violates my First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Even while declaring gun owners to be an enemy of the state, they are demanding that we give up the only means of preventing our being loaded into boxcars. If the Democrats win the 2020 election, I fear that all of us who have been law abiding for years by joining the NRA, registering our NFA items, and getting CWPs will have to go into hiding.

Walter Williams recently penned an article titled “Criminologists Mislead Us.” In the article, he points to a study showing that criminologists mislead us because liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts 30 to 1. Of course they do. Anyone who looks at the facts and attempts to have a conversation about the actual causes of crime is labelled as a racist and pushed out of a job.

The facts are obvious to anyone who chooses to look at them without bias:
– Black males are the victim of homicide 10 to 20 times more often than any other demographic
– Black males commit homicides 15 to 35 times more often than any other demographic
– Black males commit armed robbery 10 to 15 times more often whites
– Most crime is committed by perpetrators who are the same race as their victims
– More than 90% of homicides where the victim is black, so is their killer

The study goes on to say:

Despite the evidence that higher incarceration reduces crime rates, many criminologists argue that “mass incarceration” actually “took minority men out of their neighborhoods, stripped them of voting rights, destabilized families, and sapped already-paltry economic resources from struggling communities.”
Such claims could seem plausible only if one believes—contrary to evidence and common sense—that career criminals contribute positively to their neighborhoods, enjoy stable and functional families, vote, and work. What they did, in reality, was to prey on their neighbors.

After reading this, I can only conclude that the problem lies in the black neighborhoods. Something that many people already know, even if they won’t admit it, for fear of being labeled as a racist. This is why housing values are lower in black neighborhoods.

It would be easy to take a racist slant, but I don’t think that blacks are inherently more violent or prone to crime. Instead, I believe that the root cause lies in the disintegration of the black family. In black communities, we now have more than two out of every three black children growing up in single parent households. Compare that to white children, where three out of four grow up having two parents in the family. In 1960, that was where black families were: 22% of black children were in single parent homes. 

In other words, children growing up raising themselves are growing up without the guidance and direction that having a parent around provides. Children model the behavior of their role models. This is how we learn to comply with societal norms. When they are young, those role models are their parents. As they approach the teenage years, those role models become their peers. When there are no parents around, the young children model the behavior of the only others that they see: older kids.

So the black community has as its role model the leaders of street gangs. Criminals. This has been the case for nearly four generations. Solve the increasing problems of dads leaving as soon as a woman gets pregnant, and you solve the problems of our society. Of course this will never happen, because the people who could solve it are instead selling away the American nuclear family in exchange for votes. As long as we continue to subsidize single mothers, we will get more of them, and this in turn will erode our society even more.

The wheels are slowly coming off.

The eye of Hurricane Dorian passed to our east at about 3:30 this morning. The barometric pressure bottomed out at 1003 millibars, and the highest wind we got was 22 mph. The total rain so far was about an inch and a half. We get worse from afternoon thunderstorms.

I never did finish the 24 checklist. Tomorrow, I will put all of the hurricane supplies away. Until next time.