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Preparedness lies?
The government has released the national health security strategy report and is claiming that hurricanes are more severe and frequent (pdf warning) because of global warming. Are they really? If you look at this chart, it certainly seems like it.
There is an obvious flaw: before 1974 there were no weather satellites. Yes. TIROS launched in 1960, but it only orbited for 78 days and only had a black and white camera. Even then, the earlier versions of the GOES satellite program, which began in 1974, only viewed the earth about 10% of the time and were not able to measure storm strength (by cloud top temperature) until GOES 9 in 1994.
Weather records for hurricane strength depended entirely on direct observation of the weather from ships and land stations until the 1955 hurricane season, when regular hurricane hunter flights began.
This means that the data on storm frequency and strength cannot be as accurate as today for any hurricane season before about 1995. The data just wasn’t there.
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Science corrupted
So there was a study that found gun ownership rates had a direct correlation to teen suicide rates. They found that for every 10 percent increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increased by 26.9 percent. There are so many flaws in this logic that it is laughable.
The first is that they compared Alaska and South Dakota’s high gun ownership rates and high suicide rates to New York and New Jersey. They ignore population density as being a factor. When you compare New York and New Jersey to Alabama and Mississippi, the rates are closer. Perhaps the lack of access to timely EMS and trauma centers means that an attempted suicide is more likely to be a successful suicide.
Nah, it’s easier to blame guns.
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Why I carry
I carry a weapon all of the time, even while walking or jogging. The fact that a woman in Central Florida was attacked by a coyote seems to prove me correct.
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DIAS
A 19 year old mechanical engineering student from UCF was arrested with several DIAS equipped AR’s. The press gets it wrong, though: Drop in auto sears have been illegal to manufacture since 1986.
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Bad advice
This is making the rounds of Florida social media:
They are saying that having a medical marijuana card won’t affect your CCW permit. That is probably true. However, note that they are advising people to lie on the 4473. That is most certainly bad advice.
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Electric action
I’ve been thinking:
Since a semiautomatic rifle is defined as: “any repeating rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.”
There is a workaround. Eliminate the recoil springs and most of the firing mechanism. Replace them with a small servo set that cycles the bolt and then re-locks it after each shot. The weapon would not be a semi-automatic at that point, since the energy to extract and chamber would not come from the energy of the fired cartridge.
The magazine of such a weapon could contain the battery and be recharged between firings, the battery could be in the weapon, or both.
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True Republican
Today, Donald Trump proved that he is a true Republican. Having learned nothing from George HW Bush and his famous “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge, Trump caved in to Democrats and, going back on his word, agreed to reopen the government without any funding for his wall.
Between this and the bumpstock ban, Donald Trump just ensured that he will not be reelected.