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From this article on “The Campus Rape Myth”

Even if the Harvard victim’s drunkenness cancels any responsibility that she might share for the interaction’s finale, is she equally without responsibility for all of her behavior up to that point, including getting so drunk that she can’t remember anything? Campus rape ideology holds that inebriation strips women of responsibility for their actions but preserves male responsibility not only for their own actions but for their partners’ as well. Thus do men again become the guardians of female well-being.

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A male rapes his 18 year old, developmentally disabled stepdaughter, and she is later found dead. The cause of death is that her throat was cut, after which the house she was in was set on fire and her uterus was cut from her body to hide the evidence of the stepfather’s crime. The girl’s mother is suspected in the murder, as the stepfather was in jail at the time.

A mother killed her pregnant daughter, and then cut out her daughter’s uterus to prevent her child molesting husband out of jail. Of course, since the crimes committed did not involve a firearm, that is is just fine with the anti-gun people, as it is not a “gun related crime” and thus does not matter.

There was a man in the Orlando area by the name of Henry Brown. He and his wife had separated, and he began stalking her. He put a GPS tracking device on her car. He threatened her. She went to court and got a domestic violence restraining order.

He followed her constantly. On at least two occasions, he was caught by a Deputy violating the restraining order, but the Deputy and prosecutors chose to do nothing about it. Officials said there were constant injunction violations from January to April, which went unreported, based on interviews with family and friends after the murders.

Officials said Henry Brown’s phone records show he tried to contact Chericia Brown via text and email and used fake phone numbers and emails to conceal his identity.

 What happened next was a travesty. He found his wife’s car at a Chili’s restaurant, and hid in the trunk of her car as he waited for her to exit the eatery. Once she came out of the establishment, he confronted her and stabbed her multiple times before fleeing. Two bystanders, one a nurse and the other a paramedic, tried to render aid to the woman. That is when Brown returned in his pickup truck and ran all three of them over.

All three were injured, two of them seriously. The wife was taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital, where she died of her injuries. In the interim, the suspect went to the babysitter’s house, picked up the couple’s two children, and went to the hospital in search of his wife. Deputies who were there recognized him, and this is what happened next:

Brown escaped in his truck and was found a short time later. A police chase ensued, which ended when stop sticks were employed. When police approached the vehicle, they found him with his one and four year old children, all three of them dead from gunshot wounds.

My thoughts:

1. To people with an anti gun agenda, the paramedic, the nurse, and the wife’s injuries and death do not count, because they were not related to guns. He used a knife and a pickup truck as his weapons. We see this often in the anti gun community, where they trot out the metric of “gun death” to claim that countries who outlaw guns see a decline in “gun death” but the ignore the fact that murder rates either remain unchanged or actually rise after strict gun laws are passed, thus proving that only “gun deaths” count.

2. A judge in Seminole county issued a domestic violence restraining order. It did no good whatsoever. These orders do nothing to prevent domestic violence, and are only used to persecute the innocent in messy breakups, mainly by women against men. The truly violent people simply ignore them. In this case, the judge who granted the order said this:

In this instance, the judge did everything in her power to enjoin Mr. Brown from having contact with his spouse, and yet he did. These deaths are tragedies that a piece of paper could not prevent.

Even the judge concedes that a DV order doesn’t prevent this kind of violence.

3. Since he was under a Domestic Violence Restraining order, it was against both Federal and State law for him to be in possession of a firearm or ammunition. It was against the law for him to hide in his wife’s trunk, and it was against the law for him to try to kill her, their children, the bystanders who came to his wife’s aid, as well as the people who were at the hospital. In all, Brown violated the law no fewer than 27 times that day, with at least 14 of those violations being felonies. None of those laws mattered, and passing yet another law would not have prevented this, or even changed the outcome in a meaningful way.

There were a host of errors that led to this disaster. There were dozens of times where people could have reported what was going on and prevented this, but chose not to. The people who did report crimes were ignored.

In the end, the only one to blame for this was the evil man who changed a dozen lives, and ended three of them, besides his own. Some people are just evil. That is why I choose to carry a weapon for the defense of myself and the people I care about.

ccbpc asked a question, and I will answer:

Not sure what you’re using your puters for, but $1100 is an awful lot. I built mine over 5 years ago, Asus mobo, AMD Callisto dual core processor overclocked to 3.4 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, 1 WD 500 Gb hd, with case, dvd burner and power supply I was out $545. It still works like a brand new one right now. More money doesn’t necessarily mean a better product. 

As far as my old computer goes:

5 years ago you bought an AMD Callisto overclocked to 3.4 gHz. That is a dual core processor. I bought my system in 2012 with a Core i7 Quad core processor that ran at 3.4 gHz. That is comparing a coupe to a sports car. I bought 16 gb of RAM. In this case, more money does equal a better product.

With this new system, I am looking for a 17 inch laptop. I challenge you to find a decent one for less than $1K. I’ve been looking.

As far as Ubuntu, I have an 8 year old laptop that I am experimenting with.

Occasionally, I engage in some sort of upgrades for the computer systems in the house. Computers typically last me about 4 years or so before needing to be replaced. I delayed things a bit last year by replacing the motherboard that had gone bad. At the same time, I decided to also replace the main hard drive with a 500GB SSD.

That machine itself was put together in 2012. It is a 3.4GHz Quad Core Sandy Bridge processor on an EVGA motherboard with 16GB of RAM. I reused the hard drives, two monitors, keyboard, case, and other miscellaneous parts.  The cost for the machine was right around $1100. Last year’s overhaul cost another $400.

So I now have a 4 year old machine and it works fine, but it has one glaring problem: It is a Windows machine. I want to make a switch to Linux. As a test, I am going to install Linux on an old laptop that I have had since 2008, just to make sure that I am comfortable with the software before I take the plunge.

To make this happen, I have moved all of my files to my own personal cloud by using a NAS. The NAS that I chose, was chosen for a few of reasons.

1 It runs Linux
2 It doesn’t run Windows
3 It is expandable
4 It can be upgraded with new software
5 It is expandable by adding more drives, and even though it now has more storage than I need, that will not always be the case. I remember my father telling me in 1986 that no one would ever need more than 10 MB of storage, because that was enough to store a library.

If all of this goes as planned, I will go with a System 76 laptop running the Linux Ubuntu system. With any luck, I can get another 4 or 5 years out of this setup. The cost won’t be too bad, coming in at right around $1200.

Before we were living together, my fiance and I each got the expanded census survey. Neither of us answered it. The survey just got even more stupid.

I am going to begin self identifying as a woman, so I can force my insurance company to give me lower rates. When the two of us are married, it will be a same sex union.

There was an incident at the University of Florida, where a student posted to Social Media that a woman wearing “Muslim garb” was in the library with a gun. SWAT responded and made the situation worse, as one office had a negligent discharge. A student who witnessed the discharge said:

You kind of just saw the guy holding the gun, like it kicked back, and everybody that was standing there ran the opposite direction.

Then a reporter wondered what sort of security was in place at the library (sorry I couldn’t find a better video):