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Two criminals were arrested with stolen firearms in their car.

Raymond Leroy Leonard, 55, of Lake Panasoffkee and Jessie L. Pereida,
27, of Webster, were traveling in a vehicle in the vicinity of Catfish
Johnny’s restaurant in Lake Panasoffkee when a deputy noticed the
vehicle had an expired registration tag.
During the traffic stop, a
deputy confirmed that Leonard is a convicted felon. The deputy also saw
firearms in the back of the vehicle in plain sight, the arrest report
said. A check confirmed that some of the guns had been reported stolen
in Lake County.

This is why laws requiring background checks do not work. 

A police officer in England is alive today, simply because her attacker chose not to kill her. In the video below, a man in handcuffs attacks the Sergeant, knocks her to the ground and pounds her head into the ground, knocking her unconscious. Watch the video:

If you listen carefully, the officer’s breathing changes as she goes unconscious, and remains that way for almost a full minute. During that minute, the man could have simply strangled her to death, if he had wanted to do so.
One commenter said:

Damn good job the officer didn’t have a gun or a tazer as it could have been much worse!

Which is ridiculous. The only reason that the officer is alive is because the man who attacked her wasn’t a killer. He had the means and the opportunity, but not the will. having a weapon doesn’t make a person into a killer, having the mindset of a killer does.

As for me, I am not willing to bet my life that a person who attacks  me is not a killer, so I carry a gun, and hope like hell that I never have to use it.

I just tried explaining the law concerning the possession of weapons on school property in the state of Florida. The teacher in question wants to carry pepper spray in her purse. The laws are confusing, convoluted, and almost impossible to understand, let alone explain or follow. Here is what I had to say:

When Obama was a candidate in 2007, and had yet to win his Nobel Peace Prize, he said that he would waste no time in brokering peace in the Middle East. In his inaugural address, he stated that he would usher in a new era of peace. He vowed to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Six years later, we are still in Afghanistan, we are sending troops back to Iraq to counter the ISIS threat, Russia is again rattling nuclear sabers and invading European countries, China is threatening to arm a Hawaiian secessionist movement to overthrow the US government in Hawaii, and he is now using petty grievances to cut Israel out of nuclear talks with Iran.

This can have only one of two ultimate outcomes: Israel will either have to take unilateral action to stop Iran, or there will be a nuclear exchange in the Middle East.

Can anyone say that the world is a more peaceful place because of our Nobel Laureate President?

A theater in the Orlando area was overrun by 900 or more teenagers. Gunfire was reported in the parking lot, and at least one person was robbed. Then hundreds of the teens went across the street and robbed a store. It took police from at least 4 different law enforcement agencies to control the mob. Multiple arrests were made.

Here is my traditional Friday the 13th post:

Have you ever wondered why Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day?
The short answer: Greed, the French Monarchy, and the Catholic Church.
Like most stories, the long version is more complicated. This is the
legend as I heard it:

“The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon” were a
military order of men who were living in Jerusalem in 1099 AD, at the
tail end of the Crusades. There were nine of them at the time, and they
were so poor that they were living in a stable and begging for food.
Legend has it that they discovered some of King Solomon’s treasure while
digging in the area.

They returned to Europe, and invented what was essentially the first
international banking society. They were involved in shipping, banking,
and other money making ventures. They formed a large society, which at its
peak was comprised of over 20,000 members. Members held different
ranks, with the highest being called Knight Templar. A Knight Templar
was similar to what a full partner or a member of the board of directors
would be today. The ‘board meetings’ only took place at night, and this
was because of the need for secrecy. Remember that this was in the age
of pure monarchy, when no one who was not a King could own anything
without the King taking a large cut of it.

One odd thing about them was that they practiced elaborate rituals that
were designed to ensure secrecy. Since it was a crime punishable by
death at the time to engage in any ritual not endorsed by the Catholic
Church, any person who took part in such a ritual was bound to keep the
secrets of the others, or he himself would be killed.

The Knights Templar hired many men of the free masons’ guild to build
large structures, such as the Cathedral at Notre Dame. At the time, the
free masons were not especially liked by the Church, mostly because the
masons were teaching that mathematics ran the world, and not a deity.
The Church had to put up with this to a certain extent, however, because
God was not in the business of building the Church’s cathedrals, and
the free masons were.

The free masons, having built many buildings for the order, needed to be
sworn to secrecy. So they were sworn in as minor members of the order,
and were taught many of the Templar rituals. 

All went well until October 13, 1307, when the King of France at the
time, King Philip IV, entered a partnership with Pope Clement V and
decreed that all of the Knights Templar would be declared to be Satan
worshipers and would be put to death. The king charged the Templars with
usury, credit inflation, fraud, homosexuality, heresy,
sodomy, immorality, and other abuses.

Many of the Kinghts Templar were killed at dawn that Friday the 13th, so
that their wealth could be confiscated while at the same time eliminating
the possible threat that the military order might pose to Philip’s quest
for more power. The ones who weren’t killed were tortured into
‘confessing’ to their crimes. The Pope, in
order to avoid the military action that Philip had threatened to take
against the Church, issued arrest warrants for all
of the Templars worldwide, which allowed the Church to confiscate their assets. The arrested members of the order were burned at the
stake in 1314, and the remainder of the Templars went underground and
became a secret society.

King Phillip and Pope Clement both died before the end of 1314, after
being cursed by one of the Templars they burned at the stake. According
to legend, he called out from the flames that both Pope Clement and King
Philip would soon meet him before God.
His actual words were recorded to be: “Dieu sait
qui a tort et a péché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous
ont condamnés à mort” (free translation : “God knows who is wrong and
has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to
death”).

No one really knows if this is the true account of what happened, but
that doesn’t surprise me. History is a fiction that is written by the
winners. Even this morning’s
newspapers are seldom an account of what actually took place yesterday, but are instead an account of what the powerful want the public to hear.

From Brazil comes the story of a prison break where some women seduced prison guards and drugged them while having sex. The women then released 28 prisoners from the jail. The prisoners raided the police armory on the way out.

The inmates took three 12 caliber rifles shotguns, two 38 caliber revolvers
and munition

Layers of editorial oversight, indeed.

Guns are very strictly controlled in Brazil, and have been since 2002. That hasn’t solved the problems.The escapee who planned the prison break:

the escape was planned by the boyfriend of one of the women,
Bruno Amorim, 18, was was serving time for attempted murder, robbery and
firearms possession.

The obvious flaw with gun control is that stupid, inept, and corrupt government officials still have access to weapons, and are frequently the source of illicit items.

Brazil has the dream gun laws that the anti-gun forces here in the US claim will work, with less than nine firearms per 100 residents, compared to the US, where there are 90 firearms per 100 residents. With the US having ten times the rate of firearm ownership, one would expect, if it were true that more guns equals more crime, that the US would have a significantly higher crime rate.

The opposite is true: even though there are ten times more guns per capita in the US than in Brazil, Brazil is ranked 18th in homicide with an intentional homicide rate of 25.2 per 100,000 residents. The US has a rate of 4.7 homicides per 100,000 residents, and is ranked number 111.

Brazil’s homicide rate has risen 132% over the past 30 years, from 11.5 per 100,000 people in 1980 to 27 per 100,000 in 2011. Among those aged between 14 and 25 the rate in 2011 was around double that — 53 per 100,000. Each year, an average of 50,000 Brazilians are murdered- more than 3 times as many as in the USA.

It isn’t the guns.

Nebraska has a problem with its citizens legally buying marijuana in Colorado and illegally bringing it into Nebraska. What is Nebraska to do? Sue Colorado for the behavior of Nebraska’s citizens so you can prevent all of the people who aren’t breaking the law, of course.

This is the same logic we see applied to gun laws: one group of nanny staters doesn’t like what someone is doing, so we pass laws and assign blame on everyone, and not just the lawbreakers.

 and before you begin quoting Federal law to me, show me the part of
the Constitution that grants the Federal government the power to
restrict the production and sale of a product wholly within the borders
of a single state. Yes, the people smuggling are involved in interstate commerce, but that does not mean that Colorado has to stop EVERYONE from selling and buying marijuana, it means that the people who are smuggling can be prosecuted.

The concept of controlling everything using interstate commerce as the excuse didn’t begin until 1942, when a case titled Wickard v. Filburn went to the Supreme Court, and the court essentially held that everything affects interstate commerce, thus everything can be regulated by Federal law.

Stories like this one are why, when military recruiters were sniffing around my children in 2004, I did everything that I could to keep them out of the military. I served myself, and I see no honor in having my children fight for men such as these.
Our military is being run by political hacks who will destroy a man for doing his job, while they themselves are chasing prostitutes and guzzling taxpayer funded liquor.
I love this country and the ideals upon which it was founded, but I no longer feel that our military or our government are safeguarding those ideals. The men that serve have my respect, but the men that command them do not.