It is illegal to operate a firearm business without a Federal Firearms License.
It is illegal for a convicted felon to buy a firearm.
It is illegal to knowingly sell a firearm to a convicted felon.
Still, the anti gun forces think that we should pass a law that requires all gun sales to go through a dealer. They claim that the criminals will then be prevented from buying guns, because they won’t buy guns on the black market.
That should fix it. Right?
Let’s review the applicable rules:
Forcible felony, according to 776.08, includes arson, aggravated assault, and the unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging a destructive device or bomb, and any other felony that involves the use or threat of force.
Throwing a Molotov cocktail is arson, which is a forcible felony.
A Molotov cocktail is also considered to be a destructive device under 790.001.Throwing one is a forcible felony
Participating in a riot whereby the participants are forcibly and violently attempting to destroy any building is a forcible felony under 870.03.
This means that anyone rioting, throwing, or preparing to throw Molotov cocktails may be lawfully engaged with lethal force to prevent the imminent commission of these forcible felonies. The riot of arson need not be directed at you, as you would be employing lethal force to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.
However, under Florida law, you are not allowed to possess firearms in any public place, once a state of emergency has been declared. (870.44)
What does this mean? If there is a riot in your area, stay home, and make sure that you are ready to be there for a few days.
Julius Caesar was a brilliant general and commanded an army of over 50,000 loyal men. His success at a military level all but guaranteed the loyalty of his soldiers. But he was seen by some as a cruel
man solely driven by expanding his own personal power. As a result, he made enemies of important politicians in Rome itself. Some senior army generals, such as Pompey, were also very concerned about
Caesar’s intentions.
The Roman Senate ordered Caesar to hand over his army to their control. He refused, and instead advanced to the line that divided France and
Italy – the River Rubicon. Roman law said that a governor was not allowed to leave his province, but Caesar ignored this law, crossed the Rubicon, and advanced to confront his enemies in Rome. The Senate considered this to be a treasonable offense, but there was little they could do. Caesar had a very powerful and experienced army and his opponents were fragmented. Pompey was killed in Egypt in 48 BC.
Here we have Obama, who has just declared that the Senate (along with the rest of Congress) is irrelevant and powerless by signing an executive order that is in direct opposition to Congress and to the will of the people. The Federal bureaucrats will do as he says. Is this Obama’s Rubicon? Only time will tell. History may well mark this as the date of the official end of the Republic.
Interesting times, indeed.
Darren Wilson is staying out of the public eye. There are many who claim that he should be staying out there and trying to taint public opinion and the jury pool by putting PR spin on the news.
Mark O’Mara, the lawyer who represented George Zimmerman — a
neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot black teenager Trayvon
Martin — said Wilson and his attorneys should make an effort to speak to
the public. That is especially important, O’Mara said, during all the
little flare-ups that happen as a case develops. This week, old video
surfaced of an officer who looked like Wilson threatening to arrest a
man who was videotaping him. Neither Wilson nor his legal team addressed
the video.
Mark O’Mara is wrong, in my opinion. His client may have been found not guilty, but the press still won’t leave him alone. Three years after the shooting, and a year and a half after being found not guilty, Zimmerman still has his own dedicated page on the local TV station’s website. No, Officer Wilson needs to stay out of the limelight, so that the entire nation won’t know what he looks like. That will make the people in this country who want to murder him that much less likely to recognize him in public. In fact, he should offer to resign in exchange for a new identity and a pension. His career as a police officer is over, and he will be spending the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
This case, along with Zimmerman’s, is a warning to all police officers and CCW holders: If you are white, do not, under any circumstances, attempt to stop a black man from committing a crime unless your life depends on it. If you do, you will lose everything.
Let me illustrate the difference between men and women by telling you about my upcoming cruise. We are leaving on Monday morning for our cruise ship, which is a 4 hour drive away. This is how cruise preps go:
Me:
I begin preparations by making a checklist a week before the cruise. I begin packing on Thursday, four days before the trip. I do laundry on Friday night, and my suitcase is 90% packed by Saturday morning. By Sunday at 4 pm, I am packed and ready to go, except for my toothbrush and medication, which I will put in my carry on bag on Monday after I get dressed.
Her:
She tells me that I am crazy to begin packing on Thursday, and spends the evening watching TV. By Sunday, she still hasn’t packed. At 5 pm on Sunday, she decides that she needs to go buy some clothes for the trip. She accuses me of “showing off” and “throwing it in her face” that I am packed, because I put my packed luggage next to the door. We return from clothes shopping at 8 pm. She spends the time from 8-10 pm looking for missing clothes, which she accuses me of misplacing when I did laundry.
She sits on the couch at midnight, erasing the memory card for her camera. She asks me to empty the dishwasher because she still isn’t packed. At 1:00 AM, she gets mad at me for playing Kerbal Space Program on the computer. I pointed out that I was packed two days ago. That starts a fight that lasts until 1:30.
We have to get up at 5:30 AM to leave, and she still is packing at 2 AM. By 2:30, she is looking for her passport, but still isn’t packed, and somehow this is my fault.
Vent complete.
I was just getting ready for the coming tax year and reviewing the coming Obamacare taxes. For tax year 2015, the tax for not having health insurance is 2% of your pay.
Reviewing the market prices at healthcare.gov, the cost for the cheapest Bronze plan is $280 a month, or $3,360 a year. For that amount of money, the insurance pays nothing on your behalf until you reach the plan deductible of $6,500. So, unless you are paying more than $10,860 a year in medical expenses, or you are making more than $168,000 a year, it makes more fiscal sense to just pay the tax and pay for your own health expenses out of pocket.
This means that the government is stealing another 2% of my pay every year, and giving me exactly nothing in return.
So the military is cutting service members just before they are eligible for retirement benefits in order to save money. The TEA party republicans are furious. I don’t want to hear it.
I was forced from my job as a firegihter-paramedic because the TEA party said that my pension was ripping off the taxpayer. Pensions, they said, are an anachronism. I replied that they were a promise to people who made a commitment to serve others, giving their lives in many cases, so that the public would be protected from harm. They claimed that they were saving money, while giving the bigwigs raises at the same time.
They mocked me for that. I was told that I should only have a 401(k), like everyone else. I was told that I should be forced to buy life insurance to replace the on duty death benefits I was losing. So I left, taking my pension while I still could.
How does it feel, now that the shoe is on your foot?
In Britain, cab drivers make 65,000 British pounds (the equivalent of $100,000) a year. That is enough to make one would-be cabbie give up his business as an engineer to spend more than a quarter million US Dollars and four years of his life in order to become a cab driver.
Meanwhile, Doctors working as general practitioners in the UK start at 23 thousand pounds, and max out at 65 thousand. The average pay for a cabbie is the same as the top pay for most doctors. So where do you think the brightest and most talented people are going? Certainly not into the medical profession.
That is what happens when you attempt to thwart market forces by intervening with government licenses and restrictions.
I was just sitting here thinking about the television shows of my youth. Does anyone remember the shows that I am thinking of:
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom
Wonderful World of Disney
Mork and Mindy
The Muppet Show
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Barney Miller
Emergency!
SWAT
Welcome Back, Kotter
WKRP
The Jefferson’s
MASH
There were even more shows that were in reruns by the time I was of age to remember them, and I’m sure I have forgotten a few, but television sure has changed over the years.
Rattlesnake Tactical is a company that wants to open an ammunition factory in Osceola County. That county is waiving the $265,000 in taxes that they would otherwise be required to pay in order to open the doors. State business records do not mention the name of the owners, but I’m guessing that they have friends down at the county offices.
Why? Because my brother wanted to open a business a few years ago, and they would not waive the taxes. The government is in the business of picking winners and losers.