Divemedic

I got this email from a “fan”

So, I guess Martin had no right to stand his ground? He was being unlawfully
perused by that fat coward, who needs a gun to feel like a man. Like most
of
you gun nuts compensating for something, cowardness, small penis,
unfounded fear that the boogey man is going to get you. I feel bad for
you.

 Here is my reply:
1 All “Stand your ground” means is that a person is not required to retreat before responding with force when attacked by force. Nothing in the law allows you to attack a person when they are merely following you.
2 There is no law that says you cannot follow someone. Show me where Zimmerman’s following of Martin was unlawful.
3 This entire email is a validation of Markley’s Law, which states:

As an online discussion of gun owners’ rights grows longer, the
probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1.

 4 In Zimmerman’s case, his fear was not unfounded.

While I was on one of the dive boats this weekend, we had a man riding along with his wife. He said that he had not been diving since he got out of the Navy in 1992, and was out of practice. I asked him what he did, and he replied “I was on Special Teams.”

Blink. He was a punt returner?

I told him I used to be in the Navy, and that I was an Electrician’s Mate Second Class. I told him that I went to boot camp in Orlando. He told me how lucky I was, and said that he had done boot and A school in Great Lakes. 

So I asked him where he was stationed, and he replied that he was stationed at New London, CT. He then told me that he was a Machinist Mate First Class. He started to tell me stories about how he would be inserted into places by exiting the submarine through a small tube.

So I asked him what his BUD/S class number was. He replied, “Buds? What’s that?”

I immediately knew that he was a poser. He wasn’t a SEAL, because he didn’t know what BUD/S was. I know at least 4 people who claim that they were at one time SEALs. They are all likely lying.

Why do so many feel the need to make themselves look cool by claiming to be something that they are not?

… qualified to DUI. A Volusia County Deputy is caught on video, driving while intoxicated in her patrol car, and a 7 year old child in her car.

It is time for taxpayer funded take home patrol cars to come to an end.

A 7-11 store is robbed by a man who attacks a clerk with a cup of hot coffee, pulls a knife, and attempts to steal the contents of the register. The clerk, who had been robbed several times during his six years there, drew a handgun and the robber fled without anyone getting hurt.

The clerk lost his job for violating a ‘no weapons’ policy.

Like I have said before, the employer faces liability if they do not prohibit weapons. They face no liability if a defenseless employee or customer is killed by a criminal. The truth here is that the business thinks that their bottom line is more important than the lives of its customers and employees.

That is why I don’t care what your policy is: I carry everywhere I am permitted to by law. I don’t give two shits about your policy.

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, violent crime is up 15% in 2012 over 2011, the second year of increased crime. Sounds scary, right? Until you look at where this information came from. The survey is conducted in 40,000 or so homes by the National Opinion Research Center for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and is intended to determine if the respondents were victims of crimes that they did not report to police. In other words, it is purely unverified and anecdotal.
The results are then assigned a score, and a weighting factor is assigned. The score is then used to determine how much crime is being committed. In other words, it is pure garbage.
The National Opinion Research Center is located on the campus of the University of Chicago. See the pattern? In order to support more gun laws, Obama needs more crime. Since he can’t show increasing crime using police records, he invents it himself using Chicago politics.

There is an ap that is supposed to calculate and determine whether or not a person is in an abusive relationship. I decided to head on over and take a look at it, to see where we stand. I took the assessment. My answers are in red.

The first two questions are about the gender of you and your partner. If you answer that you are a male with a female partner, the ap kicks you out. Apparently, they don’t care if men are victims of violence perpetrated by women. I answered that I am a female with a male partner.
Question three: “My partner and I fight a lot, and sometimes it gets physical.” (Notice that it doesn’t ask WHO starts the violence) No
Next Question: Do you feel owned and controlled by your boyfriend/ex-boyfriend? Yes
Question five: Does your boyfriend or ex-boyfriend make you feel unsafe? Yes

Question six: Has the physical violence increased in severity or frequency over the past year? No
Question seven: Does he own a gun? Yes
Question eight: During the past year, have you left him or broken up with him after
living together, having sex, or being a couple (even if you got back
together)?(subquestion: if you never lived together, check here) Yes, no
Question nine: Is he unemployed? no

Question ten: Has he ever used a weapon against you or threatened you with a lethal weapon? no

Question eleven: Does he threaten to kill you? no

Question twelve: Has he avoided being arrested for domestic violence? yes

Question thirteen: Do you have a child that is not his? no
Question fourteen: Has he ever forced you to have sex when you did not wish to do so? no
Question fifteen: Does he ever try to choke you? no

Question sixteen: Does he use illegal drugs? no

Question seventeen:Is he an alcoholic? no

Question eighteen: Does he control most or all of your daily activities? For instance:
does he tell you who you can be friends with, when you can see your
family, how much money you can spend, whether or not you can use birth
control, or put a GPS tracker on your phone? no

Question ninteen: Is he violently and constantly jealous of you? no

Question twenty: Have you ever been beaten by him while you were pregnant? no

Question twenty one: Has he ever threatened or tried to commit suicide? no

Question twenty two: Does he threaten to harm your children? no

Question twenty three: Do you believe that he is capable of killing you? yes

Question twenty four: Does he follow or spy on you, leave threatening notes or messages,
destroy your property, or call you when you don’t want him to? no

Question twenty five: Have you ever threatened or tried to commit suicide? no

I scored a “14” which, according to the app, puts me in severe danger. Reading my responses above, the “risk factors” are: A woman who recently broke up with a man that has a job, owns a gun, and has recently broken up with his girlfriend. There have never been any physical altercations between the two, the woman has no children.
Being a man and owning a gun makes you a suspect for committing violence against women, according to One Love. I would have taken it again, but the app only lets you take the test once.

Tonight: Thursday, October 24 at 9 pm, CNN will be airing the documentary “Blackfish” which provides a look at the life of the killer whale that was involved in the death of three people, the last in 2010. OSHA cited Sea World for numerous deficiencies, and demanded that the company provide a copy of their safety procedures, which the park has thus far refused to do, claiming that it is a trade secret.

I know the paramedics who were there. I know Sea World employees. Many of them defend the park, and say that Dawn died the way she wanted. I doubt that. No one wants to die by drowning after having your skull popped open by a whale, having their arm torn off and eaten, and then being a whale’s underwater play toy for more than half an hour.

Any business that has a death of an employee needs to look at the circumstances of that death, and make real changes that will prevent a recurrence. Sea World has steadfastly refused to do so, and they need to be held accountable.

 I will watch the show tonight and see what they have to say.

A married guy is stalking his mistress and threatening suicide if she breaks up with him. His wife gets in a fight with her, and beats her up. He shows up at her home in the middle of the night, and she is so scared, she calls 911:

“I’m in my room. I am armed right now. I don’t know what he’s going to do,”

The woman is so afraid of the man and his wife that she won’t even go home. The police won’t investigate, and claim that there are no violations of the law here. Why do they say that?

All three of the individuals involved are cops.