Anti American left

Second Amendment

I’m going to chime in on the ICE shooting of Pretti. Not the shooting itself, but in the left’s sudden discovery and defense of the Second Amendment. They, along with some on the right, are saying ICE shouldn’t shoot people merely for practicing their RKBA. That isn’t what happened.

You have a right to keep and bear arms. You have a right to peaceably assemble for a redress of your grievances. What you don’t have is the right to use that weapon in furtherance of your scheme to break the law. As an example, let’s look at a recent shooting in the Central Florida area.

An Osceola County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a shoplifting suspect inside a Walmart on Thursday after the man pulled a gun and was running through the store. Does he have a right to carry a gun? Yes. Did he have a right to do so while breaking the law? No. Did it get his ass shot? It seems so.

Now apply this to Pretti. Did he have a right to carry a gun? Yes. Did he have a right to peaceably assemble? Yes. Does peaceable assembly include interfering with police activity or arrests? No. Does interfering with police activity while armed greatly increase the chances of a cop shooting you? Yes, yes it does.

The takeaway here is that, if you DO decide to break the law while armed, you have to be willing to accept this: If you are interfering with police carrying out their duties, you are no longer an observer or a protester, you are a participant. If you do so while armed, you are a combatant. Being a combatant, you no longer get to say that you are merely protesting, observing, or acting as a “medic.”

By Divemedic, ago

Doomed to Repeat It

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That quote isn’t apparently known by the local media, as Osceola county schools are catching hell from local media outlets for “showing a picture of Hitler” on the morning school announcements. Here is the picture that they are complaining about (the censoring isn’t my doing)

This picture was placed in the announcements was done as a part of “today in history” and is, in my opinion, a valid use of the picture, as it is being done in a context of teaching history. It was not placed there to celebrate Hitler or his ideals in any way. This is pure leftist pearl clutching.

By Divemedic, ago

Get the App

Yes, this is how you weaponize their idiocy. Get on their apps, use those apps as weapons against them. Here is one of the apps, get on it and report ICE wherever you think it will decrease the signal to noise ratio.

By Divemedic, ago

Red Flagged

I know this happened a couple of months ago, but I just learned of it. A man in Stuart, Florida was attending the town’s Christmas parade when police noticed he was wearing what turned out to be Level IV body armor. He was detained and it turned out he was also carrying a dagger and a pistol.

Local residents freaked out, saying that he must have been up to no good, since he was carrying those items and was in the same general area as a sitting congressman.

The cops held him for hours before releasing him without charges. That doesn’t matter to the cops, they kept his vest, knife, and gun, and are going to use a risk protection order to strip him of his rights. Keep in mind, he wasn’t breaking any laws.

This is why I have been, and remain, opposed to so-called “red flag” laws.

By Divemedic, ago

I Understand

San Francisco schools are closed today because their teachers are on strike. The largest part of their demand is access to the same healthcare benefits enjoyed by their illegal immigrant students.

The district announced that schools would be closed Tuesday and urged parents to check the district website “for learning, food, childcare, and district support resources.

Fully half of all San Francisco students are illegals, or the anchor babies of illegal immigrant parents. Illegal immigrant households get free healthcare. I understand why teachers feel that it is unfair that they have to pay healthcare costs when their students don’t. You know what?

I also don’t care.

The teachers voted for this. Elections have consequences.

By Divemedic, ago

Lies and Misrepresentations

I have seen a meme on social media, something about “Arguing with a leftist largely consists of them deliberately pretending to not understand something that is obvious, and then arguing against that misstated position.” What you are describing is a logical fallacy called a strawman argument. We see it everywhere. I don’t think its entirely ignorance, I think in many cases the leftist you are arguing with knows they are being disingenuous, but they are hoping others are too stupid to know it.

A leftist blog complains about a gun dealer who has lost his FFL, stopped selling actual firearms, and pivots to selling parts and accessories for firearms. One of the major misstatements is this:

The M16 bolt carrier group is the part worth flagging. It’s legal to own and common in semi-auto builds. But it’s also a prerequisite for converting an AR-15 to full-automatic because the geometry of a standard AR-15 carrier won’t work with an auto sear. 

Of course, they fail to mention that there are several parts required to convert an AR15 into full auto, and the full auto BCG is only one of them. The one the ATF has chosen to define as the key component of converting an AR15 to a machine gun is the auto sear. If an FA BCG is legal to own, then why wouldn’t the store be able to sell them?

The blog article then meanders off topic into the non sequitur of COVID death rates in the same county where the gun dealer is located:

People there apparently were so anti-life, they maintained the highest death rate from COVID-19 compared to any other county in the nation: One death out of every 132 people.

before pivoting into yet another accusation that this is because they are all racist there because something racist once happened there:

Speaking of heavily armed white supremacists being anti-life, Mann today still lives in an area known for the 1989 naming of “noose road“, near a sundown town of many lynchings. It was said in Hays, Kansas that “Blacks were not allowed to stay overnight”, keeping alive a Jim Crow “legacy that kind of hung over the town going back to the lynching.”

Then goes on to babble about another unrelated meandering:

On the same day Custombilt filed for bankruptcy, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against distribution of 3D-printable ghost gun files and machine gun conversion devices. One state is suing over digital blueprints. Another is goosing a revoked dealer to liquidate physical machine gun components from a bankruptcy warehouse into unknown “noose” hands, no questions asked.

Showing that the left doesn’t REALLY support the First Amendment, or they would realize publishing plans is protected speech. Still, that last quote is about as coherent as Joe Biden rambling about Corn Pop and children braiding his leg hair. (That’s how you use a non sequitur for maximum effect.)

By Divemedic, ago

Buy Some More Ammo

Watch this video, then buy more ammo.

She says that ICE is going to stage an attack to justify martial law, so leftists need to get “Second Amendment thingamajigs” to fight back. I thought it was impossible to fight the government without F-35s and nukes…

My hat is off to Donald Trump, who has gotten the left to admit that they aren’t opposed to people owning guns, they are opposed to people who disagree with their opinions owning guns, thus demonstrating that gun control is about control, not guns.

By Divemedic, ago