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If you live in Florida, you more than likely live under an HOA, POA, or some other deed restricted community. The reason for that, is more than 80% of Florida residential property is governed that way. It’s a fact of life in the Sunshine State. I wish that it wasn’t so, but wishing is for children. Since we have to live in reality, there is only one answer.

All politics is local. You have to be involved. I initially showed up to the HOA meetings to be a pain in the ass. I was the guy in the back of the meetings who pointed out that they weren’t allowed to do whatever harebrained thing they were discussing. Then I got roped into being on the board. That was 4 years ago.

Since that time, I have slowly recommended new board members from people that I know I can trust. There is me, another retired firefighter from up north who is as conservative as they get, a retired golf pro who was once sanctioned by the HOA for having FJB and Q flags, a woman who is friends with my wife and drinks Tequila with us, and a couple of others.

The only issue then is busybodies that want to come to meetings and stir the pot. We got that this week at our quarterly meeting. This woman who owns property in the neighborhood but lives elsewhere bought a home for her unemployed hardcore leftist so decided to show up with a list of demands.

• She was complaining that people’s landscaping lights can be coded messages. For example, blue lights mean support for cops. She mentioned blue lights at least three times during her rant. The only lights that should be allowed are white, according to her.
• Some people are parking RVs and boats in their driveways
• The colors that some people paint their houses is ugly
• The neighborhood needs to decorate for holidays like Christmas, Halloween, etc.

I explained to her that I was one of the people who had colored landscaping lights, and I didn’t change the colors for political reasons, but because I liked the different colors. I do red, white, and blue for July, Orange for October, and multicolors for the Christmas season, and if she didn’t like it, I don’t care.

I pointed out to her that the HOA can’t require any of those things because they are not in the governing documents. We can’t legally just make up any rules that we wish. We are bound by those documents. So she demanded that we change them. Well, says I, we can’t change them on a whim. There is a process that takes months, we have to mail out notices to all people who live there, at least 2/3 of the residents have to approve, then it has to be published, etc.

I also explained to her that, even if she were to get a rule prohibiting RVs and boats from parking in driveways, we don’t have the legal ability to prevent people from just parking them on the street in front of their house.

She said that we should just vote on the neighborhood’s Facebook page. All of the people in the neighborhood, according to her, should just do the right thing and be good, friendly neighbors and just do as she asks. (Her exact words)

My response was not nice. I told her that a good friendly neighbor would mind her own business and stop trying to control other people and their property. Then I pointed out that Facebook doesn’t get a vote in how I choose to run my own property. She left in a huff and wants to get up a petition to get the rules changed. I told her that her petition won’t get anywhere because those of us on the board already have enough votes in our pocket to prevent her from reaching the 2/3 threshold. That’s how voting works.

Those of us on the board collectively own or have the proxy votes for about 25% of the property in the neighborhood. That would require that she get 90% of the remaining property to agree with her- and actually show up to the meeting to vote in support of her position. That is nearly impossible.

We will see how much of a pain in the ass she can be, but I will say that this is the exact type of asshole that I am on the board to prevent. I also changed all of my landscaping lights to blue, just to piss her off. She can kiss my ass.

A recent comment went like this:

3″ with 00 buck has 15 pieces of ,30 cal pellets. Unless said ner do well is right on top of you, figure at least 4-5 pieces will miss the target.

That isn’t how shotguns work. Consider the picture below:

Contrary to popular press, shotguns are not “street sweepers” and yes, you have to aim them. As you can see in the picture, every pellet hits within a 7 inch circle at 20 feet. It isn’t that you can’t miss with a shotgun, or that the shot spreads out at household distances.

It’s true that at longer ranges with lighter pellets that the pattern is wide- that’s why they are great for shooting fowl. The pattern on a cylinder bore shotgun with lightweight shot like BB is wide, and makes striking a small moving target easier than a single projectile. Again- see the above photo. Small pellets disperse faster, while larger pellets tend not to spread out as quickly.

The fact that heavy shot doesn’t spread much at short distances is what makes a shotgun such a great house defense gun- at the ranges typically found inside of a home, every shotshell sees the target getting hit with an ounce or more of fast moving lead. A 3 inch 12 gauge of 00 buck has a shot mass of about 500 grains, and it leaves the muzzle at about 1300 feet per second. That works out to 2700 foot pounds of energy. That’s roughly equivalent to being hit by 4 JHPs from a .357 magnum. Simultaneously.

Nothing zeros out an attacker’s blood pressure like a 7 inch wide wound channel through the middle of their chest cavity. There is a lot of important stuff within 4 inches of the center of a person’s chest, and poking 15 holes in that area means a high probability of multiple hits to important things like great vessels and ventricles of the heart.

At ranges from 6 to 20 feet, there aren’t many weapons that hit as hard as a 12 gauge. My 870 Wingmaster has a cylinder bore and can hold 7 two and three quarter inch shells. I also have a Chiappa nickel plated 12 gauge with a 3 inch chamber. It holds 5 of the hard hitting 3 inch shells. That’s a lot of serious self defense power that will put a hurting on even a drugged up intruder.

As an added bonus, it doesn’t look as scary as an AR and doesn’t come with the “evil looking black gun” label attached to it. If it ever is shown to a jury, they won’t get the “scary looking” image that an AR or a tactical shotgun will have.

No song has ever done what this one has done. The song Rich Men North of Richmond has debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 1. Without a record label, an unknown artist, and country music, to boot. Tell me that the people in this country haven’t had enough.

Even if you don’t like country, the song strikes a chord (no pun intended) with many.

A family- husband, wife, small child- sitting on their back porch saw a shirtless man in their back yard. When they shouted a challenge, they had to flee inside after he attempted to enter the house. The wife managed to snap a picture:

Seminole County deputies are hoping that someone in the public will identify who this is. I only wonder why the homeowner didn’t mark him for future identification. “Hello police? A guy just broke into my house. Do I know who he is? No, but if you just search the area for the guy with the sucking chest wound, that will be your guy.”

Note that he is inside of the screened porch, and his is looking right at the person taking the photo. This guy entered an occupied home in full knowledge that the residents were there. He didn’t care that the people were home- meaning that there is a high probability that he is there to hurt the occupants. There are those who say that you have insurance, so there is nothing in your home worth someone’s life.

My family is in my home, and they are worth more to me than you. My most difficult decision at this point will be choosing between my ready weapons:

• 3 inch 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 00 Buck
• AR15
• 9mm M&P

You break into my house, and you just signed your death warrant. The arriving cops will need a piece of chalk, a shop vac, and a mop.

Open carry is illegal in Florida, with certain exceptions. Any ideas?

Let’s take a look at the sentences being handed out or sought for the J6 riots:

• Joe Biggs of Daytona: 33 years
• Enrique Tarrio, of Miami 33 years
• Zachary Rehl 30 years
• Ethan Nordean 27 years
• Dominic Pezzola, 20 years
• Elmer Stewart Rhodes, 18 years

If the government wants to argue, as they have here, that this is terrorism, then what about Antifa and BLM? Why aren’t THEY being charged with terrorism for their riots and attacks on Federal officials? Instead, actual sitting members of Congress are providing them with bail money and legal defense.

The biggest mistake that the J6 protesters made was in thinking that the same rules would apply to them as applied to the Antifa/BLM crowd. If they were serious, the J6 protesters should have brought weapons at the beginning. If they were serious, they would have known that their actions would result in the loss of their lives- either rotting for decades in a Supermax prison, or dead there in the Capitol. Knowing then what they know now, would they have not participated, or would they have gone armed?

This is a cautionary tale to others, and the biggest reason why many don’t take action now. You either go in expecting your life to end, or you wait for reinforcements.

It’s been a couple of months since someone came on here to call me stupid. I guess I was due for one.

There was a nice discussion going on between myself, some other commenters, and Canadian Jim F Massey. Now I have a rule here about personal attacks, and this guy came here spouting stupid shit about how the police shouldn’t have to follow the law or the Constitution, if the person they were engaging with was accused of doing something like being a drug dealer, human trafficker, serial rapist, a child molester, or if there was a crackhouse in your neighbourhood. Especially if “some corrupt or overworked judge saw no reason to investigate or do anything about it.”

My response was that I don’t care about the integrity of the accused or what crime he is accused of, everyone’s Constitutional rights are to be respected. He replied that he was concerned that things would get personal. I replied that it wasn’t personal.

This is his response:

“I don’t care whether or not the man’s integrity is questionable….”

So that is your moral high ground, is it? If the man HAD been running a crack house, or a child sex op, or in the middle of his 14th serial murder – all of that should go down in the name of The Constitution, and the victims would have died for the good of society. Gotcha. Coincidentally, that is the exact mindset of our friends in Great Britain and here in Canada, where blatant killers hide behind the law instead of living in fear of it or being justly dealt with by it.

When the lynchings and vigilante justice starts – the Revolution is just around the corner.

I will leave this here, DM. You’re a good guy, and no doubt a patriot… but you don’t have the smarts for the discussion. No need for a reply, I will not be back this way again.

So NOW that you have engaged in personal attacks by calling me stupid, it’s personal.

Listen here, you fuckwit. How are rights working out for you assholes up in Canada? If all it takes for the police to be able to ignore your rights, is for them to claim you were doing something on the naughty list, how long will it take before everyone gets accused of running a crack house, then they come in and ignore everyone’s rights?

If the cops can just arrest people with no regards for their legal and Constitutional rights, how is that any different than a lynching?

This is one of the reasons why you can’t even protest in Canada without your bank accounts being frozen.

Let me remind everyone that there are rules for commenting here. Rules 2 and 3 are as follows:

• Deliberately posting statements that are aimed at insulting the blog owner (me) will get your comment tossed in the trash. Feel free to disagree with me, just don’t call names or impugn my character. If I wanted someone to purposely insult me, I don’t need to pay for a blog server, I can just go to my ex-wife’s house for free.
• Don’t deliberately insult others. No personal attacks. Feel free to attack ideas. Heap scorn on silly or illogical opinions, just don’t make it personal.

For that reason, I am banning him.

I was a witness to one of the most fucked up things that I have ever heard of a cop doing. I was there and saw it with my own two eyes. My wife doesn’t want me to blog details, because she is afraid of what the cops will do to me if they find out I am talking.

There were four witnesses to what happened. I filed a complaint with the supervisor, and he told us “The officer says that isn’t what happened. You must have misunderstood what you think you saw. It’s your word against his, so that’s where things stand.”

I’m gonna give it a week or two to calm down, then I will tell the story.

The reason for this post today is this: My wife is afraid of what the cops will do. How bad have things gotten in this country that ordinary, law abiding citizens are afraid of the police? My wife doesn’t watch the news. She knows little of current events. She says it’s depressing to watch stories about things you can’t change. So how did we get to the point where ordinary people are afraid of the cops?