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Massachusetts has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. That didn’t help these two women and the EMT who was murdered trying to save them, but at least they weren’t killed by a gun. This gun control success story just goes to show you that gun control DOES stop gun violence.

This is part two of yesterday’s post.

Just after midnight, two cars full of people pulled down my dead end street. The
car closest to me had 4 teenagers inside. It was later determined
that this car contained one female and three males. They
were all known gang members with lengthy arrest records for various
offenses, including drug offenses and weapons charges. One of them had
been arrested 22 times before his 17th birthday.

I didn’t know any of this. All I knew was that a car load of people who
had threatened violence was 10 feet from me, and the front seat
passenger had what appeared to be a long gun in his hand. (It turned out
to be an SKS- at the time, one could be bought for $95) I ran to the
car and stuck my shotgun into the window of the car. I said something
along the lines of “If anyone moves, I will kill you.”

It was at that moment that I heard a gun shot. I looked up in time to see the other car peeling
away, and my neighbor lying on the ground. The car closest to me sped
away. As they drove away, another neighbor (who HAD been drinking) ran
out of his house and fired a shotgun at the car. (It was a 12 ga
Mossberg 500 with a 3″ magnum barrel, found at the scene by the police) I dragged my downed neighbor into
my house to find my sobbing wife on the floor of the kitchen, talking to the
police.

It turns out that my neighbor dove when he saw a handgun, and was not hit when the shot was fired.

They arrived less than 5 minutes later, but it seemed much longer. We
told them our story. While we were doing so, the car came back. This time, the
teens were all unarmed, and claimed that they were sitting at the light
when I shot at them for no reason. They showed a pattern of holes in the
driver’s side door of their car.

I pointed out that the pellet count in their car was too high for my 2
3/4″ shotgun, and that the incident could not have happened they way they said, because the bullet holes were on the wrong side of the car. The cops told me
not to tell them how to do their job. I was photographed, and my guns
taken. An SKS was found in the trunk of the teens’ car, which the cops
also took.

Three days later, I got a call from a detective with the VA Beach police. He
said that he had a warrant for my arrest, and that if I came in that
afternoon, he would get me released on my own recognizance. He said if
he had to look for me, the bond would be high, considering the charges. I
was stunned. I drove to the police station, where I was arrested for
brandishing a firearm, discharging a firearm within city limits, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, and aggravated
battery.

I went to see the attorney that helped me get my CWL (he had been
recommended by the NRA) and we went to the prosecutor’s office and filed
charges ourselves against the teens for aggravated battery (the cops
refused to- they said that they had not seen them brandishing a weapon, and also stated that a bat is not a deadly weapon).

part three is here

During a break, I was talking to some students about the country’s economy, and I made the statement that our economic situation is unsustainable because we as a nation spend $2 for every $1 we get in taxes. The student asked me why the government needs to borrow, and why can’t they just print the money.

I used this as an analogy:

Let’s say that I give everyone in the country ten million dollars. Would that get rid of poverty? No. This is why: no one will go to work in the morning, because we are all rich. The problem is that no one will be there to make food, stock the stores, deliver goods, or staff the power plants and hospitals.

How can I buy food that I need to survive, if no one grows, delivers, or sells any? At that point, since there is a large supply of money, but a small supply of food, no one will sell me their sandwich for a dollar. After all, each person has ten million dollars, but only a couple of sandwiches.

At this point, the only way to talk someone into selling a sandwich would be to offer them $100,000 for a sandwich, because the supply of money is too large for the supply of sandwiches.

That is what the unrestricted printing of money causes inflation. The more money you insert into the economy, the more inflation you get. I think he gets it now.

They aren’t stupid, they are just ignorant.

In the summer of 1991, Virginia Beach, VA. I was involved in an incident
in which shots were fired. I did not fire them, but witnesses identified me as the shooter. I am posting this story to illustrate what can and did happen.

I lived on the end of a dead end street near Newtown Road in Virginia Beach. My neighbors had gotten clearance from the city to close off the street and have a block party. There was a lot of beer drinking and BBQ. I had been out at the movies with my (then) wife. I had NOT been drinking, nor had my wife. We arrived home at about 10:00 pm, and found some of the neighbors still partying. The wife stayed out to talk to the
neighbors, but the BBQ was all gone, so I went in the house to make a sandwich.

When I came back outside, I found her and my next door neighbor having a loud argument with a man I had never seen before. I walked over in time to hear the man threaten to strike my wife. I walked over and asked what the problem was. The man told me that he was going to beat up this “asshole and his cunt girlfriend.” I said that I didn’t know what the problem was, but that he should not refer to my wife that way, and that he
needed to leave. I told him that I had already called the cops, and that if he left right away, I would forget what he looked like when the cops arrived.

He told me that if I didn’t get out of the way, I was gonna get it, too. That was when I noticed that he was holding a baseball bat. Seeing a weapon immediately changed my mindset. I drew my weapon (at the time I carried a S&W 4506) and ordered him to drop the bat. Still holding the bat, he turned around and walked away, and told me he was a part of “The Bayside Arms Posse” and that he was going to come back and show me
whose town this was.

We called the cops. 15 minutes later, they arrived, and assured me that they would handle it by driving the area (Bayside Arms Apartments) where the gang hangs out. They left.

A few minutes later, there was a neighbor from a few doors down knocking at my back door. It seems there were 6 or 7 teens going door to door looking for me, and she wanted to warn me. As my wife again called the police, I grabbed my shotgun (870 Wingmaster with 19 inch barrel and an extended 8 round mag tube) and opened the door. I racked the shotgun, and immediately heard someone yell “They have guns, let’s get out of here!” The teens jumped in a car with no license plate, and fled with their lights off. I did not see
them very well, so I could not tell anyone if it was the same guy or not.

When the police arrived (ten minutes later) they searched the neighborhood, and then they left, promising to make more frequent patrols. My neighbor came over, and we both agreed that the idiots would return. I sat out front in the parking lot, in my car. My neighbor in his. As it turned out, we didn’t have to wait long…

[There are those who will say that we shouldn’t have waited out front for them, but I don’t think it was wise to sit inside the house, either. We had already called the cops twice, and they had done nothing. You can call what we did an ambush, but it isn’t like two car loads of armed gang members coming to a house on a dead end street (that was private
property) after midnight were going door to door selling girl scout cookies.- DM]

part two is here, part three is here.

Many on the right are blasting the recent ruling on Obama care, stating that the government has this supposedly new power to compel you to do things by using taxes as an incentive. As if taxing people if they do not buy things is a new phenomenon, or some new concept. The fact is, this has been going on for decades.
Buy a house, or you pay more in income taxes, because people who rent cannot deduct mortgage interest, nor can they deduct the property taxes that are paid as a part of the rent.
Buy energy efficient appliances, get a tax deduction.
Buy an energy efficient car, get a tax deduction.
Obtain an expensive college education, get a tax deduction.
Do with a student loan, deduct the interest.

Or are you pulling a switcheroo by claiming that a deduction on your taxes for buying something is any different from an addition to your taxes by not buying something? That is the same logic that a business uses when they are prohibited by law from charging extra for customers who pay by credit card, so they give a discount for cash.

Then there are the taxes that are designed to punish you for buying products, instead of not buying them:
Taxes on tobacco, alcohol, luxury goods, gasoline, tanning beds, certain foods, cars, and on and on. There are even taxes that increase with income, designed to punish you for being successful.

There is nothing new here, and you are fooling yourself if you think that the SCOTUS has changed anything with this ruling.

That doesn’t mean that I am in favor of Obamacare. What it means is that I have long ago come to the understanding that taxes in this country only provide about 65% of what the government spends, and are used more for behavior modification than they are for revenue generation.

A lifeguard is assigned to watch a given area of beach. A swimmer in an area that is uncovered by a lifeguard a quarter of a mile away gets in trouble, and citizens report it to the lifeguard, who then leaves his assigned area to try and save the swimmer. He is fired for leaving his area uncovered.

I can understand why they fired him. The lifeguard company cannot allow this to happen. Unfortunately, policy is made
because of legal liability. The company has to look out for what it is
contracted to do. The company and its employees have a duty to act
within their area, a duty that they cannot fulfill if their lifeguards are off elsewhere. It may suck, it may not make sense, but it is the way that the law works.
 

The lifeguard left the area where he had a duty to act in
order to go to an area where he did not, thus leaving him and his
company open to legal liability. The fact that nothing happened in his assigned area while he was gone doesn’t
change this. 

If the company he works for doesn’t discipline him for this, then the precedent is set: other lifeguards can leave their area to do whatever, and then claim that they left to rescue someone, and the company will not be able to discipline them in the future.

This is freelancing, pure and simple. I know this sounds harsh, but the guy who was drowning decided to swim in an area that is not covered by lifeguards, thereby assuming the risk that he was swimming on an uncovered beach.

This reminds me of the people who live in an area that doesn’t have a public fire department, and refuse to pay the membership fees of the fire department who does cover their area, but then get upset when the fire department that they consciously avoid paying for refuses to provide service.

This lifeguard knew the rules, he was told that they couldn’t go beyond a certain limit, and would be disciplined if he did. He broke those rules, and was fired. He knew what he was doing, and figured that the rules didn’t apply to him.


Of course people in this situation are quick to say that you should, as a rescuer, be willing to sacrifice your job to rescue someone. To those people, I ask you this:
On 9/11, did you quit your job to rush to ground zero and help out?
During hurricane Katrina, did you quit your job to rush to New Orleans?
Why are you sitting here reading this? You should be out west, saving people from the wildfires there.

Or is it easier to bitch on the internet about what others should do, but not actually do it yourself?
  
There are limits to what we can do. We can’t go off and try to save the world. All we can do is take care of our piece of it.

So the voters of Orange County, Florida are starting a drive to get an initiative added to the ballot in November: A law that would require employers to give an employee one hour off with pay for every 37 hours worked. All the employee must do is call in sick, and get paid for not being at work. This means that for every 37 hours of work, the employer must pay the worker 38 hours of pay.

This astounds me that people do not see what will happen here: Employers in Orange County will have to find a way to be competitive with businesses that are not in Orange County. There are a few ways to do this:
1 Not own a business in Orange County
2 Cut employee wages by 3%
3 Get rid of 3% of the workforce

Many will not be able to raise prices, because they will lose sales to businesses that are outside the county and charge less.

One way to reduce the workforce is by contracting. I work for an employer that only has ten employees, and the rest of us are “independent contractors” who are issued 1099’s for work. We must pay our own taxes, so we are not employees: but we must still punch a time clock, wear a uniform, follow the policies of the employer, and are paid by the hour. Don’t like it? If you complain, they will simply not call you to work any longer.

Local theme parks do the same thing. My son dates a woman that is employed by a company that is a contractor, contracted to a local theme park to train animals for shows in the park. They are paid 6 hours a day, but must work until the jobs are done: mostly this means a 10 hour workday.

My ex-wife once worked for an employer that refused to pay for any hours worked over 40 in a week. Instead, they added hours worked to a “paid time off” bank that you could theoretically use as vacation. The problem was that they never let you take the time off that you had earned. When she complained, they fired her. She had to hire a lawyer and sue them in order to get paid for the time that she had banked.

With laws like simply being paid for the time you actually work being ignored, I just don’t believe that paid sick time will work.

This new law is a bad idea, and will not fix anything. Employers will just find ways to skirt the law, and it will hurt people in the long run.

Under a proposed California law, a child can have more than two parents. This would mean that mothers would be able to receive child support from multiple men for the same child. Isn’t modern jurisprudence wonderful? Get pregnant once, and you are set.

Here is a story complaining that an 18 year old man who was caught and convicted for committing a string of seven armed robberies, one of which where he engaged in a gunfight with a concealed weapons permit holder that resulted in an accomplice getting shot, and was sentenced to 162 years in prison. The press is complaining because he is a “teenaged first time offender.”

He isn’t a first time offender, he is a seven time offender. Just because he was committing so many crimes that he wasn’t caught until after his seventh robbery doesn’t mean he gets a pass on the other six. Under this theory, a serial killer who isn’t caught until after he kills 40 women is a first time offender? Of course not.

In this case, the press would rather scream about the unfairness to the criminal, and outlaw the guns he used.  

The violent felon had this to say:

“There ain’t no justice in the justice system,” he said, gazing down at
his olive-green prison jumpsuit and beige rubber sandals.

Justice?
Justice here has been served. You are a person who has committed at
least seven armed robberies, attempted to murder one of your victims,
and now you want to talk about justice?

Rot in there, you fucking douchebag. And to the press that is slanting this article: this is why the mainstream press is becoming more and more irrelevant. We are tired of your biased reporting that blames the working people, and excuses the lazy slackers of the welfare and criminal class.