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I read this post from Miguel over at Gunfreezone. His words reminded me of the UPS standoff in South Florida, where the police shielded themselves with soccermoms and children when they took cover behind vehicles filled with families. For those who don’t remember the incident, you can read more about it here.

There were cops who actually defended this by saying

You’re demanding perfection in an imperfect world. Where should the cops have stood in that situation, right out in the open where they would have been shot? You’re confusing prudent behavior with suicide.

The behavior of the police at Uvalde seems to be a pattern. Every time a cop is faced with the choice of personal safety or the safety of the citizens in their community, they choose self preservation.

During my decades in the fire department, we regularly were forced to enter unsafe environments in order to rescue members of the public from that environment. Over decades, fire departments worked out tactics for accomplishing those rescues. The saying in the fire service has been “The procedures of today are written in the blood of dead firefighters.” Supervisors in the fire service spend quite a bit of time on safety, strategy, and tactics. The spend nearly as much time on communications and learning to maintain control of an incident, even when it is spiraling out of control. We learned from the loss of 343 firefighters on 9/11, and saw major policy changes as a result. No matter what, if there are saveable victims, you go get them.

The police, who are the ones in charge of violent incidents (after all, they have the guns) have not done the same. They obviously don’t feel the same way. Their focus is elsewhere. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that is how it is.

No matter what else you should take away from the cowardice and self preservation of Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, remember this: The people who are the intended victims of these killers have skin in the game. They don’t get to choose whether or not to engage the shooter. That choice has been made for them, by the shooter himself. If it turns out that you have been selected, make sure that you are armed. You are your own first responder. The shooter has already chosen the day, the time, the location, and the manner of the fight. Don’t give him the luxury of choosing an unarmed victim. Have the means for effective resistance, and don’t deny those means to others. No one is coming to save you. They are waiting outside the door while you bleed to death.

There is now a worldwide shortage of coffee beans. If you think people are cranky now, you haven’t seen anything, yet.

a global coffee shortage may be on the brink. Back in September of 2021, ABC reported that, “importers warned of a shortage that could last three years”. Coffee lovers can also expect prices hikes. Coffee retailer Starbucks has said that, “they are planning to hike its prices this year.” This was its third increase since October.

This shortage doesn’t only affect the economy, coffee lovers, and major food retailers. Small business owners are also expected to be impacted as well. These businesses struggle to gain access to grants and loans that the bigger companies do.

The future for coffee remains uncertain so for now, coffee lovers should savor every sip.

Seriously, though. The shortages of everything are going to get worse.

The left says that the AR-15 is a weapon of war. I certainly hope so, because that is the only tool we have as we head off to fight this war that we are supposedly in, but didn’t know about. A leftist insurgent group calling itself Jane’s Revenge has made plain its intentions when it vandalized a pro-life center in Hollywood, Florida and in a communique left behind, said more attacks will follow.

Jane’s Revenge
First Communiqué
This is not a declaration of war. War has been upon us for decades. A war which we did not want, and did not provoke. Too long have we been attacked for asking for basic medical care. Too long have we been shot, bombed, and forced into childbirth without consent.

This was only a warning. We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days. This is not a mere “difference of opinion” as some have framed it. We are literally fighting for our lives. We will not sit still while we are killed and forced into servitude. We have run thin on patience and mercy for those who seek to strip us of what little autonomy we have left. As you continue to bomb clinics and assassinate doctors with impunity, so too shall we adopt increasingly extreme tactics to maintain freedom over our own bodies.

We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for a political struggle. Again, this was only a warning. Next time the infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. Medical imperialism will not face a passive enemy. Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings.

And we will not stop, we will not back down, nor win we hesitate to strike until the inalienable right to manage our own health is returned to us.

We are not one group, but many. We are in your city. We are in every city. Your repression only strengthens our accomplice-ship and resolve.

—Jane’s Revenge

Also, Hollywood is now a Zone 1 location.

I can tell you from my years as a paramedic that this is common occurrence. I can’t tell you how many times someone hung himself from a tree before shooting themselves in the chest. The fact that they were a Clinton staffer and connected to Jeffery Epstein is just a coincidence.

Nothing to see here.

The statements made by this assclown are mostly stupid, but there is one suggestion I would maybe support. Make mental issues from teen years count for background check purposes.

Then again, you know it would get abused.

Kyle Rittenhouse is an unperson now. No college will accept him, despite the fact that he didn’t commit a single crime.

Hey Republicans- If you cut a deal and give away our gun rights, I am not voting any more. I don’t see a reason to vote for either of you, if all you are going to do is take away my rights.

If there is anything that I am convinced of, it is this: The press in this country doesn’t report on anything that the left/Democrat party hasn’t approved of first. The professional media outlets in this country report what they are told to report, when they are told to report it, and that includes the so-called conservative media and yes, even those on the right like Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and all of Fox news. (Don’t forget that the radio network that employs Hannity and Levin told them to avoid certain topics or their jobs were forfeit.)

So with that in mind, just why have the media outlets spent so much time reporting on how police screwed the pooch by the numbers in the Uvalde shooting? After all, talk like this obscures the gun control message. Are they trying to make local cops look bad so they can put some kind of national police force in place? Is there something else happening that they are trying to distract us from? Why did the school board refuse to fire the Uvalde Schools Police Chief?

I am trying to see the big picture here, and I don’t understand it. Sometimes the picture appears to be so muddy.

A California attorney complains that his client was being prosecuted for murder because she had a miscarriage. He then laments that women are being persecuted because of a crackdown on abortion. Once you read the details, well it’s a different story.

She had a miscarriage because she was using illegal drugs while pregnant.

Remember when rioters tried to breach the White House and lefties called Trump a coward when the Secret Service tossed him in a bunker?

What does that make Biden when he cowers in a fire station while hiding from a Cessna? Name calling goes both ways. At least in Trump’s case, there actually was an attack.