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The federal government has been spending money on research intended to support gun control. What they found is not surprising. They discovered that rural children have access to guns, with one in six rural ‘children’ claiming that they have carried a gun before age 26. This is twice the rate that urban young people admit carrying guns.

In a post from 2013, I showed that 53% of US homicides occurred in cities with populations of over 100,000. Urban areas. Now cities of that size are where 28% of the US population lives. When homicide statistics are combined with the results of the above study, we can see that in places where a person is twice as likely to be carrying a gun, a person’s chances of being a homicide victim are much lower.

That is what is known as negative correlation. That is, as the rate of firearm possession increases, the chances of being a victim of homicide decreases. To put it more simply, more guns mean fewer homicides.

Haven’t those of us who oppose gun control been saying that for several decades?

On a side note, what are researchers doing asking children in the sixth grade to report on whether or not mommy and daddy have guns in the house? Yet another mark against leftist educators.

A second side note. The website that published this article is a website dedicated to physics. What dis this study have to do with physics? Isn’t this more in the realm of sociology?

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By Divemedic, ago

So Who Is It Going To Be?

The Democrats have obviously abandoned the Biden regime.

So who is going to replace him? I don’t think it will be Harris, Pelosi, or Constitutionally, it COULD be Obama, but I don’t really see that either. Have we finally reached the point where Americans will support the strongman who promises to fix everything and will hand him supreme but “temporary” power in order to do it? Who will it be?

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By Divemedic, ago

I Was Right

Back in February of 2021, I posted a copy of a video showing Capitol police letting J6 protesters into the building. At best, this eliminated the chances that this was a crime, at worst it is evidence of entrapment.

Matthew Martin produced a similar video as a part of his defense to the charges he was facing from the J6 protest. The judge in the case found that he “reasonably believed” that police officers let him into the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach, finding defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of all charges. Let’s review that video again:

The Capitol Police officers are standing there holding the doors open.

The verdict represents an early test of efforts by some Jan. 6 defendants to argue that police allowed them to enter the Capitol, or that they believed they had permission because no officer told them to stop. The crux of Martin’s defense was that, in his own words, he was “let in” by two US Capitol Police officers who were standing in the doorway when he entered and made no attempt to stop him. He argued that one of the officers waved him through. Looking at the video above, it’s hard to argue that no one entered the Capitol building with permission.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1511777371015327756

This, one thousand times, this.

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By Divemedic, ago

Show Trials

The attorney for some of the J6 defendants filed a brief that opposed the forced vaccination of his clients while incarcerated indefinitely awaiting trial. That brief likened forced COVID vaccination to the Holocaust. This pissed off the judge, who had him disbarred. Now all of his clients are without representation.

Of course the powers that be are denying that the disbarment has anything to do with his J6 case, but no one is releasing the facts of either case as supporting evidence.

I want you to recall that the communists that are taking over our nation are still following the CIA insurgent manual. Just as I said a year ago, the show trials must be held to imprison anyone who is a possible counter revolutionary.

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By Divemedic, ago

Interesting Position

The sudden interest in the ineptitude of the current resident of the Whitehouse by the US press seems to indicate that they are ready to discard him. American thinker has an interesting take on Obama trying to make a comeback.

My initial thought on Obama getting a third term was “the 22nd Amendment says that a person can’t be President more than twice.” Except that, as the article points out, that isn’t what it says.

Twenty-Second Amendment

Twenty-Second Amendment Annotated

Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

22nd Amendment, emphasis added

If Obama is appointed to be the VP to replace Kamala, then Biden is also removed from office, Obama could serve out the remainder of the current term.

How would they remove Harris? What if she were assassinated by a Trump supporting, AR wielding bitter clinger?

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By Divemedic, ago

Called It

Remember the Port Orange teacher that disrupted standardized testing? He actually posted a video of himself as he did it. He rambled on for nearly an hour.

Watch the video. It’s a long, rambling video that makes it seem like the teacher is on drugs.

He tells the kids (4:54 mark of the video) that black students are the victims of racism. He brags about smoking weed (at 14:47) even claiming that he sometimes comes to work stoned. At 15:22 one of the kids tells the teacher that he smells like weed sometimes. Another student admits that his mother smokes weed.

At 27 minutes, a Principal arrives and demands that he turn the music off. The teacher wants to have a conversation with him, but the principal leaves after being told the conversation is being live streamed.

He is trying to be a friend to the kids. Dropping F bombs. Admitting to drug use.

Other videos on his Instagram page include his interview with police and a video lasting over 2 hours that appears to be of of himself getting high while listening to music. The video appears to have been shot at 5 am, just before he went to work. In it, he claims to be drinking Patron and smoking weed.

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By Divemedic, ago

The Death of Satire

Last February, an article posted as satire managed to go viral. The article claimed that the potato that resides in the Oval Office was going to defund the department of Veteran’s Affairs. As has been the case lately, that satire has become reality.

VA hospitals are being closed. My first question is “The VA is fully funded in Joe’s next budget. Where is all of that money going, if hospitals are closing?”

It turns out that the funds are not being used for veteran care, they are being used for something else.

That’s right- the personnel are reportedly being used to establish treatment and COVID vaccine centers for illegal immigrants.

There is a joke that says the difference between satire and reality is about 12 months. That is looking more and more accurate as time goes on. This year’s satire will be next year’s reality.

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By Divemedic, ago

Unintended Consequences

The governor of Colorado recently signed a law that legalizes abortions at any point until birth. Theoretically, a woman in labor could have the baby aborted and this would be legal. I don’t see how that is anything but murder. However, that isn’t the point of this post. Here is a link to the law itself. (pdf warning)

The point here is that the law reads (in part):

A FERTILIZED EGG, EMBRYO, OR FETUS DOES NOT HAVE
INDEPENDENT OR DERIVATIVE RIGHTS UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE.

So I wonder how long it will be before a case comes before the court where someone has injured a pregnant woman and caused the loss of her baby. Like the case of Heather Surovik.

Heather Surovik was eight months pregnant when a drunk driver struck her car on a summer afternoon on the outskirts of Denver. A 27-year-old preschool teacher at the time, she was expecting to give birth within days, in July 2012, to a boy she had named Brady. “I survived,” she said. “Brady did not.” To Surovik, that was a homicide. But not according to Colorado law. “I was told that because my son did not take a breath, he was not considered a person,” she said. “He was considered part of my injuries—a loss of a pregnancy.”

This resulted in Amendment 67 being placed on Colorado’s ballot in 2014. The measure was defeated. So in Colorado, anyone can kill an unborn baby. A person can stab, shoot, or run over a pregnant woman, causing the loss of her unborn child, and that loss will be considered an injury.

Even CNN thought that this unborn fetus was a child. CNN host Erin Burnett exclaimed: “That baby was 8 pounds, 2 ounces. He was going to be born in a couple of days. How could you not define that as a person? That is a viable life.” Showing that the left has no concept of cognitive dissonance, this same CNN anchor is in favor of abortion.

I guess this is what the women of Colorado want, although looking at the new law, they are not even women any longer, but are now “pregnant individuals.” The words female and woman do not appear in the new law, not even once.

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By Divemedic, ago