y'know...

TheDonald shows us that he really isn't a Second Amendment guy.

The more he talks, the more he shows his ignorance about firearms in general, and firearms laws and purchasing in particular.

Were he to be handed a gun, of any kind, I'm not so sure he'd know how to pick it up, much less holg it or use it.

He is, after all, a denizen of Noo Yawk Citee at heart. Even the cops there aren't sure how to use firearms.....

Denton County Sheriff:

Good leadership in the aftermath of Florida's Broward County failure;

 All commissioned Deputies, if you respond to an active shooter you are expected to take immediate action. We do not stage and wait for SWAT, we do not take cover in a parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency. We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives. If for any reason you feel you cannot follow this directive please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you reassigned.

Kinda goes along with what LawDog said

How come

Billy Graham gets to lie in state at the Rotunda?


Seriously, he was a decent man, apparently a great pastor, but, in the end, just a man. Why do they give him the honor, and deny so many others?

Ultimately, what makes his corpse so special?

How many times can they stop?

I mean, I don't shop at Dicks Sporting Goods anyway. They have very little that I want, and what items they do carry aren't geared towards my demographic (old/white/male) but rather trendy clothing and stuff that appeals to Millenials.

Their firearms department had, as far as I knew, given up AR-style rifles and high round count magazines years ago, in some Virtue Signalling display after, either the Aurora Colorado shooing or perhaps another one much earlier.....I forget. (ETA: it was the Sandy Hook shooting)

But, either way, they gave up AR-15 style rifles once already. I've not been back to a Dicks since. I refuse to patronize places whose management uses tragedy to Virtue Signal.

Yet, oddly, they are giving them up again. How is that? I don't remember there being a sunset provision of the sales of "Weapons of War" or whatever they called them then. Is profit a motivator that trumps Virtue Signalling? Or did they think that all their customers would forget? Is there a repeal date for this decision? Do they think it will help them get a boost selling Yeti cooler knockoffs and semi casual stylish workout wear and expensive boots and outdoor wear to their millenial customers for a while?

ETA: apparently they are serious this time: "This time it's permanent"...One wonders why they don't simply stop selling all firearms?

Expect their stock to fall....unexpectedly. They are all ready having issues. I expect them to fail soon.

Let's be consistent and all....

"If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it's worth it."

Ok, then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn't that be worth it?

Remember:

Today, in 1993, is the day that the (Clinton) Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) ATTACKED the compound at Waco, Tx., home of the "Branch Davidians" for supposed "weapons violations" (Later amended to include a meth lab after the fact...that they didn't have evidence of) ...that excuse then became "Child Brides and Molestations" about 10 days into the siege (in order to come up with SOME justification....(Which, oddly, isn't the purview of the ATF at all, BTW) (I think it was simply because their lifestyle was, to outsiders, strange). This is the anniversary of the start of the Siege at Waco, which led to the final immolation of the compound on April 19 by the FBI.

(Editors note: The discrepancies in the official report are many, and odd, and the actions of the ATF agents and subsequent FBI agents show that they considered these citizens to be subhuman, not worth basic human considerations. I am ashamed that I and my fellow citizens allowed this to happen and failed to exact punishment of  or exact retribution from, those agents responsible)

If ever there was a reason every man (and woman) should own a rifle and have the ability to use it, this is one.

Trust your government?

Not hardly. Not me.
Ever.
I'll remember this with the intensity that I remember 9-11,

Is your church approved by the Government?
Are you?
If all else fails, the Feds will burn you out to remove you as an embarrassment. Remember that too.

Never forget, this is a day where the "Government" chose to ignore the rights of the citizens, and, ultimately, killed those who would not comply with the orders of bureaucrats. 

13 hours

4 stops to pee,  2 of those for fuel, one to eat. Total time not driving or loading/un: 55 min.

20 minutes loading. 7 to unload.

The rest was driving. I only walked (according to the pedometer) 3800 steps today. Burned something like 9 calories.....

And now I have the symptoms of rhinovirus. Which sucks.

Meh.

Expect little on Wed.

Willie be singin'

I will be back later. Gotta do what I gotta do. My average ground speed today (and yes, in the truck, not an airplane) should be about 74. By the time you read this I will have been enroute for about 2 hours.


Go read the folks on the sidebar, they know more and are more interesting anyway.

Rightspeak

Seems that Twitter is deleting and otherwise censoring tweets that question David Hogg, the oddly articulate young Californian graduate student that has become the spokesman for the Parkland shooting victims.

"On Wednesday, Twitter Safety released a statement regarding the Parkland students. Anyone ‘harassing’ (disagreeing with) the students will be banned.

Twitter also said something very interesting. They are using ‘anti-abuse tools to weed out malicious automation around these individuals and the topics they are raising.’"

So, only the "right" people with the "right" message get to be heard. Dissent will be deleted.

Interesting. 
I always thought that 1984 was a novel, not a prophecy.

Is everybody in the Broward County Sheriffs department a fuck up?

I thought, at first "Surely Not"..




But things like this keep surfacing, and I cannot help but wonder.

EMS first responder shares harrowing account of how botched Florida shooting response was

Terrible, if true. 'Tisn't like one deputy with a rifle couldn't secure a hallway....or, as they cleared one floor at a time, then let the EMS in.

This is why, by the way,

the statement that "No One Needs An AR-15" is, in fact, incorrect.

Do a google search for the image to find out his name and why he is the example....

Stolen from WRSA

In other words: Fuck all of you

Out-standing:

The more than five million law-abiding members of the National Rifle Association have enjoyed discounts and cost-saving programs from many American corporations that have partnered with the NRA to expand member benefits. 

Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community.  We are men and women who represent every American ethnic group, every one of the world’s religions and every form of political commitment.

The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement.

Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.  In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to Constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve.

Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world.

I have a long memory...I haven't bought a Smith and Wesson Firearm, nor a Ruger one, in more than 10 years....I HAVE purchased other firearms (slightly more than 3 a year), but have not bought those brands. (Although I did build a Non-Ruger 10-22). I may buy a Ruger Precision Rifle this year, and I may buy an M&P also, but it's been 10 years...and these are guns and I am gun guy.I have a long memory...

I won't be buying products nor services from these companies that are Virtue Signalling by ending NRA discounts (that they begged for when business was bad in order to gain our business) ....not for a long time. As I said; I moved seven figures in banking over a similar bit of Virtue Signalling.

And, oddly enough, I have a fair bit of disposable income lately.......

(and, just so everyone knows, those "discounts" were really meaningless  in today's world (and had been in place for 20 or more years) as you could only use them against full price services, and NO-One ever paid full price for Rental Cars nor Motel Rooms in the past 5 or so years. (and the motel discounts were discontinued for that reason about 4 years ago anyway) Now; the FNB of Omaha may actually take a financial hit,  as will the hearing aid company...I can respect that...as they will, actually, suffer for their stance (not admire, but respect)......put their money where their mouth is and all that.... 

All day long

I've been waiting for better wind conditions since 10 AM this morning.

All day long, the wind has been 220-250  20-28, gusting 28-37.

I wanted a bit of crosswind to practice landing, but really.....

Very few people were flying in General Aviation airplanes today, so I didn't feel too bad about choosing not to exceed my limitations.....

Watch this

7 Minutes.

Do you believe that this kid is "Just a High School student"?

Can you buy that? Really?

If ya do, I go some bridges for sale at really good prices...20% discount if yer paying cash.  Small bills only, please.

He's an actor, or at least has been very well coached in the past week. And he is.. oddly together... for a High School Student, isn't he?
I guess living in California and going to school there for 6 years does that to a fella. (Oddly, though, YouTube removed the video showing him confronting a Lifeguard in California....)

But the Left and the Media is selling his story, and, apparently, folks are buying it.

Pick up yer tinfoil chapeaus on yer way out, folks.

And that, my friends

IS A DAMNED GOOD POINT.

Gotta wonder why that is, doncha?





Of course, likely no one told the Liberals, and the Media (but I am being redundant here) that this guy was gonna do that....so they didn't have everything ready then...... No Crisis Actors ready to do their thing, no Town Halls scheduled (and all the facilities those require), no appointments with Legislators already scheduled, no busses on standby for the kids to take to those meeting, no catering for the kids, no hotel rooms for those hundreds of kids......

Someone remind me to get more tinfoil soon.


HT tip: Joel

Another oddity:

Seems that Nikolas Cruze paid for his AR with, according to stories, a PrePaid debit card...?

I cannot confirm the story yet, however, so take that for what it is worth.

Also, he apparently went from his home to the school in an Uber? with a gun case? And no one said anything? The Uber driver never noticed? Innit odd that, having interviewed everyone within a mile of the school, we haven't seen the Uber driver?

I'm gonna have to buy stock in Reynolds Wrap.....

Indeed:

THIS is so very true.

each and every last one of 'em is much better than that.....

A suggestion for the NRA:

Y'all need to make a statement about all these folks who, prior to the current "Gun Control/Hate the NRA" putsch by the liberals (as they dance in the blood of 17 dead kids and school teachers)...

Just say, to all those folks who wanted our business, and now in order to Virtue Signal, suddenly don't...

Just say to them all:

"FUCK. YOU.

Our Members WILL remember you. "






Make a list of all those companies. Post it. Publish it in all the NRA magazines. Do it for a year.

Give us a list so we know exactly who NOT to spend our money with.

Stolen meme:

I stole it from the Freeholder. (with permission)

'Tis true enough though.

Lets all be careful here. Wouldn't wanna be inconsistent. Folks that are 18 shouldn't be allowed to sign contracts, get married, hold bank accounts, join the military, etc.

I mean, we gotta make sure that they are able to handle all those things and all...

who among us hasn't had a night like this at one point in our lives?

A former freemason found drunk and naked inside a huge pipe organ has appeared in court accused of damaging the historic instrument - insured for more than $1 million.

Glenn Langford was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly flooding the Brisbane Masonic Memorial Centre and setting off the fire alarms.



Damn, I gonna have to up my game,