I haven't commented much about the latest school shooting. It appears that everyone is playing their assigned roles. The NRA and law abiding citizens are the bad guys. The media, the crisis actors, Hollywood and the looney left are all beating the drums to take away our guns. Of course in New York we don't have any guns. At least in NYC. At least as far as they know.
I read a tweet that the big uptick in the purchase of firearms is a manifestation of the low grade civil war that we are engaged in these days. I think that is very perceptive. The liberals want to disarm the populace to assert control of the deplorables.
What is ridiculous is that this tragedy could have been prevented. Or at least ameliorated by law enforcement. The Sheriff's Department and the FBI were warned about this kid. The tragedy is how the Coward County Deputies stayed outside and let this kid shoot. Nobody went in. Nobody tried anything until the Coral Gable cops showed. Now the rumor is that these deputies were told to stand down. By the Democratic hack Sheriff.
What the fuck did he think? That these kids were Ambassadors or something.
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Nice point about Demo ROE.
We've also heard that the EMTs were told to stay back also.
What's interesting is that, according to Rasmussen, a third of the country blames guns. Better than half say government's to blame. YMMV, but the plummet in the market today may have more to do with Wally World and Dick's trying to grab a little Lefty street cred than anything else.
My wife began talking again about getting her concealed carry permit. She told me that she's the only female manager at work who doesn't carry. She works in a software company. I pity the fool who tries anything there. This might be the catalyst that prompts her to follow through.
Once you see the picture of the two of them, it all makes sense.
I'm planning on getting my CCW this week. Taking the 8 hr. class anyway. Then you submit your paperwork and its a 3 month wait.
Before moving, I was pretty much unaware of how different the gun laws are from state to state and especially how liberal they are most places outside the Democrat strongholds. Here in NV you can open carry without any permit. You can drive around with a loaded handgun in the cup holder or on the seat. In CA you can't even have the gun and the ammo in the same place, except at home. In Arizona it's even more liberal. You can not only open carry, but also concealed carry with no permit. You just do it if you want to, and it's nobody's business. That blows me away. You would think that would make places like NV and AZ hotbeds of gun violence, yet it's just the opposite, or at least no different from places with total gun control.
It's really counter intuitive for those of us used to being under tight control. We just assume the legal control is necessary, becuase we imagine complete lawlessness is our natural behavior, but after living surrounded with armed people, I'm seeing that since most people are law abiding and reasonable, peace is not really a problem with guns, and the bad guys know there is a real limit to what you can get away with.
Of course we had a mass shooting here as well, but it was the first one after so many of them elsewhere, and the shooter had to be high up, locked away from the public, at ground level, he would have been taken out quickly by citizens. I think something like what happened in Paris with bands of killers walking the street leisurely killing people in cafe's would never even be attempted here.
The underlying difference in gun law here combined with the lack of any real negative effects is really hard to get used to. People in L.A. would panic if they saw an armed man walking around, but we see it all day here and nobody even blinks. By contrast, nobody thinks twice about everybody jumping into 2 thousand pound pieces of machinery and driving around them perfectly capable of killing them and many others in a second if they wished to. Now I'm more worried about trucks than guns.
Here is an example of how it works here, which I never could have imagined before. From Reddit, a quote of an exchange with a cop and and armed citizen:
"Got pulled over for speeding. I told the cop I had a concealed carry.
“And I’m assuming you have one on you?” he asked.
“Yes, I have two”
“And they are both loaded and ready to go?”
“Yes, sir”
“Good! If I ever need your help, I’d hope you were ready”
He did write me a ticket, but he bumped my speed down so I wouldn’t get any points and he thanked me again for carrying a gun.
It's like a different planet. In CA, that guy would be lucky to be alive, and at the very least he would have been quickly surrounded by cops aiming guns at him and forcing him to the ground and off to jail. Nothing separates these two worlds but an imaginary line in the desert.
Nothing separates these two worlds but an imaginary line in the desert.
Or the political cowardice and indifference to a citizens rights.
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