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Carrying Concealed With Misplaced Compassion

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In the wake of the Renee Good incident, I thought the left might rein in their rabid activists. Maybe, just maybe. I mean apparently they’ve all been told they can attack law enforcement with impunity. The worst that might happen is being arrested. Not too worry, deep pockets will bail you out.

There is a lot of video out there on Renee Good, a proud member of ICE watch, trained to track, harass and attack ICE officers as they attempt to removed the more criminal of the illegal invaders. She had been following ICE all morning on January 7th after dropping her son, she only had custody of the one child, off at his progressive school with it’s focus on social justice. She blocked off a street with her SUV, let a few cars through that were also members of her group and then blocked agents. And that’s when she escalated things. Told to get out of her car, she didn’t and her wife decided it would be a really brave cool thing to antagonize agents, so that’s the mindset. Some on the left have tried to say she was scared or trying to do a three point turn. She was filmed sitting in her car, blocking the road playing a jaunty little tune by her blaring car horn and bouncing along to the beat in her SUV. Agents went to remove her, her wife started yelling at her to drive, videos from the officer’s body cam shows her staring straight at him as she revs the engine and moves forward. As some have pointed out, if it hadn’t been a bit icy she’d have hit the officer a lot harder. Which, is what she was trying to do. The officer she hit has been to the rodeo before. About six months before he was hit by an illegal invader, drug and required surgery. The left attempted to excuse Renee again saying she just barely bumped him. He went to the hospital with internal injuries. Why exactly is it the left thinks that they can commit acts of violence and if it doesn’t cause as much harm as they intended, it will be excused?

However, the agent objected to being struck by the car, and shot her. I’m appalled she attacked the agent using her big SUV as a weapon, and on top of that she had her innocent dog in the car. No I’m not even kidding. I wonder if I’m the only one that can easily see this woman speeding to get away from law enforcement, or to get to her next harass ICE location and hitting an innocent bystander, or someone crossing the road, or, while less likely still possible, a group of people that show up to rally in support of ICE. Because when you’re on the left, rules don’t matter, just your ideology does.

So one would think such things might cause the left to say we need to get a grip here, this is going to far. That one would be wrong. There’s money in them thar rape whistles. Although I don’t think the left has a firm grasp that rape whistles are to be used if they’re attacked by a rapist. Not to warn the rapists that law enforcement is there to arrest them. Those leftists do love them some rapists, domestic abusers, child rapists, pedophiles of every sort, thieves. Heck there’s no criminal the left doesn’t love, especially illegal invaders. As long as they aren’t peacefully and patriotically carrying an American flag. That’s a bridge too far for the left.

Which brings us to what I would consider to be a Veteran’s Administration hiring error named Alex Pretti. So the late Mr. Pretti worked as an ICU nurse at the VA. A hospital that takes care of men who have served their country. And we had Mr. Pretti who spends his free time harassing men who are currently serving their country and trying to deport criminal illegal invaders. You know, like the kind the men in the VA were trying to keep out. I still shake my head at that. Those poor poor patients. Because when you see the actions of Mr. Pretti, I have a pretty good idea he may not have been too good at hiding his ideology in his patient care. Now, I’m basing that one the number of nurses that have come out recently proudly wishing harm on everyone from a pregnant press secretary to MAGA people in general, including threats to harm them while in their care. That’s not a big reach. A couple of nurses were fired not that long ago in Australia for bragging they would kill Jews in their care. More recently a Jewish victim of the Bondi beach massacre had her name changed and her religion removed from her record by the hospital while she was a patient there. They tried to tell her it was for press reasons, but what it came down to was they were afraid their “multi-culti” staff would try to kill her. Something has gone horribly wrong in the medical profession. And what’s more frightening are the number of medical staff that feel that way, and would do those things but are smart enough not to make videos bragging about it.

Which brings us back to Mr. Pretti. The media has made much of him having a concealed carry permit. I’ve taken three CCW classes. I like them, each taught by a different teacher, all had excellent wisdom and experience to impart. One lawyer, two police officers from two different departments. You know what I learned from all of them? Be polite, be courteous, and when dealing with law enforcement, be EXCRUCIATINGLY polite. When it comes to protests, one of the best things I’ve heard came from Tyrus on the Greg Gutfeld show. He said protesters show up, wave signs, chant, play drums and if very aggressive, they sing at you. He said what we’re seeing isn’t protesters, it’s domestic terrorists. I’d say yup, paid domestic terrorists. Dark Money and Foreign Influence: Global Network Funding Anti-ICE Protests. And there are a lot of groups and people involved. So was Alex Pretti paid? I dunno. But he was not rational, and had no business being around vulnerable American Veterans. So how did he get un-alived, I guess that’s the word now?

Well, this video is from Officer Tatum, whom I do respect quite a bit and he was a police officer so he has some insight and knowledge some of the other clips won’t have. I’d like to point out this video came out right after the shooting, before any other videos came out. Why I’m pointing this out is at one point in here Officer Tatum will tell you Alex’s actions would have led to the loss of his concealed carry permit, and what exactly those actions were. And guest Andrew gives specific #s at about 11:24

All video clips I will start at the relevant part.

Well, as it turns out, that wasn’t Alex Pretti’s first physical confrontation with law enforcement. No, he was sporting a broken rib from a previous violent altercation with them. From which he apparently learned nothing. Although, since it’s Minneapolis, maybe he leared nothing. And for this video of his previous engagement, I’m going to use this clip from Aaron Prager, because well, it features narration by Fauxcahontas Warren.

For a nurse to make a habit of spitting at people I find shocking actually. I’m sure that video is a proud moment for the VA where he worked. Yesh. Maybe they should see if they can hire people that don’t hate America?

And here’s why

Here’s some fun figures I saw going around:

Deportations vs Protests.

Clinton; 12.5m-Protests: 0

Bush: 10m-Protests: 0

Obama: 5.2m-Protests: 0

Biden: 7m-Protests: 0

Trump: 1.2m-Protests: THOUSANDS

Obama-Era Report on ICE-Related Deaths Proves How Hypocritical Hysteria Over Alex Pretti’s Death Really Is

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Well, here’s where things get interesting. Years before the Biden presidency launched an era of border lawlessness unprecedented in U.S. history, and caused the illegal immigration invasion Trump is cleaning up, Obama had a reputation in leftist circles as “deporter in chief.”

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More to the point, on matters of life and death, an Obama-era report published by the leftist American Civil Liberties Union found that by February 2016, there had been 56 deaths of individuals in ICE custody since Obama took office in 2009. Leftists blamed the majority of the deaths on substandard medical care.

Remember the establishment media hysteria that greeted the news that more than half a hundred individuals had met their ends while in ICE’s hands during the Obama years? Probably not.

Remember the screeds branding Obama a “Nazi”? No.

Remember Obama himself grandstanding on the topic of American “core values” under assault? Of course not.

Interesting, no?

But these leftists are demonic. I’m not even kidding. Recently two different law enforcement officers had their fingers bitten by feral female leftists. One of them bit the end of the finger off.

ICE officer after attack by leftist demon

Women charged with biting Border Patrol agents’ fingers following Alex Pretti shooting You do notice that’s plural, correct?

Two women are accused of biting the fingers of separate border patrol agents following the shooting death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Claire Louise Feng, of St. Paul, and Emily Duchateau Baierl, of Minneapolis, have both been charged with assault.

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According to charges, around 9:25 a.m., Feng allegedly tackled a border patrol agent who was attempting to arrest another woman. At that point, a second agent attempted to pull Feng away, and took her to the ground – at which point she “forcibly bit the right ring finger of [the second agent].” The injury left the agent with a tip of his finger bitten off, charges allege.

Dig deeper:

At the same time, charges state that Baierl allegedly bit the middle finger of an officer who was attempting to remove her mask after allegedly being spotted throwing objects at agents.

Neither woman was “peacefully protesting”. They both physically assaulted law enforcement. I hope the demons go to jail. They aren’t safe to be on the loose. If they’re willing to do that to armed law enforcement? I just hope they’ve had their shots, I’d be wondering what kind of diseases they’re carrying.

But they are far from alone.

Criminal Illegal Alien Rams ICE Agents in Minnesota as Trump Admin Plans to Scale Back the Number of Immigration Agents

Woke Hollywood Useful Idiots Call On Cult To Mobilize Against MAGA?

Federal Officers Attacked and Tackled by Violent Minneapolis Rioters

Here Are the Three Venezuelan Illegal Aliens Who Attacked ICE in Minneapolis with a Shovel – All Three Entered US Under Biden Regime

And with an AG almost as nasty as the likes of Keith Ellison, there is Kris Mayes. Arizona Attorney General Claims “Right-Wing Media has Mischaracterized” Violent Comments Justifying Shooting ICE, Attacks ICE for “Putting Every American in Danger” in Damage Control Statement

They hate it when they get caught. The thing is, they really mean it when they say it. In their world it’s fine and when they find out they’ve said the quiet part out loud they backtrack and blame someone, anyone, else.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Disavows Attorney General Kris Mayes’ Calls to Murder ICE Agents, Calls for Mayes to Retract Statements

Honestly, they’re both leftists. Retract the statements? Not resign in disgrace?

This doesn’t seem to happen in states who have elected adults. Police Cam Footage Shows Moment Anti-ICE Agitator Manhandled After Punching Florida Trooper in the Face She is proud of herself, grinning like a possum as she gets put on the hood of the police cruiser. Very proud of herself.

I’ve got two more final thoughts for you. One is from Nissim Black, and I’m putting this video out for two reasons. The first part shows some video of other astounding attacks on law enforcement that should have been on the news, jaw dropping. The mindset of these mentally ill people is shocking. The Arizona AG is far from the only one urging people to kill law enforcement officers. And at the final part with the Border Patrol agent guarding a store and he’s asking where local police department is? I wonder if those Minneapolis officers that have left ICE and Border Patrol to twist in the wind at the tender mercies of the paid mobs have realized these mobs have now learned they can attack law enforcement with impunity. Did they think that one through?

So we’ll start with that, then I’ll tell you another reason I picked Nissim’s video.

https://youtu.be/nxlFEFgzpzk?t=57

I think watching the whole thing is worthwhile. After the clips he talks about why he thinks this is happening. Misplaced mercy. I think he’s generous. I think they are evil. But I do agree with him that this may be the disintegration of our society. Because they truly believe that they are on the side of angels protecting criminals. They side with dictators, cruel people, terrorists against decent people just trying to live their lives. He also ties it back to Tanak.

I also think Tim Poole takes it a step further about how this will play out when it goes too much further. And I’m afraid he’s correct.

This is a very important video, and I think he raises a lot of very valid questions about the right vs the left in a civil war. While it may be heartening to think the left is all blue and pink hair loons, they quite possibly are three steps ahead of us.

It has been said if you are kind to the cruel, eventually you will be cruel to the kind. I think we’re there.

Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish says: Anyone who becomes compassionate when he should be cruel will ultimately become cruel when he should be compassionate, as it is stated: “And Nov, the city of priests, he smote by sword” (I Samuel 22:19). Should Nov not be like descendants of Amalek? The Rabbis say: Anyone who becomes compassionate when he should be cruel, ultimately, the attribute of justice will harm him, as it is stated: “Saul and his three sons died” (I Samuel 31:6).

14 And My people, upon whom My name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My presence and repent of their evil ways, I shall hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14

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Not With My Shoulder, You Don’t!

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Meet the .960 caliber JDJ Fat Mac, a firearm I only just learned exists.

One pound at 2,200 FPS is a mere 38,685 foot pounds muzzle energy.

Lunatic: But it has a muzzle brake.

Cartridge: I sneer at your muzzle brake. Prepare to suffer serious injury or death!

If you want one (and find someone willing to part with one of the only three manufactured), you’ll only need around $100,000.

And oddly enough, despite the well-over-half-inch bore, you don’t need an NFA tax stamp. It has a “sporting use” exemption. Darned if I know what you’d hunt with it… on this planet.

I admit it: I want one. Because. If I win the lottery, I may not tell anyone, but there’ll be signs.

(Hat tip to Wisco Dave.)

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[Update] An Appropriate Use Of Force?

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There’s a trial in Virginia over a shooting. Let me describe the reported circumstances, and let you decide what you’d have done.

You’re minding your own business, when a 6′ 5″ “goon” (his own monicker, by the way) walks up on you. He sticks his hand in your face and calls you a “dips**t”. You repeatedly tell him to stop, but he refuses. You keep backing away, but he keeps closing on you, still calling you a “dips**t.” You try to knock his hand out your face, but he continues.

Would you be frightened, concerned for your physical safety?

Would you shoot the hulking threat?

Alan Colie did shoot the goon; a single shot to the abdomen. And was arrested for it.

Cook, who is 6-foot-5, could be seen holding a cell phone about 6 inches from Colie’s face. The cellphone broadcasted the phrase “Hey dips—-, quit thinking about my twinkle” through a Google Translate app several times.

Colie could be heard saying “stop” on three separate occasions and tried to back away from Cook, who continued to advance towards him.

Colie attempted to knock the phone away from his face before he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Cook in the lower left chest.

The “rest of the story” is that the goon is a YouTube “prankster,” who has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement over his disgusting, frightening, and threatening “pranks” pulled on unsuspecting strangers. A sane person of normal intelligence might learn from those encounters that such “pranks” are dangerous.

Not Cook.

YouTube prankster Tanner Cook said in court on Tuesday that he had no idea he had scared or angered Alan Colie, 31, who ended up allegedly shooting him during a prank.

And why would he even consider the possibility that his victim might be scared? After all, it’s not like any of his other targets were…

Cook said during the hearing that he tries to confuse targets of his pranks for the amusement of his online audience and doesn’t try to elicit fear or anger, but said his targets often react that way.

Oh. So he already knew that his subjects often perceive him as a threat — just as Colie did — but still thought thought the risk of instilling that fear would be fun.

Would I have shot the goon? Quite possibly, given the scenario described in court. I would certainly have drawn my sidearm and issued one last warning. Then, whether I fired or not would depend on Cook passing the impromptu IQ test.

The prosecution in this case maintains that the shooting was unjustified because the goon was “unarmed.”

“It was stupid. It was silly. And you may even think it was offensive. But that’s all it was — a cellphone in the ear that got Tanner shot.”

No, it was disparity of force. Colie was threatened by a person much larger and stronger; a person who refused to cease his threatening actions. Cook didn’t need a weapon to be a danger, he was a weapon. And while Cook might not have intended to be a threat, Colie didn’t know that; he only knew what he was experiencing, and that was the actions of Cook, who admitted that he knew his victims “often” saw his acts as threatening.

Juries are weird, so I don’t know how this will turn; but I know how it should: acquittal.

As for goon Cook, he clearly is still failing life’s ongoing intelligence test. I suspect he’ll finally encounter someone less restrained than Colie — who only fired a single shot to stop the advancing threat — who will empty his magazine center mass, ending those “pranks” for good.

Update, 9/29/2023: The verdict is in. Colie was acquitted of the two felony malicious wounding and malicious shooting in an occupied structure charges. Weirdly, though, he was convicted of misdemeanor use of a firearm during a felony the same jury said he didn’t committed. Colie’s attorney is addressing that.

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Yet Another Interesting Baldwin/Rust Shooting Development

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You may recall that I’ve been wondering how a live round ever made it onto the Rust set.

One thing that always bothered me was presence of live rounds on site at all. Where did they come from? Who brought them? How did at least one end up in the gun?

We may have a better idea of who that was, now. Armorer Gutierrez-Reed had tried suggesting the company that supplied blanks had mixed the live rounds in with the right stuff. The forensic examination of components strongly suggested otherwise. Then there was the report that she had retrieved the gun after the shooting, before the police arrived, and removed the spent case. That’s odd,and sounds rather like tampering with evidence.

I just ran across this tidbit, which — if true — may explain a lot.

The New York Post reports that police gathered text messages from Reed that indicated she had attempted to use live ammunition on the set of her previous film.

Did she bring them again, for the Rust filming? And was she trying to conceal evidence of what she’d done? I suppose we’ll see when her trial starts.

This may be part of the new forensic evidence that the prosecutors cited when dropping charges against Baldwin for now. I still think the actor completely failed to exercise “due caution and circumspection,” but if Gutierrez-Reed herself knowingly brought the live rounds onto the set, and loaded one into the gun, a lot more of the culpability for the resulting death and injury shifts her way. Not all, but some.

 

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Baldwin Shooting Development

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You may have heard that charges are going to be dropped against Alec Baldwin, in the killing of Halyna Hutchins.

Alec Baldwin to Skate as Prosecutors Drop Criminal Charges in Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting: Reports
Recently appointed special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis are expected file papers shortly to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter claims against Alec Baldwin without prejudice, according to multiple reports, with Deadline first reporting the news on Thursday.

I think it may be a little premature for Baldwin to relax.

1. The report is that the charges will be dropped without prejudice, meaning the charges can be resurrected. Right there, Baldwin is not in the clear yet.

2. The charges against armorer Gutierrez-Reed are apparently not going to be dropped.

3. Assistant director Hall has already been convicted and sentenced for his role.

Something is still up.

Pure speculation: The special prosecutors may have uncovered more evidence, and are considering a different set of charges.

One thing that always bothered me was presence of live rounds on site at all. Where did they come from? Who brought them? How did at least one end up in the gun?

And why?

Gutierrez-Reed’s theory that the blank supplier must have mixed live rounds in her order wasn’t supported by the forensic evidence. The ammunition components were reportedly not a match with the supplier’s components. And it begs the question of why the armorer would have loaded even blanks for a rehearsal that didn’t wasn’t supposed to involve shooting.

Then there’s theory that someone proposed to me in a private conversation: What if someone deliberately loaded live ammo to set up Baldwin, knowing that his lack of firearm safety might nearly guarantee an unfortunate incident?

“Without prejudice.” Maybe some of those questions are being asked. Maybe even answered.

 

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So Where Did The Vest Money Go, Uvalde PD?

Last year’s Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas was horrific. The cold-blooded murder of 21 students and teachers was bad enough. But the “police” response that enabled the asshole to do it was, in some respects, even worse.

The shooter started firing at a location near the school. At least one officer was on-scene and saw the known shooter. He decided to radio in for permission to take down the soon-to-be-murderer.

That didn’t happen, so the chumbucket got into the “locked” school.

And spent over an hour inside killing people as students called 911 and begged the police to help them.

There were hundreds of law enforcement personnel on-scene. And while some entered the school building, they didn’t go into the classrooms where the killer was killing children. They retreated when they heard gunfire.

Bad enough. But at least one officer did want — and tried — to go in. Other officers physically restrained him, and reportedly he was threatened with actual arrest for attempting to save children. I suppose that would have made the rest of them look bad even worse; if that’s even possible.

In recent days, the Uvalde Police Department was been trying to excuse their failure. The real culprit, you see, was the perp’s evil “AR-15.”

Uvalde Cops with AR15s Blame AR15s For 21 Murders, Not Cowardice ~ VIDEO
“We weren’t equipped to make entry into that room without several casualties,” Uvalde Police Department Detective Louis reportedly said, adding, “Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different game plan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.”

Correctly, that column ridicules the police cowardice. Other reports are more fawning and supportive of the poor under-equipped police facing that evil black “AR-15” that the US military issues to soldiers.*

“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15Even though some officers were armed with the same rifle, they opted to wait for the arrival of a Border Patrol SWAT team, with more protective body armor, stronger shields and more tactical training — even though the unit was based more than 60 miles away.

“You knew that it was definitely an AR,” Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page said in an interview with investigators after the school shooting. “There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.”

The poor dears didn’t have body armor that could stop a .223/5.56 round from an “AR-15.”

Why not?

Oh, you might think that a smaller department like Uvalde might not have foreseen the need for something that could stop an intermediate-powered round, facing such so little. Who can predict the future with 100% accuracy?

The problem is…

The Uvalde Police Department is pleased to announce that we have completed the process, and been awarded grant funds through the Office of the Governor to outfit EVERY Uvalde Police Officer with Level 4 body armor.

Almost four years before the Robb Elementary cluster-f###, the UPD was bragging about having the money in hand to equip every single officer in the department with Level IV body armor.

LEVEL IV IS DESIGNED TO HANDLE:
One hit from 7.62MM armor piercing rifle (APR) bullet with a velocity of 2880 ft./s.

If it’ll stop an armor-piercing .308/7.62, it should stop a .223/5.56 round.

Why weren’t they wearing those Level IV vests? Where were the vests? Were they ever actually… you know… purchased?

Where did the money go? The money they said, in 2018, that they had in their grubby, coward paws?

What did the Uvalde “police” think was more important than the lives of nineteen children and two teachers?

And what does the state of Texas think about state grant money being diverted… to whatever?

* A digression:

“The gunman had an AR-15, a rifle design used by U.S. soldiers in every conflict since Vietnam.”

In all my years of service, I was never issued an AR-15. I never saw an AR-15 used by the military. I was never issued any semi-auto rifle, only select-fire.

Does reporter police stenographer/apologist Zach Despart know the difference between the M-16/M-4 family, and the AR-15? Probably not, since he hasn’t even figured out that the Robb Elementary asshole did not have an AR-15. According to all credible reports, he used a Daniel Defense DDM4, not a Colt Manufacturing AR-15 (trademarks and manufacturing differences matter).

By the way, a “battle rifle” is chambered for a full-power rifle round, not an intermediate-power round like .223 Rem/5.56 NATO. Just sayin’.

 

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Rittenhouse Being Sued

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Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by the the idiot who chased him down and pointed a gun at him.

Kyle Rittenhouse hit with lawsuit from man he shot during 2020 Kenosha clash: ‘Little bit of a shock’
Gaige Grosskreutz, who testified he pointed a firearm at Rittenhouse before the then-teenager shot Grosskreutz and two others, is seeking economic losses, “damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims,” and punitive damages.

I could talk about the basic stupidity of suing a person after you already testified under oath that he shot you only after you threatened to kill him by pointing an unlawfully possessed handgun at him. But that’s a little too obvious.

I want to talk about a comment on that report.

He went looking for trouble armed with a gun and found it. Have can keep dealing with the consequences.

“toatsrokinit” seems to think he’s talking about Kyle acting provocatively. But his claim very much more accurately describes the actions of plaintiff Grosskreutz.

Kyle was there cleaning up graffiti and offering medical first aid to protesters.

Grosskreutz was there to protest.

Kyle ran from threats, and only shot is self defense.

Grosskreutz chased Kyle and pointed a gun at him while Kyle was down on the ground.

And note: Grosskreutz was “armed with a gun,” and in chasing Kyle was definitely “looking for trouble.”

Also note: Kyle’s rifle possession was lawful.

Grosskreutz’s concealed pistol possession was unlawful.

And yet the morons who still insist — without any evidence beyond “cuz I said so” — that Kyle was carrying that rifle “looking for trouble,” never seem to wonder about Grosskreutz. And why he was unlawfully armed.

The guy who effed around and found out.

 

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MRI and Guns Do Not Mix

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I’d only heard of this happening once before, several years ago. But it seems it’s happened since. And now again.

Lawyer dies three weeks after MRI machine’s magnetic field triggers his hidden gun to go off while taking his mother for a routine medical visit at a Brazilian lab
Mathias, a married father-of-one, was accompanying his mother to an appointment at Laboratorio Cura and forgot to remove his 9mm weapon from his waistband after entering the imaging room, according to Brazilian news outlet G1.

Police said that the MRI machine’s magnetic field pulled the concealed gun away from his waist.

The gun hit the machine and the impact caused it to discharge one bullet that struck him in the abdomen.

Yes, he was told to leave his possession behind before entering the room, and specifically metal objects.

He “forgot.”

Yes, the magnetic field from a magnetic resonance imager is strong enough to grab objects a few feet away.

 

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[UPDATED] DigiTrigger

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This appears to be a machinegun under current ATF BSTD/AutoGlove/etc rulings. Now, the demo in the video is marked “Military & Police,” so I’m going to assume that it won’t be available to us peons, despite SCOTUS’ Miller ruling. But…

This civilian unit seems to have the same problem. Unlike a normal mechanical binary trigger, which fires one round when the finger pulls the trigger and a second round when the finger allows the trigger to reset, DigiTrigger appears to use the electronics to operate the firing mechanism twice for a single finger operation of the trigger. (see below) That is exactly why the ATF shut down the AutoGlove. The alleged single — “volitional” — operation of the trigger is the basic of the BSTD rule.

Update:  I contacted the company. The pull/release (P/R) mode is not burst, but fully simulates P/R: fire on pull, then fire when the finger lets the trigger reset. The DT1.6 digital machinegun I first mentioned is, as I expected, definitely NFA and is under development for the LE/Mil market. No surprise there.

I get it. People want to push the envelope of what they think is legal. But unless they’ve amassed a large pile of legal fund cash, and a herd of good attorneys, with the intent of a serious court challenge to BS ATF determinations and court decisions, all Digital Trigger Technologies is doing is asking for trouble.

If they know what they’re getting into and are willing to go to the mat on this, more power and the best of luck to them

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What a pile of Tlaib

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Recently the House of Representatives voted on a non-binding resolution to condemn Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS, or BS for short) against Israel. The motion passed 398-17. So who were the 17?

Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon)

Andre Carson (D-Indiana)

Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan)

Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-Illinois)

Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona)

Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington)

Barbara Lee (D-California)

Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky)

Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota)

Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)

Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota)

Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)

Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin)

Bobby Rush (D-Illinois)

Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan)

Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey)

Sixteen of the 17 representatives who voted no were Demoncrats, one was Republican, Thomas Massie from Kentucky. WTH?? Four out of the five who voted present also were Democrats. The only non-Democrat who voted present was Rep. Justin Amash, an Independent.

Predictably Rashida Tlaib (Pal-Mich) had her underoos in a bunch.

“I stand before you the daughter of Palestinian immigrants,” said Tlaib on the House floor the morning of the tally. “Parents who experienced being stripped of their human rights, the right to freedom of travel, equal treatment. So I can’t stand by and watch this attack on our freedom of speech and the right to boycott the racist policies of the government and the state of Israel. I love our country’s freedom of speech, Madam Speaker. Dissent is how we nurture democracy.”

And

Earlier in the day, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) criticized the resolution, saying, “It sets a dangerous precedent because it attempts to delegitimize certain people’s political speech and to send a message that our government can and will take action against speech it doesn’t like”

However, Eliot Engel chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee seemed to disagree. As did Republican Representatives. That Ilan Omar is still on the Foreign Affairs committee is a disgrace. I guess San Fran Nan is scared to remove her.

During the 40-minute floor debate on the resolution, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said the BDS movement “promotes a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that seeks to marginalize Israel, that would deny the Jewish people the right of national self-determination.” He added, “Participating in an international commercial effort that undermines Israel’s legitimacy and scuttles the chances of a two-state solution isn’t the same as an individual exercising First Amendment rights.”

After the vote, Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) tweeted, “Displays of anti-Semitism have become too frequent in the past few months, even from members of this House of Representatives—and it is time that we stand united in support of Israel.”

Of course we know my opinion of the “two state solution”. That is already in place. It’s called Gaza, where rockets and fire balloons are launched into Israel.

But the flow of Tlaib doesn’t end there.

She compared the BDS movement to the American boycott of Nazi Germany.

“The right to boycott is deeply rooted in the fabric of our country,” she said. “What was the Boston Tea Party but a boycott? Where would we be now without the boycott led by the civil rights activists in the 1950s and 60s like the Montgomery bus boycott and the United Farm Workers Grape boycott?”

She then pivoted to the history of Americans boycotting foreign government, saying, “Americans boycotted Nazi Germany in response to dehumanization, imprisonment, and genocide of Jewish people.”

She claimed in May that “Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel “provided” a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.” Look up Hevron massacre 1929 if you are unsure why I’m angry about that particular statement.

“There’s always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust,” Tlaib said, “that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence, in many ways, has been wiped out … in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-Holocaust, post-tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that in many ways.”

It seems that the two anti-Semites, Omar (whom I don’t think is married to her brother this week, though she isn’t saying) and Tlaib are planning on visiting Israel.

I really like Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s solution. Let them enter Israel through the Hamass terror tunnels, they’ll feel right at home. He also has a great itinerary for them. Ripping good show with some American History on Thomas Jefferson.

https://soundcloud.com/israel-news-talk-radio/ilhans-israeli-itinerary-phantom-nation

But there are people that disagree. While they are not calling out the pile of Tlaib by name, their actions say she’s liar liar pants on fire.

Who are these people? Arabs. Specifically Arabs in other countries. It seems the Falestinians are beginning to get on everyone’s last nerve.

This may not have made headline news last week.

This is Saudi blogger Mohammed Said,

This man is an ARAB, and he is being treated this way by the Falestinians. I find this curious as well as appalling. But in the Arab world, it’s an eye for an eye. Literally. In Torah it means the value of an eye for an eye.

So in Riyadh

Who else besides the Saudi Arabs have had a bellyful of the Tlai Falestinians? Syrians.

In an exclusive interview, Syrian analyst Wael Ashaq explained that many people in Saudi Arabia despise how the Palestinian Authority is assisting the Assad regime: “They only care about what is good for them. They don’t care about the millions killed every day by the Assad regime. If we look at the issue historically, the Palestinians went everywhere in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and created many problems and troubles. We as Syrians helped the Palestinians but when we have a problem with our dictator, they stand with this terrorist regime and help them politically as well as militarily. This is true for both Fatah and Hamas. They are both the same on this.”

On top of that, he added that many people in the Arab world are looking in order to build a strong relationship with Israel: “We want a good relationship with Israel because we know that Israel respects our right to be a free people and a liberated country. Israel is the only democratic state in our area. We don’t see any other free and democratic governments in the area. We are looking for a free Syria that will be just like Israel. The region has changed in favor of a new alliance. Any government has to make good relations with Israel if they want their country to be free and democratic and for their people to live with dignity and to have a good life. Therefore, we condemn Palestinian terrorist practices against Israeli civilians and those who support Israel.”

But wait! There’s more!

Mendi Safadi, who heads the Safadi Center for International Diplomacy, Research, Public Relations and Human Rights, added that many people in the Arab world are waking up and discovering not only how the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have abandoned the Syrian people but also have been taking hostile actions against Saudi Arabia. He noted that the Saudis are greatly disturbed with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad for building a relationship with Iran.

Safadi stressed that the Saudis view Iran to be their number one enemy for the Houthis, Iran’s proxy in Yemen, have fired rockets at Saudi Arabia. In addition, they view Iran’s nuclear program to be a major threat to the Saudi Kingdom and its regional sphere of influence. In light of this, many Saudis are greatly disturbed over the fact that many Palestinians don’t share their hostile perception of the Iranian regime and are actually working in order to have a good relationship with Iran.

According to Safadi, another factor that disturbs the Saudis is the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood among Palestinians. The Saudis consider the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. In light of this, they are not huge fans of Hamas, which is essentially the Palestinian Arab branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

More of the goodness here.

Wow, you would think that CNN would be confronting Tlaib with some questions on this, wouldn’t you?

Second CNN contributor apologizes for anti-Semitic tweets

Ahh, maybe not so much. Of course, had this been a conservative journalist, oh wait it’s CNN, the word journalist doesn’t really apply does it?

But, I suppose we can rely on UNRWA to continue their good work to assist the Falestinians in remaining in poverty, right?

UNRWA faces allegations of corruption, ‘sexual misconduct’

Ohhhhh, that may be a no as well, eh?

But the point is, while Omar and Tlaib spew their Jew hatred which they attempt to disguise with thin excuses are they to blame for inciting this?

Jewish Agency: Signs point to anti-Semitism in Miami shooting

And then the third stooge (with apologies to the original three) Ms. Occasional-Cortex had to chime in.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that people such as Palestinians have no other option than to “riot” because they are “marginalized” by Israel — drawing swift outrage from Jewish advocacy groups.

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Radio host Ebro Darden prompted the discussion with Ocasio-Cortez by saying there are a number of “corrupt” governments — lumping together Israel, the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia — which he claimed are “working in concert.”

​He went on to assert that young Jewish people are against the “Palestine occupation​” and would like to see the ouster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

​Darden also ranted about “white supremacist Jews” and said it’s “something most people can’t wrap their brains around.”

“And what’s going on with Israel and Palestine, while it’s very, very deep, it is very, very criminal, and it is very, very unjust,” he said.

Ocasio-Cortez agreed, saying, “Absolutely.”

“I think, too, where we’re at as a country when it comes to Israel-Palestine is very much a generational issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

One person is responsible, the one who pulled the trigger. Not the gun. But the very anti-Semitic goon “squad” is certainly doing their best to incite hatred with their lies. It seems many in the Arab world are realizing that the Falestinians are a lie and are tired of them, and their lies. How many Americans will still buy the lies and that pile of Tlaib that she and  the rest of the goon squad are dishing out?

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