So Joe and I spent a bunch of time doing a video on Sunday.  Our goal was to spread the benefits of carrying a concealed weapon.  The gun grabbers immediately decried us as mocking victims, laughing, and otherwise disrespecting those who have been died or injured in violence.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  Joe's family, as well as my own, have both been affected by violent acts.  Sadly as seen in the video, those family members did not have the tools with them at the time to effectively defend themselves.  My parents however did have a firearm when violence came to their door.  Our goal is to decrease the number of victims of violence.  We don't care what tool is used in the violence, we just want fewer victims.

Well the real reason they are so upset is because they're seeing the final nails being drilled into their coffin.  One by one.

In just over 36 hours our video has over 3 times as many views as the Brady Campaign video.  We have three times as many views as what they could get in 2 weeks.  The video of their speakers in San Fransisco have only 12 views.  (Note I clicked into the videos to verify the view count.  At the time of this writing that first video has 1154 views.)  Just search YouTube for "Too Many Victims".  Even their video to start this viral campaign only has 1572 views.  None of their videos has any "Likes", heck they don't even enable the feature on their videos.  For comparison, our video has 99 likes and 7 dislikes.

When a bunch of unfunded bloggers, who on their own free time, can take your own viral marketing campaign, turn it on its head and surpass your efforts you have to ask yourself, "Am I still relevant?"  When the efforts of 4 people derail an entire political campaign can you still say, "People will listen to us."

The wonderful thing about the internet is it makes it really hard to hide how irrelevant you are.  It also makes it even easier to collect the numbers and prove how irrelevant you are.

Remember the Sheriff who told women to go out and get their concealed weapons permits and defend themselves.  Well a woman did just that and the Sheriff is walking the walk, still!

A mother who came home with her baby and found burglars in her home grabbed her gun and scared the men out of her house and off her property, according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office incident report.

Even with a shot fired by the home owner the Sheriff had the following to say.

After hearing about the woman who scared off the men who were in her house, Wright said, "I'm thankful that someone in her life taught her how to use a firearm and I'm thankful they did because she and her child could've been victims. There were two men, one armed with a knife. It could've gotten really ugly for her."

That's exactly right.  I love hearing stories like this, though I prefer it when the criminal is stopped from being a predator ever again.  Either by law enforcement catching them or by lead poisoning.  What I love most was you have a woman with a child who defended herself and her property successfully while being out numbered and them being armed.

The Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction Organizations would have preferred this woman be unarmed against two grown men so they could do as they please.  Remember, there are some who think peace and empathy are the solution to criminals.  Don't believe me, see this tweet from yesterday that the creator attempted to send down the memory hole.

Law abiding citizens who carry guns aren't full of blind rage.  Quite the opposite, they spend a lot of time and effort avoiding confrontation.  However when a criminal brings the fight to our door, we have no reason to comply and it is safer for us to fight back.  How can you be empathetic with someone who want's you dead, to rape you or your family, to steal your property, what is there to be empathetic about?

This person saw first hand the second failure that is the gun free zone of Virgina Tech, yet that was some how the fault of law abiding citizens who exercise their rights to be prepared for their own defense.

Self-defense is a choice, the same as being a victim.  No one has any right to force one choice on the other.  No one in the gun rights movement is attempting to force people to carry firearms for self defense.  We are demanding that people have the choice.  No one but god himself has the ability to restrict the right to self-defense, and even then I'd tell him to F-off.

Stumbled across this today and having done model aircraft when I was younger I can't help but look at this with a dropped jaw.

That is an operational scale V-8 engine. How operational?

• Fuel Pump
• Runs off of standard 87-octane
• Electric start
• Water Pump and Jacket
• Oil Pump
• Working supercharger
• Functional carburetors
• Distributor and Spark-Plugs

Naturally aspirated it pulls about 5.5HP at 9500 RPM. The supercharged version runs about 9HP at 9500 RPM.  Cost's a pretty penny though and I'm not that much of a gear head.  Though if I had a classic car I'd probably buy one to make a scale model replica.  It's cost prohibitive for anything I could think to use it for but I can't help but look at it and think it's freaking neat.  Find more info here.

So Wirecutter fuffilled a deam that oh so many of us have the other day. Some asshat from occupy wallstreet tried to get up in his grill.  His response was priceless.

I gassed him. I hit him full in the face with a looooong blast of pepper spray. I mean, I leaned out the window and followed him all the way to the ground with it.

Seriously read his whole run in.  It put a smile on my face and made a small tear of joy go running down my cheek.  I just wish I had been able to get it on video.  Instead I'll watch this clip from Southpark and just imagine it with real people instead.

Wire cutter if you're reading this.  You sir are down right fucking awesome!

*via JayG

**Sorry Jay, I forgot to toss this in last night.