[It’s a worthy dream and important for the children of the future. Remember every time we create a smile like this:
Sarah Brady cries and they continue their decent into political irrelevancy. Wont you think of the children and help throw a group of bigots into the dust bin of history.
Think about it, a generation who’s only knowledge of the Brady Campaign and CSGV will be that there is evil in the world that must be watched for and even if it’s found, it can be destroyed.
Donate, become active, continue the push. Honestly I want to be able to buy a suppressor in the next 5 years and not have to wait for a year for a “stamp” so I can merely own a piece of safety equipment. I think that is certainly within the realm of possibility.
Again, do it for the children. Sarah Brady’s tears are just a bonus, a sweet, sweet bonus. -B]
How is that for complete and utter denial? They were in such an alternate reality or so lost in their own delusions of self-worth, that they added something in before it even happened. Have no fear though because when they got caught with their fly down, they did what they always do and scrubbed it clean.
Now I’m trying to document as our opponents as they traverse the stages of grief. It is worth noting that everyone goes through it much differently. Some will quickly transition through different parts of the stages of grief.
It is obvious that many are in denial, some have expressed anger. Next up is bargaining. As I have said before, there will be no bargaining, we have done it before and at this point I will give no quarter. The sooner they transition to acceptance of the death of their bigoted views, the better.
It is known how our opponents fantasize about violence and the like. As many of them transition in to anger, be on the lookout for outbursts. If you see any, please send them my way. I’m going to tag all of them as “Grief of the Anti-Gunners”. I will take some time here soon and tag older posts that tie into it as well.
Their meltdown is going to be long and spectacular. We should at least congregate and note the highlight moments.
What do you mean there wasn’t a sudden increase in crime. Our opponents promised blood in the streets, where is it!? You mean that when the law was passed it followed the historical example of the past 20+ years where nothing happened?
Our opponents continue to bring the same old tired and false arguments to the table and are wondering why they are loosing so badly in their fight to infringe on the rights of people. It’s obvious that they’re loosing because many of their supporters are descending into the second stage of grief.
This is the way our opponents behave when they’re loosing. They say that we are the violent ones, yet they are the ones who regularly devolve into threats and violence. Some have devolved into the third stage and are attempting to bargain, bargaining for an extra few minutes of life for their beloved cause.
They will get no sympathy from me. We bargained with them in the past and they took that inch and made it a mile. We learned then and there they have no will to actually compromise or work together, their sole goal is the complete destruction of the right to keep and bear arms.
They can merely move on to depression and finally acceptance. Our opponents must ultimately accept the fact that their bigoted view on rights was on the wrong side of history.
I wish the day that they finally implode would have an “earth shattering kaboom”, but alas I think they will just slowly fade into the dust bin of history. Even once that happens it’s going to be a long road to undo the damage they have done and regain the full respect this right deserves. I will fight tirelessly until that goal is achieved.
Your guess of what would be considered a “sudden move” is as good as mine. Thankfully the victim in this case was smart enough to refuse, less they decided to ventilate him for fun using a ready-made excuse.
Guess officers no longer in the business of protecting and serving now are they? You would rather threaten lethal force against a law-abiding citizen and commit assault with a deadly weapon than do your job. Yes there are risks for law enforcement, but that is the price of freedom and liberty and if you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to be a police officer.
There is nothing scarier than a guy with a badge and gun and thus has “qualified immunity” and having him so willing to deprive people of their liberty as well as use lethal force. If you live in that county, contact the sheriff and voice your displeasure.
State Sponsored Criminal #415: Corry Bassett
State Sponsored Criminal #416: Rob Andazola
Because protecting and serving means you plug the law-abiding citizen who serves his country more fervently than yourself in the back because you feel like it, you just need to get his permission first.
So Joetalked about it at the beginning of the month. I did as Ry suggested and put some extra effort into the video this time around. It isn’t professional quality by any means though my skills are improving. It was new unfamiliar software and there were tons of little features I wanted to play with. I’m getting better with Adobe Premiere, next is After Effects.
So let me start off with a rehash of what we did and why we did it.
Last January a reader on Joe’s blog commented about the LAPD qualification being exceptional and that since they have to qualify every month it’s stringent.
Now Joe noted earlier that we had a 90% pass rate for those who scored above 60% and he’s right. We did have a 90% pass rate at that score level, which is for qualifying in the dark.
Three people were just under the 70% mark, which is the LAPD pass requirement for daylight. There however is another difference I couldn’t easily cover in the video. You see the LAPD uses automatic turning targets for their qualification course. For them it is impossible to have a scoring hit after the time limit is exceeded.
We didn’t have that option, instead we had to fall back on USPSA rules and penalties for shooting a fixed time course of fire. What this means is that any shot fired after the second buzzer carries with it a penalty of -10 points. Note the highest possible score for a single shot is 5 points. So if you make up that shot the best you can do is be down 5 points if you hit an A.
This becomes a serious issue with single shot strings because most likely you will only fire one shot after the buzzer. You have no extra shots to even out the debt and you just continue to decrease the score. To give you an idea of how quickly this adds up, 5 penalties will result in a failing score. So if you have trouble with the 2 shots in 2 seconds and are right on the edge, there’s three penalties. Couple that with 4 misses on top of that and congrats you have failed. It doesn’t even need to be full misses, just the aggregate non Alpha hits can add up and shove you under, especially if you’re shooting a minor caliber instead of major.
I know that at least 2 of the three failures had penalties for exceeding time limits, I would need to get the raw score sheets to see exactly how many there were for each shooter. Though I suspect given their scores, if you change the penalty to -5 from -10, IE subtract just the best possible hit and just turn that shot into a mike, the three in the 60% region would most likely pass.
I think this quote from Tam puts it better than I could.
Yup, that’s about how I felt about the LAPD course after I shot it. Next on the list though is shooting the bonus course. I’m not sure exactly when I’ll be able to do that but I’ll draw up the stages and may do it over a couple matches. Doing it all in a single match makes for a lot of “standards” and much less puzzle solving.
There’s 14 days left in their drive with a goal of $65,000 dollars. Yeah times are tough on wallets, but you know what it’s also only going to get tougher for our right to keep an bear arms.
There is no question that California is dead center in the fight to keep an bear arms. Every time I’m around other gun owners and the subject turns to our rights, inevitably the subject of California’s draconian laws comes into play.
If you have 10 bucks, kick into the bucket and you’ll get a digital copy of the film. Hell, at just 50 you get a DVD and a crew T-Shirt.
How serious does the Second Amendment Foundation and Calguns Foundation consider this project?
The Second Amendment Foundation and the Calguns Foundation have each contributed $5,000.00 to get this project off the ground.
Let’s get this project completely airborne and complete their goal. This is something that definitely needs to be spread around. Tell your friends, tell your relatives, make this happen, it isn’t just California in trouble. California is merely the front line.
The most dangerous thing about these people is that they want to affect our minds. They want to convince us that we do not matter. That we have no value. That if we were truly decent and caring people we would care more about the man trying to shove parts of his body into you or me by force than our right not to have that happen.
[I find it interesting that our opponents arguments are exactly as A Girl points out more and more. There is little to question about the way our opponents view criminals and the law-abiding. Their views are that the life of the criminal is worth more than the person who is being violated.
How sad is it when their position in the argument is that you should let the criminal violate you and then the state will give him “due process”. I don’t think he really understands how the legal system works. Due process isn’t a method to argue against self-defense. Due process is a legal term to protect the innocent from the force of the state. Due process only applies within the realm of the state. A criminal does not get entitled to have a jury vote thumbs up or down before their victim can fight back. The victim is a one man jury and the state will apply due process on that one man jury.
Recently an individual asked me why I carried a firearm in little old Pullman. He was an elderly gentleman and I went through the standard statements:
No where is safe, I probably wont need it but it’s better to have it.
It’s like a fire extinguisher or first aid kid.
It’s a lighter burden than regret.
He made a comment that a fire extinguisher was safer than a firearm. At which point I chuckled and said, CO2 in a confined space in a basement can easily kill you. It’s just that the fire can kill you just the same. My firearm has never jumped from its holster or magically discharged without my somehow being involved. Though fire extinguishers if not properly maintained can burst on their own.
I bring this up because I saw this come across my news reader:
So here’s the deal folks. There is evil in the world. There are those who would hurt others merely for the thrill of doing so. These people don’t just exist in particular geographic or social areas, they can be found anywhere. This incident occurred earlier this year in Pullman.
The bottom line is the real world isn’t wrapped in bubble wrap. Sometimes evil shows up not just in your neighborhood but on your very doorstep. Some would rather not worry about self-defense and consider the probability of evil finding them so small it is not worth the effort. That is their choice and their choice alone.
My issue with that choice is that the effort to prepare for a fight against evil isn’t that difficult a task, recovering and becoming whole again after encountering evil is a mountain. That mountain is even more treacherous if you were un-prepared to begin with.
So why do I need to carry a gun? Because I want to stack the deck in my favor as much as I possibly can. I will do this so I can fight every last step of the way against anyone that would bring violence to my door.
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