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A woman was given $12,000 as a tip.  The waitress ran out and the woman who left the tip told her to keep the money I’m not sure why she would involve the police.  My suspicion is because that’s what we’ve always been told to do.  What is unsurprising is the police departments reaction.

Officers told the woman to wait 90 days in case someone claimed the money. The Forum reports that after three months, police told the woman the cash was being held as drug money.

See, the officers don’t want to loose that money.  Honestly they probably already spent it on hookers and blow.  Then again they can just get the blow from the lock up, so just hookers then.

Ultimately this is yet another example of why you don’t involve the government and police anymore than necessary.  They are more than willing to take property that is not their just because they can.  They take it and keep it using any excuse that fits their fancy, more often than not it’s drugs.

I don’t like drugs, I wouldn’t do drugs even if they’re legal.  That said they should be legal for no other reason than I’m sick of people trampling my rights, freedom, and liberty because someone wants to do something in the privacy of their own home.  Let’s cut the BS about accidents, DUI is already illegal, and as harsh as I sound an overdose is just Darwin doing some spring weeding in the gene pool.  The “War on Nouns” is nothing more than an excuse to violate the rights of people for victimless crimes.  If someone wants to destroy themselves that’s their business.

Look at the CATO map which is nothing more than a graphic display of the innocents who are casualties in this “War on Nouns”.  Remember, when someone talks about outlawing drugs they’re either trying to secure their cash flow or they want to further the police state.  

Went to the USPSA match on Sunday.  It was the first match I actually did as a USPSA member and I screwed the pooch hard.  Thankfully this pooch wasn’t the classifier.

I drew the short straw and got to start off the match as the lead shooter on the first stage.  Had a nasty failure that current suspicion is a failing mag.  The round went vertical and didn’t feed properly.  I promptly racked the slide, nothing happened. did it again, looked, said a couple expletives, dumped the mag, reloaded and was off again.  Then to add further annoyance I ended up shooting through a target and hitting the steel target behind it.  I finished the stage and then said, “Wait isn’t that a range equipment failure?”  To which Adam replied, “Yes it was, would you like a reshoot”.  To which I replied, “YES!”  It wasn’t intentional but it was for the best given my failure, in more ways than one with a no shoot taking a bullet to the face.  Reshot the stage clean other than one miss thanks to a barrel which caught the round.  I missed the fact the barrel moved, which was a tip I got after I completed the stage.  The RO saw the barrel move and mentioned to look for it next time.

Then we went and shot a Virginia count that I went all Ry on as I switched to auto pilot for some reason.   We were supposed to draw, engage each target once freestyle, mandatory reload, then engage again strong hand only.  Then we would holster and repeat this process where we would use our weak hand instead of strong hand.  Your humble host for one reason or another hit all 6 targets, dropped his mag, inserted a fresh mag, and then went right back into it… with both hands.  I didn’t think about the strong hand only.  So after I holster the RO says, “Your brain work?”  To which I replied, “Usually, I think it just did a halt though.”  To which he replies to me and the score keeper, “I’d say so… 6 Procedurals”.  At this point I’ve screwed the stage.  That’s –60 points and at best if I aced the first 6 hits, and ace the last 12 I can only score a 30 on the stage.  I run the stage remember to go weak hand, but I didn’t ace all the hits in the first string.  Yeah, I didn’t look, but I’m reasonably sure that was a big fat goose egg.

Then we did the classifier which was El Strong & Weak Pres.  I actually rocked the first half.  No misses, no hits on the no shoot, decently fast (for me).  Then I shot the second string weak hand.  Missed one shot on T1, drilled T2 both shots, drilled T3 on the first shot, and then the inevitable happened.  As I squeezed the trigger weak hand I felt the break.  Mid recoil I knew what I had just done.  I dumped around in the no shoot.  Without missing a beat a noun form of a particular 4 letter word escaped my mouth to which Adam started laughing.  Then I saw the target, sure enough there was a nice .45 caliber hole through the no-shoot on his left side.  Had the no shoot not been there it would have still been in the A zone of the target, but that doesn’t matter, I hit the white guy.

Then I ran the last stage, which was one of my favorite types, a hall with targets on both sides.  Prior to going down the hall you needed to engage 4 targets through two different windows on opposite sides of the hall.  I started off fast, then it happened.  The same exact failure as before.  A round went vertical in the mag well.  Dump the mag, reload and continue.  I didn’t mark which mag that was, I should have.  I know two are excluded from worry, but that leaves three.  The other option is I didn’t ride the recoil well during a second shot since I was double tapping targets at close distance.  I wasn’t looking for a super tight sight picture on the follow up shots.

The good news was I didn’t screw the classifier, other than the clip on the no-shoot, which is more than enough to kill me.  Lesson, I need to practice more weak hand.

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I know, Rule #34.  For those uninitiated I give you this:

Still, I was astonished at that search phrase.

Here’s a prime example of why.

A Denver 911 operator was mistaken when he told a motorist to return to the area where he and his companions had been threatened in a road-rage incident — moments before a fatal shooting, the head of the city’s emergency phone system acknowledged Monday.

The men who called 911 didn’t want to return to the area of the road rage incident but eventually gave in to the “authority” of the dispatcher.  The dispatcher has no authority.  Get this through you head.  Despite what everyone is saying, even with some other recent incidents, just because a dispatcher says do X doesn’t mean you have to.  You are free to make the decision yourself and if you feel it to be bad advice you do not need to follow it.

Secondly, the police are under no obligation to protect you.  The police officers are not going to be dinged for not being there when this man was shot.  The dispatcher, despite his facilitation, will not be charged with murder.  You are responsible for your own defense and most assuredly if for some crazy reason you feel like heading back into a hot AO, carry your damn gun.  Because, most likely, you’re going to need it if people were already threatening you.  And if you’re heading to someplace where you think you’re going to need a gun, you’re breaking the first rule of survival, avoidance.  You carry for the unexpected, when trouble finds you, don’t go looking for trouble.

That intentionally making yourself weaker in the face of danger and aggression is somehow more civilized, moral, intelligent, or enlightened.

Marko Kloos – The Ethics of Going Armed

March 13, 2012

[There are those who think the above is actually the real world.  I do not see an logical reason how the above could be true.  What is civilized about letting a rapist have his way with you?  What is moral about giving a mugger your life?  What is intelligent about letting a home invader have his way with you, your property, and your family?  What is enlightened about letting a criminal break the law?

I cannot fathom or even begin to understand these people.  I value my life, the life of my family, and the things that I spend my time earning.  That time I spend is a part of my life.  When someone threatens force to steal it, they are willing to both end my life, as well as steal the part of it I spent earning it.  What’s moral, civilized, intelligent, or enlightened about that?  What is moral, civilized, intelligent, and enlightened is to defend your family, your property, and yourself.  -B]