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For I have learned that survival is the individuals responsibility, all I
ask of my government is the freedom to think, to defend, to act, while
being free of the interference of those who don’t. Freedom based on a
Bill of Rights, which includes the right to fail.

Brigid – Small Things, Too Easily Lost

Initially I wasn’t sure I was going to do a post on this since Bitter already touched on it.  Then the wife emailed it to me and I watched this video and busted out laughing at the end.  If this is in your RSS, for some reason Google Reader won’t embed the video.

You’re killing me smalls!  Let me get this straight, you helped your buddy break into the house of the girl he was stalking, he got shot, and you called 911!?  If there’s a dumb criminal of the year award, he’s definitely a finalist.

Serious props to the young lady for defending herself and her child.  I supposed that Joan Peterson would have preferred that she wait to shoot until the intent was perfectly known and the woman’s body going to room temperature instead of the assailant.  Maybe it was just a normal armed robber? 

The bottom line is this is why I carry, even at home.  When I get dressed in the morning, that includes putting on my firearm.  Bad people exist in the world and they don’t call ahead when they plan on doing bad things.  If you don’t want to listen to me telling you to leave with my mouth, individually dispensing 230 Grain packages of hot lead will convince you leaving is the better option.  The bad news is at that point you’re going to be leaving the corporeal world.

While I was busy this weekend I heard about a shooting in Mount Rainier National Park.  I didn’t have time to investigate, though this morning I heard details about it on the radio.  I figured the blood dancers would be out, I just didn’t think how idiotic they would be.

Miguel this morning just how dumb and crazy they were.  They wasted no time to blame the shooting on the NRA and the modification of the National Parks rules which said they had to follow state law regarding weapons and concealed carry. 

There’s some serious problems with this logic though.

First and foremost is that the individual was a prohibited person under the Lautenberg Amendment.

In July, the mother of Barnes’ young daughter said in court papers seeking a protection order that he “has possible PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) issues,” NBC station KING of Seattle reported. In seeking sole custody of the girl, she said Barnes was suicidal and “gets easily irritated, angry, depressed and frustrated.” 

Second the park shooting was not the first shooting that day.

Witnesses told investigators that about nine people attended the party, many of them armed, and some had a “show and tell” with their guns. Some fired shots in the air to celebrate the new year. At 3 a.m. Sunday, one partygoer asked to see another’s gun and then refused to give it back.

At least two people drew their weapons — Barnes was one of them — and four people were injured in the shootout, two of them critically, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday. It wasn’t clear who fired first.

So this individual illegally had a firearm, engaged in a shoot out with other individuals, then fled.  Yet somehow he was going to magically be stopped at an invisible border and turn around because you’re not allowed to carry a gun!?  I’ve driven through Mount Rainier national park numerous times since my 21st birthday, I often had a loaded firearm with me.  Why?  Because unnecessary handling of a firearm is how accidental discharges happen.  I was usually driving through on my way home to visit friends and family while on break.  Did I shoot anyone? No, it stayed in it’s holster the whole time, where it’s safer for everyone.  Yet these blood dancing savages criminalized that behavior and insist that it is horrible for public safety.  The would prefer I unholster at each side of the park and unload and reload.  Each of those instances provide for the chance of a accidental discharge.

You know what is really horrible for public safety.  Running out and dancing in the blood of the innocent blaming tools and inanimate objects.  The sole goal in doing so is to disarm the law abiding to ensure their victim status.  They focus on attacking the right of self-defense instead of trying to actually get people the help they need.  Why would you need to carry a firearm for self defense in a national park they’d ask.

The visitor center was locked down, with tourists finally being escorted out by armed guards after midnight. To warn one group of backcountry campers of the situation, authorities flew over by helicopter and dropped handwritten messages on paper coffee cups that a gunman was on the loose, according to postings and photographs on the nwhikers.net message board.

Looks like that question is self answering in this incident.  Tell me, were the authorities going to be able to protect those hikers in the back country of the national park?

Overall I find the behavior of the Brady Campaign and CSGV down right despicable.  Instead of trying to get people the help the need, which would help prevent incidents like this from ever happening, they insist of disarming the public and attacking inanimate objects.  They insist on ignoring the individual.  The individual is always responsible for their actions.  That said, if you want to help prevent things like this from happening, you should be seeking help for them if you are in fear for your safety.  Instead of actually trying to find out what was wrong, just like Jared Loughner, people ignored the signs.  The innocent shouldn’t be punished for the choices of others.  The correct way to help with this problem is to make sure to help those who are disturbed before they break.  Treat the individual in trouble, don’t disarm the victims.

h/t Miguel for the Facebook image.

If you are reading this prior to or just after 2300 hours 1/2/2012 Pacific Time.  Congratulations your ISP is using the proper TTL.  If this post did not show up for you (on the website), email your ISP and let them know they’re being a bunch of douche bags.  24 hours for a TTL is more than reasonable.  If this finally appeared after 2300 hours 1/3/2012, well your ISP is just evil.

I screwed the pooch and missed updating this domain until 1/3/2012 at 0730 Pac Time.  Google was relatively quick along with a few other DNS services in incorporating this change.  So all should see this come 0800 1/4/2012.  My email has been in purgatory.  If you sent anything Sunday or Monday it may have been sent to the gods due to an Exchange import mistake on my part.  All should be good to go now though.  Seriously if you sent anything important over the past couple days, feel free to resend it.

It took me quite literally all day Sunday to download all of the files for the different domains.  Upload the files necessary to bootstrap this site, and get all of the database stuff taken care of.  Overall it appears that it went without much of a problem.  I actually am writing this at 2200 hours 1/1/2012 and am debating moving a few of the other domains at the same time.  The hardest part of all of this is taking care of email during the change over.  I have decided to bite the bullet and execute the change for all but three domains.  One is because of the effort, the other two have no rush tied to their move.

So after a year I actually did quite well.  My goal was to make at least a post a day and I came in with 657 posts over 2011, which comes out to 1.8 posts a day.

Since I met that goal and surpassed it my goal for this year is to average 2 posts a day.  Along with that I want to further document some of my projects I’ve been doing here at home.

Leading off with the above you might wonder why I would title this “Slow Blogging”.  Well if you remember a few months ago I started running into problems with the hosting provider.  I have since created a small pool of cash and am going to begin the migration of my sites starting today.  This will have a couple effects, the biggest is getting the DNS information to change over.  So my blog may look static for the next couple days as I migrate it.  Along with this will also be some minor hiccups in mail as I move the Exchange hosting as well.

There are a few sites which are going to remain static for a while because the move is going to be quite difficult.  I did find a hosting provider who provides Exchange services.  Ultimately I think eventually if the sites I maintain grow enough, including a new project, I will migrate to a VPS and find dedicated email hosting at a separate entity, possibly hosting myself if I can get the bandwidth.  Right now my goals are to limit my interactions with the hosting side and focus on the web side.

So for at least the next 72 hours expect the site to be silent, probably longer as I figure out how to move everything over.  I’ve got to get my email moved as well and the hardest part of that currently is ensuring they use the correct domain for the exchange system.