‘Cryptic Messages’

Posted on | June 20, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Cryptic Messages’

‘FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!’

The “debate” over gun control is never actually a debate. Democrats keep trying to take our guns away, and we keep saying, “Hell, no!”

Enter Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf:

Red flag laws allow us to take action when someone who has a gun begins to act erratically.

Red flag laws still require due process, and any removal of weapons is temporary. pic.twitter.com/IVPHgbrvhD

— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) June 16, 2022

Two important points to make about this:

A. He’s lying,
but
B. He’s a Democrat, so what else do we expect?

Hannah Cox goes into more detail:

The graphic explains the process of red flag laws like this: Jane sees a Facebook friend, Randy, post “photos of guns and cryptic messages.” She then reports him to the police. (Holy escalation!)
The police then petition a judge to “temporarily” remove Randy’s Second Amendment rights. Police provide “evidence” (seemingly a cryptic Facebook post in this scenario) that Randy is a threat to himself or others. The court agrees to temporarily take away Randy’s rights.
Kumbaya. The justice system is perfect. Nothing to see here.
Come on . . .
Can you imagine how overrun our courts would be if every left-wing Karen could report people for merely owning guns and not liking their government? We have an environment where people are being told speech is violence and where a not insignificant part of the population believes they are justified in “canceling” someone for simply holding differing political views.
We already knew that the red flag law system is ripe for abuse. But Tom Wolf just proved our point all over again.

Tom Wolf is term-limited and can’t seek re-election, and the Democrats have nominated attorney general Josh Shapiro for governor. But the latest Pennsylvania poll shows Shapiro with just a 4-point lead (44%-40%) over Republican Doug Mastriano, and Biden’s favorability is now 10 points underwater in a state he allegedly won by 80,000 votes. Pushing “red flag” laws is unlikely to improve matters for the Democrats in Pennsylvania, where everybody has watched as George Soros-funded DA Larry Krasner turns loose criminals in Philadelphia. And would you care to guess who has given money to Josh Shapiro’s campaign?

Got your “cryptic message” right here: Molon labe.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Constitution, Democrats, Pennsylvania

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Paige Spiranac

Posted on | June 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Paige Spiranac

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ok. She might be beautiful 🙂 https://t.co/bz84d0uNti

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 16, 2022

I’d have to agree.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1750, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Tone Policing Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – The Show Trial Must Go On, Muriel’s Wedding, Paige Spiranac, Sasha Says Goodbye To Tater, Molly Bloom, Happy Flag Day, Mayra Flores, The Staircase, Roadrunner, Charlotte Corday, The Card Counter, and Licorice Pizza

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Jamie Chung Fears Motherhood, Biden Worse than Carter, Fish Pic Friday – Stephanie Marie, Old Man Yells at Clouds, Life is Beautiful, Biden Diving, The Wednesday Wetness, Inside the Biden Bubble, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus. Awe, Phuket and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Girls With Guns

Posted on | June 20, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Girls With Guns

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The really cool thing about today’s SOTD was that Tommy Shaw & the crew did the official video in one take. Never cared for Styx, but this was a great song.
Senators played five games this week, and the hitters didn’t hit, so it didn’t matter that the starting rotation turned in five quality starts; we finished the week 1-4, but we’re only one game behind the Red Sox.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

No light, happy music this week either.

Rule 5 Sunday: Atago-sama’s Wedding
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
Proof Positive

The J6 Smear Machine
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

He Was Yelling About His ‘Rights’
The DaleyGator
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon
A View From The Beach
EBL

Inside the Biden Bubble
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Far-Right Extremists’ Alert!
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.13.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Max Boot and Allahpundit Are Very Worried About Our Friends in Ukraine
First Street Journal
EBL

‘The NPR Tote Bag Set’: Liberal White Guys and Their Target Audience
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Orange Man Bad!’ Trump Still Living Rent-Free in the Left’s Collective Head
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.15.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.15.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

A MIDWEEK BOOK POST APPEARS!
EBL

Report: CNN Planning to Cut Back on Carbohydrates, IYKWIMAITYD
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.16.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.17.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 17:

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(tied) A View From The Beach & 357 Magnum (10)
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Category: FMJRA Award

Important Truths About ‘Mass Shootings’

Posted on | June 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Important Truths About ‘Mass Shootings’

Six people shot at graduation party in Anniston
— WBMA-TV, May 27

One teen dead, two others injured
after graduation party shooting
in Thomaston, police say
— WXIA-TV, May 28

Man killed, 7 injured after shooting
at Chesterfield graduation party
— WTVR-TV, June 4

A South Carolina graduation party shooting left
1 dead and 7 others, including minors, wounded
— CNN, June 5

5 teens shot, 2 critical in ‘targeted’
graduation party shooting in West Texas
— My San Antonio, June 5

4 arrested in shooting that left woman, 80,
dead after high school graduation
— NBC News, June 16

Ah, high school graduation — a time to celebrate with random gunfire! While I have not fully investigated each of these shootings, and police have not yet made arrests in some of them, I will wager that none of the gunmen who opened fire at these graduation parties was a Trump voter.

The atrocities that make national headlines tend to be different, statistically speaking, from the vast majority of “mass shooting” incidents, and this difference is actually important. In the aftermath of massacres like Uvalde, the demand for new gun-control laws becomes a media-drive political drumbeat without any platform being provided to those who would point out that (a) the measures proposed would not have prevented the atrocity and (b) the best way to reduce gun violence is to enforce existing gun laws by putting criminals in prison.

We think of “mass shooting” in terms of the deranged psycho on a rampage, but 96% of such incidents aren’t like that at all:

The country’s eyes are trained on high-profile massacres in Texas and Buffalo, but most mass shootings bear little resemblance to those.
Of 267 incidents this year classified as mass shootings by the Gun Violence Archive, nearly all can be tied to gang beefs, neighborhood arguments, robberies or domestic incidents that spiraled out of control.
Indiscriminate slaughter by a lone gunman blasting away at a store, school or some other public place is rare, according to a Washington Times analysis of the archive’s data, accounting for less than 4% of the total.

Ninety-six percent of mass shootings don’t fit the “lone gunman” scenario, and yet you don’t hear about “gang beefs” in this context. Trump adviser Stephen Miller has an idea why this is so:

The information below is critically important as the key to preventing these shootings is clear and proven: more cops, arrests, prosecutions & jail. Go after *criminals* with weapons. But Dems oppose because they want to end “mass incarceration,” letting thousands needlessly die. https://t.co/7Wx11Qzgdw

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 17, 2022

Category: Crime

Metaphor Alert!

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Metaphor Alert!

So, apparently the idea for this escapade was to showcase how fit and healthy the 79-year-old alleged president is. There has been a lot of talk that Biden is too old to run for re-election in 2024, and so his handlers put him on a bicycle and sent him out to show that the septuagenarian is a fine, vigorous specimen. Great idea, right? WRONG!

A better view of Biden falling off a non moving bike. pic.twitter.com/ymWjrHVAhs

— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) June 18, 2022

Biden’s approval ratings are at a historic low, and the economy? Well, that’s going just about as good as his bike ride.

“This is the worst consumer sentiment EVER measured.” Biden is toast. pic.twitter.com/NeKO77PHyK

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 16, 2022

We’ll talk about this on The Other Podcast tonight.

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— The WJJ Hoge (@wjjhoge) June 18, 2022

Category: Joe Biden

Crazy People Are Dangerous (and the Problem With ‘Red Flag’ Laws)

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | 2 Comments

You haven’t forgotten Deb Frisch, have you? In October 2018, Frisch — whose harassment of Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein lasted a dozen years — was finally sentenced to four years in a Colorado prison. When last we heard about her, in August 2021, she had been denied parole after ranting insanely at her parole board hearing.

This morning, I noticed I’d gotten some extra traffic to one of my posts about Frisch, and investigation led to Not The Bee:

If you need a reason to oppose
“red flag” gun laws, this writer’s
harrowing 12-year tale of terrifying
stalking and harassment
might just do the trick

That features a Twitter thread by Jeff Goldstein:

Let me tell you a story. Some of you may have heard this before. Others of you witnessed parts of it in real time.

It’s a cautionary tale. And it runs up against the push by 11 GOP Senators to imperil my natural right to defense, protected by the Constitution.

?

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

I went out for a time, and by the time I came back, this leftwing professor of risk management had become so unglued that she was threatening my then 2-year-old son.

Fox News ran a piece on it after @michellemalkin highlighted it on her “Vent” for Hot Air.

The professor…

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

…apart and her relationships began to crumble, she picked my family — in particular, my son — to blame for her self-inflicted travails.

She began posting pornographic entries about a 2-year-old boy. She began making public accusations that my wife and I were molesting my son.

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

…lived out of state, the law couldn’t touch her. She’d begun attacking the lawyers who’d helped me or represented me. She attacked the judges.

All of this continued until right around 2014, when a detective in my small town found a legal means to being charges, citing an

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

…warning parents to keep their kids away from my house on Halloween.

She’d been able to find where we lived using voter records. She called the surrounding schools warning them that I was a pedophile and that my son was in danger. She contacted child services. She contacted

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

…means that for 14 years, prior to her felony convictions, had she phoned in an anonymous “tip” on me, she may have convinced a judge to file an ex parte order requiring me to surrender my weapons.

I took us 14 years to get her convicted of clear crimes. I’ve been through

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

…apparatus, further clogging up an already glacially-moving legal system and costing the accused time, money, worry, and liberty.

Reject them. And consider those who promote them your enemies.

Because trust me. They are.

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) June 17, 2022

Jeff makes some important points here. The way our legal system operates — the built-in prejudices of courts, based on decades of precedents intended to “protect” the rights of the mentally ill — it is very difficult to get a dangerously deranged person locked up. Whenever a mentally ill person commits an atrocity (or gets shot by the cops), you’ll see commentators saying that this shows problems with our nation’s mental health system, when in fact it was liberal judges in the 1970s and ’80s who decided it should be nearly impossible to keep crazy people locked up in lunatic asylums, where they belong. These same judges, however, will probably be willing to sign “red flag” orders based on unproven claims, without due process for those targeted by such orders.

Category: Crime, Protein Wisdom

How to Get Shot by the Cops

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | Comments Off on How to Get Shot by the Cops

Lawyer for suspect
in deputy involved shooting
in Indian River County wants
unedited body cam video
— WPBF-TV, June 15

This story is a perfect example of how the media undermines law enforcement by giving voice to bogus criticism, especially in cases like this one in Florida, where an armed felon was shot by sheriff’s deputies investigating a string of crimes in the community. Simply because the suspect is black, many in the media seem to believe, he must be a victim of injustice, and the police must be in the wrong. Therefore, the TV cameras seek out the suspect’s family or a “civil rights” activist or, as in this case, the suspect’s lawyer, to condemn the cops, no matter what the circumstances were that led to the shooting. Watching the video of this incident doesn’t give you the necessary knowledge to understand what happened, or why it happened. Once you do understand it, however, it becomes impossible to deny that the person responsible for this 19-year-old suspect getting shot was — wait for it — the 19-year-old suspect.

Say hello to Jamall Frederick. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office (IRCSO), the events that led to him getting shot were as follows: Deputies were investigating a homicide that happened Thursday in the Gifford community. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, deputies responded to a report of shots fired a few blocks away. Subsequent investigation (i.e., surveillance camera video) gave them a description of a vehicle suspected of involvement in that incident. The same vehicle was also connected to a number of burglaries, including burglaries of vehicles in which firearms were stolen. Thus, the deputies had reason to believe that the occupants of this vehicle were armed and dangerous. So they began monitoring the area in which the shots fired incident had occurred. About 9 p.m. that evening, deputies spotted the suspect vehicle, and that’s when the incident occurred.

As I say, just watching the video doesn’t add much to your knowledge of what happened, because it happened very quickly at night. One of the deputies saw the pistol in the back seat next to Frederick and told him not to reach for it. He grabbed it and ran, and they opened fire, and it’s something of a miracle that Frederick survived the shooting.

Civilians may ask, “Why did they shoot? He was running away.” Yes, but he had a gun in his hand. Are cops just supposed to let an armed fugitive run free in the community? And what are the chances that Frederick would have turned around and shot any deputy who pursued him? There’s no rule that requires cops to let bad guys get the first shot.

Frederick is from Fort Pierce, 18 miles away from the scene of the shooting. The deputies also found another gun in the car and arrested 18-year-old Zbryius Jones of Vero Beach. Both guns were stolen, one from South Vero and the other from Fellsmere. Frederick was a convicted felon on probation, and Jones was also charged with violating probation. Sheriff Eric Flowers said: “These guys are countywide criminals. We will not tolerate known felons endangering our community. Our community expects us to prevent crimes and keep them safe.”

There has been much critical attention directed toward rampant crime in Democrat-controlled cities like Los Angeles, where Soros-sponsored District Attorney George Gascon is being blamed for releasing a felon who shot and killed two police officers. You don’t have problems like that in Indian River County, which has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1944, and which went 60% for Trump twice.

The media can (and should) help fight crime by discarding the anti-cop bias that treats all critics of the police as inherently legitimate. It is one thing — and a very important thing — to expose genuine abuse or corruption by the police, but it’s a whole ’nother thing to portray cops as racist villains when they’re just doing their job.

Category: Crime, Florida