What goes around, comes around

The thought has crossed my mind;  If you, as a business owner, are going restrict my right to carry in your establishment by your legal choice, you become responsible for my safety.

This is not law in Texas, and has not been tested in the courts here to my knowledge, but it seems ethically fair to me.

Tennessee State Senator, Dolores Gresham, apparently thinks along the same lines.

I can, in my mind's eye, see the harrah! in hoplophobe's eyes everywhere across this great land.  The price of their Starsuck's double grande mocha capuccino latte with a lemon twist is about to go up to cover the cost of off duty cops providing security.

snick.
snort.

Not sure who the douche nozzle was that posted the pic with the article in the link above, but this is not a proper way to concealed carry.  Unless your goal is to create a new 9mm pathway down your thigh.

Stop me if you've heard this one...

Three Choir boys break into the house of an off duty police officer.
Sound familiar?
Said officer is awakened by the sound of breaking glass.  The police officer shoots at all three, kills one.
The news this evening refers to the recently deceased as the "alleged home invader". Let's see, breaking and entering and the room temperature choir boy is in dahouse!  "Alleged" seems a stretch.

Two of the perps escaped. Whether they had extra orifices is unknown at this point.
If so, they'll turn up at Ben Taub Hospital before too long.

Another case of really poor victim selection.*  The house was occupied. This is Texas. The odds of the homeowner having a gun of some type is extremely high. The intended victim happened to be a police officer.
And, there's this little thing called the "Castle Doctrine" which does not require the homeowner to run-hide nor ask what the uninvited "guest's" intentions are prior to shooting him dead.

Kudos to the cop for removing one miscreant from the gene pool.  
Eventually the vunables will decided the risk is to great and maybe a starter job at McDonalds isn't so bad after all, or they will be thinned out by "natural" selection.  The crime rate in states with armed citizens continues to decline.


* I am surprised that no Democrat strategist has seized upon the obvious need for a federal government funded training program for the vunable home invaders to make better choices in their victims. The whole background check / gun registration / gun confiscation thing just isn't working out.
The program obviously will need funding of at least one billion dollars, but they'll settle for 455 million if Al Sharpton is made director of the program.  Oh, and Charlie Rangel too.

The Eurozone's panties in a wad

Not that I'm defending obummer's NSA, but do you think that the US intelligence apparatus are the only spooks that don't have their fingers in their "friend's" pudding?
Personally, I think the three letter federal agencies have devolved into a state of paranoia wherein they've completely forgotten their fundamental mission statement and are just trying to get one up on all the other foreign, evil three letter agencies around the globe.

 Merkel's indignation over Snowden disclosing the fact that her sexting* has been tapped is ingenuous, or she's a rube. I doubt it's the latter.

Aside from the other "evil" three letter agencies around the globe, the thing that terrifies the US three letter agencies the most is the American People.

Together we stand. Divided, we fall.





*  that is hyperbole, but the NSA probably has that on file as well.

Government Shutdown / Martial Law

It'll never happen. Couldn't happen.   Not to this great Republic.

The Freedom Outpost put up a post suggesting that Sheila Jackson Lee was "suggesting" Martial Law to end the government shut down.

Let's not soft pedal this little leak of information.

Sheila has never had an original "idea" in her entire life.  I have a 22 oz. framing hammer in the garage that is smarter than she is, and can pronounce three syllable words correctly.*

At best ( or worst, as the case may be) Sheila is parroting something she heard "someone" else say.

Do not discount this slip of a "highly educated" moron's tongue.


*Classic Sheila:  Dear sweet lady, Vulnerable is an adjective, not a noun and it is not pronounced "Vunables".

So

Senator  Secretary of State Mr. Heinze Ketchup Kerry has signed the UN Small Arms Treaty.

Under what authority did you sign that and intend to enforce it?

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As Forest said, " that's all I have to say about that."

Figures, the Naval Yard Gunman was from TEXAS!

Buncha crazy bible and gun clinging flat land hillbillies!
SSSSssss, oooh yeah, uhm that's not going to quite fit the appropriate white psycho domestic terrorist gun nut narrative.*
Don't we have something we can run about Snooky or Kim Kardashian?

Shall we start a pool to see which political party this nutcase belongs to? Or, which presidential candidate he voted for in the last two elections?  Making the bold assumption he voted...


I suggest a golf score pool.  The best guess on the lowest number of news stories, or shortest number of days this gets traction in the laimstream media wins.






* Hey spook computer nerds!  Just a shout out to my closest NSA "friends".

And speed limits keep people from speeding toooo!

Seattle Mayor encourages businesses to post "gun free" zone signs to deter criminals.

snort, snicker, pbffft.

SRSLY?

Maybe you should just pass a municipal law banning criminals in general.

Gun Geo Marker

Gary at the Guns Over Texas blog writes about the Gun Geo Marker App.
It's for teh childrens protection.

"The app itself, as mentioned earlier, is on the Google Apps Play Store and free to any user. Users, according to the developer’s website, are anonymous. And once a location is marked, IT CANNOT BE UNMARKED,"

Great, let's create another map showing criminals where guns are.

"Stalbaum says he can’t be held responsible for the criminal miss use of his app"

I don't think I'd be willing to bet the farm on that Stalbaum. Not if evidence of a direct link between your little progtard app and a theft can be shown.  

Anonymous. Hmmm.  It cannot be unmarked.  Hmmmm.

While we may not be able to do anything in particular about this invasion of privacy, it can certainly be obscured.  Suppose every 2nd amendment loving gun owner were to get this little app and say, oh I don't know, mark random locations.  Frequently. Very frequently.

You know, random field, empty lot, desolate stretch of highway, the local crak house, Stalbaum's residence...

Do you suppose the data in the app might become unusable?


UPDATE: So I went to check this out at the google play store.  It seems others had the same notion.  And, gasp, false data was entered into the database.  The harrah!

Interesting, I also see that there is a Gun Free Geo Marker, which as you might ascertain, marks gun free locations.  The description of the app calls out Stalbaum by name.  You can read it here.

Well I'll be....

I heard "old" people say that when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I still don't know what is supposed to come after the three dots.

Considering I didn't get arrested, or have to acquiesce to the secret TSA two finger vaseline hand shake, naked and shivering, in a room with the furniture bolted to the floor and a one way mirror on the wall, frankly I didn't care if I never saw it again.

But I'll be damned if it didn't finally arrive in the mail today.  Frankly, I never expected to see it again.

The mag on the left is the one the TSA found in my bag at the airport, resting on the bubble wrap envelope.  It arrived today.  The mag on the right is my backup mag...loaded.  Hornady critical defense hollow points in case you were wondering. (hey it's a 9, I'm looking for all the whoop-ass I can get out of it.)

And, yes, I do carry in my own house.

When I get to the point where I have a gun in every room, I won't have to be so anal about it.

Everything is Better in Texas.

Even the TSA.

A (not so) friendly note to the 2nd Amendment Foundation

Particularly to the telemarketer named "Travis" that squeezed one last call in juuust before 9pm.
Travis, I was actually in bed wanting nothing more than to attempt to recover from a horrible work week earning money so I have the wherewithal to support just short of half the country with my tax dollars  and still have something to donate to the 2A foundation.
Asking me to get out of bed, and get my credit card did not sit that well with me.  In particular, when I declined, your comment that, "well, I wouldn't want you to over exert yourself", frankly pissed me off.

Travis, go fuck yourself.

And to the 2A Foundation:  You guys need to screen your callers better. A pushy dickhead on the other end of my phone line does not particularly motivate me to open my wallet.  Particularly when they insult me personally.

Good thing I flew out of Hobby

Got home this evening from Nashville and Belle tells me some dipshit walked into terminal B today at Bush Intercontinental and popped a few rounds into the ceiling with an AR.

Cop confronted him and told him to drop his weapon.  It's unclear as to whether the cop dropped him, or he shot himself, or both.

My tin foil hat is beginning to vibrate.  The frequency and similarities of these events seems too coincidental.

I bet he's a

right wing home grown bible clinging tea party terrorist who dislikes obama and paying taxes.

Mentally ill liberal gun control advocate that played too many video games and went off his meds.

There. I saved at least 5 days of the 24/7 news cycle, so you can go back to pointing and laughing at Lindsay Lohan.

Interesting how a conversation can change directions

End of the day, talking with our spec writer over details of some documents we needed to put out the door to meet a deadline.  Thinking back, I can't remember how she steered the conversation to guns, but I found myself talking to her about handguns. She said she'd grown up shooting long guns and was comfortable with that but handguns scared her.  I said, well you learned how to properly handle a long gun and so you are comfortable with that right?  There's a proper way to safely pick up a handgun as well. You just need to learn that.
She said she had her father's pistol that he had gotten for her mother many years ago.  Said her mother used to carry it in her purse everywhere she went.  I said, you know that was illegal way back when, she just shrugged.  Oh well, says I, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.  She'd never heard that saying..made her laugh.
I asked her if the pistol she had was a revolver. She said yes; asked what caliber but she didn't know.
I said if I had to guess it's probably a .38.  Then she wondered out loud if it kicked much.  I told her, probably not much.
Her sister is a CCW license holder and had talked to her about concealed carry. Her sister also gave her some bad information about concealed carry with respect to the law. I set her straight on that.   She said she just didn't know if she could shoot someone. She said her sister had asked her, if it came down to you or the bad guy, could you shoot him.  She admitted she might. I told her that is the only circumstance where you should pull your gun. You don't just arbitrarily pull your sidearm and plug someone.  Then I told her when seconds count, your cell phone and 911 are a poor substitute, the police are twenty minutes away, arriving just in time to draw a chalk line around your body.  I saw a light bulb of cognition flicker a few times during that conversation.

I wrote about how Belle and I had taken a young lady and her husband to the range to introduce them to pistol shooting a while back.  I didn't start this conversation today.  I think the word is starting to spread amongst the ladies in the office.
Since she broached the subject, I'll touch on it again before too long. I think she was feeling me out.


I kind of joked about this before, but it may turn out to be the BAR mission statement.

 BAR, converting new self defense shooters one range trip at a time.

*  I did not grow up shooting pistols, and I do not claim to be a gunnie. The pistol jones started for me at the first BAR blogshoot in Lockhart, TX when Borepatch's .45 whispered sweet nothings to me, and I like shooting them...a lot.

In Search Of

The elusive 9mm round.
The federal gubmint has been buying hollow points by the billion. The scarcity of 9mm fmj is because of our fellow citizens freaking out.
Stopped by an outdoors store with a name similar to Bird Hill this evening just on the off chance there might be one measly box of 9mm.
No luck.
What I did see was a fair amount of .38, .45 and .40 caliber. More .38 and .40.
The BAR executive directors decided that the household would be all 9mm for economy of scale when buying ammunition. Seemed like a good idea at the time, and for a while, it was. A case of 1000 would last upwards of 5 weeks.  The last case ran out a while back.

We haven't been to the range in a while now - just can't bring ourselves to punch holes in paper with hollow points.

I see Ruger makes the same model pistol I have in 9mm in a .40 caliber.  Hmmmmm.
The neighborhood gun store, right around the corner carries that model.  Hmmmmm.

Magpul Threatens

Magpul threatens to pull out of Colorado if gun bill passes.

Come on down to Texas. We've got a pistol packin' 2nd amendment supporting Governor.

Still waiting on the ammo manufactures to boycott the Government.

The huge government ammo purchases are a Cloward-Piven bonus for the Statists. Not only do they get to piss away money we don't have to spend to hasten the economic crash, but they dry up the civilian ammo supply in the process.

All We need is one

To get things rolling.
Borepatch is advocating a Second Amendment PAC, and one of his commentors, is already on it. Another commentor, SDS, upped the anti to "Super Pac".
This brought to mind a news bite I saw earlier today, and another point of attack in this fight.

Olympic Arms gives the finger to New York Law Enforcement.

Second arms manufacturer to do so if I am not mistaken. One more and we have a "pattern".

What we need now is one ammo manufacturer to lead the way, and give the finger to the federal government.
 I am really partial to Magtech ammo for my pistols. Shoots really clean and I don't have to clean them as often.  Given the current ammo market, I'll shoot anything I can get my hands on, even if the muzzle flash and smoke looks like it came out of a blunderbuss*.

Might take a bit of googlefu to determine which ammo manufacturers are getting the federal contracts for ammo,  but in addition to creating our own Super Pac, I think we need to start putting pressure on the ammo manufacturers.

This ammo shortage won't last forever.
We need to let the ammo producers know we have a long memory**.




*Or Belle's Tokorev. Muzzle flash is about a foot long, and it gets attention a good 12 shooting stations to the left and right.
** Word to the wise; The internet never forgets. To use a famous quote, "Me fuck you long time"

What, are you Rambo or something?

Why do you neeeed to carry a gun.  I mean really, if someone starts shooting in the mall are you going to go all Rambo and "Save the Day!"

It's highly unlikely. Unless you happen to be standing behind me when one of my loved ones, or myself is threatened.  Otherwise, you are on your own. If I wanted to be a cop, I would have been a cop.

I have a concealed carry weapon.  It is there in seconds when I need it.

You have the police.  They are there in minutes at best, just in nick of time to draw a chalk line around your corpse.

Well, if the shooter didn't have a 30 round clip and had to reload, "someone" would tackle him while he was reloading.

Someone?  Who?  You?
Well....."some....one" would.
Who? You?
Someone.
Would.


This little contrived conversation was inspired by a discussion in an airport bar this evening.  I'm still trying to knock teh stupid out of my ears like swimming pool water.  I found myself in a simultaneous "discussion" about global worming and gun control on the opposite side of two fervent and woefully under-informed  true believers in both.  I was starkly reminded, like a brick to the forehead, that this country may very well be irreparably divided.   I call dibs on Texas, the deep south, and some of the fly-over states to be named at a later date.
East coast and left coast, you guys are on  your own.

Why do you need a 30 round clip?

I'll answer your question if you answer mine first.
If you succeed in confiscating my guns and someone starts shooting at us on the street, can I use your self righteous gun free carcass as a meat shield?

No?
But I thought you were bullet proof.

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60 percent of Young Americans

Plan to purchase firearms.  Demographics are a bitch, aren't they?

“The next generation plans on owning guns, so if we want to avoid the tragedies that we’ve seen… we obviously need to move quickly and if an executive order is the way to do it, then that is the way the to do it,” she said."

God forbid they should have the means to protect themselves.  In the BAR household, I suspect 100% of the next generation plans to own guns.  The oldest already does. The second oldest told me that she plans on getting her CHL shortly after graduating.  The one and only son handles a pistol as confidently as a torque wrench, and the youngest has shot more exotic weapons than I have now, courtesy of DAB II.

The anti-gun crowd has missed the real demographic change that is going to crush their attempted gun grab this time like a tsunami**.  This is not to say that there will not be a fight in one form or another.
At the first BAR blogshoot in Lockhart, Tx, Pickdog, Borepatch and Ye Olde Furt were chatting as I sidled up hands in pockets to listen to some shooty wisdom.  Pickdog said, and I paraphrase, "If you really want to change society where gun laws are concerned, you change them."  Pickdog was referring to women.  As time has gone by, I have found that to be a very profound statement.

Consider this:  If I talk about guns and shooting around non-gun guys, they get intimidated and creeped out for the most part. Hell, I've had one young hunter and "gun guy" ask me why we bought an AR and what we intended to shoot with it.***

When Belle talks about guns and shooting, because she is female, it becomes a safer topic and the women in the chat circle get very interested. Once the women in the chat circle engage in the conversation, their male significant others get engaged as well.
Case in point, the young couple we introduced to handguns last weekend.

Belle is the BAR ambassador of self protection and female empowerment.
All of you lady shooters out there in the blogosphere are as well.



** If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
*** Because it is our fucking right to do so, paper targets, feral pigs, or anything else that become necessary, thankyouverymuch.

h/t instapundit


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Sabra gets to the heart of my assault vagina meme in a way I never could.

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Obummer's security detail gets a little lax

Someone managed to get to the Won's limousine.  This might be photochopped, but it made me smile anyway.

And in the news, Obummer and Moosechelle now have secret service security for life!  Having to work that detail would S-U-U-U-U-C-KK.  (say that last word in your best Ron White imitation.)

You know it's coming, the expose book from one of the retired secret service agents that has been on the kenyan imposter's security detail.  Won't happen till he's out of office. Can't get here soon enough IMHO.   Sure to be a long, long chapter on the puppet master Valerie Jackass Jerret.

I doubt I'll have the motivation to read such a book though.  The only associative thought I'll be able to dredge up will be, "Gott sei Dank that Mo Fo is out of office."